2012-2013 Public Events

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September

Sept. 14: Susanne Lettow, Professor (Institute for Philosophy, FU Berlin)
Title: “Naturalizing Sex and Race. Epistemic Constellations in Kant, Schelling and Hegel”

October

Oct. 12: Margaret Walker (Donald J. Schuenke Chair in Philosophy, Marquette University)
Title: “The Task of Reparations"

Oct. 26: Mauro Carbone (Professor of Aesthetics at the Faculté de Philosophie, Université Jean-Moulin, Lyon)
Title: “Cinema and the Proustian Depth of Time: The mutual Precession of Images and Things according to Merleau-Ponty”

 

November

Nov. 9: Sonia Sikka (Professor of Philosophy, University of Ottowa)
Title: "Moral Relativism and the Concept of Culture"

 

December


Dec. 7: Dan Dahlstrom (Professor of Philosophy, Boston University)
Title: "Language, Being, and the Path of Heidegger's Thinking"

 

January

 

February

 

March

March 22: Cora Diamond (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Virginia), Dotterer Lecturer
Title: The Problem of Impiety
3:30pm, Alumni Lounge, Nittany Lion Inn

March 27: Kyle Whyte (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University)
Title: "A Philosophy of Indigeneity"
12:30 - 2:00 p.m., 124 Sparks Building
The concept of indigeneity can be used to effectively understand distinct dimensions of the oppression and contemporary circumstances of Native North Americans. It also is a concept that explains important features of Indigenous social movements, both those of tribal governments and those of activists, especially in light of the current challenges facing Indigenous peoples worldwide. 


April


April 5: Susan Shell (Professor of Political Science, Boston College)
Title: “Kantian Pluralism”

April 26: Cynthia Willett (Professor of Philosophy, Emory University)
Title: TBA

 

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