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february 21 2019 colloquium: dwayne raymond texas a&m university biography: dr d raymond has an interest in the history of logic in particular ancient proof traditions he is completing a book on the non-neutrality of logic dr raymond received a phd with distinction from uwo for his work on aristotles modal logic his work appears in journal of the history and philosophy of logic aperion and sophia he has spoken at conferences including the arpa cpa apa the joint session of the aristotelian society and mind he has given talks at the u of toronto ecole normale superieure (paris) helsinki birmingham stockholm and he will be in prague and české budějovice in the spring misdirection: understated concerns about the use of modern logic in the reconstruct and evaluation of historic arguments even if a logic is topic-neutral it is not neutral with respect to methods and concepts how does a lack of neutrality impact our efforts to reconstruct and evaluate the history of philosophy the history of philosophy includes historic concepts and methods (call them all ‘notions) yet a topic-neural logic can either distort or preclude historic notions when the commentators logic does not support historic notions the commentator either upgrades or replaces each ill-fitting notion with a modern notion such changes misdirect our efforts to study history: shifting the focus to what is not there and obfuscating what is present i will show that the standard view that plato is a rationalist (in the sense that knowledge comes from intuition and inference) exemplifies misdirection given his notions early plato can be neither a rationalist nor an empiricist i will show that his appeal to a mathematical proof in the meno is an appeal to a method of proof that cuts across the distinction between rationalism and empiricism with the focus on rationalism and empiricism the central epistemological concern of this period is obfuscated: a criterion for unity as a result significant facts haves been obfuscated: platos initial criterion for unity prohibits logic as we know it; his later development opens the door for aristotles prior analytics there is a hidden history here; it is a history away from which we have been (mis)directed thursday february 21 • 3:45 pm •ymca 401 colloquium events news dwayne raymond texas a&m university
february 14 2019 colloquium: oona eisenstadt pomona college biography: professor oona eisenstadt is currently the fred krinsky professor of jewish studies and professor of religious studies at pomona college she earned her ba and phd from mcmaster university she specializes in continental philosophy and judaism with a special interest in two postmodern jewish philosophers – emmanuel levinas and jaques derrida she has also focused extensively on religious themes in literature for children and young adults she is author of driven back to the text: the premodern sources of levinass postmodernism (duquesne 2001) and numerous articles on derrida levinas the holocaust jewish philosophy and childrens literature figural indians figural jews: adornos tom sawyer in the 1930s theodore adorno wrote an opera based on twains tom sawyer the paper draws out some of the operas themes compares them to themes used by jaques derrida in his final analysis of emmanuel levinas and ultimately puts derrida and adorno together to develop a consideration of what it is to own land to banish others from owned land and to refuse to own land the goal is to begin to clarify adornos analysis of the condition of germany in the early 30s and some of the ways this is relevant to our condition today thursday february 14 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news oona eisenstadt pomona college
february 8 2019 upcoming symposium: hermeneutics the humanities and the future of interpretation the philosophy department along with the glasscock center interdisciplinary studies the center of digital humanities research and the department of hispanic studies are sponsoring a symposium this semester which will be co-hosted by dr kristi sweet and dr ted george the symposium is titled hermeneutics the humanities and the future of interpretation and will take […] the philosophy department along with the glasscock center interdisciplinary studies the center of digital humanities research and the department of hispanic studies are sponsoring a symposium this semester which will be co-hosted by dr kristi sweet and dr ted george the symposium is titled hermeneutics the humanities and the future of interpretation and will take place on february 22-23 2019 in the glasscock center to learn more about this event click here events meeting news hermeneutics humanities symposium
january 31 2019 colloquium: andrea pitts university of north carolina charlotte biography: andrea j pitts is assistant professor of philosophy at the university of north carolina charlotte their research interests include social epistemology critical philosophy of race feminist theory and latin american and us latinx philosophy their publications appear in ijfab: international journal of feminist approaches to bioethics hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy radical philosophy review and interamerican journal of philosophy andrea is also co-editor of beyond bergson: examining race and colonialism through the writings of henri bergson (suny press 2019) gloria e anzaldúa critical trans politics and decolonial strategies: abstract this presentation explores the relevance of gloria e anzaldúas work in the context of critical transgender studies notably anzaldúas writings have been cited and utilized by transgender scholars as early as 1987 and her work continues to remain significant within contemporary research in the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies many transgender studies theorists focus on her work on mestizaje to analyze the constraints of the gender binary however few of these theorists have explored the implications of her articulation of mestizaje for questions of indigenous sovereignty a topic on which she has received significant criticism in this vein this paper examines how critical transgender studies can build coalitional decolonial strategies and whether anzaldúas theoretical contributions offer resources to aid in those endeavors colloquium events news andrea pitts university of north carolina
