Philosophy Forum Iin addition to the usual schedule, we have added a “Reader’s Series,” presentations on major texts from the philosophical tradition by students for whom these texts are central to their teaching and their graduate studies. 2008-2009 Schedule All forums are in Campanella 380, beginning at 2:00 PM FRIDAY, JANUARY 23: Taylor Black, "Aquinas on Agent Intellect" (Room 380, 2 p.m.) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20: Mark Thomas, "Scehlling on Freedom and Evil" (Room 380, 2 p.m.) FRIDAY, APRIL 3: Erin Stackle, "Aristotle: Making Math out of matter" (Room 380, 2 p.m.) FRIDAY, APRIL 17: Fauve Lybaert, "Personal Identity and the Formal Self" (Room 380, 2 p.m.)
2007-2008 Schedule All forums are in Campanella 380, beginning at 4:30 PM - Sept. 28: Ross Romero 2006-2007 Schedule All forums this fall are in Campanella 380, beginning at 4:30 PM September 15th: Lynn Purcell, “After Alterity? Alain Badiou and Paul Ricoeur on the Future of Ethics” September 29th: Travis Holloway, “The Silhouette of Imagination (Trying To Make Sense of Kant’s Understanding of Imagination)” October 20th: Mark Sentesy, “Husserl and Wittgenstein” November 3rd: Erin Stackle, “What is Science?” December 1st: Amanda Gibeault, “Could this be the Start of a Beautiful Friendship? Husserl and Feminist Epistemology" January 19th: Joseph Cioni, "Winning the Silver Medal in the Race for Virtue in Plato's Laws"
2005-2006 Schedule September 30th: Michael Smith, “Lonergan and Onto-Theology” October 14th: John Rogove, "Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology: Self- Consciousness and the Figure of Mutual Recognition" October 28th: Joseph Tanke, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Plato and Love Warhol” November 11th: Joshua Shmikler, “Reading Plato’s Sophist” December 2nd: Joseph Haggarty, “Aristotle’s Definition of Motion” February 3rd: Joseph Haggarty, “Reading Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae” February 17th: Jon Burmeister, “Indirection and Imagination in Soren Kierkegaard” March 3rd: Matt Robinson, “Reading Augustine’s Confessions” April 21st: Jon Harmon, “Reading Hobbes’ Leviathan” April 28th: Carlos Bohorquez, “Ricoeur’s Critique of Gadamerian Hermenutics”
2004-05 Schedule November 26th: Michael Formichelli, “Reading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.” January 28th: Joshua A. Shmikler, “The Dramatic Roots of the Five Genera in Plato's Sophist.” February 11th: Joseph Haggarty, “Reading Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae.” April 15th: Jon Harmon, “Liberalism and Religious Speech.” April 26th: Stefan Kalt, “The Three Phases of Negativity: Positing, External, and Determining Reflection in Hegel’s Science of Logic,” with response by Prof. O. Blanchette. May 6th: Nathan Smith: “Reading Descartes’ Meditations.”
Fall 2004 schedule October 1st: Neal Leavitt, TBA October 15th: Corey Dyck, “Reading Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.” October 29th: Jason Taylor, “Reading Plato’s Republic.” November 12th: John O’Connor, “Husserl’s Early Idealism and the Fight against Category Errors.” November 26th: Josh Shmikler, “Complete Friendship and the Theoretical Life in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics"” December 3rd: Michael Formichelli, “Reading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.”
Papers given in the past: February 28, 2003: Michael Formichelli: "Supererogation and the Implication of an Ethics of Virtu.e" March 21, 2003: Richard Grijalva: "Time and Eternity in the Early Kierkegaard". Response by Joseph Westfall. Carney, 202. April 11, 2003: Jason Taylor "Philosophical inquiry in Husserl's "First Logical Investigation" and Plato's "Apology of Socrates."" Response by John O'Connor April 25, 2003 Debbie Hutchins "The Knowability Problem" September 27, 2002: Alicia Jaramillo: "Aquinas' Concept of the Infinite" October 11, 2002: Elizabeth Gardner: "Robert Nozick on Value and Emotion" October 18, 2002: Corey Dijck: "A Taste for Society, Aesthetics and Politics in Kant" November 1, 2002: Dalia Nassar: "Arendt on Nationalism, Revisited" April 8, 2002: Michael D. Feiler, "Sampling Foucault" March 25, 2002: Sarah Harper, "On the Consistecy of Descartes' Idea of God" March 11, 2002: Jon O'Connor, "Husserl and the Method of Reduction" |