[Boston
Area philosophy Calendar]
Department events and announcements
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Tu., Apr. 29, 08 4:00pm |
No less than four teaching fellows of our department, namely Jon Burmeister, Neal DeRoo, Lynn Purcell and Erin Stackle will receive the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award |
Gasson 100 |
Mo., Apr. 28, 08 5:00 pm |
Fr. Paul McNellis will be the recipient of the Mary Kaye Waldron award, a student-nominated achievement that recognizes Boston College faculty and staff members who go beyond the requirements of their job and actively improve student life on campus with their contributions. |
Murray Function Room |
Fr., Apr. 25, 08 4:00 pm |
For the year's final installment of the Fitzgibbons Lecture Series, Prof. John Brough of Georgetown University will talk on "Consciousness is Not a Bag: Immanence, Transcendence, and Constitution in Husserl's Idea of Phenomenology." |
Gasson 305 |
Thur., Apr. 24, 08 4:30 pm |
Prof. John Russon, Presidential Distinguished Professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, will deliver a lecture on "Deathly Silence: Faith and Phenomenology in Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Derrida". |
Campanella 380 |
Fr., Apr. 18, 08 4:00 pm |
Professor Thomas S. Hibbs of Baylor University will be giving a Bradley Lecture on "How to Begin to Study Thomas Aquinas." A buffet supper and discussion will follow the the lecture in McElroy Faculty Dining Room. Respondent: Professor Eileen Sweeney, Philosophy, Boston College. If you plan to attend the buffet supper on Friday, April 18, 2008, RSVP by Monday, April 14, 2008 to Shirley Gee at geesh@bc.edu or 617-552-4144. |
McGuinn 121 |
Th., Apr. 17, 08 6:30 pm |
Critique and discussion led by Prof. Babette Babich (Fordham University, Ph.D. BC '87) of "The Ister", Barison and Ross' Controversial Prize-winning Documentary (based on Heidegger's Reading of Hölderlin's Hymn "Der Ister") |
Fulton 453 |
Th., Apr. 17, 08 7:00 pm |
The Lonergan Workshop presents, as a contribution to the C21 sponsored Catholic Intellectual Tradition series, a lecture by Prof. Thomas Hibbs (Distinguished Prof. of Ethics and Culture, Dean of the Honors College, Baylor University) on: "Fearful Thoughts of Mortals: Aquinas on Conflict, Self-Knowledge and the Perils of Practical Reason” |
Gasson 305 |
Wed., Apr. 16, 08 4:30-6:00 pm |
"Interreligious dialogue and the Catholic Intellectual Traditions": a debate organized by Prof. R. Kearney ... more» |
Heights Room |
Wed., Apr. 16, 08 2:00-4:00 pm |
The Spring Philosophy Symposium presents: "The Heidegger Symposium: 'The Ereignis of the Abyss' " ... more» |
Campanella 328 |
Th., Apr. 3, 08 7:00 pm |
Prof. Maureen Condic, M. D. , Ph. D., Dept of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah, will deliver the 08 LaBrecque Annual Lecture in Medical Ethics, on the subject of "Faith, Reason, and the Nature of Human Embryos." Reception to follow the lecture; R.S.V.P. Dr Gretchen Gusich, gusich@bc.edu, by March 27. |
Cushing 001 |
Wed., Apr. 2, 08 7:30 pm |
Prof. Charles H. Manekin (University of Maryland) will deliver a Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy on "The Ambiguous Impact of Scholastic Philosophy on Medieval Jewish Philosophy." |
McGuinn 521 |
March 28-29 |
9th Graduate Students conference ... more» |
Gasson 305 |
Th., March 27, 08 7:30 pm |
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Walsh Function Room |
Th., March 27, 08 4:00 pm |
Establishment of The Albert J. Fitzgibbons Chair in Philosophy, made possible through the generosity of Albert J. Fitzgibbons III, with a lecture by Prof. Marina McCoy, holder of the chair, on "Caring, Vulnerability and Community". |
Murray Function Room Yawkey Athletic Center |
Fr., March 14, 08 4:00 pm |
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McGuinn 121 |
Mon., March 10, 08 7:30 p.m. |
Next speaker in the Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy Lecture Series, Prof. Sarah Coakley (Harvard University)will give a talk on "In Persona Christi: Desire, Gender and The Eucharist." |
McGuinn 321 |
