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 20 at 3:00pm in Mackinac Hall BLL-110 (Basement)

Celebrating the Examined Life:
A Recognition Symposium for Senior Philosophy Majors
&
Celebration of the end of the academic term

All Students of Philosophy and Faculty are Welcome to attend:
refreshments will be served!
 

 

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 2012 Schedule

 

 

 February 3

 

 

Nietzsche and Blanchot on the Eternal Return of Finitude

Matt Sanderson

(West Shore Community College)

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

March 16

 

Analytic Moral Functionalism and its Permutation Problem

Michael Byron

(Kent State)

 

 

March 23

 

TBA

Cristina Lafont

(Northwestern University)

 

 

March 30

 

Robust Flickers of Freedom

Michael Robinson

(GVSU Philosophy)

 

 

April 13

 

Talking Virtue Without Character: A Response to Empirical Challenges to Virtue Ethics

Brian Robinson

(GVSU Philosophy)

 

 

 

 

Fall 2011 Calendar

 

 

 

September 15

 

 


The Lost Art of Democratic Debate? A Panel Discussion

(GVSU Professors Charles Pazdernik, John Uglietta, Kathleen Underwood, and Darren Walhof)

 

 

 

Thursday September 22

 

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

 

October 14

 

What is Sellars’ Theory of We-Intentions?

Ronald Loeffler (GVSU)

 

 

October 28

 

Jackson’s Dual Stipulation: The Incoherence of the Description of Mary

GVSU Philosophy Distinguished Alumni Noel Boyle

(Belmont University)

 

 

November 4

 

A Prior Puzzle About the A Priori

Christina Van Dyke (Calvin College)

 

 

November 11

 

 

 

Adorno’s ‘Culture Industry Reconsidered’ Reconsidered

Sarah McGrath (GVSU)

 

 

December 2

Advocacy and Listening in Feminist Ethics

Melissa Mosko (GVSU)

 

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

 

 

September 10

 

 

“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)

 

October 1

 

Aaron Simmons (GVSU Philosophy)

“Do Embryos Have Interests?  Why Embryos Have Future Adult Lives But Still Are Not Harmed from Death."

 

October 15

 

Sarah McGrath (GVSU Philosophy)

“Public Freedom and Difference: Why Diversity Matters for Democracy”

 

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)

 

November 5

 

Danielle Lake (GVSU Philosophy & Liberal Studies), “Diversity and Sustainability: the Need for Integration”

(A LIB 100 Event)

 

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”

 

November 19

 

James Beebe (University at Buffalo)

“Recent Work in Experimental Epistemology”

 
 

 

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 (Notre Dame University)

Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University)

Mylan Engel (Northern Illinois University)

Chris Gauker (University of Cincinnati)

Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University)

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)

Charles Mills (Northwestern University)

Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)

Jamie Tappenden (University of Michigan)