Colloquium Series, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
| September 12 | Linda Zagzebski, Oklahoma University "Philosophy of Religion: The Need for Engagement" |
| September 19 | Larry Churchill, Professor of Medical Ethics, Vanderbilt "Whose Good? Problems with Beneficence and Benefits in Human Subjects Research" |
| September 26 | CANCELED Richard Foley, Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College of Arts and Science, New York University "Knowledge as Sufficiently Accurate and Comprehensive Information" |
| October 3 | Harry Frankfurt, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Princeton University "On Love, and its Reasons" |
| October 10 | John Protevi, Louisiana State University "The Concept of Emergence in Contemporary Biology and Social Science" |
| October 17 | Scott Aikin, Vanderbilt Philosophy Department "Pragmatism's Failed Evasion of Epistemology" |
| October 26-27 | Pluralism Conference (Goodman/Talisse) "Varieties of Pluralism" |
| October 31 - Nov. 1 | TPA - Keynote: Richard Kraut, Northwestern University "An Aristotelian Conception of Well-Being" |
| November 14 | CANCELED Allan Singer |
| December 5 | Ken Seeskin, Northwestern University Commentors: Scott Aikin, Vanderbilt Univ. Commenting on Lenn Goodman's book, "In Defense of Truth." |
| January 23 | Apple Igrek, Vanderbilt University Violence and Heterogeneity: A Response to Habermas's "Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille" |
| January 30 | Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt University "Dilemmas of Public Reason." |
| February 6 | Rachel Zuckert, Rice University "Purposiveness and Vocation: Kant on Aesthetics and Morality" |
| February 13-14 | Southeastern Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Keynote speaker: John Lachs, Vanderbilt - "Leaving Others Alone" |
| February 20 | Richard Cohen, University of North Carolina "Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion" |
| February 26 | Inaugural Lecture by: John J. Stuhr W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and American and Southern Studies "Does Philosophy Progress?: Love of Wisdom, Academic Discipline, or Pragmatic Criticism" |
| February 27 | Naomi Scheman, University of Minnesota Commenting on José Medina's book, The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy and recent work |
| March 19 | Patricia Churchland, University of California, San Diego "Free Will and the Brain" |
| March 31st | Berry Lecture with: Richard DeGeorge, University of Kansas "Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry" 7:00 p.m. - Wilson Hall 126, Reception preceding lecture in lobby |
| April 2 | John Goldberg, Vanderbilt Law School "The Place of Wrongs in Liberal Political Theory" |
| April 9 | Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt Political Science Department "Gender, Culture, and Human Rights Theory" |
| April 16 | Patricia Huntington, Loyola University of Chicago "Overcoming Fusion: Does Irigaray Show the Way to Love?" |
