Colloquium Series, Fall 2004 and Spring 2005
| September 9 | THURSDAY 4-5pm Lenn Goodman, Inaugural Lecture, "What is a Soul?" |
| September 17 | Gail Weiss, (George Washington), "Can An Old Dog Learn New Tricks? Habitual Horizons in James, Bourdieu, and Merleau-Ponty." |
| September 24 | Charles Scott (Penn State) on David Wood's Thinking After Heidegger |
| October 1 | Richard Gale (Pittsburgh),"The Cognitivism of Mystical Experience" |
| October 8 | Georg Bertram (Hildesheim) "The Challenge of an Anti-Reductionist Philosophy of Language" |
| October 15 | James Booth, VU Political Science/Philosophy, "Identity, Politics and Time" |
| October 22 | John Thatamanil VU Divinity "Toward a Christian Nondualism: Sankara and Tillich in Conversation" |
| October 25 | MONDAY Miguel de Beistegui (Warwick, UK)* |
| October 29 | SPEP, Memphis TN* |
| November 5 | TPA, Keynote Speaker: Chandran Kukathas, Neal A. Maxwell Professor of Political Theory, Public Policy, and Public Service, University of Utah |
| November 12 | Jay Bernstein (New School) discussion on Gregg Horowitz's Sustaining Loss |
| November 14/15 | Maimonides Conference* |
| November 19 | Harvey Cormier (SUNY Stony Brook) "Us and Them: Morality Across Race and Species" |
| December 3 | Cindy Willett (Emory) "Authenticity in an Age of Satire: Ellison, Sartre, Bergson, and Spike Lee's Bamboozled" |
| December 10 | Julia Driver (Dartmouth) "Dream Immorality" |
| January 14 | Phil Oliver (VU Philosophy) "The Meaning of Life" |
| January 21 | Harvey Cormier (SUNY at Stony Brook) "Us and Them: Morality Across Race and Species" |
| January 28 | Jonathan Neufeld (Columbia) [Candidate for Aesthetics Position] "Music, Performance, and the Public Sphere: The Problem of Authority and Deliberation" |
| February 4 | Book session on Rob Talisse's Democracy After Liberalism with Cheryl Misak (Toronto) and James Booth (VU Pol Sci) |
| February 7 | 5:15pm Anne Eaton (Bucknell) [Candidate for Aesthetics Position] "What's wrong with the Female Nude?" |
| February 10 | Jonathan Dronsfield (Southampton,UK) [Candidate for Aesthetics Position] "The question lacking at the end of art: Danto & Heidegger" |
| February 11 | Elif Cirakman (Visiting Scholar from Ankara) "The Ground of Law and Being-Human" |
| February 18 | Robert Gooding-Williams (Northwestern) "Aesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, and Astaire" |
| February 25 | Victoria McGeer (Princeton), "Trust, Hope and Empowerment" |
| March 4 | Hent de Vries (Johns Hopkins), "From 'Ghost in the Machine's' to 'Spiritual Automaton': Philosophical Meditation in the Wittgensteinian, Cavellian and Levinasian View" |
| March 11 | Spring Break |
| March 15 | Annual Berry Lecture with Thomas Flynn, Emory University "Philosophy as a Way of Life" |
| March 18 | Michael Kelly (Delaware) "After Iconoclasm in Aesthetics, Beyond Deficiency in Art." |
| March 31 | Kelly Oliver Inaugural Lecture, "The secret weapon of modern warfare" ** NOTE TIME &DAY THURS 4pm |
| April 8 | JOSIAH ROYCE SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Conference Keynote: John J. McDermott, Texas A&M University |
| April 15 | James Booth, VU Political Science, "Identity, Politics and Time" |