Mo., Feb. 25, 2008 7:30 pm |
Prof. Dallas G. Dennery (Bowdoin) will give a Boston Colloquium in MedievalPhilosophy talk, on "Protagoras and the Fourteenth-Century Invention of Epistemological Relativism". A reception will follow the talk. |
McGuinn 321 |
Sat., Feb. 23, 2008 |
"Marginal Identities: Formation and Response": an interdisciplinary conference designed to explore the formation of identity and the forces to which identity responds. Speakers address topics in gender, race, sexuality, and queer theory. ... more» |
Higgins 310 |
Fr., Feb. 15, 2008 4:00 pm |
Professor Susan Collins of the University of Houston will be giving a Bradley Lecture on "Aristotle's Political Science and the Problem of Regime." |
McGuinn 121 |
Fr., Feb. 8, 2008 4:00 pm |
Prof. Sally Haslanger, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver an Albert J. Fitzgibbons lecture: "Social Categories, Social Structure and Ideology Critique". The lecture will be followed by a reception. Beforehand, Prof. Haslanger will have offered an informal seminar on her paper, "Feminism in Metaphysics: Negotiating the Natural." The seminar will be noon-1:30pm, Friday February 8 as well, in Campanella 380. Lunch will be served. Copies of this paper will be available on the cabinet across from RoseMarie DeLeo's cubicle. |
Gasson 305 |
Fr., Jan. 25, 2008 4:00 pm |
Professor Donald Maletz of the University of Oklahoma will be giving a Bradley Lecture on "Carl Schmitt's The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy." A buffet supper and discussion will follow the the lecture in McElroy Faculty Dining Room. Respondent: Professor Jonathan Laurence, Political Science, Boston College. If you plan to attend the buffet supper on Friday, January 25, 2008, RSVP by Monday, January 21, 2008 to Shirley Gee at geesh@bc.edu. |
McGuinn 121 |
Mo., Dec. 3, 2007 7:30 pm |
The Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture "Henry of Ghent on Human Knowledge and Its Limits" by Bernd Goehring, Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame. A reception will follow the lecture. |
McGuinn 321 |
Fr., Nov. 30, 2007 4 pm |
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McGuinn 121 |
Fr., Nov. 16, 2007 3 pm |
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Campanella 328 |
Th., Nov. 8, 2007 7:30 pm |
In the BACAP series, Professor Alvaro Vallejo Campos (University of Granada)will lecture on "The Ontology of False Pleasures in the Philebus." Professor Vallejo Campos' lecture will be followed by a brief comment by Professor Rachel Singpurwalla (University of Maryland at College Park) and then opened up for a general discussion. |
Faculty Dining Room McElroy Hall |
Frid., Nov. 2, 2007 4:00 pm |
The Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology of Boston College invites you to a lecture by Charles Butterworth, (Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park), on "Alfarabi's Goal: Political Philosophy, not Political Theology". Buffet Dinner and Discussion to Follow in McElroy Faculty Dining Room. Discussant: James Morris, Boston College, Theology Department. Regarding the buffet dinner, RSVP to Stephen Brown at brownst@bc.edu by Mon., October 29, 2007. |
Cushing 001 |
Mon., Oct.15, 2007 7:30 pm |
The Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture: "Scotus Can Speak for Himself - His Personal Defense of Freedom" by Dr. Antonie Vos Jaczn, Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Utrecht. |
McGuinn 321 |
Sat., Oct. 13, 2007 9:30am-6pm |
New: a Workshop in Contemporary Philosophy, created by BC grad students. For its first meeting, the theme of the workshop will be the work of Jacques Derrida. ... program » |
Higgins 310 |
Frid., Oct. 5, 2007 4:00 pm |
The Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology presents a lecture by Giulio Silano (St Michael's College, University of Toronto): "Peter Lombard's Sentences: Are they original? Does it matter?". Buffet dinner and discussion to follow in McElroy faculty dining room. |
Cushing 001 |
Frid., Sept. 14, 2007 4:00 pm |
