Department of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
111 Furman Hall
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
Telephone Number: (615) 322-2637
Fax Number: (615) 343-7259
Email Address: philosophy@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours:
M-F 7:30-4:30 Central Time
Upcoming Events
| 3/5 | Colloquium: Philip Kitcher of Columbia University's Philosophy Department will deliver a talk. Kitcher is the author of Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner’s Ring (2004), In Mendel’s Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology (2003), Science, Truth, and Democracy (2001), The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities (1996), The Advancement of Science (1993), Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (1985), The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (1983), and Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism (1982). |
| 3/12 | Colloquium: Penelope Deutscher of Northwestern University's Philosophy Department will deliver a talk. Deutscher is the author of Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (Routledge 1997); A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (Cornell University Press, 2002), How to Read Derrida (Granta/Norton 2006), and The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2008). |
| 3/26 | Colloquium: Anne Hartle of Emory University's Philosophy Department will deliver a talk. Hartle is the author of Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher (Cambridge, 2003); The Modern Self in Rousseau's Confessions (Notre Dame, 1983); A Reply to St. Augustine, Death and the Disinterested Spectator; An Inquiry into the Nature of Philosophy (SUNY, 1986); Self Knowledge in the Age of Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996); Montaigne and Skepticism, in The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne. |
Recent News
| 2/8 | Larry May wins ARC Grant Larry May has received a quarter million dollar grant from the Australian Research Council for a three-year project on "Ethics, Jus Post Bellum and International Law." |
| 2/8 | Listen to Robert Talisse on the Philosophy Bites Podcast Robert Talisse was recently interviewed about pragmatism by Nigel Warburton of *Philosophy Bites*. |
| 10/21 | Geist seeks student reviewers Vanderbilt's undergraduate philosophy journal, the Geist, is seeking students interested in philosophy to help us with the coming spring's submission review process. Selected readers will be asked to read and comment on philosophical essays submitted by their peers from around the world, with the ultimate goal of finding the best articles to print in the journal. All are welcome to apply. Those interested should email daniel.l.cunningham@vanderbilt.edu by October 31 with name, year, and a brief statement of philosophical background--classes taken, areas of interest, etc. |
| 10/18 | Faculty Book Published: Kelly Oliver Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to be Human (Columbia University Press). |
| 10/12 | Faculty Book Published: Robert Talisse Democracy and Moral Conflict (Cambridge University Press)
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