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2012 Spring Lecture Series
"The Omnivore's Distraction: Locavorism, Capitalism, and the Politics of
Killing Animals"
by John Sanbonmatsu
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 at 4:30pm
Location To Be Announced
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Higgins School of Humanities.
John Sanbonmatsu is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.
"Torture and Enhanced Interrogation: Revisiting the Debate" by Christopher Tollefsen
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 4:30pm
Location To Be Announced
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, The Higgins School of Humanities, and the Jefferson Fund.
Christopher Tollefsen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina, and a Visiting Fellow of the James Madison Program at Princeton University.
2011 Fall Lecture Series
"Two Stages of Early Greek Cosmology" by Daniel Graham
Thursday, October 27th, 2011 at 7:30pm
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP).
"Ancient Criticisms of Presocratic Cosmology" by Daniel Graham
Thursday, October 27th, 2011 at 4:00pm
Philosophy/Beck House, Philosophy Seminar Room
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP).
Daniel Graham is a Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University.
"Nature's God as God or Nature: Jefferson's Intellectual Kinship with
Spinoza"
by Jeffrey Bernstein
Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 4:30pm
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Higgins School of Humanities, and the Philosophy Department's Jefferson Fund
Jeffrey Bernstein is a graduate of Clark University '91 and is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross.
2011 Spring Lecture Series
"Many Ways of Knowing" by Davis Baird
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 4:30pm
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Higgins School of Humanities.
Davis Baird is the Provost of Clark University.
"Weakness of Will and the Status of Ethical Judgments" by Greg Bassett
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 5:30pm
TBA at Clark University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Higgins School of Humanities.
Greg Bassett has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Indiana University and is an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Aquinas College.
2010 Fall Lecture Series
"Medical Analogies and Apories in Aristotle's Natural Science" by Monte Johnson
Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 7:30pm
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Clark University and the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP).
"Nature, Luck and Skill in Aristotle's Protrepticus" by Monte Johnson
Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 4:00pm
Beck Philosophy House, Philosophy Seminar Room
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Clark University and the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP).
Monte Johnson is a Philosophy professor at University of California, San Diego
"On the Intrinsic Evil of Death" by Jason Raibley
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Higgins School of Humanities and the Philosophy Department's Jefferson Fund.
Jason Raibley is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach.
2010 Spring Lecture Series
"The Separation of Moral Powers" by Charles Wesley DeMarco
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
Lurie Conference Room, Clark University
Sponsored by the Philosophy Department, The Higgins School of Humanities and The Jefferson Fund.
Charles Wesley DeMarco is a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Clark University.
2009 Fall Lecture Series
"One or Many: The Unity of Phantasia" by Julie Ward
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Beck Philosophy House, Seminar Room, Clark University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Clark University and the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP).
Julie Ward is a Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.
"The Homonymy of Phantasia" by Julie Ward
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
Beck Philosophy House, Seminar Room, Clark University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Clark University and the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP).
Julie Ward is a Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.
"Frege and the Search for the Language Behind Ordinary Languages" by Bülent Gözkan
Thursday, October 28, 2009 at 5:30p.m.
Beck Philosophy House, Seminar Room, Clark University
Sponsored by the Clark University Philosophy Department and the Higgins School of Humanities.
Bülent Gözkan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Yeditepe University.
2009 Spring Lecture Series
"Happiness, Justice and Poetry in Plato's Republic" by Pierre Destree
Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Lasry Center for Bioscience, Room 237, Clark University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Clark University and the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP).
Pierre Destree is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Louvain, Belgium.
"Allegory of the Cave and the Myth of Er" by Pierre Destree
Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
Beck House/Philosophy Seminar Room, Clark University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Clark University and the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP).
Pierre Destree is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Louvain, Belgium.