Philosophy Department - Boston College

The department offers a broad program of courses in the history and problems of philosophy, allowing for concentration in various areas. ... more»

BC GRADUATE CONFERENCE 09: CALL FOR PAPERS ... more»

The Department is pleased to welcome Professor Günter Figal, the Fall 2008 Gadamer Distinguished Visiting Professor. Prof. Figal teaches at the univerity of Freiburg-im-Brisgau (Germany), and has published over 20 books on Gadamer, Heidegger,
hermeneutics, and social and political philosophy. He is offering at BC a graduate seminar on "Being and Space" as well as a course on
"Aesthetics as Phenomenology."

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• Nov. 21: Prof. M. Mulchahey (PIMS, Toronto) will lecture on: "Introducing Peter Lombard to Dominican Students in University Classrooms and in the Order's Schools" ... more»

Nov. 20: BACAP lecture by Prof. Marije Martijn (Amsterdam) on "Why Beauty is Truth in All We Know: Aesthetics and Mimesis in Neoplatonic Science" ... more»

• Nov. 14: "Time, Otherness, and Possibility in a Phenomenology of Emotions" by Prof. Anthony Steinbock (South. Illinois) ... more»

• Nov. 10: "Searle on Awareness and the Brain: Sic et Non", by Prof. R. Wood (Univ. of Dallas) ... more»

• Nov. 7: Prof. R. Bartlett (Emory Univ.) on "Aristotle's Inquiry into Happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics" ... more»

• Oct. 31: 1st Fitzgibbons lecture of the year with Prof. R. Sokolowski (Catholic U.) on "Human Person as an Agent of Truth" ... more»

• Latin and Greek Reading Groups will meet on Mondays and Thursdays ... more»

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The program allows concentration in the following areas:continental European philosophy from Kant to the present, medieval philosophy, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of science. ... more»

With over 350 majors and 60 minors the undergraduate program is designed to provide the opportunity for open-ended inquiry and reflection on the most fundamental questions about ourselves, our world, and our destiny. ... more»


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