All talks, unless otherwise noted, are from 4:10 to 5:30 p.m., Fridays, in the Lory Student Center. They are free and open to the public. For further information, contact the Philosophy Department at 491-6315
Fall 2009
FALL SERIES UPCOMING COLLOQUIA
Friday, November 13, 4:10 p.m.
Title: Kant, Human Nature, and History after Rousseau
Karl Ameriks
McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
Bio:
An American philosopher currently serving as McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Ameriks studied at Yale University, A.B., summa cum laude (1968), Ph.D. (1973), where he wrote his thesis under the direction of Karsten Harries. He is regarded as one of the foremost scholars of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and has written widely in the history of continental and modern philosophy. Ameriks co-edits the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy.
Lory Student Center, Room LSC 214-216, 4:10 pm
SPRING SERIES UPCOMING COLLOQUIA
Spring 2010
TBA
Paul Guyer
Professor of Philosophy and F.R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract:
TBA
Bio:
One of the world's foremost scholars of Kant. Guyer also serves on the Graduate Groups for both Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature. Apart from writing several books and essays on Kant and Kantian themes, he has edited and translated a number of Kant's works into English. Guyer's Kant and The Claims of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press) is widely considered to be one of the most significant works in Kant scholarship. Princeton University Press recently released Guyer's highly anticipated new work, Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume. He is one of the general editors of the Cambridge Edition of Kant's works in translation. His other areas of specialty include the history of philosophy and aesthetics. Guyer has just been elected Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics for 2009-11, which will be followed by a term as President for 2011-13.
Lory Student Center, Room LSC TBA, 4:10 pm
Spring 2010
The Anatomy of a Dialogue
ANDRE M. ARCHIE
Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University
Abstract:
TBA
Bio:
Prof. Archie specializes in the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy. He has published in various journals such as Ancient Philosophy and Scholia. He has an interest in metropolitan downtowns and the writings of Evelyn Waugh.
Lory Student Center, Room LSC TBA, 4:10 pm
Recent Colloquia, Fall 2009
The 2009 Eddy Lecture
Monday, November 2, 2009, 7:30 p.m., Plant Science, Room C101
Michele Moody-Adams
Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education
Columbia University, New York City, New York
"Education for the 21st Century"
Afternoon Seminar
Arguing with the Past
Monday, November 2, 2009, 2- 4 p.m., Lory Student Center ASCSU Chamber
Bio:
Michele Moody-Adams is an African American philosopher and academic administrator. Until recently, she was vice provost for undergraduate education at Cornell University and Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and Public Life. On July 1, 2009, she will become Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education at Columbia University. She will be the first woman and first African American to hold the post.
Moody-Adams grew up in Chicago, graduated from Wellesley College in 1978 with a B.A. in philosophy. She attended Somerville College at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship, and received a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics, in 1980. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1986. Moody-Adams wrote her dissertation on “Moral Philosophy Naturalized: Morality and Mitigated Skepticism in Hume" under the supervision of John Rawls. Before coming to Cornell in Fall of 2000, Moody-Adams worked at Indiana University, Bloomington, as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education.
Moody-Adams responded to the September 11 attacks by asserting that "Vengeance is not the answer here," and that the result of an American military response could be the end of everything worth fighting for, "even the end of the species."
In February, 2009, Moody-Adams co-sponsored with university funds a controversial student display on the Cornell campus by the Islamic Alliance for Justice consisting of signs and 1300 flags representing dead Palestinians and Israelis.
When she was appointed to her Columbia post, administrators at Cornell praised her, "Michele is an exceptional scholar and administrator," said Provost Kent Fuchs. "Her breadth of experience working on many issues of vital importance to the university and her deep academic insights have enriched Cornell in multiple ways. We will miss her leadership, insights and intellect."
For more details on the recent Columbia appointment, see: Columbia
Both events are free and open to the public.
Monday, September 14, 4:10 p.m.
Kantian Intuitionism and the Justification of Moral Judgment
Robert Audi
Professor of Philosophy,
Davd E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics
Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Bio:
Robert Audi is the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics at the Mendoza College of Business. He earned his B.A. from Colgate University, graduating magna cum laude in philosophy and English. Audi earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His teaches includes the areas of business ethics, epistemology and philosophy.
Audi is the author of 13 books, including the recently published, “Business Ethics and Ethical Business,” as well as of more than 200 papers appearing in journals and edited volumes. {A contributor to 75 others.} He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and has served as general editor of the First Edition (1995) and Second Edition (1999) of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. He has also directed postdoctoral institutes and seminars under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. {Served as the general editor for "Modern Readings in Epistemology", as well as for "Modern readings in Metaphysics."}
Wagar 231, 4:10 pm
Wednesday, September 23, 1:30-2:30
Title: What is Diversity? When Is It Good?
