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november 14 2019 colloquium: ross cameron university of virginia biography: ross cameron is professor of philosophy at the university of virginia his main interests are in logic and metaphysics his recent book ‘the moving spotlight argues that the passage of time is a genuine feature of reality other claims he has been known to argue for include: reality is both indeterminate and sometimes lacks a fact of the matter and this is not the same thing; there is nothing but atoms in the void but this is just a contingent fact about our world; there are no such things as musical works; possibility is just something we made up like fashion; the future is open but we can know whats going to happen; fundamentally there is only one thing; and probably most controversially you can quantify into predicate position his mom still wonders if hes going to get a real job he is currently working on a book on infinite regress and circularity and dependence and explanation and things like that metaphysical explanation for ontological infinitists: can there be an infinite regress of ontological dependence where each thing in the chain is dependent on a further thing in the chain and so on without end many have thought not jonathan schaffer says that in such a situation being would be infinitely deferred never achieved others have argued that infinite regresses of dependence are perfectly possible: for every thing there is an explanation as to its existence – its just that each explanation raises a new question: where does the next thing come from i begin by bolstering the anti-infinitist argument there is something explanatorily amiss when you have an infinite regress of dependence however i come to praise regress not to bury it infinite regresses of dependence are possible but we must sever the link between dependence and explanation – which i will argue we have independent reason to do in any case thursday november 14 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news ross cameron university of virginia
october 29 2019 colloquium: anne-marie schultz baylor university biography: anne-marie schultz is a professor of philosophy at baylor university she also serves as director of the baylor interdisciplinary core she graduated from trinity university in san antonio and did her doctoral work at the pennsylvania state university she is the author of platos socrates as narrator: a philosophical muse (lexington 2013) she has just finished second book on platos use of narrative socrates on socrates: self-discourse as public philosophy she is getting started on the third installment of the trilogy: telling tales of socrates: creating philosophers of the future she also writes on augustine nietzsche and the scholarship of teaching and learning in her not so abundant free time she enjoys spending time with her husband jeff her exuberant golden retriever milo and her rambunctious rhodesian ridgeback dante socratic self-disclosure in platos symposium: in platos socrates on socrates: socratic self-disclosure and the public practice of philosophy (forthcoming lexington press) i turn to an overlooked dimension of the platonic dialogues to help us engage with the pressing social and political problems i explore platos presentation of socrates as a philosopher who tells personal narratives about his educational experience in a variety of public contexts i hope that an increased awareness of and appreciation for this socratic practice of self-disclosure will encourage more academic philosophers to engage in the public sphere more actively and contribute to the conversation about what it means to be an engaged citizen of the world today i also hope that recognizing the pedagogical and political importance of self-disclosive speech will encourage everyday citizens to tell their own stories and listen to the stories of others this talk is an excerpt from the book that explores socratic self-disclosive speech in platos symposium tuesday october 29 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news anne-marie schultz baylor university
october 11 2019 colloquium: stephen white university of texas biography stephen white is professor of classics and philosophy at the university of texas at austin where he has taught in the joint graduate program in ancient philosophy since 1988 his research centers on aristotle especially ethics and moral psychology but ranges widely across classical philosophy and literature from early greek science and astronomy to stoic models of mind and action he has just finished a translation of diogenes laertius lives of eminent philosophers (for cup) and current projects include work on several of aristotles associates and on parmenides knowledge and necessity in parmenides abstract parmenides is one of philosophys foundational figures and also the first on record to recognize some key facts of astronomy yet on what remains a pervasive assessment of his writings he advanced a bizarre form of entity monism: there is exactly one being ungenerated imperishable and wholly immobile undifferentiated and unchanging so that everything else we imagine there to be is in some way or other only apparent or illusory what gives building on recent work by john palmer and michael wedin among others i propose a fundamental reassessment of parmenides project that shifts its focus from ontology to epistemology and from monism to modality the key to his argument is a revolutionary conception of knowledge which he first defines by universality then deploys to articulate a complex notion of necessity the upshot is an epistemic ideal that has for its content or objects only what is only and entirely so which he also characterizes as necessary truth thursday october 11 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news stephen white university of texas
