Philosophy
Colloquium
The Philosophy Colloquium
The philosophy colloquium is the place where members of the Philosophy faculty, members of other departments, students, and invited speakers from other academic institutions meet to share and discuss works in progress.
Coming Up:
Friday April 12 at 3:00pm in Mackinac Hall BLL-110 (Basement)
How Not to Be an Anti-Realist:
Habermas, Truth, and Justification
Lambert Zuidervaart
(Institute of Christian Studies and
University of Toronto)
Abstract: This paper proposes a way past the debate between realist and anti-realist conceptions of truth in analytic philosophy. Responding to Alvin Plantinga’s paper “How To Be an Anti-Realist,” the paper offers a new account of propositional truth, one that emphasizes the interdependence between mind and object. The author develops this account in interaction with Jürgen Habermas’s “pragmatic realism.”
All colloquia will be on Fridays in Mackinac Hall (MAK) BLL-110 from 3:00-4:30 pm
Contact Professor Andrew Spear (spearaATgvsu.edu) with any questions.
Winter 2013 Schedule
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January 18
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Teaching Practice on the Chinese Traditional Culture for Foreigners Xiaohua Wang (Zhejiang Gongshang University & Visiting Scholar at GVSU) |
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January 25 |
Are Atheists Normal? Reflections on the Cognitive Science of Religion Kelly Clark (Kaufman Interfaith Institute & GVSU Philosophy) |
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February 8
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Pediatric Assent versus Adult Consent Eric Chwang (University of Colorado at Boulder) |
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February 15 |
No One Freely Causes Harm Debra Nails (Michigan State University) |
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March 22 |
TBA Charles Hogg (GVSU Philosophy |
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April 12 |
TBA
Lambert Zuidervaart |
Fall 2012 Schedule
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October 4---6 |
Society for Ethics Across The Curriculum 14th Annual Conference hosted at GVSU (Downtown)
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October 5
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Picturing Human Life Michael Slote (University of Miami) |
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October 12 |
Humility: From Sacred Virtue to Secular Vice? David McNaughton (Florida State University) |
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October 26 |
Intentionality and Indexicality: Content Internalism and Husserl’s Logical Investigations Andrew Spear (Grand Valley State University) |
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November 9 |
Vainglory (full title TBA) Rebecca DeYoung (Calvin College) |
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November 16 |
TBA Yuhu Yu (Xiamen University) |
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November 30 |
Contextualizing Exploitation Hallie Liberto (University of Connecticut) |
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December 7 |
Ethics, the Theory-Action Gap, and the Promise of Activist Pedagogy Lisa Kretz (Grand Valley State University) |
Winter 2012 Schedule
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February 3
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Nietzsche and Blanchot on the Eternal Return of Finitude Matt Sanderson (West Shore Community College) |
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February 10 |
Co-Sponsored with GVSU East Asian Studies Interpreting Lao Zi’s view on Dao through a close reading of the line 'It goes everywhere yet is never in peril’ in chapter 25 of Dao De Jing Li Ruohui (Fudan University) |
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March 16
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Analytic Moral Functionalism and its Permutation Problem Michael Byron (Kent State) |
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March 23 |
TBA Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University) |
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March 30 |
Robust Flickers of Freedom Michael Robinson (GVSU Philosophy) |
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April 13 |
Talking Virtue Without Character: A Response to Empirical Challenges to Virtue Ethics Brian Robinson (GVSU Philosophy) |
Fall 2011 Calendar
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September 15
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(GVSU Professors Charles Pazdernik, John Uglietta, Kathleen Underwood, and Darren Walhof)
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Thursday September 22
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GVSU Fall Arts Celebration Distinguished Lecture: Justice: What’s the Right thing to Do? Michael Sandel (Harvard) Time & Location: 7pm on the 2nd floor of the Eberhard Center GVSU Downtown Campus |
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October 14 |
What is Sellars’ Theory of We-Intentions? Ronald Loeffler (GVSU) |
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October 28 |
Jackson’s Dual Stipulation: The Incoherence of the Description of Mary GVSU Philosophy Distinguished Alumni Noel Boyle (Belmont University)
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November 4 |
A Prior Puzzle About the A Priori Christina Van Dyke (Calvin College) |
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November 11
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Adorno’s ‘Culture Industry Reconsidered’ Reconsidered Sarah McGrath (GVSU)
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December 2 |
Advocacy and Listening in Feminist Ethics Melissa Mosko (GVSU)
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Winter 2011 Calendar
February 11
“Why Philosophy?: A Panel Discussion on the Nature, Uses and Relevance of Philosophy”
(GVSU Professors Stephen Rowe, Maria Cimitile and David Vessey)
February 18
“Can a Bad Guy have Good Gongfu?—Gongfu and Ethics”
Peimin Ni (GVSU Philosophy)
February 25
“Unequal Human Worth: a Philosophical Challenge from China (or Confucianism)”
Donald Munro (University of Michigan)
Co-sponsored with GVSU East Asian Studies Program.
March 18
“Existential Trust: Understanding Trust as an Existential Mood” Jeffrey Courtright (GVSU Philosophy)
March 25 TALK CANCELLED
“TBA”
Laura Arcila (GVSU Philosophy)
April 8
"Nature, Self, and Artifice: the Somatic Arts and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature.”
Brian Bruya (Eastern Michigan University)
Co-sponsored with GVSU East Asian Studies Program.
April 15
“The Perils of Persuasion: Logic, Agency and Pluralism”
Scott L. Pratt (University of Oregon)
April 22
Celebrating the Examined Life
A Recognition Symposium for Senior Philosophy Majors at GVSU
Friday April 22 at 3:00pm in Mackinac Hall BLL-110
Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia are in
BLL-110 Mackinac Hall, 3:00 - 4:30pm
Fall 2010 Calendar
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September 10
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“If a world with liberal education isn’t affordable, can we afford a world without it?” A panel discussion based on Martha Nussbaum’s “Education for Profit, Education for Freedom.” (A LIB 100 Event)
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October 1 |
Aaron Simmons (GVSU Philosophy) “Do Embryos Have Interests? Why Embryos Have Future Adult Lives But Still Are Not Harmed from Death."
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October 15 |
Sarah McGrath (GVSU Philosophy) “Public Freedom and Difference: Why Diversity Matters for Democracy”
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October 22 |
Doug Kindschi (GVSU Mathematics & Philosophy) “The Role of Mathematics in Philosophy: Plato to Russell (Reflections on the 100th Anniversary of the Publication of Principia Mathematica, Volume I)
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November 5 |
Danielle Lake (GVSU Philosophy & Liberal Studies), “Diversity and Sustainability: the Need for Integration” (A LIB 100 Event)
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November 12 |
Mathias Brochhausen (Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science at Saarland University, Germany & Visiting Scholar at the University at Buffalo) “The Relevance of Philosophy to Applied Ontology”
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November 19 |
James Beebe (University at Buffalo) “Recent Work in Experimental Epistemology”
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Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia are in
BLL-110 Mackinac Hall, 3:00 - 4:30pm
Past Guest Speakers
James Campbell (University of Toledo)
Ted Cohen (University of Chicago)
Fred Dallmayr (
Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University)
Mylan Engel (Northern Illinois University)
Chris Gauker (University of Cincinnati)
David Hoekema (Calvin College)
Nick Huggett (University of Illinois, Chicago)
David Ingram (Loyola University, Chicago)
Dale Jamieson (New York University)
Mark Lance (Georgetown University)
Chris Latiolais (Kalamazoo College)
Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)
Christian Lotz (Michigan State University)
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
Jamie Tappenden (University of Michigan)
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