Colloquium Archive
Spring 2010 | Spring & Fall 2009
SPRING 2010 LEWIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES COLLOQUIUM SERIES
| Date | Location | Title |
| Friday, Jan. 29, 2:00 p.m. | SH 218 | Chris Di Teresi (Sawyier Fellow, Humanities) Theoretical integration in biology as a practical problem |
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| Friday, Feb. 12, 2:00 p.m. | SH 218 | Anja & Bronik Matwijkiw (Indiana University Northwest & Southeast Missouri State University) From R. Edward Freeman to the new way in jurisprudence |
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| Friday, Feb. 26, 2:00 p.m. | SH 218 | Aaron Snyder (Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago) Irregular causes and unreliable therapies |
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| Friday, March 19, 2:00 p.m. | SH 218 | Lou Agosta (Independent Scholar) The uses of experimental philosophy for empathy research |
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| Friday, April 9, 2:00 p.m. | SH 218 | Michael Davis (CSEP & Humanities, IIT) A present like ours: A refutation of Marquis' argument against abortion and a sketch of a general theory of personhood |
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| Friday, April 23, 2:30 p.m. | 111 Life Sciences | Peter Machamer (History & Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh) Spring 2010 Sawyier Philosophy Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society: What Can Science Really Tell us About Values? |
LEWIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2009 ARCHIVE
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| Friday Feb. 6, 2 PM | SH 218 | Michael Davis (Humanities and CSEP, IIT) Why physicians should not be involved in hostile interrogations: A Reply to Allhoff |
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| Friday Feb. 13, 2 PM | SH 218 | D. Vincent Thomas (Elmhurst College) From Rawls to Niebuhr: A Concise Comparison of Moral Philosophy and A Theory of Justice |
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| Friday Feb. 27, 2 PM | SH 218 | Mohamed Mehdi (Oakton Comm. Coll.) Moral Perfection and Political Participation: The Indian "Millions" in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj |
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| Friday Mar. 6, 2 PM | SH 218 | Matt Bauer (Humanities, IIT) Sound Change and Functionalism: The Role of Laryngeal Height |
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| Friday Mar. 13, 2 PM | SH 218 | Harry Mallgrave (Architecture, IIT) Neuroaesthetics, Metaphor, and Creativity |
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| Friday Mar. 27, 2 PM | SH 218 | Brett Fulkerson-Smith (Sawyier Fellow, IIT) Bacon's Illuminating Experiments and Kant's Experiment of Pure Reason |
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| Friday Apr. 3, 2 PM | SH 218 | Chris DiTeresi (Sawyier Fellow, IIT) Developmental Types and Some Obstacles to Understanding Them |
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| Friday Apr. 17, 2:30 PM | MTCC Auditorium | Alison Wylie (University of Washington) The Future of Archaeology: Collaborative Practice in Action Spring 2009 Sawyier Philosophy Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society |
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| Friday Apr. 24, 2 PM | SH 218 | Karl Stolley (Humanities, IIT) Activity Theory and Literacies of Open-Source Digital Production |
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| Friday May 1, 2 PM | SH 218 | David Zesmer (Emeritus Professor of English, IIT) Montagues and Capulets; Larks and Nightingales: The Structure of 'Romeo and Juliet' |
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| Friday May 8, 2 PM | SH 218 | Joe Phillips (DePaul University) TBA |
| Friday Sept. 11, 2 PM | SH 218 | Robert Ladenson (Humanities, IIT) Limitations upon legitimate authority to suspend and expel K-12 public school students: A moral analysis |
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| Friday Sept. 25, 2 PM | SH 218 | Brett Fulkerson-Smith (Sawyier Fellow, Humanities, IIT) On the apodictic proof and confirmation of Kant's revolutionary hypothesis |
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| Friday Oct. 9, 2:30 PM | MTCC Ballroom | Bill Wimsatt (University of Chicago) Fall 2009 Sawyier Philosophy Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society: Cultural Evolution of Technological Artifacts |
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| Friday Oct. 23, 2 PM | SH 218 | Chris DiTeresi (Sawyier Fellow, Humanities, IIT) What is 'Normal Development' anyway?: Idealization, variation, and the practice of staging embryos. |
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| Friday Nov. 6, 2 PM | SH 218 | Michael Davis (Humanities, IIT) Engineers and sustainability: An inquiry into the elusive distinction between macro-, micro-, and meso-ethics |
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| Friday Nov. 20, 2:30 PM | SH 218 | Warren Schmaus (Humanities, IIT) Science and the social contract in Renouvier |
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| Friday Dec. 4, 2 PM | SH 218 | Sean Anthony (University of Chicago) Heresy and historiography: A crucified claimant to prophecy of early Islam |
For more information about the Lewis Department of Humanities Colloquium Series contact Prof. Warren Schmaus.