B R Y N M A W R Department of Philosophy  Thomas Hall, Bryn Mawr College  101 N. Merion Avenue Bryn Mawr, PA 19010  610/526-5332 fax: 610/526-7475

Philosophy Colloquia

Each semester the Department of Philosophy sponsors Department Seminars.  These are occasions at which distinguished scholars from other institutions are invited to interact with students and other members of the Bryn Mawr community.  Guest speakers typically provide background readings which are distributed to Bryn Mawr philosophy majors and minors beforehand.  All majors and minors are required to attend all Departmental Seminars.

All talks are free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be served.

Bryn Mawr College

Philosophy Department Colloquium 2007-2008

FALL 2007

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
William J. Rapaport
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
"Philosophy of Computer Science"
-- jointly sponsored with Computer Sciences

Thomas Hall 224 - 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Michael McKenna

Department of Philosophy

Florida State University
"Ultimacy and Sweet Jane"

Thomas Hall 224 - 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Stephen Perry

John J. O'Brien Professor of Law & Professor of Philosophy

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Legitimate Political Authority and the Obligation to Obey the Law

Thomas Hall 224 - 4:30 p.m.

SPRING 2008

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Richard Burian, Department of Philosophy

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

"Biological Development, Epigenesis, and Second Nature"

Thomas Hall 224 - 4:30 p.m.

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE - HAVERFORD COLLEGE

Annual Joint Speaker Event

NOTE: two events, one on each campus

Speaker: Gopal Sreenivasan, University of Toronto

Thursday, February 28, 2008 -- Thomas Hall 224 -- 4:30 p.m.

Title: "SHOULD virtue be taught?"

Friday, February 29, 2008 - Haverford College Gest Center 101

"An Eye for Facts and a Sense of Values': Social Work as Moral Philosophy?"
-- co-sponsored with Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research

Thomas Hall 224 - 4:30 p.m.

PAST COLLOQIUM

Philosophy Department Colloquium - 2006-2007

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 -- 7:30 p.m.         

Richmond Campbell, Dalhousie University

 "What is Moral Judgment?"

Wednesday, October 4, 2006 -- 4:15 p.m.

John Gibson, University of Louisville

"Interpretation, Fiction and Reality"

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE - HAVERFORD COLLEGE

Annual Joint Speaker Event

NOTE: two events, one on each campus

Speaker: David Kolb, Department of Philosophy & Religion, Bates College

Thursday, November 2, 2006 - 4:30 Haverford College Gest Center 101

"Darwin Rocks Hegel: Does Nature have a History?"

Friday, November 3, 2006 – 10:30 a.m. Bryn Mawr College

Thursday, November 16, 2006 -- 4:15 p.m.

 John Caputo, Syracuse University

"Religion Without Religion"

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 -- 4:15 p.m.         

Christoph Cox, Hampshire College

"From Music to Sound: Being and Time in the Sonic Arts."

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 -- 7:30 p.m.         

Alison Wylie, Barnard College 

"Standpoint Matters: What's Feminist about Gender Archaeology?"

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Philosophy Department Colloquium - 2005-2006

The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce that Anthony Appiah has been chosen for Bryn Mawr’s Mary Flexner Lecture Series.

His four public lectures and two discussion group sessions with Philosophy majors and minors will constitute the Departmental colloquia for the Fall.

 Anthony Appiah

 Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

General Title:  “The End of Ethics?”

All lectures will take place in Thomas Great Hall at 8:00 p.m.

1) Thursday, October 20, 2005

Friday, October 21, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. -- Seminar/Discussion group with majors and minors in Campus Center 200.

2) Thursday, October 27, 2005

3) Thursday, November 3, 2005

4) Thursday, November 10, 2005

Friday, November 11, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. -- Seminar/Discussion group with majors and minors in Campus Center 200.

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE - HAVERFORD COLLEGE – Annual Joint Speaker Event

NOTE: two events - one on each campus

Speaker: John Perry:  Department of Philosophy, Stanford University

Thursday, February 2, 2006, 4:30 p.m. -- Bryn Mawr College:

Thomas Hall 224

Title: "Who (and what) am I? "

Friday, February 3, 2006, 10:30 a.m. – Haverford College

Whitehead Campus Center -- Room 205A

Seminar/discussion group

Wednesday, March 1, 2006 --7:30 p.m: Thomas Hall 224

"Speaking Race to Ethics”

Jerry Miller

Department of Philosophy, Haverford College

Wednesday, April 5, 2006 --7:30 p.m: Thomas Hall 224

“Personal Reasons ”

Ruth Chang

Department of Philosophy, Rutgers

Wednesday, April 19, 2006 –- 7:30 p.m: Thomas Hall 224

“Good Fiction’s Good Lessons”

Marcia Eaton

Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota

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Philosophy Department Colloquium - 2004-2005

September 29, 2004
"Perceptual Experience and Bodily Action"
Cheryl Chen
Department of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College

October 20, 2004
"Three Approaches to the Study of Confucianism"
Bryan Van Norden
Department of Philosophy, Vassar College

November 17, 2004
"Mechanism, Final Causes, and the Life Sciences in the Seventeenth Century"
Karen Detlefsen
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

January 26, 2005
"Before You Know It: Is Consciousness Necessary for Free Actions?"
Sean Gallagher
Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida

March 2, 2005
"Emotion in Music"
Jenefer Robinson
Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE - HAVERFORD COLLEGE -- Joint Speaker Event
NOTE: two events, one on each campus

Cheshire Calhoun
Department of Philosophy, Colby College

Thursday, April 7, 2005, at 4:30 p.m. -- Haverford College Gest Center 101
"Philosophical Issues in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate"

Friday, April 8, 2005, at 10:30 a.m. -- Bryn Mawr College (Location TBA)
Seminar/discussion group

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Philosophy Department Colloquium - 2003-2004

October 1, 2003
"Word and World"
Patricia Hanna
Departments of Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Utah

November 12, 2003
"Models of Mind and Memory Activities"
Susan Campbell
Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University

January 28, 2004
"Solidarity and Privilege"
Sally Scholz
Department of Philosophy, Villanova University

March 17, 2004
"What I Have Learned From Displaced People About Ethics"
Jay Drydyk
Department of Philosophy, Carleton University

April 14, 2004
"A Plea for ‘Sex’ "
Christine Overall
Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University

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