Department of Philosophy
Memorial University
WINTER
COLLOQUIUM, 2007,
“Vive la Difference!”
(updated schedule)
All lectures will take place on Tuesday or Thursday, 2.00-3:20 in A1045. (For further information email - jascott@mun.ca or call the Department at 737-8336)
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DATE |
SPEAKER & TITLE |
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Tuesday, Jan 16: |
Darren Hynes “Divine in Difference: Descartes on Cause and the Divine Essence” |
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Tuesday Jan. 23 |
David Thompson “The
Nature of Selfhood: What makes us essentially different?” |
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Tuesday, Jan 30: |
Craig Cramm “The In-Difference Between Mind and Nature - Thomas
Aquinas & John of Saint Thomas on Formal Sign.” |
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Tuesday, Feb. 6: |
Peter Trnka “Biopolitics and the end of the rule
of law: thinking with Foucault, Deleuze and Agamben.” |
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Tuesday, Feb 13: |
Peter Harris “Differance and the Death of the
Subject” |
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Tuesday, Feb. 27: |
Walter Okshevsky “From a transcendental point of view: Jurgen Habermas and Harvey
Siegel on justifying moral and multicultural ideals” |
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THURSDAY,
MARCH 1: |
Jean-Philippe Ranger “A Reply to Cicero on Epicurean Friendship:
Overcoming the Difference between Self and Others.” |
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Tuesday, March 6 |
Jay Foster “Kuhn and the Many Faces of ‘the Social’.” |
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THURSDAY,
MARCH 8: |
Visiting
Speaker, Nigel Rapport “Kierkegaard's
Faith and Nietzsche's Breakdown: The Objectivity of Subjectivity” |
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Tuesday, March 13: |
Arthur Sullivan “The Problem
of A Priori Knowledge” |
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Tuesday, March 20: |
Natalie Oman “Sharing
Horizons: The Gitxsan-Wet'suwet'en Model of
Intercultural |
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THURSDAY,
March 22 |
Jennifer Flynn “Thinking Differences: Philosophy, Literature & Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals.” |
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Tuesday, March 27 |
Suma Rajiva “Splitting the Difference: Transcendental Idealism in the Antinomy of
Teleological Judgement.” |
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THURSDAY,
MARCH 29 |
Bernard Wills “Why is the Ontological Argument Different?” |
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Tuesday, April 3 |
Evan Simpson “Alien
Minds.” |
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Schedule updated March 19th, 2007