Philip Cafaro
Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University
This talk is a part of: CSU’s 2009 Diversity Conference, with the title: Diversity in the 21st Century: Talking About Diversity.
Bio:
A former ranger with the U.S. National Park Service, Cafaro's research interests center in environmental ethics, virtue ethics, American philosophy and wild lands preservation. He is the author of Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue ( 2004) and co-editor of the recent anthology Environmental Virtue Ethics (2005). Cafaro has published articles in Environmental Ethics, the Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophy Today and BioScience, and in the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity and the Encyclopedia of World Environmental History.
Lory Student Center, Room LSC 214-216, 1:30 pm
Wednesday, September 23, 4:00 p.m.
Climate change and global responsibility: Should I have flown here to give this paper?
Nigel Dower
William E. Morgan Endowed Chair in Liberal Arts at CSU, and
Professor Emeritus, Aberdeen
Bio:
Nigel Dower is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Aberdeen and Academic Consultant (t/a ‘Cosmopolitan Agendas’). He joined the University of Aberdeen in 1967 where he has taught until 2004, except for three years teaching Philosophy in Zimbabwe (1983-86) and five months as Gillespie Visiting Professor, College of Wooster, Ohio in 2000. He was Head of Department from 1996-1999 and 2000-2001. In June 2004 he took early retirement in order to pursue his interests in ‘exploring ethics in a globalise world’ through teaching, lectures, writing and consultancy. He was visiting Professor in the University of Akureyri, Iceland in Sept-October 2004, and will be Visiting Professor in Colorado State University, Fort Collins in January-May 2006.
His main research interests are in the field of the ethics/philosophy of development, environment and international relations. He taught for many years two special subjects relating to his research, one on the ethics of international relations, covering normative theories, war and peace, theories of justice/human rights and global citizenship, and the other on the ethics of development, environment and technology. He has also\ taught various other courses on the ethics of sustainable development. (See list of publications below.)
In 1997 he wrote World Ethics - the New Agenda for the Edinburgh University Press (1998) and is Editor of its Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics. His interest in development ethics is reflected in membership of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA), of which he is President, and the Development Ethics Study Group of the Development Studies Association (DSA), of which he is convener. He is also a member of the Educational Advisory Board for the Earth Charter and the IUCN Ethics Specialist Group. In 1997-1999, as one of the Associate Directors of the Centre for Philosophy, Technology & Society (which operated from 1990 to 2002), he led a research project on the idea of global citizenship and how educational courses at Undergraduate level might be developed. This resulted inter alia in Global Citizenship - A Critical Reader, edited by Nigel Dower and John Williams (EUP 2002) and his latest book An Introduction to Global Citizenship (EUP 2003).
Clark Building, Room A205, 4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 21, 4:00 pm
Title: Eliminating Light Pollution:
Always a Good, Only Sometimes a Duty
Robert Fudge
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Weber State University
Bio:
Professor Fudge holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Syracuse University, and was one of our own for both his M.A. in Philosophy (Colorado State University) and B.A. in Philosophy (Colorado State University). His academic interests include Ethics and Aesthetics.
Sample of Prof. Fudge's publications:
“Whisper Things into My Brain: Metallica, Emotion, and Morality,” Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery, ed. William T. Irwin (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 5-15.
“A Vindication of Strong Aesthetic Supervenience,” Philosophical Papers, 34 (2005): 149-171.
“Problems with Contextualizing Aesthetic Properties,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61 (2003): 67-70 (with response by Marcia Eaton).
“Imagination and the Science-Based Aesthetic Appreciation of Unscenic Nature,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 59 (2001): 275-285.
“On Harwood’s Plural Voting System” (with Carol Quinn), Journal of Social Philosophy 32 (2001): 500-504.
“A Dialogic Approach to Introducing Informal Fallacies,” Teaching Philosophy 24 (2001): 371-377.
“Motivating Employees to Act Ethically: An Expectancy Theory Approach” (with John Schlacter), Journal of Business Ethics 18 (1999): 295-304.
Lory Student Center, Room LSC 214-216, 4:00 pm
PAST COLLOQUIA
All talks are from 4:10 to 5:30 p.m., Fridays, in the Lory Student Center.
They are free and open to the public.
For further information, contact the Philosophy Department at 491-6315.