january 24 2019 colloquium: stephen daniel texas a&m university biography: stephen h daniel is a professor of philosophy at texas a&m university where he has taught for 36 years he is a presidential professor in teaching excellence former fasken chair in distinguished teaching two-time university-level and twotime college-level distinguished teacher he has written four books and more than 60 articles and edited three other volumes on early modern thinkers and continental philosophy he has spoken at numerous venues in north america europe and australia from 2006 to 2016 he was the president of the international berkeley society and for the past thirteen years he has been the editor of berkeley studies berkeleys constitutive notion of mind: abstract berkeleys idealism and theory of signs are linked by his doctrine that mind is the cause by which objects are intelligible what this means in the context of his claim that minds are spiritual substances has puzzled commentators many of whom explain berkeleys position by suggesting that he draws on cartesian assumptions however such explanations treat mind as an abstraction something that berkeley explicitly rejects i argue instead that god creates finite spiritual substances by creating a system of representation in which objects are related in a way that constitutes a language (ie the language of nature) ‘mind is thus the principle on which the meaning of ideas depends not a cartesian substance thursday january 24 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news stephen daniel texas a&m university
november 8 2018 colloquium: kenny easwaran texas a&m university biography: kenny easwaran is associate professor of philosophy at texas a&m university he specializes in formal epistemology and decision theory as well as philosophy of mathematics much of his work has focused on issues that arise out of the use of infinity in probability and decision theory in recent years he has also worked on issues in social epistemology including the role of trust in mathematical reasoning and the way probabilities and values can be combined in groups to guide collective decisions he received his phd from the group in logic and the methodology of science at uc berkeley in 2008 and taught for six years as assistant professor at the university of southern california before moving to texas a&m two dimensions of group agency: abstract there is a large literature on what it takes for behavior to count as intentional action there is also a growing literature on what it takes for collective behavior to count as a group action we aim to show that there are two dimensions on which collective agency can vary and not just one this will proceed by means of many examples illustrating the way these two dimensions can interact with one another this talk is based on a paper co-authored with reuben stern (leibniz universität hannover) thursday november 8 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news kenny easwaran texas a&m university
november 1 2018 colloquium: john lippitt herfordshire university biography: john lippitt is professor of ethics and philosophy of religion at the university of hertfordshire uk and honorary professor of philosophy at deakin university australia johns philosophical interests include the ethics of forgiveness virtues and vices the relationships between philosophy and religion and the ethics of policing (he serves as an ethics consultant to hertfordshire constabulary) he is currently working on a book entitled loves forgiveness supported by a major research fellowship from the leverhulme trust probably best known for his work on kierkegaard johns previous publications include humour and irony in kierkegaards thought (2000) kierkegaard and the problem of self-love (2013) and the routledge guidebook to kierkegaards fear and trembling (second edition 2016) forgiveness resentment and agapic love: abstract forgiveness it is often claimed involves giving up letting go or transcending feelings of resentment contemporary discussions of forgiveness sometimes simply assume that resentment is an entirely negative phenomenon one that we are better off without but is this really so drawing on historical and contemporary work i question this assumption aiming to show how resentment need not be construed simply as a reaction to personal injury or insult and that it can speak for justice however if resentment has a positive dimension and is sometimes warranted then why would we forgive i explore an alternative answer to this question based on the kierkegaard-inspired idea of forgiveness as a ‘work of love one objection to such a view has been the charge that such love violates justice through a consideration of nicholas wolterstorffs distinction between benevolence-agapism and care-agapism i aim to show that such a worry can be avoided but the implications of this distinction i argue lead us to a different view of forgiveness from wolterstorffs: one that makes more room for a certain kind of unconditional forgiveness central to which is the idea of hope itself conceived of as a work of love thursday november 1 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news herfordshire university john lippitt