The first Bradley lecture of the year will be delivered by Pr D. Bolotin (Saint John's College, Santa Fe) on "Socrates and the Eleatic Stranger: An Introduction to Plato's Sophist". |
McGuinn 121 |
Fr. & Sat., Sept. 7-8, 2007 |
The annual Boston College Workshop in Modern Philosophy will be held this year at the beginning of the Fall semester ... more» |
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Th., Sept. 6, 2007 7:30 pm |
The Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture: "Philosophizing without Philosophy: Ibn Tufayl's Hayy ibn Yaqzan (the Self-Taught Philosopher) in Context" by Nadja Germann, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher, University of Freiburg. |
McGuinn 521 |
Fr. & Sat/, Aug. 3-4, 2007 |
Several lectures of philosophical interest at the Boston Colloquy in Historical Theology ... more» |
21 Campanella Room 328 |
June 17-22, 2007 |
The 2007 Lonergan Workshop will be held at BC ... more» |
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Wed., April 26, 2007 12:00 pm |
Professor Anthony Celano, from Stonehill College, will give a luncheon medieval talk. His topic is: "The Problem of Practical Wisdom in Aristotelian and Medieval Moral Philosophy." RSVP to Prof. Stephen F. Brown, 617-552-0436 or brownst@bc.edu, so that he can get a food count. |
21 Campanella Room 328 |
Fr., April 20, 2007 4:00 pm |
Professor Richard Taylor, Department of Philosophy, at Marquette University, will be giving a Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology Lecture on Friday, April 20, 2007 on "Averroes' Mature Doctrine of Separate Intellects: The Function of Insights from Themistius." A buffet dinner and discussion will follow the lecture in McElroy Faculty Dining Room. The discussant is Professor Stephen F. Brown. RSVP by Tuesday, April 17, to Shirley Gee < geesh@bc.edu>. |
Cushing 001 |
Fr., April 13, 2007 3 pm-10 pm |
Boston College philosophy graduate students will be hosting "The William James Conference: Pragmatism Revisited." Speakers include: Dr. Fred Bauer (Assumption College), "James, the Kepler of Psychology"; Dr. Richard Cobb-Stevens (Boston College), "William James on Time and the Self"; Dr. Nicholas de Warren (Wellesley College), "The Historical Context of William James' Theory of Time-Consciousness"; Dr. Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University), "The Demonstrable and the Ineluctable: Pragmatism, Postmodernity, and the Leap of Faith". Food and Coffee will be provided!: RSVP to William_James_Conference@yahoo.com |
Gasson 305 |
Th.-Sat., April 12-14, 2007 |
Boston College will be hosting the 7th Independent Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society ... Click here for the program. |
Heights Room, Corcoran Commons |
Th., April 12, 2007 7:30 pm-9:30 pm |
The Boston Area Colloqium in Ancient Philosophy presents Prof. Günter Figal's (Universität Freiburg) lecture "On names and concepts: Mythical and logical thinking in Plato's Symposium" ... more» |
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Th., April 12, 2007 4:30 pm |
Dr. Volker R. Remmert (Lecturer in the History of Science and Mathematics, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany) will give a lecture on "Jesuits, Biblical Exegesis, and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Moden Period", in the serie Religion and the Arts |
Gasson 305 |
Frid., March 30, 2007 4:30 pm |
In the departmental lectures series, Prof. John Caputo (Syracuse University) will present: : "The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event." |
Higgins 300 |
Th., March 22, 2007 7:00 pm |
Annual LaBrecque Medical Ethics Lecture: Dr Edmund Pelligrino (Chairperson Presidential Bioethics Commission, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University) on "Bioethics and Catholic Conscience." Reception to follow: RSVP by Thursday, March 15, to <gusich@bc.edu>. -- A seminar & luncheon with Prof. Pelligrino will be held at 12:00 noon, March 23. |
Cushing 001 |
Fr.-Sat., Mar. 16-17, 2007 |
"Encountering Hegel": BC 8th Annual Philosophy Graduate Students Conference ... more» |
Gasson 305 |
March 16, 2007 4:00 pm |
