Please join us this coming Monday, April 30th in Cobb 103 at 6:15 pm for the next meeting of the Contemporary Philosophy Workshop. Alex Langlinais will be presenting his paper, “The Service Conception and Pile-On Theories of Authority”. Here is the abstract of Alex’s paper: What does it take for one person to have practical [...]
Please join us this coming Monday, April 16th in Cobb 103 at 6:15 pm for the next meeting of the Contemporary Philosophy Workshop. Andy Werner will be presenting his paper, “Immediacy in Hegel’s Science of Logic. Here is Andy’s abstract: Explaining Hegel’s texts is difficult. In my endeavors to do so thus far, I have [...]
Please join us this coming Monday, April 2nd in Cobb 112 at 6:15 pm for our first meeting of the spring quarter. Santiago Mejia will be presenting his paper, “Self-Knowledge and Virtue”. Click here for a copy of Santiago’s paper. Here is the abstract: I will articulate what the role of self-knowledge in the virtuous [...]
Please join us this coming Monday, March 5th at 6:15pm in Cobb 112 for our very own Rafeeq Hasan’s presentation of his paper, “Freedom and Happiness in Rousseau’s Justification of the State.” Here is an abstract of Rafeeq’s paper: Political philosophers tend to think that Rousseau is significant because his contractarianism anticipates Kant. However, reading [...]
Please join us this coming Monday, February 20th at 6:15pm in Cobb 112 for our very own Tucker McKinney’s presentation of his paper “Practical Finitude”. Here is an abstract of Tucker’s paper: As a central claim in the existential analytic of Dasein, Heidegger tells us that Dasein, the comprehending agent, is a being “for whom, [...]
We here at the Contemporary Philosophy Workshop are pleased to announce our first guest speaker of the 2011-2012 academic year. Evan Riley (Wooster) will join us on Monday, January 30th at 6:15pm in Cobb 112 to present his paper, “On the Insufficient Kantianism of Singer’s Quasi-Kantian Heirs”. Here is an abstract of Dr. Riley’s paper: [...]
Please join us this coming Monday at 6:15 pm in Cobb 112 for our second meeting of the winter quarter. Joe Lubenow will be presenting his paper, “Gewirth’s Main Argument for Human Rights”. In keeping with our custom, the paper will not be read aloud during the meeting. Pizza and other refreshments will be served!
Please join us this coming Monday at 6:15 pm in Cobb 112 for our first meeting of the winter quarter. Ditte Marie Munch-Hansen will be presenting her paper, “Abhorrence: The Moral sense of the Immoral Agent?” Here is an abstract of Ditte’s paper: Through a case study of Nazi Soldiers during the Holocaust, this paper [...]
We’re pleased to announce our schedule for the Winter Quarter: January 9th- Ditte Marie Munch-Hansen January 23rd- Joe Lubenow January 30th- TBA February 20th-Tucker McKinney March 5th- Rafeeq Hasan The workshop meets on Mondays from 6:15-8:15 PM in Cobb 112. Papers will be posted here and distributed via e-mail about one week in advance. We look forward [...]
Please join us this coming Monday at 6:15pm in Cobb 112 for our final meeting of the quarter. Stina Bäckström will be presenting her paper, “An Open Secret: Expression in Spite of Oneself.” Here is an abstract of Stina’s paper: This paper is a draft of the second chapter of my dissertation. In the paper [...]
