Winter Colloquium 2012
Philosophy Winter Colloquium, 2012
"LiFE"
PHILOSOPHY 4260/6000: LOCATION: C-4036 (Chemistry Bldg.), 2.00-3:15
| Date | Speaker and Title of Paper |
| Jan 17 | Stephen Gardner "The Form of Life: Pythagorean Reflections on Modern Biology" |
| Jan 24 |
Michelle Rebidoux "The Greatest of These is Love: The Traditional Christian Virtues in Michel Henry's Phenomenology of Life" |
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SPECIAL THURSDAY SESSION Jan 26 |
Scott Johnston "Why Kantian Constructivism Fails" |
| Jan 31: rescheduled to THURSDAY, FEB 2 | Walter Okshevsky "Kant on Transcendental Self-Understanding and the Vocation of Moral Life |
| Feb 7 | Bernard Wills "Parmenides, Heraclitus and the Theological Category of Life" |
| Feb 14 | Peter Gratton "Agamben on Aristotle" |
| SPECIAL THURSDAY SESSION Feb 16 | Christopher Martin "Learning and the Good Life: Is Education Provision Morally Special" |
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Feb 21 BREAK |
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| Feb 28 | Seamus O'Neill "Eritis sicut Dii: Theosis, Pride, and the Dialectic of the Devil in Platonic and Christian Thought" |
| Mar 6 | Peter Harris "Heidegger on Aristotle: Dasein and Praxis" |
| Mar 13 | David Thompson "The Norms of Life" For a copy of the paper with notes and links click here |
| Mar 20 | Arthur Sullivan "Logic and the Life of the Sign" |
| SPECIAL THURSDAY SESSION Mar 22 | Suma Rajiva "Life and Moral Agency" |
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Mar 27 |
Darren Hynes "The Many Lives of Rene Descartes" |
| April 3 | Peter Trnka "Flavor Experience and Heterotrophic Life: How to Chew Gum II" |