Professor F. Russell Hittinger, Warren Chair of Catholic Studies and Research Professor in the School of Law, at University of Tulsa, will be giving a Bradley Lecture on "Two Modernisms, Two Thomisms: Reflections on the Centenary of Pius X's Letter against the Modernists." A buffet dinner and discussion will follow the lecture in McElroy Faculty Dining Room. Respondent: Professor Frederick Lawrence of the Boston College. RSVP for the dinner by March 12 to to Shirley Gee at geesh@bc.edu. |
McGuinn 121 |
Th., March 1, 2007 noon |
As the kick-off of a series of medieval lunchtime talks, Prof. Eileen Sweeney, of the Philosophy Department, will present on "Thomas Aquinas and the Seven Capital Sins". The discussion will last until 1:30 pm. Lunch will be served: RSVP by Febr. 27 at 5:00 PM to Prof. Stephen F. Brown, 617-552-0436 or brownst@bc.edu, so that he can get a food count. |
Campanella 328 |
Frid., Feb. 23, 2007 4:30 pm |
The sixth lecture in the2007 departmental series will be given by Prof. Claudia Baracchi (New School for Social Research, NYC) under the title: "On Friendship and the Polis" |
Higgins 300 |
Frid., Feb. 16, 2007 4:00 pm |
Professor Judd Owen, Professor of Political Science at Emory University, will deliver a Bradley Lecture on "Hobbes's Hope Regarding Religion." A buffet dinner and discussion will follow the lecture in McElroy Faculty Dining Room. Respondent: Professor Christopher Kelly (Boston College). |
McGuinn 121 |
Frid., Feb. 9, 2007 4:30 pm |
In the departmental lectures series, Prof. Robert Bernasconi (Memphis) will present: "The Policing of Race Mixing: When Racism Came under the Sway of Biopower." |
Higgins 300 |
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Thu., Feb. 8, 2007 7:30 pm |
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Hovey House Library |
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In the departmental lectures series, our own Mary Troxell will present "The Role of the Ideas in Schopenhauer's Metaphysics", with a commentary by Prof. John Sallis (Boston College) |
Higgins 300 |
Friday, Nov. 17, 2006 4:00 pm |
Professor Constant J. Mews, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University (Australia), will be giving a Boston Colloquy in Historical Theology lecture on "Peter Abelard, Hugh of St.-Victor and the Chartrians: Communities of Learning in the Twelfth Century." A buffet dinner and discussion will follow the lecture in McElroy Faculty Dining Room. Please RSVP to Shirley Gee at geesh@bc.edu |
Cushing 001 |
Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 4:00 pm |
Professor Robert L. Wilken, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity, at the University of Virginia, will be giving a Bradley Lecture in Political Philosophy, on on "The Many Faces of Augustine of Hippo." A buffet dinner and discussion will follow the lecture in McElroy Faculty Dining Room. Respondent: Professor Michael Foley of Baylor Univerisity. For the buffet, please RSVP by Monday, November 6, to Shirley Gee at geesh@bc.edu. |
McGuinn 121 |
Thurs., Nov. 2, 2006 4:30 pm |
As third lecturer in the departmental series, Professor Richard Boothby will present the lecture "Still Indispensable: Freud at 150". He teaches at Loyola College, Baltimore, and is the author of Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud, and Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department and the Psychoanalytic Studies Program. |
Cushing 001 |
Tuesd., Oct. 24, 2006 7:30 pm |
Invited by the Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, Prof. Martin Stone (Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) will present a paper on “Adam of Utrecht and the Transformation of Moral Thought in Fifteenth-Century Louvain”. Prof. Stone's researches have been focused on moral philosophy in late Middle Ages, Renaissane and modern times (free will, grace, probabilism, practical reasoning, casuistry, Jesuit casuistry) and a wide variety of thinkers - some familiar: Molina, Baius, Gerson; and some less familiar: Antoninus of Firenze and Adrian of Utrecht. He is preparing a two-volume series for Oxford University Press entitled: The Subtle Arts of Casuistry: I: The Casuistic Tradition from Aristotle to Kant; II: Ordinary Morality and Practical Reasoning. Related to his present talk is his promised Oxford University Press volume: A Virtuous Man in Sad and Dangerous Times: The Life and Thought of Adrian of Utrecht. |
