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Each semester, the Philosophy Department sponsors a series of lectures by philosophers from colleges and universities around the country. Check back here for more updates as the semester continues.
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2009-10 Philosophy Colloquium Series
Thursday, November 5 2009
Henry West will present a talk titled: "Value Realism and Moral Contrctivism" in Carniegie 06 at 4:30.
Thursday, October 1 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Katherine Brading presented a talk entitied “Epistemic Structural Realism and Poincaré's Philosophy of Science” at 11:30 AM in Carnegie 06.
2008-09 Philosophy Colloquium Series
The Annual Henry West Philosophy Colloquium
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Howard Zinn, historian, playwright, and social activist, will present a lecture entitled "The Holy Wars" at 5:00 PM in the Hill Ballroom (Kagin Commons). He will examine the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II in trying to answer the question "Is there such a thing as a just war?"
Thursday, February 12, 2009
University of Minnesota Professor Valerie Tiberius will present a talk entitled "Wisdom and Work" at 4:40 PM in Old Main 111.
Minnesota Philosophical Society 2008 Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Keynote Presentation: "Philosophers, Readers, Writers" by Eugene Garver, Regents Professor of Philosophy, of St. John's University.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Buffalo State College Professor Julian C. Cole will present a lecture entitled "Mathematics: Plentiful Province or Dependent Dominion?" 4:30 PM, Old Main 111. All are welcome.
2007-08 Philosophy Colloquium Series
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Rutgers University Professor Stephen Stich
will give a presentation entitled "Experimental Philosophy & the Persistence of Moral Disagreement." 4:30 PM, Canegie 06. All are welcome.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Duke University Professor Allen Buchanan will present a lecture entitled "Human Nature & Enhancement." 4:30 PM, Carnegie 06. All are welcome.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Trinity College Professor James Hughes will present the 2007-08 Jardetzky lecture entitled "Manimals, Cyborgs, and Gattaca: the Biopolitics of Human Enhancement Technologies." 8:00 PM, John B. Davis Lecture Hall. All are welcome. Click here for the abstract or here for the poster.
Henry West Retirement Celebration: 50 Years of Teaching
Monday, February 11, 2008
Boston University Professor of Philosophy and Law David Lyons will give a lecture entitled "Race and the Rule of Law" at 4:30 PM, John B. Davis Lecture Hall. All are welcome.
Monday, February 18, 2008
College of William & Mary Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Alan Fuchs will give a lecture entitled "Mill's One Very Simple Pirinciple of Liberty" at 4:30 PM in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall. All are welcome. Click here for the abstract or here for the poster.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Macalester's own Professor of Philosophy, Karen Warren, will give a presentation titled "Why does Traditional Philosophy need Feminism?" at 4:30 PM in the John B. Davis lecture Hall. All are welcome. Click here for the abstract or here for the poster.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Daniel Dennett, Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, will give the
2007-08 Jardetzky
lecture entitled "Darwin, Reason, and Creativity." 8:00 PM, John B. Davis Lecture Hall. All are welcome. |
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