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Up-Coming Events
Tenth Annual
Alice Ambrose/Thomas Tymoczko
Memorial Logic Lecture
Thursday, December 10
7:00 p.m. - Neilson Library Browsing Room
Nuel D. Belnap, Jr.
Alan Ross Anderson Professor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
How Case-intensional Semantics Prevents the
"Slingshot" from Hitting it's Target
Charles Darwin: His Philosophical Legacy
2009-2010 Smith College Lecture Series
Fall 2009
The Comic Darwin:
Paradox and Natural Selection
by
George Levine
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
Rugters University
Tuesday, November 3
5:00 p.m. - Seelye Hall - Room 201
Spring 2010
The Darwinian Puzzle of Female Orgasm:
Evolutionary Solutions and Feminist Responses
by
Elizabeth Lloyd
Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University at Bloomington
Thursday, February 11
5:00 p.m. - Seelye Hall - Room 106
The Tangle of Biological Purposes That is Us
by
Ruth Garrett Millikan
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy
University of Connecticut at Storrs
Thursday, April 1
5:00 p.m. - Seelye Hall - Room 106
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Critical Discourse in Modern India:
The Case of Vivekananda
by
A. Raghuramaraju
University of Hyderabad and
Smith College Visiting Scholar
Thursday, October 29
5:00 p.m. - Seelye Hall - Room 201
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Past Events
Did Darwin Write the Origin of Species Backwards?
by
Elliott Sober
Hans Reichenback Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor
Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Thursday, October 1
5:00 p.m. - Seelye Hall - Room 201
Spring 2009 Philosophy Lecture Series
"Ethics and the Financial Crisis:
Smith Alumnae Speak Out"
Thursday, March 26
4:00 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium - Wright Hall
Lynn Paine '70, Harvard Business School
Betsy Stark '78, ABC News Business Correspondent
Linda Chatman Thomsen '76, Former Director of Enforcement, SEC
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Spring 2009 Philosophy Lecture Series
Trash, Junk Bonds and the Environment:
The Economic and Philosophical Dimensions of Social Justice
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Thursday, March 5
4:15 p.m. - Seelye Hall 106
"The Value of Environmental Justice"
Bill E. Lawson
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis |
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Monday, February 9
4:15:p.m. - Dewey Common Room
"The Ethics of the Financial Crisis"
David E. McClean
Philosopher and Principal, David E. McClean & Associates
Wall Street consultancy specializing in corporate governance and regulation)
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Eighth Annual Alice Lazerowitz/Thomas Tymoczko
Memorial Logic Lecture
"Modality and Quantifiers United"
James W. Garson
Professor of Philosophy
University of Houston
Thursday, December 4, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Neilson Library - Browsing Room
Sponsored by the Logic Program, Departments of Philosophy and
Mathematics and Statistics and the Smith College Lecture Committee
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Making Talk Matter:
The Art & Politics of Conversation
Date: October 23
Time:4:30 p.m.
Neilson Library Browsing Room
"Sant Kabir, Rudyard Kipling and Vernacular English"
Arvind Mehrotra, Professor of English, University of Allahabad, India
Sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, English, the Poetry Center,
Ada Howe Kent Fund, Dean of the Faculty Visiting Scholars Fund
and the Smith College Lecture Committee
Date: September 29
Time: 4:15 p.m.
Place: Dewey Common Room
"The Interaction of Scientific Facts and Values in Public Discourse"
Bryan Norton, Professor of Philosophy, Georgia Tech
Sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, Environmental Science, Public Policy and the Smith College Lecture Committee
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Race, Politics, Justice: Election Year Conversations
“A Gathering Place for Dialogue”: The Role of Radio in Our National
Conversation about Race Michel Martin, National Public Radio host of "Tell Me More"
Sponsored by Afro-American Studies, American Studies, Government, Latin American
and Latino/a Studies, Philosophy, Study of Women and Gender, Offices of the Dean
of the College, Institutional Diversity, and the Smith College Lecture Committee
Date: September 19
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Weinstein Auditorium – Wright Hall
"Latino Politics in a
Post-Bush World"
Angelo Falcón
President and Founder
National Institute for Latino Policy
Date: Thursday, October 23
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Seelye Hall - Room 106
Sponsored by Afro-American Studies, American Studies, Government, Latin American and Latino/a
Studies, Philosophy, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Offices of the Dean of the
College, Institutional Diversity, and the Smith College Lecture Committee
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2007-2008
Thursday and Friday, March 27-28, 2008
“The Body Politic: Breast Cancer,
Ethics and Practices”
A Symposium on Bioethics
Using breast cancer as a case study, this symposium examines a range of bioethical issues
relevant to women’s health and medicine. The event brings together ethicists, activists, and
clinicians--among them a number of Smith alumnae as well as local members of the medical
world--to consider the practices and narratives surrounding breast cancer.
Topics to be addressed include: the economics of breast cancer; setting priorities
(education, prevention, treatment); genetic testing and risk; responsibility and accountability.
The event will include two panels: Thursday, March 27, 7-9 p.m., and Friday, March 28, 3-5 p.m.
(both will take place in the Neilson Library Browsing Room).
Sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy,
Biological Sciences and the Program for the Study of Women and Gender.
PHILOSOPHY: Oldest of subjects, yet the "hot, new major"! Read all about it in the New York Times:
EDUCATION | April 6, 2008
In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined
By WINNIE HU
Philosophy is being embraced by a new generation of college students as they try to make sense of a
world full of moral dilemmas, such as the Iraq war or the latest political scandal.
For more information see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/education/06philosophy.html?ex=1208232000&en=77938556ef676098&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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Hume on Distinctions
of Reason
Donald Baxter
Professor of Philosophy
University of Connecticut
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Dewey Common Room
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
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What Should a Philosophy Department
Look Like in 2010?
"This is About Smith"
Kathleen Higgins
Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Friday, February 29, 2008
4:00 p.m.
Campus Center - Room 205
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy
and the Smith College Lecture Committee
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Eighth Annual
Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz/Thomas Tymoczko
Memorial Logic Lecture
Partial Information and
the Meaning of ‘All’
Edwin Mares
Professor of Philosophy
Victoria University of Wellington
Thursday, December 6, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Neilson Library Browsing Room
Sponsored by the Logic Program, Department of Philosophy and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
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Friday, November 9, 2007
3:00 p.m. - Seelye Hall - Room 201
"Words and Selves:
On the Harm of Group Defamation"
Susan J. Brison
Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
5:00 p.m. - Seelye Hall - Room 201
"Introspection: Divided and Partly Eliminated"
Will be given by: Peter Carruthers, Chair
University of Maryland Philosophy Department
Sponsored by the Departments of Philosoph, Psychology, and
the Smith College Lecture Committee
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"Love of God, Love of Neighbor:
Martha and Mary in the Middle Ages"
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
c. 1654-1656 by Jan Vermeer
National Gallery of Scotland
Amy Hollywood
Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies
Harvard University
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
4:15 p.m.
Seelye Hall - Room 201
Smith College
Sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, Religion,
Program for the Study of Women and Gender
and the Smith College Lecture Committee
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2006-2007
Varieties of Moral Agency: Lessons from Autism and Psychopathy
Victoria McGeer Associate Research ScholarUniversity Center for Human Values Princeton University
Thursday, November 30 5:00 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room
Fall 2006 - Buddhist Philosophy Distinguished
Lecture Series (PDF)
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