McGuinn 521 |
Wed., Oct. 18, 2006 4:30pm |
In the lecture series "New Directions in African Diaspora Reseach" of BC African & African Diaspora Studies, Prof. Tommie Shelby will give a talk on "Class, Poverty and Shame". He considers how class differences among African Americans make it difficult to build black solidarity and a progressive politics. Prof. Shelby is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and of African & African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundation of Black Solidarity (Harvard University Press, 2005). This lecture is co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department. |
Higgins 300 |
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Prof. Jürgen Habermas will deliver a lecture on " A Political Constitution for a Pluralist World Society." J. Habermas is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. One of the foremost present thinkers, he is the author of numerous and world famous works (including Knowledge and Human Interests, and The Theory of Communicative Action) on a wide variety of topics including critical theory, social and political theory, epistemology, communication, legitimation, and the concept of the public sphere. |
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Mo., Sept. 25, 2006 7:30 pm |
The Boston Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy features as its first speaker this year Scott MacDonald (Professor of Philosophy and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies, Cornell University), on "The Paradox of Inquiry in Augustine's Confessions" |
Fulton 110 |
Mo., Sept. 18, 2006 4:30 - 5:30 pm |
As first installment of our intramural deparmental lecture designed to inagurate and complement our department's annual public lectures series, Prof. Jorge Garcia will give a talk, and Prof. Arthur Madigan will comment, on "Moral virtues & the moral law". Wine and cheese reception to follow. All are welcome. |
Higgins 310 |
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BCGraduate Students Philosophy Forum Lynn Purcell: “After Alterity? Alain Badiou and Paul Ricoeur on the Future of Ethics” . |
Campanella 380 |
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Prof. Richard Kearney will receive at the Faculty Day meeting the 2006 Boston College Distinguished Senior Scholar Research Award. ... more>> |
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Sat., April 29, 2006, 9:30am- 3:00pm |
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Hovey House Library |
Fr., April 28, 2006, 4:30 - 6:00 pm |
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Vanderslice Hall Cabaret Room |
Fr., April 28, 2006, 5:00 pm |
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Campanella 380 |
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Prof. Gander is Director of the Husserl Archive at the University of Freiburg. His most important book publication is entitled Selbstverständnis und Lebenswelt: Grundzüge einer phänomenologischen Hermeneutik im Ausgang von Husserl und Heidegger. |
Gasson 305 |
Fr. & Sat., April 7-8, 2006 |
There is a certain consensus that contemporary philosophy has introduced something unique to our understanding of language. But despite the currency of the linguistic turn, ... more>> |
Gasson 305 |
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Prof. Pippin, of the University of Chicago, is the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor. He works on the modern German philosophical tradition (Kant to the present), contemporary Continental philosophy, moral theory, social and political philosophy, theories of modernity, and various topics in ancient philosophy. |
Cushing 001 |
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Murray Confer. Room Yawkey Athletic Center. |
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