Departmental Events
Philosophy Department Colloquia 2011- 2012
Spring 2012 Colloquium Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place on the following Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Hall Room 224 on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. For more information please call: 610-526-5332; or e-mail phealy@brynmawr.edu
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BRYN MAWR COLLEGE - HAVERFORD COLLEGE |
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Thursday September 20 4:30 pm
Bryn Mawr College Thomas 224
Friday September 21 10:30 to 12:00 Noon
Haverford College Whitehead Campus Center 205 A & B |
Paul Franks, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy and the Program of Judaic Studies Yale University
"How is Truth Possible? Back to Kant, Today and the Day Before Yesterday" |
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Wednesday November 7 7:30 PM
Bryn Mawr College Thomas 224
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Eugene Garver, Professor Emeritus College of Saint Benedict / Saint John's University
"Deliberation in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Philosophy" |
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Past Philosophy Department Colloquia
2011-2012
Wednesday, September 21
Joel Yurdin
Department of Philosophy, Haverford College
"Putting Perception in its Place in the Theaetetus"
Wednesday, November 2
Kok-Chor Tan
Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
"The Idea of Toleration"
Wednesday, November 30
Peg O'Connor
Departments of Philosophy and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
Gustavus Adolphus College
"On the Rocks is a Form of Life:
Wittgenstein and Addiction"
Wednesday, January 25
Michael Gillespie
Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Duke University
"The Theological-Political Origins of Religious Toleration"
Thursday, February 23, & Friday February 24
Mary Wiseman
Professor Emerita, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Wednesday, April 4
Mary Wiseman
Professor Emerita, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
2010-2011
Wednesday, September 22
Peter Baumann
Department of Philosophy, Swarthmore College
"Persons, Dignity and Respect”
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE - HAVERFORD COLLEGE
Annual Joint Speaker Event
NOTE: Two events, one on each campus
Thursday, October 28@ Haverford College
Sally Haslanger
Department of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
"Social Construction and Social Critique: Debunking Myths "
Friday, October 29@ Bryn Mawr College
*Philosophy Seminar/Discussion led by Sally Haslanger
"Ideology, Generics and Common Ground"
*(this session is limited to Philosophy faculty, majors and minors at both Bryn Mawr and Haverford)
Thursday, November 18
Andrew Brook
Department of Philosophy, Carleton University and Visiting Professor at Bryn Mawr College
"The Ethics Enshrined in U.S. Environmental Legislation"
Wednesday, February 9
Diane Perpich
Department of Philosophy & Religion Clemson University
"Feminism and Multiculturalism Revisited: French Feminism and the Ni Putes Ni Soumises Movement"
Wednesday, March 16
Sarah Clark Miller
Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis
"Feminist Conceptions of Global Responsibility”
Wednesday, April 6
Alice Crary
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York
"Dogs and Concepts"
2009-2010
Monday, September 21, 2009– Thomas Hall 224 -- Joint Event w/Physics Dept.
Dorothy Vernon Room, Haffner -- Dinner @ 5:00 p.m. - Presentation @ 6:00 p.m.
"The Many-Weirdnesses Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics''
Guy Blaylock -Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Thursday, October 1, 2009– Thomas Hall 224
"Complexity and Simplicity in Aristotle and Early Chinese Philosophy"
David Wong, Department of Philosophy, Duke University
Thursday, December 3, 2009 -- Thomas Hall 224
"Transcendental Conscience"
William Blattner, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
Wednesday, February 3. 2010– Thomas Hall 224
"Nature's Handmaid, Art"
Catherine Elgin, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 – Thomas Hall 224
"Reconciling Gender Equality with Cultural Group Rights"
Monique Deveaux– Associate Professor of Political Science , Williams College
2008-2009
The Philosophy Department Presents its First Annual Cauman Lecture
Professor Alexander Nehamas -- Professor of Philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University
"Because It Was He, Because It Was I: The Good of Friendship"
Lecture: Thursday, October 2, 2008 -- Thomas Hall 224
Discussion: Friday, October 3, 2008 – 10:00 a.m. – Rhoads Meeting Room
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE - HAVERFORD COLLEGE
Annual Joint Speaker Event
NOTE: two events, one on each campus
Michael Nylan, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Lecture: Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 4:30 p.m.
Haverford College – Chase 104
"Zhuangzi: Beliefs in Talking and Seeing"
and
Professor Henry Rosemont Jr., Visiting Scholar of Religious Studies
Brown University
Lecture: Friday, February 13, 2009 – 10:30 a.m.
"On 'Knowing' (zhi) Praxis-Guiding Discourse in the Confucian Analects"
Bryn Mawr College Campus Center 200
Discussion/Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00p.m.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 – Thomas Hall 224
"Four Perspectives on Abortion Ethics"
Don Marquis – Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 – Thomas Hall 224
"Intimate Assistance: Re-Thinking Abortion in Law and Morality"
Margaret Little – Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
2007-2008
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
"Ultimacy and Sweet Jane "
Michael McKenna - Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
Wednesday, January 30, 2008, Thomas Hall 224
"Biological Development, Epigenesis and Second Nature"
Richard M. Burian -- Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE - HAVERFORD COLLEGE
Annual Joint Speaker Event
Thursday, Feb 28, 2008
"Should Virtue Be Taught"
Gopal Sreenivasan - Department of PhilosophyUniversity of Toronto
Friday, February 29, 2008 -- Discussion at Haverford College
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, Thomas Hall 224
“An Eye for Facts and a Sense of Values': Social Work as Moral Philosophy?”
Sarah Banks, Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences
Durham University, United Kingdom
-- co-sponsored with Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research
2006-2007
Wednesday, September 13 -- Thomas Hall 224
Richmond Campbell -- Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
"What is Moral Judgment?"
Wednesday, October 4 -- Thomas Hall 224
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
"Interpretation, Fiction and Reality"
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
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Philosophy Seminar/Discussion Campus Center Room 200
Thursday, November 16, 2006 –- 4:15 p.m: Thomas Hall 224
"Religion Without Religion"
John Caputo, Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 – Thomas Hall 224
"From Music to Sound: Being and Time in the Sonic Arts"
Christoph Cox, Department of Philosophy, Hampshire College
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 – Thomas Hall 224
"Standpoint Matters: What's Feminist about Gender Archaeology?"
Alison Wylie, Department of Philosophy, Barnard College
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 – Thomas Hall 224
"Interpretation, Fiction and Reality"
John Gibson, University of Louisville
Spring 2006
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 Bryn Mawr College
"Who (and what) am I? "
Thursday, February 3, 2006 Haverford College Gest Center
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Philosophy Seminar/Discussion
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 –- Thomas Hall 224
"Speaking Race to Ethics "
Jerry Miller , Department of Philosophy, Haverford College
Wednesday, April 5, 2006– Thomas Hall 224
"Personal Reasons "
Ruth Chang, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 – Thomas Hall 224
"Good Fiction's Good Lession "
Marcia Eaton, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
