Christian Coseru was awarded $164,585 to stage a two-week “Self-Knowledge in Eastern and Western Philosophies” Summer Institute in 2018. Professors Jay Garfield of Smith College and Harvard University, and Evan Thompson of the University of British Columbia will co-direct the institute, which will also involve contributions by 14 distinguished faculty from major universities in the United States, Denmark, Austria, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Prof. Hough to give an invited talk at Kyoto University
Prof. Hough will be giving an invited talk at Kyoto University on May 17, 2017. The topic is “Nietzsche on Consciousness: Epiphenomenalism, Genealogy and Archaeology,” and it is part of the Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics (CAPE) lecture series.
Prof. Coseru to give an invited talk at Kyoto University
Prof. Coseru will be giving an invited talk at Kyoto University on May 17, 2017. The topic is “Consciousness and Causation” and it is part of the Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics (CAPE) lecture series.
Prof. Hettinger presenting at the “Convergence & Divergence Between Animal & Environmental Ethics” conference in Montreal
Prof. Emeritus Ned Hettinger is presenting an invited paper on “Naturalness, Wild Animal Suffering, and Palmer on Laissez-Faire” for a conference on “Convergence and Divergence between Animal and Environmental Ethics” in Montreal, May 17-19, 2017.
Prof. Hough to give an invited talk at Seoul National University
Prof. Hough will be giving an invited talk at Seoul National University on May 12, 2017. The topic is “Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Self, and the Debt of Heidegger and Sartre.”
Prof. Coseru to lecture at Seoul National University
Prof. Coseru will be visiting the Philosophy Department at Seoul National University, May 7-12, 2017, to deliver three invited lectures on topics in Buddhist and Cross-cultural Philosophy of Mind. The topics are “Consciousness and Causal Emergence: Challenges to Physicalism,” “Consciousness, Naturalism, and the Problem of Self-Knowledge,” and “Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Agent-neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal.”
Prof. Boyle presenting at the Early Modern – St. Louis Conference
Deborah Boyle will be presenting her paper “Mary Shepherd and the Abstract Self” at the Early Modern – St. Louis conference on April 20.
Prof. Nunan interview featured in APA blog
Professor Nunan presented a paper as part of the Society for LGBTQ Philosophy Colloquium on Bathroom Bills at the APA Central Division Meeting in March 2017 in Kansas City. Here, Nunan reflects on the session.
http://blog.apaonline.org/2017/03/20/bathroom-bills-at-apa-central/
Prof. Coseru to give an invited talk at Union College
Prof. Christian Coseru will be giving an invited talk at Union College on February 16, 2017. The topic is “Freedom from Responsibility” and the talk is part of the Philosophy Speaker Series for 2016-2017.
Prof. Baker to Present at The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Conference in New Orleand
Jennifer Baker will present her paper “Stoic Economics” at the conference of The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE) conference at the University of New Orleans, March 16-19.