2006 - 2007 Series

Bringing Myth Back to the World:
The Modern History of Theorizing about Myth
a lecture by
Robert Segal
Professor of Religious Studies
University of Aberdeen
Friday,November 17, 2006
2:30pm
Battelle-Tompkins Atrium

Rankism and a Dignitarian Society
a lecture by
Robert Fuller
author of
All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies,
and the Politics of Dignity
former President of Oberlin College
Monday, October 2, 2006
3:35-4:50pm
McDowell Formal Lounge

Robert Fuller earned his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University and taught at Columbia, where he co-authored the text Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. He then served as president of Oberlin College, his alma mater. For a dozen years, beginning in 1978, he worked in what came to be known as "citizen diplomacy" to improve the Cold War relationship. During the 1990s, he served as board chair of the non-profit global corporation Internews, which promotes democracy via free and independent media. With the end of the Cold war and the collapse of the USSR, Fuller looked back reflectively on his career and understood that he had been, at different junctures in his life, a somebody and a nobody. His periodic sojourns into "Nobodyland" led him to identify and probe rankism-abuse of the power inherent in rank-and ultimately to write Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank (New Society Publishers, 2003). Three years later, he has published a sequel that focuses on building a "dignitarian" society titled All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006).

 

2005 - 2006 Series

 

Wittgenstein as an Iceberg: Exploring the Jewish Depths
a lecture by
Ranjit Chatterjee
author of Wittgenstein and Judaism: A Triumph of Concealment
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
2:10-3:25pm
Katzen 112

 

Moving Beyond Both Intolerance and Tolerance
a lecture by
Dr. Gertrude Conway
Kline Chair of Philosophy, Mount Saint Mary's University
Monday, January 30, 2006
7:00pm
Butler Boardroom

 

2004 - 2005 Series

A Book Reception for and a Slide Presentation by
Dr. Charles S. J. White
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion, American University

author of
A Catalogue of Vaisnava Literature:
On Microfilms in the Adyar Library,
The Bodleian Library, and The
American University Library

Wednesday, September 29, 2004
2-3:30pm, Battelle 130

 

Genetic Profiling
a lecture by
Dr. Michael Boylan
John J. McDonnell, Jr. Chair in Ethics, Marymount University
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
11:30-1:00pm
McDowell Formal Lounge

Michael Boylan received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His most recent book, A Just Society (June, 2004), is his manifesto on ethics and social/political philosophy (and the most complete depiction of his normative worldview theory). He is also the author of Basic Ethics (2000), an essay on normative and applied ethics; Genetic Engineering: Science and Ethics on the New Frontier (2002, with Kevin E. Brown); Ethics Across the Curriculum: A Practice-Based Approach (2003, with James A. Donahue); and Public Health Policy and Ethics (ed. 2004); along with 13 other books in philosophy and literature and over seventy articles. He is the general editor of a series of trade books on public philosophy with Basil Blackwell Publishers and another series of books with Prentice Hall.

Click here for a copy of his paper on Genetic Profiling.

 

2003 - 2004 Series

What We Owe the Dead
a lecture by
Dr. Dennis Schmidt
Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University
March 31, 2004
1pm
Ward 1

Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation
a lecture by
Dr. Thomas Pogge
Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
March 1, 2004, 10-12, SIS Lounge

To view a copy of his paper, click here.

 

2002 - 2003 Series

“Nationalism & Cosmopolitanism:
The Moral Response to International Terrorism"

Louis Pojman
Professor of Philosophy, West Point University

Tuesday, November 19, 2002
3:30-5:30pm
SIS Lounge

 

“Tragedy, Comedy, and Ethical Action in Hegel’s
Phenomenology of Spirit”

Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves
Professor of Philosophy, Morgan State University

Thursday, October 17, 2002
5:30-6:45pm
Butler Board Room

 

2001 - 2002 Series

“Did Kant Read Plato’s Euthyphro?”

Dr. Andrea Tschemplik
Department of Philosophy and Religion

Wednesday, November 28, 2001
11 a.m.
Seminar Room, Batelle T48

 

“Understanding Asian Philosophy in Multicultural America”

Dr. Jin Y. Park
Department of Philosophy and Religion, American University

Wednesday, October 17, 2001
11 a.m.
Butler Conference Room

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