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12/4Colloquium: Carlos Thiebaut
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Department of Philosophy will deliver a talk entitled "Relevance and Morality: On What Makes a Moral Consideration Relevant"
1/22Colloquium: Eugene Garver
of the Philosophy Department at St. Johns University (St. Paul, MN) will deliver a talk entitled "Enough is Never Enough: Spinoza on the desire for self-preservation and the desire for more power."
3/5Colloquium: Philip Kitcher
of Columbia University's Philosophy Department will deliver a talk.
3/12Colloquium: Penelope Deutscher
of Northwestern University's Philosophy Department will deliver a talk.
3/26Colloquium: Anne Hartle
of Emory University's Philosophy Department will deliver a talk.
11/17Talisse to deliver invited lecture in Copenhagen
Robert Talisse has been invited to deliver a talk to the Workshop on the Epistemology of Free Speech at the University of Copenhagen on December 11, 2009. His lecture is titled ""Self-reflexive Social Epistemic Norms."
10/21Geist 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).
10/12Faculty Book Published: Robert Talisse
Democracy and Moral Conflict (Cambridge University Press)
4/30GEIST '09, Vanderbilt Undergraduate Philosophy Journal
released. GEIST is an open-campus journal, and invites submissions from undergraduate students all over the English-speaking world. Articles go through a rigorous double-blind review process. In this issue:

-we editors, having at once interviewed and not interviewed gayatri spivak
-animythologies
-the persistent corpse
-how can brandom get through to fodor?
-wittgenstein and dennett on phenomenological language

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