october 10 2019 colloquium: jose jorge mendoza university of massachusetts lowell biography: josé jorge mendoza is an assistant professor of philosophy and co-coordinator of the race and ethnic studies minor at the university of massachusetts lowell he is also the co-editor of radical philosophy review his primary areas of research are in moral and political philosophy philosophy of race and latin american philosophy he is the author of the book the moral and political philosophy of immigration: liberty security and equality which is focused primarily on making a philosophical case for immigrant rights and arguing against unjust forms of immigration enforcement go back to where you came from!: racism xenophobia and why it matters: due to the fact that immigrants have been the primary targets of the recent upsurge in white supremacy many have argued that this anti-immigrant hostility ought to be called out as racism others however have argued that for the sake of conceptual clarity we ought to instead refer to it and condemn it as a form of xenophobia the reason for this is the fact that the primary targets of this hostility have not been traditional racial groups per se (eg blacks asians or native americans) but instead members of racially heterogeneous groups (eg latinx and muslim communities) in this essay i offer a third alternative i argue that while this hostility is better referred to as xenophobia rather than racism it nonetheless ought to merit the same sort of moral approbation since as i will show it is still a form of white supremacy thursday october 10 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news jose jorge mendoza university of massachusetts lowell
september 19 2019 colloquium: theodore george texas a&m university biography: dr theodore george is associate professor and head of the department of philosophy at texas a&m university his research and teaching focus on continental european philosophy since kant his areas of expertise include hermeneutics ethical philosophy hegel and classical german philosophy and the philosophy of art and aesthetics he is the author of two books the responsibility to understand: hermeneutical contours of ethical life (edinburgh university press under contract and approved by eup press and publishing committees; manuscript submitted) and tragedies of spirit: tracing finitude in hegels phenomenology (state university of new york press 2006) his current projects include co-ed with gert-jan van der heiden the gadamerian mind (routledge) and co-ed with charles bambach philosophers and their poets: reflections on the poetic turn since kant (state university of new york press forthcoming december 2019) he is also translator of günter figal objectivity: the hermeneutical and philosophy (state university of new york press 2010) and author of numerous articles and book chapters george holds an appointment as senior researcher college of fellows western sydney university and he is editor epoché: a journal for the history of philosophy as well as category editor philpapers hermeneutics and leaf hans-georg gadamer his research has been supported by the fulbright commission the goethe institute the german academic exchange service (daad) the freiburg institute for advanced studies at the university of freiburg germany as well as by the rothrock fellows program and the glasscock center for humanities research at texas a&m university hermeneutic displacement: few topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility current interest in such questions of responsibility draw on a broad range of approaches and methods from those customarily associated with analytic philosophy to those associated with phenomenology and existentialism deconstruction critical theory feminist theory race theory and post-colonial theory yet despite the expanse of current interest philosophers have not fully appreciated the contributions that can be made to questions of responsibility by contemporary hermeneutics the purpose of my presentation will be to examine one contour of responsibility at issue in the hermeneutical experience of understanding in this i shall argue that the responsibility to understand is not foremost a responsibility to reach agreement or achieve correct knowledge of something rather the responsibility to understand is a responsibility to cultivate and enact what i refer to as a capacity for displacement that is a capacity to put ones prejudicesand thus oneselfinto question to remain open to the new in the face of such self-interrogation and to come to understand things and oneself otherwise through it thursday september 19 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news texas a&m university theodore george
september 15 2019 colloquium: adebayo ogungbure texas a&m university biography: adebayo ogungbure is a phd candidate and a lechner scholar in the department of philosophy at texas a&m university his research interests include african africana/black philosophy critical race theory black male studies social epistemology colonialism empire and transatlantic migration and the intersections between philosophy and ethnic literatures his research on africana sci-fi unbounding the black imago: how the representation of blackness in superhero fiction propagates negative models of anti-racist practice was awarded the 2019 cushing-glasscock graduate humanities research award he was also a recipient of the 2019 distinguished graduate student award for excellence in teaching at texas a&m university his publications appear in american philosophical quarterly journal of black studies international journal of humanities inter-american journal of