Jennifer Whiting - Cornell University
Friday, October 10, 2003
New North 204 at 3:15PM
Aristotelian Individuals
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Jennifer Whiting's interests lie at the intersection of metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind (both ancient, especially Aristotelian, and modern). Her current research is focused on the self and moral psychology, and she recently directed an NEH Summer Institute on Mind, Self, and Psychopathology. Her teaching interests include feminism and philosophy of law. Whiting is currently teaching at the University of Toronto.

William Desmond - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Friday, October 24, 2003
New North 204 at 3:15PM
Hegel's God - A Counterfeit Double?
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Born in Cork, Ireland; educated at National University of Ireland, Cork (BA, 1972, MA, 1974) and Pennsylvania State University (PhD 1978). He has taught in Ireland (University College Cork, and Maynooth) and the United States (St. Bonaventure University, New York, and Loyola College in Maryland) before teaching at Leuven in 1994, where he is Director of the International Program in Philosophy. He has been Visiting Professor at Catholic University of America; Thomas Higgins Chair of Philosophy, Loyola College; J.N.Findlay Chair of Philosophy, Boston University.

Dr. Desmond's research interests include Metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, aesthetics, German idealism, especially Hegel.

Richard Gale - University of Pittsburgh
Friday, November 21, 2003
New North 204 at 3:15PM
The Ecumenicalism of William James
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Richard M. Gale (PhD, New York University, 1961) is professor of philosophy and fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Before teaching at Pittsburgh (in 1964) he taught at Vassar. He held a Samuel S. Fels Foundation Fellowship during 1960-61, a National Science Foundation grant during 1964-65, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Pittsburgh during 1966-67. He is the author of The Language of Time (1968), Negation and Non-Being (1976), On the Nature and Existence of God (Cambridge, 1991), The Divided Self of William James (Cambridge, 1999), and the editor of The Philosophy of Time (1967). He is currently finishing a book on John Dewey. He has contributed numerous articles to collections and philosophical journals. His main interests are metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and pragmatism.

Joseph J. Godfrey - St. Joseph's University
Friday, January 30, 2004
New North 204 at 1:00PM
Conceiving Trust for Philosophy of Religion
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Joseph J. Godfrey, S.J., Ph.D., is associate professor of Philosophy at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, and currently a Visiting Researcher in Philosophy at Georgetown during 2003-2004. He is author of: A Philosophy of Human Hope (Nijhoff, 1987); "Trust, the Heart of Relig-ion: A Sketch" (1991); "The Phenomena of Trusting and Relational Ontologies" (1995); and "Hope" in the Encyclopedia of Ethics (Routledge, 2001).

He has taught at Canisius College and Santa Clara University, has chaired the Department of Philosophy at Saint Joseph's, and is currently also a visiting fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University.

He has degrees in classics and in philosophy from Fordham, in theology from Woodstock College and from Union Theological Seminary, and in philosophy, Ph.D. from Toronto.

Susan Haack - University of Miami
Friday, February 20, 2004
New North 204 at 3:15PM
Coherence, Consistency, Cogency, Congruity, Cohesiveness, &c.: Remain Calm! Don't Go Overboard!
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Susan Haack (B.A., M.A., B.Phil., Oxford; Ph.D., Cambridge), formerly Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, and then professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, is presently Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law at the University of Miami. Her areas of interest include philosophy of logic and language, epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, including issues of scientific testimony in court, Pragmatism, and feminism.

Professor Haack is the author of several well-known well-known books, including Deviant Logic (Cambridge, 1974), Philosophy of Logics (Cambridge, 1978), Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology (Blackwell, 1993), Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism (Chicago, 1996), and Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays (Chicago, 1998), as well as of numerous articles. She has been widely reviewed and cited in general interest publications such as the Times Literary Supplement, the Wilson Quarterly, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as in specialized journals.

Internationally known, Professor Haack's work has been translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Danish; and Prof. Haack is invited to speak and visit around the world. Her work is also strongly interdisciplinary; she has published in literary, legal, and scientific as well as philosophical journals, and has been invited to speak not only in philosophy departments and law schools but also at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, the American Council of Learned Societies, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences, etc. She has given numerous endowed university-wide lectures, including, as national Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professor of Philosophy, a series of public lectures at the University of Miami; and is known for her lively writing style and wry sense of humor as well as for her philosophical achievements.

