Colloquia and Public Events, 2011-2012

• September 8, 2011
  Distinguished Alumnus Lecture
  "Social Scientific Method and the Study of Religion: Kierkegaard and Habermas"
  J. Michael Tilley (Kierkegaard Center, St. Olaf College)
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host:Theodore George

• September 29, 2011
  "From Dissertation to Monograph: A Guide to Academic Publishing"
  Hilary Gaskin (Philosophy, Cambridge University Press)
  4:30-5:30pm in Glasscock Building, Room 311
  Host:tba
  

• September 30-October 1, 2011
  Early Modern Initiative
  The Ethics of Spinoza's Ethics Conference
  Host: Michael LeBuffe

• October 13, 2011
  "A New Kalam Argument: The Grim Reaper's Revenge"
  Robert C. Koons (Philosophy, University of Texas)
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host: Robert Garcia

• November 3, 2011
  Early Modern Initiative
  "The Heydey of Teleology and Early Modern Philosophy"
  Jeff McDonough (Philosophy, Harvard University)
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host: Stephen Daniel

• November 4-5, 2011
  Early Modern Initiative
  South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
  3:00-5:00pm on Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm on Saturday in BLTN 213
  Contact: Stephen Daniel

• November 10, 2011
  Graduate Colloquia Series
  "Real Distinction and True Union in Descartes' Human Being"
  Amber Carlson
  3:45pm in BLTN 213
  Host:Roger Sansom

• November 17, 2011
  "Aristotle on Knowledge of Particulars and of Universals and the Geometrical Example in Posterior Analytics I.1"
  Robin Smith (Philosophy, Texas A&M)
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host: tba

• December 2, 2011
  Author Meets Readers
  A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge, 2010)
  Colleen Murphy (Philosophy, Texas A&M)
  Readers: John Deigh (Law and Philosophy, University of Texas), Ted George (Philosophy, Texas A&M)
  3:45pm, Glasscock 311
  Host: Kristi Sweet

• January 16, 2012
  "Mysticism and Metaphysics in Parmenides"
  Emése Mogyoródi (Philosophy, University of Szegéd, Hungary)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host:Scott Austin

• January 19, 2012
  Early Modern Initiative
  "Divine Laws and Laws of Nature: Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza"
  Daniel Garber (Philosophy, Princeton University)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host:Stephen Daniel

• February 17, 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, Rudder Tower, Room 301
  Host:Tommy Curry

• March 8, 2012
  Early Modern Initiative
  "Playing with Fire: Hume, Rationalism, and a Little Bit of Spinoza"
  Michael Della Rocca (Philosophy, Yale University)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host:Michael LeBuffe

• March 22, 2012
  Graduate Colloquia Series
  "Critique as Care of the Self: Foucault's use of Critique as an Ethics of Self-Formation"
  Cody Moore
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host:Roger Sansom

• April 10, 2012
  Lonestar Tourist
  "The Moral Toll of War"
  Nancy Sherman (Philosophy, Georgetown University)
  3:45pm in Rudder T 701
  Host: Ted George
  

• April 19, 2012
  Early Modern Initiative
  "Descartes' Account of the Human Being" [tentative title]
  Alison Simmons (Philosophy, Harvard University)
  3:45pm in YMCA 401
  Host:Stephen Daniel

• April 24, 2012
  Davenport Lecture and Student Awards Ceremony
  title, tba
  Charles Bambach (History, University of Texas - Dallas)
  3:45pm in Rudder T 401
  Host:Ted George