Archive of lectures & events
Prof. Thomas Raleigh, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University
Essence- revealing concepts and phenomenal concepts
Friday October 26, 2012, 16:00 - 17:30, 2100 Mackay Street, Philosophy Department, Room PR-100
Prof. Julie Walsh, Université du Québec a Montréal
Malleus Maleficarum: witches, werewolves, and demons in the age of reason
Friday November 23, 2012, 16:30 - 18:00, 2100 Mackay Street , Philosophy Department, Room PR-100,
Prof. Erich Reck, University of California Riverside
The Nature and Purpose of Dedekind Abstraction
Friday November 30, 2012, 16:00 - 18:00, 1515 St-Catherine Street West, EV Building Room 11-705
Prof. Ina Goy, Department of Philosphy, Concordia University
Kant on Formative Power
Friday February 1, 2013, 16:00 - 18:00, 2100 Mackay Street, Philosophy Department, Room PR-100
Prof. Richard Samuels, Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University
Thinking Like a Scientist: Innateness as a Case Study
Friday September 23, 2011, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street
Assistant Proffesor. John Basl, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
Making Animals Too Smart for Their Own Good: The Ethical Concerns Associated with Enhancing Non-Human Animals
Friday November 11, 2011, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street
Prof. David P. Schweikard, Department of Philosophy, University of Münster, Germany
The Politics of Group Agency
Friday November 25, 2011, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street
Prof. Guenter Zoeller, Department of Philosophy, Univeristy of Munich/McGill University
Homo homini civic. The Modernity of Classical German Political Philosophy
Friday March 23, 2012, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street
ABSTRACT: The paper focuses on the specifically political conception of the human individual in the moral, social and political philosophy of Kant and the German idealists, placing their political thinking into the larger historical context of modern accounts of the relation between the citizen and the state. In particular, I propose to draw on Kant, Fichte and Hegel for extracting a conception of selfhood that is mindful of the worth of the individual and attentive to its supra- and inter-individual existence in general and its existence in political or civil society and the state in particular.
Prof. Erich Reck, Department of Philosophy, University of California Riverside
Cassirer's Reception of Dedekind: Structuralism and the History of Mathematics.
Friday March 30, 2012, 16:00 - 18:00, Room Location TBA
ABSTRACT: While structuralist views have received a good deal of attention in recent philosophy of mathematics, most treatments of them have been a-historical. Consequently, Richard Dedekind's original version of structuralism is still often ignored or misunderstood. There has also not been enough exploration of the historical background of Dedekind's position, and thus of structuralism more generally. As a consequence of that, the significance of structuralism has been understood in a relatively narrow sense. In this talk, I will attempt to rectify this situation by considering a figure from the early twentieth century, Ernst Cassirer, who developed a detailed and rich account of both Dedekind's contributions and their role in the history of mathematics. Besides bringing Cassirer backinto contemporary debates as a historian of mathematics, I will arguethat there are philosophical insights in Cassirer's reception of Dedekind that remain relevant today.
Prof. Edward S. Casey, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University
On Not Putting Too Fine an Edge on Things
Oct. 15, 2010, 16:00-18:00, EV - 11.705, The Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex, (1515 St. Catherine West corner of Guy Street)
Prof. Tom Rockmore, Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University
Old Theories and New Forms of Modernity
Nov. 5, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street
Prof. Allan Gotthelf, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Aristotle as Scientist: A Proper Verdict" (with emphasis on his biological works)
Friday November 12, 2010, H - 769, Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve
Prof. Christine Tappolet, Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal
Values and Emotions: Neo- Sentimentalism Prospects
Friday December 3, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street
Prof. Derek H. Brown, Departemnt of Philosophy, Brandon University
Colour Constancy and the Relativities Therein
Friday March 18, 2011, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay Street
Prof. Penelope Deutscher, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University
Unbecoming: Beauvoir on the Age of Sex and the Sex of Age
Oct. 22, 2009, 18:00-20:00, Montefiore Club, Salon C (1195 Guy, between St. Catherine and René Lévesque)
This is a panel discussion based on Deutscher’s recent book, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance, with commentary by Shiloh Whitney (Dept. Of Philosophy, McGill University) and response by Deutscher. Co-sponsored with the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, on the occasion of the recent centenary of de Beauvoir.
Biopoliticized Maternity and the Trope of Immunization: From Foucault to Esposito
Oct. 23, 2009, 16:00-18:00, PR-100
Prof. John Lysaker, Department of Philosophy, Emory University
Our Subjective Multiplicity
Nov. 20, 2009, 16:00-18:00, PR-100
Prof. Sarah Allen, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University
Levinas On Neutrality: From Ethics to Social Justice
January 29, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR - 100
Prof. George Gale, Departments of Philosophy, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Concordia University
How Many Universes ARE There, and Who Cares Anyway?
Date Friday February 12, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100
Prof. Rachel Zuckert, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University - Evanston, Illinois
Topic Kant, Teleology, and History
Date: March 5, 2010, 16:00-18:00, PR-100
(Prof. Zuckert has recently published Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the Critique of Judgment)
Prof. Arnold Koslow, Emeritus Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY - Tenafly, New Jersey.
Topic: Explanation and Modality
Date: Friday March 19, 2010, 16:00 - 18:00, PR-100