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    FALL 2009 LEWIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES COLLOQUIUM SERIES

    Date Location Title
    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

    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

    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

    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.

    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

    Friday Nov. 20, 2:30 PM SH 218 Warren Schmaus (Humanities, IIT)
    Science and the social contract in Renouvier

    Friday Dec. 4, 2 PM SH 218 Sean Anthony, TBA


    To view supporting documents for many of the colloquia, visit Prof. Schmaus' website.

    For more information about the Lewis Department of Humanities Colloquium Series contact Prof. Warren Schmaus.

    For information about past Humanities Colloquia visit the archive.

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