Academic Year 2005 - 2006

 

Academic Year 2004 - 2005

AU Philosophy Students Present a
Jacques Derrida Memorial Panel

Moderator:
Jin Y. Park (Asst. Professor, Philosophy and Religion)

Panelists:
Peter Larsen (Philosophy, Senior)
“Derrida: on the Privilege of the Western Philosophical Tradition”

Mark Clemente (Philosophy, Junior)
“Deconstruction, Race, and the Displacement of Hierarchy”

Jesse Miksic (Philosophy and Graphic Design, Senior)
“Games of Parity: Symmetrical Structures in Derrida’s Aesthetics”

Respondents:
Tram Nguyen (Philosophy, MA candidate)
David Howe (Philosophy, MA candidate)

Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 11-12:30pm
SIS Lounge

 

Academic Year 2003 - 2004

Building Peace in the Wake of War: Appropriate Roles for the Military in Iraq and Other Post-Conflict Situations

Dr. Richard Lacquement
Professor of Strategy and Policy, United States Naval War College

Thursday, September 25, 2003, 11:30-12:30, Mary Graydon Center 4

Sponsored by the Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs Program
(International Peace and Conflict Resolution, SIS and
Philosophy and Religion, CAS)

 

Academic Year 2002 - 2003

Roundtable Discussion on John Rawls

April 2, 2003, 2:30-4:30pm, SIS Lounge
Participants include Professors Rom Harre, Jin Park, Lucinda Peach, Jeffrey Reiman, and Andrea Tschemplik.

Academic Year 2001 - 2002

 

Academic Year 1999 - 2000

Russell and Wittgenstein Conference

Saturday & Sunday, March 25-26, 2000
Butler Boardroom

Saturday, March 25, 2000

8:50- 9:00 Welcome by David Rodier, American University

SESSION ONE:
Moderator: Lucinda Peach, American University

9:00–9:45 Alan Schwerin, Monmouth University,
“On Getting Religion Form Philosophy: Some Thoughts on Russell’s 1911 Search for a Spiritual Vision"

9:45–10:30 Greg Landini, University of Iowa,
“The Russellian Nature of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”

BREAK

10:45–11:30 Steven Bayne,
“Perspective Space and the Elusive Self”

11:30–12:15 Antony Flew, University of Reading,
“Russell, Wittgenstein, and Cogito Ergo Sum”

LUNCH

SECTION TWO:
Moderator: Jeff Cothran, American University

2:00– 2:45 Robert Barnard, University of Memphis,
“On What There is Revisited”

2:45–3:30 Santiago Zorzopulos, American University,
“On Formally Decidable Propositions in Principia Mathematica and Related Systems”

BREAK

3:45–4:30 Timothy Childers, Czech Academy of Sciences,
“Russell and his Role in the Development of Logical Probability”

4:30–5:15 David Rodier, American University,
“Marginalia on Russell’s Lowell Lectures”

5:15–6:00 Nick Griffin, McMaster University,
“Russell and Wittgenstein on the Logical Form of Belief Statements”

Sunday, March 26, 2000

8:50–9:00 Welcome by Rom Harré, University of Oxford/American University

SESSION THREE:
Moderator: Jason Adsit, Association of American Medical College

9:00–9:45 John Shotter, University of New Hampshire,
“Dilogicality in Wittgenstein: The Origin of Language Games in Spontaneous bodily Reactions”

9:45–10:30 Dan Rothbart, George Mason University,
“Wittgenstein and the Grammar of Schematic Diagrams in Science"

BREAK

10:45–11:30 George Farre, Georgetown University,
“Wittgenstein Philosophy of Science”

LUNCH

SESSION FOUR:
Moderator: Mitchell Haney, Missouri Western State College

2:00–2:45 Michael Tissaw, Georgetown University,
“Tractarian Psychology and Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophical Method”

2:45–3:30 Gordon Baker, University of Oxford,
“Everyday Use: What Wittgenstein Meant and Russell Misunderstood”

BREAK

3:45–4:30 Petr Kolar, Charles IV University, “ Logics of Fact”

4:30–5:15 Cora Diamond, University of Virginia,
“Does Bismarck have a Beetle in the Box? The Private Language Argument in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”

5:15–6:00 Keynote: Rom Harre, University of Oxford/ American University,
“Wittgenstein: Science and Antiscience”

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