Our schedule for the spring quarter will be as follows:
4/6 – David Holiday (Chicago, graduate student) - ”Unthinkable, Unconscionable, Impossible: The Morality of Incapacity”
4/20 – Benjamin McKean (Chicago) - ”Justice and Social Order in the Political Realisms of Raymond Geuss and Bernard Williams”
5/4 – Russ Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin-Madison) - ”How Do the Origins of Our Moral Beliefs Affect their Credibility?”
5/18 – Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia) – title tbc
6/1 – Julie Cooper (University of Chicago, Dept of Political Science) – “A Diasporic Critique of Diasporism”
Previous academic quarters:
The schedule for the Winter 2012 term will be as follows:
1/13 - Rafeeq Hasan (Chicago, graduate student) – “Self-Respect, Solidarity, and the Demands of Justice”
1/20 – David Estlund (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy and Lombardo Family Professor of Humanities at Brown University) – title tbc
1/27 – Will Small (Chicago, graduate student) – “Success and Failure in Action”
2/10 – Joe Lubenow (Chicago, graduate student; joint session w/ Human Rights workshop) – “Raz and the Interest Theory of Rights”
2/24 – Mark Hopwood (Chicago, graduate student) – tbc
3/9 – Anton Ford (Chicago): “The Province of Human Agency”
All meetings will take place in Wieboldt 408 on Friday morning from 10.30am – 12.20pm. Please note that Professor Estlund’s talk will take place on an odd numbered week – the time and place will be as usual.
Fall Schedule 2011
10/7 – Lisa Hicks (University of Chicago, graduate student) – ‘The Kernel of Man: Schopenhauerian Echoes in Nietzsche’s Account of the Self’
10/21 – Jose Torralba (University of Navarra, visiting scholar at the University of Chicago) – ‘Brute Facts and the Intentionality of Action’
11/4 – Nate Zuckerman (University of Chicago, graduate student) – title tbc
11/18 – Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza Università di Roma) – ‘Reshaping Ethics After Wittgenstein’
12/2 – Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University) – title tbc
Previous Academic Years
Spring 2011
Weds 3/30 (1st week) – Micah Lott (graduate student; special recruitment week workshop – meets in Wiebolt 408)
Fri 4/8 (2nd week) – David Sussman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Fri 5/6 (6th week) – Anselm Mueller (emeritus, University of Trier) *Rescheduled for Friday May 13th*
Fri 5/13 (7th week) – Robert Adams (UNC Chapel Hill) *Canceled*
Fri 6/3 (10th week) – Will Small (graduate student)
All meetings are 10.30am – 12.20pm, and meet in Rosenwald 405 unless otherwise stated.
Winter 2011
Jan 14th – Jennifer Lockhart (Chicago, graduate student): “A Jewel that Shines by its Own Light: The Good Will and Moral Luck”
Jan 28th – Rafeeq Hasan (Chicago, graduate student): “Politics, Property, and Personhood: Rousseau Contra Kant”
Feb 18th – Agnes Callard (Chicago): “Remoralizing Weakness of Will”
Mar 4th – Dasha Polzik (Chicago, graduate student): title tbc
Mar 11th – David Sussman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign): title tbc
All meetings will be on Friday morning from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Rosenwald 405. Donuts and coffee will be served.
Fall 2010
All meetings in Rosenwald 405. Please note that meetings are scheduled for both odd and even weeks.
10/8 – A.J. Julius (UCLA) – “To Do With Others”
10/15 – Micah Lott (Chicago) – “Human Economy and Global Justice”
10/29 – **CANCELED** Charles Todd (Chicago) – “Two Kinds of Defect”
11/12 – Erica Holberg (Chicago) – “Common Sense and the Experience of Pleasure in Aristotle, Kant, and Sidgwick”
11/19 – Paul Weithman (Notre Dame) – “Legitimacy and the Project of Political Liberalism”
12/3 – Ryan Long (Chicago) – title tbc
Previous Academic Years:
Fall 2009
Oct 16th – Erica Holberg (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Apparent Pleasures and the Human Good in the Nicomachean Ethics” – Classics 405
Oct 23rd – Jonathan Lear (Chicago): “Becoming Human Is Not That Easy” – Rosenwald 015
Oct 30th – Jay Elliott (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Tight Corners and the Need for Virtues” – Classics 405
Nov 20th – Richard Kraut (Northwestern): “Against Absolute Goodness” – Rosenwald 015
Dec 4th – Jenn Lockhart (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Kierkegaard’s Indirect Communication as Ethical Teaching” – Classics 405
Winter 2010
Jan 15th – Micah Lott (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Moral Virtue as Knowledge of Human Form” – Classics 405
Jan 29th – Jonathan Garthoff (Northwestern): “Mimicking Korsgaard” (Joint session with Modern Philosophy Workshop) – Classics 405
Feb 5th – Kristen Boyce (Chicago, Graduate Student): “The Thinking Body:
Philosophy, Dance and Modernism” – Classics 405
Feb 12th – Joe Lubenow (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Gewirth and Marginal Agents” – Classics 405
Feb 26th – Charles Todd (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Skepticism about the Good” – Classics 405
Spring 2010
Mar 31st – Will Small (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Intention and Cognition” – Cobb 116
NOTE: This workshop will be held on Wednesday evening from 4.30pm – 6.20pm
Apr 9th – Ryan Long (Chicago, Graduate Student): “Fixing Egalitarian Appeals to Responsibility” – Classics 405
Apr 16th – Niko Kolodny (Berkeley) – Classics 405
May 7th – Rafeeq Hasan (Chicago, Graduate Student) – Classics 405
May 28th – Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore) – Classics 405
June 4th – Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) – Classics 405