Recent Philosophy Lectures
2007-2008
“Philosophy of Computer Science”
William J. Rapaport
SUNY Buffalo
“Ultimacy and Sweet Jane”
Michael McKenna
Florida State University
“Legitimate Political Authority and the Obligation to Obey the Law”
Stephen Perry
University of Pennsylvania Law School
“Biological Development, Epigenesis, and Second Nature”
Richard Burian
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Virginia State University
Bryn Mawr/Haverford Joint Speaker
“SHOULD virtue be taught?”
Gopal Sreenivasan
University of Toronto
“An Eye for Facts and a Sense of Values: Social Work as Moral Philosophy?”
Sarah Banks
Durham University, United Kingdom
2006-2007
“What is Moral Judgment?”
Richard Campbell
Dalhousie University
“Interpretation, Fiction and Reality”
John Gibson
University of Louisville
Bryn Mawr/Haverford Joint Speaker
“Darwin Rocks Hegel: Does Nature have a History?”
David Kolb
Bates College
“Religion Without Religion”
John Caputo
Syracuse University
“From Music to Sound: Being and Time in the Sonic Arts”
Christoph Cox
Hampshire College
“Standpoint Matters: What’s Feminist about Gender Archaeology?”
Alison Wylie
Barnard College
2005-2006
Mary Flexner Lecture Series
“The End of Ethics?”
Anthony Appiah
Princeton University
Bryn Mawr/Haverford Joint Speaker
“Who (and what) am I?”
John Perry
Stanford University
“Speaking Race to Ethics”
Jerry Miller
Haverford College
“Personal Reasons”
Ruth Chang
Rutgers University
“Good Fiction’s Good Lessons”
Marcia Eaton
University of Minnesota
2004-2005
“Perceptual Experience and Bodily Action”
Cheryl Chen
Bryn Mawr College
“Three Approaches to the Study of Confucianism”
Bryan Van Norden
Vassar College
“Mechanism, Final Causes, and the Life Sciences in the Seventeenth Century”
Karen Detlefsen
University of Pennsylvania
“Before You Know It: Is Consciousness Necessary for Free Actions?”
Sean Gallagher
University of Central Florida
“Emotion in Music”
Jenefer Robinson
University of Cincinnati
Bryn Mawr/Haverford Joint Speaker:
“Philosophical Issues in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate”
Cheshire Calhoun
Colby College
2003-2004
“Word and World”
Patricia Hanna
University of Utah
“Models of Mind and Memory Activities”
Susan Campbell
Dalhousie University
“Solidarity and Privilege”
Sally Scholtz
Villanova University
“Cross-Cultural Justice”
Jay Drydyk
Carleton University
“A Plea for ‘Sex’”
Christine Overall
Queen’s University
2002-2003
“The Epistemic Regress Problem”
Peter Klein
Rutgers University
“I Am Not a Racist, But”
Lawrence Blum
University of Massachusetts, Boston
“On the Experience of Time”
Sean Kelly
Princeton University
“Something Else to Do With Our Words: On the Covert Enacting of Permissible Conditions”
Mary Kate McGowen
Wellesley College
“Hermeneutics”
Robert Dostal
Bryn Mawr College
“True Enough”
Catherine Elgin
Harvard University
“Transnationalizing the Public Sphere”
Nancy Fraser
The New School
“The Choice Between Popper and Kuhn: Truth, Criticism, and the Legacy of Logical Positivism”
Mark Notturno
Washington, DC
2001-2002
“Globalization and the Politics of Recognition”
Nancy Fraser
The New School
“Wittgenstein on Forms of Life”
Gertrude Conway
Mount St. Mary’s College
“On Pornography”
Susan Dwyer
University of Maryland, Baltimore
“The Concept of Truth”
Anil Gupta
University of Pittsburgh and Indiana University
“Computer Ethics: Acceptable Use Around the World and at Bryn Mawr”
Jacques Catudal
Drexel University
“Nostalgia and the Constitution of Personal Identity”
Andreea Deciu
Carnegie Mellon University
“Plato Versus Armstrong: If you want to be a realist, be a pure realist and be Plato”
Samuel Wheeler
University of Connecticut
“Cognitive Science and Its History”
Andrew Brook
Carleton University
2000-2001
“Development of a Cognitive Agent”
Stuart Shapiro
SUNY Buffalo
“Questions and Answers About Buddhist Philosophy”
Geshe Ngawang Samten
Smith College
Co-Director, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
“The Language of Thought: Reflections on Frege”
Danielle Macbeth
Haverford College
“The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism and the Problem of Mothering”
Patrice DiQuinzio
Muhlenberg College
“What is the State of the Art in Science Studies?”
Richard Burian
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
“Asian Values and the Question of Cultural Relativism”
Xiaorong Li
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland
1999-2000
“Weakness of Will”
Alfred Mele
Davidson College
“The Concept of Spirituality and the Smorgasbord Syndrome”
Margaret Chatterjee
Wexler Visiting Professor, Bryn Mawr College
“Nagarjuna’s Theory of Causation: Implications Sacred and Profane”
Jay Garfield
Smith College
“Inclusionary and Exclusionary Logical Relations”
John Corcoran
SUNY Buffalo
“The Self, Thinking: Wittgenstein, Augustine, and the Autobiographical Situation”
Gary Hagberg
Bard College
“Beyond Reason: Public Discourse and Emotion Talk”
Susan Bickford
University of North Carolina