Speaker's Series Archive

CONCORDIA PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIA SPEAKER SERIES

2010 -  2011 Program

 

Prof. Edward S. Casey, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University

On Not Putting Too Fine an Edge on Things
Oct. 15, 2010, 16:00-18:00, EV - 11.705, The Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex, (1515 St. Catherine West corner of Guy Street)

****************************

Prof. Tom Rockmore, Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University

Old Theories and New Forms of Modernity

Nov. 5, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street

****************************

Prof. Allan Gotthelf, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Aristotle as Scientist: A Proper Verdict" (with emphasis on his biological works)

Friday November 12, 2010, H - 769, Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve

****************************

Prof. Christine Tappolet, Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal

Values and Emotions: Neo- Sentimentalism Prospects

Friday December 3, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street

 

******************************

Prof. Derek H. Brown, Departemnt of Philosophy, Brandon University

Colour Constancy and the Relativities Therein

Friday March 18, 2011, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street

 

CONCORDIA PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIA SPEAKER SERIES

Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 Program

Prof. Penelope Deutscher, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University

Unbecoming: Beauvoir on the Age of Sex and the Sex of Age
Oct. 22, 2009, 18:00-20:00, Montefiore Club, Salon C (1195 Guy, between St. Catherine and René Lévesque)

This is a panel discussion based on Deutscher’s recent book, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance, with commentary by Shiloh Whitney (Dept. Of Philosophy, McGill University) and response by Deutscher. Co-sponsored with the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, on the occasion of the recent centenary of de Beauvoir.

Biopoliticized Maternity and the Trope of Immunization: From Foucault to Esposito
Oct. 23, 2009, 16:00-18:00, PR-100

******************************************

Prof. John Lysaker, Department of Philosophy, Emory University

Our Subjective Multiplicity
Nov. 20, 2009, 16:00-18:00, PR-100

******************************************

Prof. Sarah Allen, Department of Philosophy, Concordia Univesity

Levinas On Neutrality: From Ethics to Social Justice

January 29, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR - 100

*******************************************

Prof. George Gale, Departments of Philosophy, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Concordia University

How Many Universes ARE There, and Who Cares Anyway?

Date Friday February 12, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100

*******************************************

 

Prof. Rachel Zuckert, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University - Evanston, Illinois

Topic Kant, Teleology, and History

Date: March 5, 2010, 16:00-18:00, PR-100

(Prof. Zuckert has recently published Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the Critique of Judgment)

*****************************************

 

Prof.  Arnold Koslow, Emeritus Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY - Tenafly, New Jersey.

Topic: Explanation and Modality

Date: Friday March 19, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100

 

******************************************