Albert J. Fitzgibbons Lecture Series (Departmental Lecture Series)
2008-2009 schedule
October 31: Prof. Robert Sokolowski, Catholic University: "Human Person as Agent of Truth." Gasson 305
November 10: Prof. Robert Wood, "Searle on Awareness and the Brain: Sic et Non."
6:00 pm, Higgins 300
November 14: Prof. Anthony Steinbock, "Time, Otherness, and Possibility in a Phenomenology of Emotions.”
4:00 pm, McGuinn 121
February 13: Prof. Bernard Waldenfels, "Strangeness, Hospitality, and Enmity."
4:00pm, Higgins 310
March 27: Prof. Linda Alcoff, “Truth and Sexual Violence.”
4:00 pm, McGuinn 121
May 1: Professor Richard Cobb-Stevens, Boston College, "What's Left of Truth after the Twentieth Century?"
3:30pm, Cushing 001
2007-2008 schedule
Friday, November 30, 4:00 pm
"Post-Secular Faith: Toward a Religion of Service."
by Prof. Fred R. Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame)
Friday, February 8, 4:00 pm
"Social Categories, Social Structure and Ideology Critique"
by Prof. Sally Haslanger, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, March 27, 4:00 pm
"Caring, Vulnerability and Community,"
by Prof. Marina McCoy, first holder of the Albert J. Fitzgibbons Chair in Philosophy, Boston College.
This will be the official Inaugural Lecture, with the Donor, Mr. Fitzgibbons, in attendance.
Friday, April 25, 4:00 pm
"Consciousness is Not a Bag: Immanence, Transcendence, and Constitution in Husserl's Idea of Phenomenology"
by Prof. John Brough, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
2006-2007 schedule
September 18, 2006
Prof.
Jorge Garcia (Boston College), "Moral virtues & the moral law"
Higgins 310, 4:30 pm
October 6, 2006
Prof.
Jürgen Habermas (Frankfurt), "A Political Constitution for a Pluralist World Society"
Devlin 008, 4:00 pm
November 2, 2006
Richard Boothby, (Loyola College, Baltimore), "Still Indispensable: Freud at 150"
Cushing 001, 4:30pm
January 29, 2007
Prof.
Mary Troxell (Boston College): "The Role of the Ideas in Schopenhauer's Metaphysics", with a commentary by Prof. John Sallis (Boston College)
Higgins 300, 5:00pm
February 9, 2007
Robert Bernasconi (Memphis): "The Policing of Race Mixing: When Racism Came under the Sway of Biopower"
Higgins 300, 4:30pm
Feb 23, 2007
Claudia Barachi (New School University): "On Friendship and the Polis"
4:30pm, Higgins 300
March 30, 2007
John Caputo (Syracuse University): "The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event"
4:30pm, Higgins 300