Events
| 11/10 | Colloquium: Alan Thomas of The University of Kent, will talk on “Another Particularism: Reasons, Status, and Defaults.” |
| 11/14 | Talisse delivers presidential address of the Southwestern Philosophical Society at its 71st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas. The address is entitled, "Why I am not a Pluralist." |
| 11/20 | Colloquium: David Spurrett of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, will talk on “Responding to the Experimental Philosophy Critique of Analytic Philosophy.” |
| 12/4 | Colloquium: 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" |
| 1/22 | Colloquium: Eugene Garverof 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." |
| 3/5 | Colloquium: Philip Kitcher of Columbia University's Philosophy Department will deliver a talk. |
| 3/12 | Colloquium: Penelope Deutscher of Northwestern University's Philosophy Department will deliver a talk. |
| 3/26 | Colloquium: Anne Hartle of Emory University's Philosophy Department will deliver a talk. |
| 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)
|
| 4/30 | GEIST '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 |
| 4/27 | Talisse wins Research Scholar Fellowship to support work on his next book, which is tentatively titled _Against Pluralism_. During the 2009-2010 academic year, Talisse will be a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He will, however, continue to serve as the DGS in Philosophy. |
Past Events |
 |