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Colloquia and Public Events, 2012-2013

• September 13, 2012
  Co-Sponsored with the Africana Studies Program and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
  "Essentially Black: Legal Theory and the Morality of Conscious Racial Identity"
  Kenneth Nunn (Law, University of Florida)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host:Tommy Curry

• September 17, 2012
  "What is Metaphysics? Realist, Conceptualist and Neutralist Answers"
  Jorge Gracia (Philosophy, University of Buffalo)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Gregory Pappas
  

• September 27, 2012
  Early Modern Initiative
  "Locke on the Ideas of Personal Identity"
  Lex Newman (Philosophy, University of Utah)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Stephen Daniel

• October 25, 2012
  "Is Love a Mistake? Love and Metaethics"
  Simon Keller (Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Ben McMyler
  
  
• October 26-27, 2012
  Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference
  PBOS 2012: Race, Class, Gender and State Violence
  Memorial Student Center 1400 & 1401
  Keynote Speaker: Charles Mills (Northwestern University)
  Host: Tommy Curry

• November 1, 2012
  Early Modern Initiative
  "The Idealism of Emerson"
  Kenneth Winkler (Philosophy, Yale University)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Stephen Daniel

• November 2-3, 2012
  Early Modern Initiative
  South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
  3:00-6:00pm Friday in YMCA 401
  9:00am-6:30pm Saturday in YMCA 401
  Keynote Speakers:
  Kenneth Winkler (Yale University) "Causal Realism and Hume's Revisions of the Enquiry"
  Sam Rickless (UC San Diego) "Locke's Theory of Personal Identity"
  Contact: Stephen Daniel

• November 15, 2012
  Early Modern Initiative
  "Thinking Matter: The Cartesian Demon and the Leibnizian Mill vs. Locke"
  Marleen Rozemond (Philosophy, University of Toronto)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Stephen Daniel

• November 28-30, 2012
  North American Sartre Society Meeting
  Time & Location TBD
  Host: Claire Katz
  
  
• January 17, 2013
  "Three Principles of Justice: A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity"
  John Tyler (Philosophy, Texas A&M University)
  3:45 in YMCA 401
  Host: TBD


• January 24-25, 2013
  Co-Sponsored with the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Women's & Gender Studies Program
  Rebecca Kukla (Philosophy, Georgetown University)
  • Thursday, January 24: "Mandatory Ultrasound Viewing and the Politics of Vision"
    4:00pm in Glasscock 311
  • Friday, January 25: "Islands, Bedrooms, and the Public Square: Rousseau and Sade on the Place of Philosophy"
    4:00pm in YMCA 401 (light refreshments served at 3:30pm)
  Host: Claire Katz
  
  
• January 30, 2013
  Applied Ethics Initiative Workshop
  "Animal Ethics Meets Science: Wildlife Population Dynamics and Moral Defenses of Hunting"
  Facilitated by Gary Varner (Texas A&M University) and Jonathan Newman (University of Guelph)
  1:00-3:00pm in Nagle Hall 308


• February 7, 2013
  "C.S. Peirce's 'Absolute Chance' and the Role of Stochasticity in Breaking Down Evolutionary Contraints"
  Charles Carlson (Philosophy, Texas A&M University)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: John McDermott


• February 14, 2013
  Dialogues in Philosophy & Religion
  Co-Sponsored with the Religious Studies Program
  "Two Types of Continental Philosophy of Religion"
  John Caputo (Religion, Syracuse University)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Hosts: Ted George and Donnalee Dox


• February 26
  Distinguished Graduate Program Alumnus Lecture
  "The Asymmeterical Influence of Pleasure and Pain on Wellbeing"
  Adam Shriver (Neurophilosophy, University of Western Ontario)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Gary Varner


• March 21, 2013
  "Meeting the Challenge of the Indispensability Argument"
  William Lane Craig (Talbot School of Theology)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Robert Garcia
  


• March 28, 2013
  "The Misplaced Role of 'Utilitarianism' in J.S. Mill's Utilitarianism"
  David Wright (Philosophy, Texas A&M University)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Linda Radzik


• April 2, 2013
  BLAB and the Applied Ethics Initiative Lecture
  "The Evolutionary Psychology of Pet Keeping"
  James Serpell (Center for the Interaction of Animals & Society, University of Pennsylvania)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Gary Varner


• April 4, 2013
  "Virtues and Adult Moral Development: Reflections on a Few Issues in Contemporary Virtue Theory"
  Nathan Cartagena (Philosophy, Texas A&M University)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Linda Radzik


• April 12-13, 2013
  Early Modern Philosophy Initiative Spring Conference
  Conference Schedule
  Host: Michael LeBuffe


• April 18, 2013
  Davenport Memorial Lecture and Student Awards Ceremony
  "Intellectual Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement in Texas: Dr. J. Leonard Farmer, Sr. on the Socio-Political Teachings of Isaiah and Jesus"
  Greg Moses
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host: Roger Sansom


• May 16-18, 2013
  Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy
  Itinerary TBD, YMCA Building
  Host: Daniel Conway
  Registration is required. Please register here.