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2007-2008 Vanderbilt Philosophy Department Colloquium Series

(Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia begin at 3:15pm in 109 Furman Hall and are open to the public)

 

31 August Henry Teloh
“The Drama/Philosophy Distinction and Distorted Interpretation of Plato”
Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
12 October

Catherine Elgin
"Fiction: The Laboratory of the Mind"
Professor of Education and Philosophy, Harvard University

19-20 October

Anita L Allen
Law, University of Pennsylvania
Keynote Address, Collegium of Black Women Philosophers Inaugural Conference

26 October John Lachs
"The Social and the Individual"
Keynote address, Tennessee Philosophical Association
2 November John Llewelyn
"Laying Down the Law: Modern Versions of an Ancient Trope"
Philosophy, University of Ediburgh
30 November Book Session: David Wood's Time after Time
Gregg Horowitz (Philosophy, Vanderbilt)
Michael Bess (History, Vanderbilt)
David Wood (Philosophy, Vanderbilt)
7 December Thérèse-Anne Druart
"Al-Farabi on the Intellect: Is He Aristotelian or Not?"
Philosophy, Catholic University
18 January Bonnie Honig
"Antigone's Anachronism: Homeric Mourning in Democratic Athens"
Political Science, Northwestern University
25 January

Lisa Guenther
"Nameless Singularity: Levinas on Individuation and Ethical Singularity"
Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Inaugural Lecture

8 February Shannon Sullivan
"Whiteness as Wise Provinicalism; Royce and the Rehabilitation of a Racial Category"
Philosophy, Penn State
15 February Vincent Colapietro
"The Psyche and its Discontents"
Philosophy, Penn State
22 February Jesse Prinz
"The Emotional Basis of Morality"
Philosophy, UNC Chapel Hill
21 March John Koethe
"Knowledge and the Norms of Assertion"
Philosophy. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
28 March Cheshire Calhoun
"Hope Matters"
Philosophy, Colby and Arizona State
4 April Angela Davis
History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
TBA