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2004-2005 Lecture Series
All lectures are open to the public and take place in New North 204 unless otherwise noted. Lectures typically run for one hour with a 45 minute discussion period following. Light refreshments are served. If you have questions, please contact the department at (202) 687-7487. Click here for directions to the main campus. Click here for a map of local hotels. Archived Lecture Series are available here. Trenton
Merricks –
University of Virginia Professor Merricks received his Ph.D. from Notre Dame. Dr. Merricks' areas of specialization include: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Religion.
Trenton Merricks' CV is available at: Don Garrett –
New York University Don Garrett (Ph.D., Yale), Professor of Philosophy, joined NYU in 2003 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence. He has also taught at Harvard University and the University of Utah. He works primarily in early modern philosophy, with special interests in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics. He is the author of Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1997) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza (Cambridge University Press, 1996). He has served as co-editor of Hume Studies and as North American editor of Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie. A list of Don Garrett's publications can be found at:http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/dongarrett Thomas Hill –
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thomas Hill is currently the Kenan Professor of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill and has written extensively in ethics, the history of ethics, and political philosophy. He has recently co-edited a new edition of Immanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals with Arnulf Zweig (2003). Iris Young –
University of Chicago Iris Marion Young is Professor of Political Science. She is on the Faculty Boards of the Center for Gender Studies, the Human Rights Program, and the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism. Her areas of specialization include theories of justice, democratic theory, and feminist theory. She studies each of these using ideas of twentieth century continental traditions such as Critical Theory, phenomenology, and deconstruction, as well as using ideas derived from Anglo-American analytic philosophy. Young's books include Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton University Press, 1990); Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy and Policy (Princeton University Press, 1997); Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2000); and forthcoming, On Female Body Experience (Oxford University Press, 2004). Her writings have been translated into several languages, including Catalan, Croatian, German, Italian, Portuguese, Slovakian, Spanish and Swedish. Young's teaching interests range broadly, including global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory, including Foucault and Habermas; ethics and international affairs; gender, race and public policy. Young has been a visiting professor at the G.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and a visiting fellow at several institutions, including the Australian National University, the University of Waikato in New Zealand, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Young holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University, 1974. Before coming to the University of Chicago she taught political theory for nine years in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and before then taught philosophy at several institutions, including the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Miami University. Charles Guignon –
University of South Florida Professor Guignon received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Guignon's areas of specialization include: Continental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Moral Value, Psychotherapy. “I think of myself as having a fairly wide range of interests that all focus on applying philosophy to different areas of the Humanities. I have taught seminars on historiography, literary theory and psychotherapy, as well as on existentialism, phenomenology and postmodern theory. My special area of interest is hermeneutics, or the theory of interpretation, especially as this field has been developed by Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. I also teach philosophy in literature and film, and a seminar on Wittgenstein." "I have two books out on Heidegger: (1) Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge (Hackett, 1983), and (2) a collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (Cambridge, 1993). I co-edited a collection of existentialist writings, Existentialism: Basic Readings, and wrote a long editor's introduction to Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor (both Hackett). My essays in journals have dealt with Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, and Heidegger. Recent books include a collection of readings called The Good Life, and a co-authored work called Re-envisioning Psychology." "For a number of years now I have been working with a professor of Counseling Psychology on a book on psychotherapy. The title of this book is Understanding and Moral Values in Psychotherapy. Its goal is to criticize and rethink the methods and value commitments of some of the most influential psychotherapy theories of the past century. The first half of the book summarizes the theories of such thinkers as Freud, Adler, Jung, Horney, Sullivan, Kohut, etc., and the second half uses ideas from hermeneutic theory (Heidegger, Gadamer, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre) to try to move toward a conception of psychotherapy that is more clear-sighted about the role of values and meanings in understanding human existence." "I love to talk about films and politics, and take pride in the strong positions I take on these subjects despite the paucity of knowledge I bring to them. Underlying everything I do is a deep- seated concern with understanding what it is to live well--both as a personal/existential issue, and as a moral/political issue.” John M. Cooper
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Princeton University Stuart Professor of Philosophy. Director, Program in Classical Philosophy. B. Phil., Oxford, 1963; Ph.D., Harvard, 1967. Professor Cooper joined the faculty in 1981, having taught previously at Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh. He works on Greek philosophy and is the author of Reason and Human Good in Aristotle (1975) and Reason and Emotion (1999), and editor of Seneca: Moral and Political Essays (1995), and Plato: Complete Works (1997). ‘Yo’ and ‘Lo’: Explorations in Pragmatism and Metaphysics Session
1 - 9:45-11:45 “Observation,
Objectivity, and the Pragmatic Structure of the Space of Reasons” Session
2 - 1:15-2:45 Session
3 - 3:00-4:45 Juliet Floyd received a BA from Wellesley College, attending the London School of Economics for one year to study philosophy of science and continuing on to receive her Ph.D. from Harvard. Her areas of research include the philosophy of logic and mathematics, the history of twentieth century analytic philosophy, and modern philosophy, especially Kant, aesthetics, and the philosophy of language and literature. She recently co-edited Future Pasts: Perspectives on the Place of the Analytic Tradition in Twentieth Century Philosophy with S. Shieh (Oxford University Press, 2001). Recent articles include “The Fact of Judgment: The Kantian Response to the Humean Condition”, in Jeffrey Malpas, ed., From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 22-47 and “Critical Study of Mathieu Marion, Wittgenstein, Finitism, and the Philosophy of Mathematics”, Philosophia Mathematica 10, 1 (2002): 67-88. More about Juliet Floyd can be found at http://www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/floyd.html. Tamar
Schapiro –
Stanford University Professor Schapiro received her B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1986 followed by her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1997. Dr. Schapiro's area's of specialization include: Ethical theory, History of ethics, Kant. Recent Publications:
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