News and Events
2009 Fall Lecture Series
"One or Many: The Unity 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.
"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.
2008 Fall Lecture Series
"Expression Between Self and Other" by Lisa Folkmarson Kall
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 7:30 p.m
Dana Commons, Clark University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University.
Lisa Folkmarson Kall is a research associate at the Center for Gender Research, Uppsala University.
"Mind as Matter: The New Physicalism" by Jacqueline Sullivan
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 4:30 p.m
Dana Commons, Clark University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Philosophy Jefferson Lecture Fund and the Kneller Chair in Philosophy at Clark University.
Jacqueline Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
2008 Spring Lecture Series
"The Last Myth of the Mental" by Timothy Nulty
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 4:15 p.m.
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Philosophy Jefferson Lecture Fund and the Kneller Chair in Philosophy at Clark University.
Timothy Nulty is the Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
2007 Fall Lecture Series
"On the Aristotelian Origins of Stoic Determinism" by Priscilla Sakezles
Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
Grace Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
Sponsored by the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP) and the Philosophy Department at Clark University.
Priscilla Sakezles is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Akron.
"Drug Research & Development: Who's Moral Responsibility is it?" by Udo Schuklenk
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center, Clark University
Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the Department of Philosophy and the Kneller Chair in Philosophy at Clark University.
Udo Schuklenk is a Professor of Philosophy and currently the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University.
2007 Spring Lecture Series
"Empathy and Other Minds" by Karsten Stueber
Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Kneller Chair in Philosophy, Clark University.
Karsten Stueber is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross.
2006 Fall Lecture Series
"Plato's Anti-Hedonism" by Matt Evans
Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BACAP) and the Philosophy Department at Clark University.
Matt Evans is the Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University.
"Where the Boys Are" by Christina Hoff Sommers
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 12:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Clark University.
Christina Hoff Sommers is a Gender Issues Scholar and Author of "The War Against Boys".
"Predator and Prey: The Ethics of Hunting" by Lawrence Cahoone
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
Sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the Department of Philosophy, Clark University.
Lawrence Cahoone is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross.
2006 Spring Lecture Series
"Should We Abolish Marriage?" by Molly Shanley
Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
Sponsored by the Government Department, the Higgins School of Humanities, and the Philosophy Department, Clark University.
Molly Shanley is Professor of Political Science and Margaret Stiles Halleck Chair at Vassar College.
"Nature and Value" by Kenneth Winkler
Friday, March 31, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
This lecture is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities and the Department of Philosophy, Clark University.
Winkler is Class of 1919 Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. His books include Berkeley: An Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 1989) and an abridgment of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding (Hackett Publishing Company, 1996). From 2000 to 2005 he was editor, with Elizabeth Radcliffe, of the journal Hume Studies.
"The Matrix as Metaphysics" by David Chalmers
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
This George Kneller Chair Lecture is sponsored by the George Kneller Fund and the Department of Philosophy, Clark University.
Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University.