PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM SERIES

FOR FALL/WINTER 2011-12

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the following (tentative) schedule of talks in the Colloquium Series.  Unless otherwise noted, all talks will be held on Thursday afternoons in Room 517, John Watson Hall, Bader Lane, beginning at 4:30pm.

Everyone is welcome. Further details about each talk will be sent out weekly.

FALL 2011

    Sept 15:        Cressida Heyes (University of Alberta) (Graham Kennedy Memorial Lecture)
            Title:     “The Knowing Body?  Reworking Philosophy’s Intellectualism”

    Sept 22:        Jack Zupko (University of Winnipeg)
           Title:     “Contextualizing the Self-Knowledge Question in Later Medieval Philosophy”

    Sept. 29:       Nolan Ritcey (Queen's)
           Title:        "Reflections at the Edge of Responsibility"

    Oct 6:           Brian Leiter (University of Chicago)
           Title:     "Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement in Nietzsche"

    Oct 13:        Andrew D.F. Ross (Queen's)
           Title:     "Exploitation in Outsourced Clinical Trials"

     Oct 20:         Melissa Frankel (Carleton)
         Title:       "Berkeley on Malebranche on Abstraction"

    Oct 27:         Paul Woodruff (University of Texas-Austin) (Gregory Vlastos Memorial Lecture)
         Title:       "Eros at the Core of Philosophy"

    Nov 3:          Laura Purdy (Wells College)
         Title:       "A Bioethics Perspective on Sex Reassignment Therapy"

    Nov 10:        Katherine Wayne (Queen's)
         Title:       "Reproduction beyond the non-identity problem: re-considering the nature and demands of suffering and beneficence"

    Nov 17:        Joan Weiner (University of Indiana)
         Title:       "Shy Benacerraf's Puzzle Rests on a Mistake"

     Nov 24:      Frances Kamm (Harvard) (Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture)
          Title:     "Justice after War, Proportionality, and Compensation"

     Dec 1:        No talk

WINTER 2012

 

    Jan 12:        Kijin Sung (Queen's)
         Title:       "Problems with the Gatekeeping Paradigm in Democratic Theory"

    Jan 19:        Brad Inwood (Univ of Toronto)
            Title:     "Aristotelian Ethics in the Roman Empire"

    Jan 26:        Andrew Ross (Queen's)
            Title:     "The Authority of Moderate Deontology"

    Feb 2:        Marguerite DeLauriers (McGill)
            Title:    "Inequality and Unity in Aristotle's Politics II"

  Feb 9:        Richard Smith (Durham)
            Title:    "Re-reading Plato:  The Slow Cure for Knowledge"

    Feb 16:       No Talk

    Feb 23:        Reading week

    Mar 1:        Philip Mitsis (NYU)
          Title:     "Free Will:  A Philosophical History"

    Mar 8:         David Sussman (University of Illinois)
           Title:   

    Mar 15:        Daniel Star (Boston University)
          Title:     TBA

    Mar 22:        Bonnie Talbert (Harvard)
           Title:      TBA

    Mar 29:        Claudine Verheggen (York University)
           Title:     TBA

    April 6:        No talk