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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

Katherine 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
Keynote address, Tennessee Philosophical Association
"The Social and the Individual"
2 November John Llewelyn
Philosophy, University of Ediburgh
“Laying Down the Law: Modern Versions of an Ancient Trope”
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
Philosophy, Catholic University
TBA
18 January Bonnie Honig
Political Science, Northwestern University
"Antigone's Anachronism: Homeric Mourning in Democratic Athens"
25 January

Lisa Guenther
Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Inaugural Lecture
"Each is the Possible of the Other: Merleau-Ponty and Sexual Difference "

15 February Vincent Colapietro
Philosophy, Penn State
"The Psyche and its Discontents"
22 February Jesse Prinz
Philosophy, UNC Chapel Hill
"The Emotional Basis of Morality"
28 March Cheshire Calhoun
Philosophy, Colby and Arizona State
TBA
4 April Angela Davis
History of Consciousness, UC Snata Cruz
TBA