october 25 2018 colloquium: marcy lascano university of kansas biography: marcy lascano is professor of philosophy at the university of kansas her research concerns issues in metaphysics and philosophical theology in the 17th and 18th century her current research focuses on the works of women philosophers including margaret cavendish anne conway damaris masham mary astell and emilie du châtelet she has published articles in british journal for the history of philosophy feminist interpretations of mary astell philosophy compass the routledge companion to the seventeenth century and women on liberty 1600-1800 she is a co-editor with christia mercer andrew arlig and jasper reid on a new edition and translation of conways principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy and co-editor with lisa shapiro on early modern philosophy: an anthology of primary sources (under contract with broadview press) she also has a book project which focuses on the metaphysical views of margaret cavendish anne conway damaris masham mary astell and emilie du châtelet she was awarded an neh fellowship for 2015-2016 to work on the project margaret cavendish and early modern experimental philosophy: boys that play with watery bubbles or fling dust into each others eyes or make a hobbyhorse of snow: abstract in the seventeenth century experimental philosophy was introduced through the works of bacon hooke boyle power and others the advocates of the new science promised to divulge the inner workings of nature and to help man overcome his painful state by means of controlling nature the new sciences of mechanism and corpuscularism were to be based on objective experiments that would reveal the inner workings of creatures and the nature of the sun moon and stars these experiments were done with new and improved telescopes and microscopes one early critic of the new experimental philosophy was margaret cavendish cavendish was skeptical of the ambitious claims of the new science as well as of the instruments they used i will argue that while cavendish certainly is opposed to parts of the methodological and technological program of the experimentalists she was deeply influenced by and in agreement with many aspects of bacons view of the new science in addition she provides a way of thinking about aims of science and technology that bear some marks of feminist critiques the paper is divided into the following sections first i will lay out some of the claims of bacon boyle and hooke regarding the aims and instruments of experimentalism second i will show the ways in which cavendish approved of the baconian agenda and also provide her criticism of the reliability of telescopes and microscopes in terms of her views about perception then i will detail her worries about understanding and controlling nature finally i will discuss her views concerning the utility of science i will end by suggesting that cavendishs claims can be seen as feminist in nature thursday october 25th • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news marcy lascano university of kansas
october 4 2018 colloquium: emily brady texas a&m university with reception to follow biography emily brady is professor of philosophy at texas a&m and she holds the susanne m and melbern g glasscock directors chair in the glasscock center for humanities research before coming to a&m she was professor of environment and philosophy at the university of edinburgh her research interests range from aesthetics philosophy of art and eighteenth-century philosophy to environmental ethics environmental humanities and animal studies her co-authored book between nature and culture: the aesthetics of modified environments will be published in late 2018 before this her most recent book was the sublime in modern philosophy: aesthetics ethics and nature (cambridge up 2013) the kantian sublime and greatness of mind abstract this paper explores ideas relating to magnanimity in kants discussion of the sublime in the critique of the power of judgment in the kantian sublime the subject becomes aware of a certain kind of greatness of mind through an aesthetic judgment of nature that is awareness of ones moral capacities as part of humanity and admiration for greatness in the natural world more broadly kants approach shows how ideas about greatness – if not magnanimity as such – flow into philosophical approaches that lie beyond virtue ethics moral thought and an exclusive focus on the human i argue that a comparative relation between self and sublime phenomena is central to understanding greatness of mind in his theory (as well as other theories of sublimity) drawing out this comparative relation provides a deeper understanding of how both self-regarding and other-regarding attitudes feature within sublime experience and just how this greatness might express itself within an aesthetic context thursday october 4 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news emily brady texas a&m university
september 27 2018 colloquium: katie mcshane colorado state university biography katie mcshane is professor of philosophy at colorado state university who specializes in environmental ethics and ethical theory she has written articles on ecosystem health the place of environmental concerns in theories of value and the moral significance of our emotional engagements with nature her work has been published in journals such as philosophical studies midwest studies in philosophy environmental ethics environmental values and ethics and the environment she received her phd in philosophy from the university of michigan in 2002 and her ba from northwestern university in 1993 she worked previously as an assistant professor at north carolina state university against etiological function accounts of interest abstract the etiological account of function defines a parts/traits function as whatever that part/ trait was selected for doing some philosophers have tried to employ this as an account of biological interests claiming that to benefit an organism is to promote its etiological functioning and to harm it is to inhibit such functioning i argue that etiological functions do not yield a good account of biological interests i first explain the special role that etiological accounts of function have played within theories of biological interests with particular attention to recent work on synthetic biology i next describe the problems with allowing etiological accounts of function to play this role finally i consider the theoretical alternatives to etiological function accounts of interests and assess the advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives thursday september 27 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news colorado state university katie mcshane
