Memorial University
WINTER COLLOQUIUM, 2009
Philosophy 4260/6000
Photograph
courtesy of Jennifer Dawe, Flatrock
“RESPONSIBILITY”
All
colloquia will take place on Tuesdays or Thursdays, 2.00-3:30 in SN 2041
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Tuesday, January
20 |
Michelle
Rebidoux (Dept. of Religious Studies),
‘Breathing Beyond Being: the Burden and Buoyancy of Levinas’
Infinite Responsibility’ |
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Tuesday, January
27 |
Walter
Okshevsky (Faculty of Education), ‘Is It My
Responsibility To Get Others To Agree With Me? Some Reflections On Habermas’ Moral Epistemology’ |
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Tuesday, February
3 |
David
Thompson ‘Constructing Responsibility’ Click below for
readings: |
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THURSDAY,
February 5 |
GUEST SPEAKER: Bernie
Wills (SWGC), ‘Responsibility and Immortality:
What Does The Phaedo
Prove?’ |
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Tuesday, February
10 |
Sean
McGrath ‘Schelling on Responsibility to the
Unconscious’ Click below for
readings: |
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Tuesday, February
17 |
Suma Rajiva ‘ Kantian
Intimations of Immorality: the Turnspit, the Automaton, and the Puppet Show’ |
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Tuesday, February
24 |
MIDTERM BREAK |
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Tuesday, March 3 |
Natalie Oman ‘Our Responsibility to Distant Others’ |
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Tuesday, March 10 |
Peter Trnka ‘Answering Machines or Poetic Lives? On the Limits
of Responsibility in Tsvetayeva, Sontag and Deleuze’ |
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Tuesday, March17 |
Tom
Cooper (Faculty of
Business), ‘Responsibility and Moral Hazard: Lessons from the Financial
Crisis’ |
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Tuesday, March 24 |
Darren
Hynes ‘Fiduciary Responsibility’ |
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Tuesday, March 31
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Peter Harris & James Bradley 'Responses on Responsibility: Comments on
This Year's Colloquium Series.' |
Notes:
1. All colloquia will run from 2.00-3.30 in SN 2041. (We will have to stop at 3.20 if the room is booked for another class at 3.30.) Please allow at least 30 mins. for discussion.
2. Each week’s Tuesday speaker will meet with the graduate class attached to the colloquium on the Thursday afternoon immediately following the Tuesday talk for discussion on their paper and related topics, 5.00-6.20, in C-2024. All are welcome to attend the discussion class if they wish.
3. The above schedule is likely to stand without much revision. Shifts may however be necessary in the event of illness, additions, or inclement weather. If a Tuesday lecture has to be cancelled, it will be shifted to the nearest available Thursday, 2.00-3.30.