Albert J. Fitzgibbons Lecture Series (Departmental Lecture Series)
2009-2010 schedule
Monday, September 28, 4.30 pm, Higgins 300:
John Maraldo (University of North Florida), "If Practice Isn't Opposed to Theory, What Is it? Reflections on Sino-Japanese Philosophy"
Friday, October 9, 4:30 pm, Gasson 305:
Tom Sheehan (Stanford University), "What if Heidegger were a phenomenologist?"
Sunday, October 25, 5 pm, Gasson 100:
Jonathan Lear, Sunday, "Allegory and Psychic Transformation: An Interpretation of Plato's Cave," as part of psychoanalysis conference hosted by BC, followed by a wine and cheese reception at the McMullen Museum of Art.
Thursday, November 12, 5:30 pm, McGuinn 121:
Alasdair MacIntyre, O'Brien Senior Research Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, co-sponsored with Church in the 21st century: "Philosophical Education against Contemporary Culture".
Friday November 13, 12 noon-2 pm, Heights Room:
Alasdair MacIntyre, book panel on his book, God, philosophy, universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition.
Commentators on the panel will be Prof. Jeff Bloechl (Philosophy), Prof. Candace Hetzner (GSAS Associate Dean), Prof. Jim O'Toole (Clough Chair in History), and Prof Eileen Sweeney (Philosophy).
March 12, 2010, 4:30 pm, room TBA:
Eva Kittay (SUNY Stonybrook) on philosophy of disability.
Followed by buffet dinner in faculty dining room. Prof. Kittay will also do a panel with students earlier in the afternoon, from 2:00-3:00pm.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 5 pm, room TBA:
Charles Griswold (Boston University) "On virtues and vices of vengeance"
Prof. Griswold will also do a chapter from his forgiveness book in a session with grad students earlier, from 2:00-3:00 in the afternoon.
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