august 31 2018 in memory of dr john j mcdermott texas a&m today published an article in tribute to the life and career of dr john j mcdermott distinguished professor of philosophy who passed away sunday sept 30th the article is titled philosophy professor john j mcdermott remembered as conscience of texas a&m top in his field and includes some of his most significant contributions to the […] texas a&m today published an article in tribute to the life and career of dr john j mcdermott distinguished professor of philosophy who passed away sunday sept 30th the article is titled philosophy professor john j mcdermott remembered as conscience of texas a&m top in his field and includes some of his most significant contributions to the field of philosophy and to the university as well as warm words from his friends and colleagues the philosophy department is sad to share the news of the death of dr john j mcdermott distinguished professor of philosophy and humanities at texas a&m university he will be much missed by our whole community here is a link to president michael youngs statement https://presidenttamuedu/messages/mourning-john-j-mcdermotthtml callaway-jones funeral home recently published an obituary for dr john j mcdermott: https://wwwcallawayjonescom/dr-john-mcdermott/ the obituary includes details of a public reception for his friends family and colleagues from 100-330pm saturday october 13th at the mcdermott library (701 s dexter drive) and of a memorial fund that has been established in his name more will be posted here soon faculty news in memory john j mcdermott tribute
may 1 2018 colloquium: dennis schmidt western sydney university | ymca building room 401 biography dennis schmidt is research professor of philosophy and head of the philosophy department at western sydney university he specializes in post-kantian european philosophy and ancient philosophy and is a leading scholar in the areas of hermeneutics aesthetics and literary criticism he is the author of several books including between word and image: heidegger gadamer and klee (indiana university press 2013) idiome der wahrheit (klostermann verlag 2012) lyrical and ethical subjects (suny press 2005) and on germans and other greeks (indiana university press 2001) thank goodness for the atmosphere: the starry sky and the moral law abstract the beginnings of philosophy were intimately connected with an interest in the stars from thales and pythagoras through plato and aristotle the stars were sources of fascination and inspiration both idea and image eventually it is a star that becomes the very image of the good for plato one of the highpoints of this fascination with the stars comes in kants celebrated remark that two things fill the mind with wonder: the starry sky above and the moral law within in that remark kant echoes in his own way a sort of kinship of the image of the starry sky and the moral law this philosophical affectation for the stars seems to have disappeared today curiously this happens precisely at a moment in history when our capacity to see the starry sky has extended beyond anything even imagined before the purpose of this paper is to look briefly at the import of the early concern with the stars in philosophy and then to ask what it might mean if we were to once again take thinking about the stars seriously today tuesday may 1st • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news dennis schmidt western sydney university
april 10 2018 colloquium: sven ove hansson royal institute of technology stockholm biography sven ove hansson is a professor of philosophy at the department of philosophy and history royal institute of technology stockholm he is editor-in-chief of theoria and the book series outstanding contributions to logic (studia logica library) and philosophy technology and society he is also member of the editorial boards of synthese techné studia logica and the journal of philosophical logic a member of the scientific editorial board of philosophy & technology area editor of the book series logic argumentation & reasoning and a member of the editorial board of oxford studies in political philosophy pseudoscience science denial fact resistance and alternative facts: how are they related abstract science is a fact-finding practice but there are many other fact-finding practices that apply largely the same patterns of reasoning in order to achieve as reliable information as possible in empirical issues the fact-finding practices form in their turn a subcategory of rational discourse a wider category that also encompasses argumentation on non-empirical issues based on these categories it is easy to see the relationship between on the one hand pseudoscience on the other hand fact resistance disinformation and fallacies of reasoning the flaws in argumentation are similar and the main difference is whether or not the subject matter falls within or without the realm of science tuesday april 10th • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news royal institute of technology stockholm sven ove hansson