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Fall 2006 Vanderbilt Philosophy Department Colloquium Series

(Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia begin at 3:15pm in 109 Furman Hall and are open to the public)
8 September Henry Teloh
Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
"Rhetoric, Refutation, and What Socrates Believes"
15 September Terry Pinkard
Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
"Liberal Individualism without Individualist Philosophy: Hegel's Alternative "
29 September Peter Kivy
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
"A Tale of Two Authenticities "
6 October Jerry Fodor
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
"Evolutionary Philosophy"
20 October David Estlund
Department of Philosophy, Brown University
"Democratic Authority "
27 October Cliff Orwin TBA
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
"Nietzsche's Critique of Compassion "
3 November Jon McGinnis
Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis
"Avicenna on Modalities"
1 December Stephen Darwall
Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan
"Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting "
8 December

Ellen Armour
Graduate Department of Religion and Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
"Signs and Wonders: 'Man' and his 'Others' after Modernity"


Spring 2007 Vanderbilt Philosophy Department Colloquium Series

(There are large gaps left in the Spring schedule to accommodate job talks)
26 January Cliff Orwin
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
"Nietzsche's Critique of Compassion "
2 February TBA
9 February TBA
11-12 March

Metaphysical Society of America Conference
Being qua Being

23 March Paul Taylor
Department of Philosophy, Temple University
"Democracy and Virtue "
30 March Ladelle McWhorter
Department of Philosophy, University of Richmond
"The Philosophical Ramifications of Foucaultian Biopower "
13-15 April Conference on Politics, Criticism and the Arts