2008-2009 Vanderbilt Philosophy Department Colloquium Series

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

5 September	Kelly Oliver: Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University “Animal Pedagogy and the Science of Kinship: The Role of Animals in the Philosophy of Man.”
12 September	Gary Jaeger: Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University “Building Practical Coherence Over Time.”
19 September	Kimberely Brownlee, Visiting Fullbright Scholar, Manchster, UK “The Moral Responsibility Of Criminal Justice Officials.”
26 September	Robert Talisse: Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University Scott Aikin: Lecturer, Western Kentucky University "The Ethics and Politics of Belief"
1 October	Elizabeth Minnich: Senior Fellow, Association of American Colleges and Universities "If You Want Truth, Work For Justice"
10 October	Tommie Shelby: Harvard University "The Ethics of the Oppressed: Lessons from Uncle Tom's Children."
31 October	Amy Schmitter: University of Alberta “Responses to Vulnerability: Politics, Medicine and the Body in Descartes and Spinoza (with a Dash of Hobbes)"
7 November	Gunther Figal, Freiburg University GDR “Politics and Philosophical Education: Re-reading Plato's Republic.”
14-15 November	Tennessee Philosophical Association
5 December	Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto “A Footnote in Kant. What is Enlightenment for Kant and Mendelssohn?”

	SPRING 2009

9 January	Moira Gatens, University of Sydney "The Art and Philosophy of George Eliot"
15 January, 5:15PM 209 Furman (Thursday, new location)	Marilyn Friedman, Washington University "How To Blame People Responsibly"
23 January	Hasana Sharp, McGill University "Desire for Recognition? Butler, Hegel, Spinoza"
6 February	Elizabeth Radcliffe, Santa Clara University "Representation and Motivation: Hume and the Rationalists"
13 February	Julian Wuerth, University of Cincinnati "Sense and Sensibility in Kant's Practical Agent: Against the Rationalism of Korsgaard and Sidgwick"
20 February	Deborah Black, University of Toronto "Individuation and Providence: An Avicennian Puzzle."
26 February 5:15 PM	Larry May, Washington University "Complicity and the Rwandan Genocide"
13 March	Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Vanderbilt University TBA