Read more about Susan Haack at http://www.miami.edu/phi/haack/

Taylor Carman - Columbia University, Barnard College
Friday, March 19, 2004
New North 204 at 3:15PM
Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity
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Taylor Carman began teaching at Barnard College in 1994 after receiving his PhD from Stanford and teaching at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Heidegger's Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in "Being and Time (Cambridge, 2003), the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (Cambridge, forthcoming), and has written articles on various issues in phenomenology. He is currently working on a book on Merleau-Ponty and has active ongoing interests in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Foucault, the concept of subjectivity, and the irreducibility of the first person.

Philip Pettit - Princeton University
Friday, April 16, 2004
New North 204 at 3:15PM
Rawls's Political Ontology

Philip Pettit was born in Ireland in 1945. He took a BA and an MA from the National University of Ireland, and a PhD from Queen's University, Belfast. He has taught at Queen's University (1967), University College, Dublin (1968) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1972-75). After returning for a short period to University College, Dublin, he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bradford (1976). He moved to the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, in 1983, where he was Professor of Social and Political Theory and Professor of Philosophy. He moved to Princeton University in 2002. He teaches political theory and philosophy and is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics.

Philip Pettit works in two broad areas: the foundations of economics and the social sciences, where this includes issues of psychology and metaphysics as well as methodology; and moral and political theory: the theory of what values our social institutions should realise and of how they can be best organised to promote such values. In both areas he works sometimes in more purely philosophical mode, sometimes in a mode that engages with economic and related methods; and in both areas, he works sometimes on his own, sometimes in collaboration with colleagues in philosophy, economics, political science and law.

Excerpt from http://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/

Jodi Halpern - University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health
Thursday, April 29, 2004
New North 204 at 11:00AM
Concretized Emotions and Deliberative Incapacity
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Jodi Halpern, is a medical ethicist and psychiatrist who uses traditional philosophy to enlighten her work in medicine. She earned both a Ph.D. in philosophy and an M.D. from Yale University before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1998, and her title, Assistant Professor of bioethics and medical humanities, reflects the interdisciplinary nature of her work.

Dr. Halpern leans heavily on her background in the humanities as she conducts research that calls for a profound shift in the way doctors relate with their patients. Her studies assert that to practice effective medicine, physicians must do more than understand the science of disease and methods of treatment. They also must be empathetic, says Halpern, striving for "an engaged emotional understanding of each patient's illness experience."

Beyond Detachment: The Role of Empathy and Emotions in Practicing Medicine, Halpern's forthcoming book from Oxford University Press, continues the work she began with her philosophy dissertation, which earned her the 1994 Porter Prize at Yale for the overall outstanding Ph.D. at the university. Challenging Descartes's view of objectivity and Kant's conception of moral impartiality, she argues for a new model of "clinical empathy" that would better enable a physician to understand a patient's emotional experience, which in turn would result in more effective diagnosis and treatment. "Clinical empathy," she explains, is "a unique form of understanding patients that requires physicians to be emotionally engaged, yet also promotes the objectivity that their roles demand."

Halpern began to form her views while a medical student at Yale and during her residency at UCLA. "I didn't like the detached way doctors dealt with patients," she recalls. Her reaction wasn't simply a matter of feeling sorry for patients; rather, she observed patients whose fear, mistrust, or depression prevented them from communicating well with their doctors and adhering to their treatment plans. Doctors who were unable or unwilling to understand a patient's emotions by imagining themselves in the patient's situation were inclined to miss important clues that would lead to a proper diagnosis and recovery.

More can be found at http://ls.berkeley.edu/art-hum/framing/old/chapter2/halpern.html

Martha Nussbaum - University of Chicago
Thursday, April 29, 2004
New North 204 at 3:30PM
Cognitivist Account of the Emotions from Upheavals of Thought

Martha Nussbaum received her B.A. from NYU and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. She has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities. From 1986 to 1993, Ms. Nussbaum was a research advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, a part of the United Nations University. She has chaired the Committee on International Cooperation and the Committee on the Status of Women of the American Philosophical Association, and has been a member of the Association's National Board. In 1999-2000 she was one of the three Presidents of the Association, delivering the Presidential Address in the Central Division. Ms. Nussbaum has been a member of the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Board of the American Council of Learned Societies. She received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Non-Fiction for 1990, and the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the best collection of essays in 1991; Cultivating Humanity won the Ness Book Award of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 1998, and the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2002. Sex and Social Justice won the book award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy in 2000. She has received honorary degrees from twenty-two colleges and universities in the U. S., Canada, and Europe, including Grinnell College, Williams College, Bard College, Knox College, The University of St. Andrews (Scotland),the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), the University of Toronto, The University for Humanist Studies (Utrecht, the Netherlands), the New School University, Ohio State University, and Georgetown University. She received the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award in 2000, the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2002, and the Barnard College Medal of Distinction in 2003. She is an Academician in the Academy of Finland.