Philosophy Speaker Series 2012 - 2013
Fall 2012
Wednesday September 19
Douglas Husak, Rutgers University: How to Aid a Crime
Thursday September 27
Anthony Appiah, Princeton University: The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
Thursday October 4
Lydia Goehr, Columbia University: Why Music has Nothing to Say to Poetry and Painting
Thursday October 18
David Estlund, Brown University: Bad Facts (PBK Room, Schaffer Library)
Winter 2013
Thursday January 24
Owen Flanagan, Duke University: The Meaning of Life in a Material World
Thursday February 7
George Sher, Rice University: Why we are Moral Equals
Thursday February 21
Elisabeth Camp, University of Pennsylvania: Why Metaphors Make Good Insults
Thursday March 7
Stephen Leighton, Queens University: Aristotle on Fear and Tragedy
Unless otherwise noted all talks will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Everest Lounge.
Spring 2013
RACE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
MAY 14th – MAY 15th 2013
A Colloquium on the History of Race
Tuesday May 14th
1:30-4:00: Everest Lounge
Panel Discussion
Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University: Kolb as Source for Buffon, Rousseau and Kant
Bernard Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill: Sympathy, Resemblance and Race in the Enlightenment
Wednesday May 15th
10:00-11:30
Phi Beta Kappa Room (Library 204)
Workshop with Speakers (contact Felmon Davis, if interested)
Panel Discussion
1:30-4:00: PBK Room
Andrew Curran, Wesleyan University: Buffon and Proto-Raciology
Charles W. Mills, Northwestern University: Kant and Race Redux
Panel discussions open to the public.
Attendence at workshop by confirmation only.
For further information
Felmon Davis
Department of Philosophy
<davisf -at- union.edu>
518 388 6205