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UCD Philosophy Department Events/Colloquium Series 

Spring 2012

Wednesday, January 25, 2012  3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.

 Ivan Mayerhofer, Visiting Lecturer, Colorado College Department of Philosophy

"Contradictions and Paradoxes in K​nowledge and Wisdom Traditions"​​

*NOTE: The following talks will be located either in Plaza M108 or in another room in Plaza. Come to M108 for directions if not specified, below.

 

Monday, January 30, 2012  3:30 p.m. -5 p.m. (Location: Plaza Building, Room 146)

“The Reversible Flesh of Women and Nonhuman Animals: Thinking Connection and Difference in Feminist and Decolonial Ethics”

 

Wednesday, February 1, 2012  3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. (Location: Plaza Building, Room 146)

“Uchronic History: Michèle Le Doeuff on Reclamation”   

 

Friday, February 10, 2012 10 a.m. -11:30 a.m. (Location: Plaza Building, Room 146)

Title: TBA

 

Monday, February 13, 2012 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.  (Location: Plaza Building, Room M146)

“Ethics of Emotion in Health Care” 

 

Monday, March 12, 11 am

“The Cosmopolitan Address”

Noëlle McAfee, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Emory University

Location: Multicultural Lounge, Tivoli Student Center

(easy entrance is on side of Tivoli between Plaza building and Tivoli, near the “e” in “Bookstore” on this map: http://g.co/maps/5zxm6​)

Noëlle McAfee is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, the co-chair of the Public Philosophy Network, and associate editor of the Kettering Review. Her writings include Democracy and the Political Unconscious (Columbia 2008),Julia Kristeva (Routledge 2003); Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (Cornell 2000); and numerous articles and book chapters. She has also edited Standing with the Public: the Humanities and Democratic Practice and a special issue of the philosophy journal Hypatia on feminist engagements in democratic theory. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Democracy Otherwise.​

 

MORE TALKS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

 

Unless otherwise noted, talks held in Plaza Building, Room M108 

 

NOTE: An archive list of talks from 2005 - 2010 is here.

 

Tuesday, September 20th, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.

Chad Kautzer, Assistant Professor

UCD Department of Philosophy

"Hegel and Egypt: From Orientalism to Recognition"

 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. 

Thinking of Going to Graduate School in Philosophy?

Tempted?  Tantalized? Thinking about it?

 

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.

Mark Bauer, Visiting Assistant Professor

UCD Department of Philosophy

“Decoupling Teleosemantics and Selection”

 

Monday, November 14th, 2 p.m.-4 p.m.

Beth  Tropman, Assistant Professor

CSU Department of Philosophy

“Moral Realism and the Epistemological Objection”

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Spring 2011

February 16, 3:30 p.m.
David Hildebrand, UCD Philosophy Department
Title: "Pragmatic Objectivity"

March 14, 9:30 – 11: 00 a.m.
Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Women as Weapons of Modern Warfare?”
ROOM: CU-Denver Building, Executive MBA Auditorium, Suite 150

March 30, 5 p.m.
ANNUAL HONI HABER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Albert Borgmann, University of Montana
Title:“Who Am I Really? Personal Identity in the Age of the Internet”
ROOM: Atrium Room, Laurence Street Center

April 20, 3:30 p.m.
Ashby Butnor, Metro State Department of Philosophy
Title: TBA (likely topic: Asian Philosophy or Feminism)

Fall Semester 2010

The UCD Philosophy Department is proud to sponsor a film night dedicated to philosophical inquiry.

TIME: Tuesdays at 7 pm in NC 1312
WHAT: Film, pizza and discussion
CONTACT: Dr. Simon Sparks

September 21
Rashomon [epistemology, relativism]
September 28
Gattaca [ethics, broadly speaking]
October 5
Being John Malkovich [personal identity]
October 12
Run Lola Run [freedom, determinism]
October 19
Fight Club [freedom, existentialism]
October 26
Dogville [ethics, virtue]
November 2
Clockwork Orange [ethics, utilitarianism]
November 9
The Seventh Seal [ethics, meaning, religion]
November 16
Ordet [faith, religion]
November 30
La Voie lacte [faith, reason]
December 7
Teorema [the meaning of life]
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