philosophy africology: the journal of pan african studies and the apa newsletter on philosophy and the black experience he currently serves as a graduate teaching fellow/consultant for the center for teaching excellence at texas a&m university black epistemology and the derelictical crisis of africana philosophy: from its inception in the early 70s formalized discourse in africana philosophical scholarship in the united states has been plagued by a derelictical crisisa crisis of knowledge the first dimension of this crisis stems from the systems of knowledge generated within philosophical scholarship that does not primarily center the ideas and thought systems produced by black thinkers as the groundwork for representing blackness or cataloguing the black experience the second concerns the tendency to project negative epistemic ascriptions to black subjects in current scholarship in social epistemology this work engages with this problematic by imagining a new sub-disciplinary focus within africana philosophy namely black epistemology which offers a positive view of blackness in relation to the discourse on knowledge the black epistemological perspective discussed in this work explores the connections between ascriptions of agency and epistemic power in relation to how the knowing subject is characterized as the ground for shaping reality truth and the world as we know it thursday september 5• 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news adebayo ogungbure texas a&m university
september 12 2019 colloquium: christopher shields notre dame university biography: christopher shields is george n shuster professor of philosophy at the university of notre dame he is an honorary research fellow of lady margaret hall university of oxford where before moving to notre dame he was professor of classical philosophy and chair of the philosophy faculty board previously he has taught at the university of colorado at boulder he has held the tang chun-i visiting professorship at the chinese university of hong kong the collins visiting professor at the university of st louis and a senior fellowship at topoi the humboldt university of berlin he has held visiting professorships at cornell university stanford university yale university and the university of arizona he is the author of order in multiplicity: homonymy in the philosophy of aristotle (oxford university press: 1999) classical philosophy: a contemporary introduction (routledge: 2003) aristotle (routledge: 2007) ancient philosophy: a contemporary introduction (routledge: 2011) with robert pasnau the philosophy of thomas aquinas (westview: 2003; 2nd rev ed oxford university press: 2015) and aristotles de anima translated with introduction and commentary (oxford university press: 2016) he is the editor of the blackwell guide to ancient philosophy (blackwell: 2002) and the oxford handbook of aristotle (oxford university press: 2012) harmonies and hylomorphisms: before advancing his own hylomorphic account of soul-body relations aristotle rather dutifully canvasses the theories proffered by his predecessors considering in the first book of his de anima the materialist views of various presocratic philosophers most of which he decries as in one way or another explanatorily inadequate and the view of plato which he regards as somehow baroque along the way he reflects also on the view that the soul is a harmony or attunement of the bodysomething which is in some sense non-identical with the body but also not completely separate from it perhaps something emergent from the elements of the body and their relations this view too he rejects his doing so is however curious: of all the views he considers the harmony theory comes closest to his own hylomorphism indeed from at least one perspective one might think that it is his own hylomorphism or at least entailed by it the question thus lies near: what is the difference between hylomorphism and the harmony theory such that the criticisms undercutting the harmony theory do not at the same time scathe hylomorphism thursday september 12 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news christopher shields notre dame university
august 17 2019 colloquium: paul c taylor vanderbilt university biography paul c taylor is w alton jones professor of philosophy at vanderbilt university he received a bachelors degree in philosophy from morehouse college a masters degree in public administration from harvard university and a phd in philosophy from rutgers university his research focuses primarily on aesthetics social and political philosophy critical race theory and africana philosophy his books include on obama and black is beautiful: a philosophy of black aesthetics which received the 2017 monograph prize from the american society for aesthetics he has also provided commentary for a variety of print and broadcast outlets including xinhua news the cbc the philadelphia inquirer and the bbc innocence and devastation: race theory prophecy and practice as scholars increasingly turn to james baldwin to diagnose the maladies of racial politics and as theories of epistemic injustice grow increasingly sophisticated it is tempting – and eminently reasonable – to use notions like innocence to track certain dubious and distressing features of contemporary ethical life innocence and devastation begins with the thought that racial innocence is a problem and will explore some aspects of this problem but i will also argue for the importance of cultivating a more productive kind of innocence in relation to contemporary philosophical race theory this productive innocence is a response to what lewis gordon calls disciplinary decadence and to what elena ruiz calls epistemic imperialism and one route to it runs through the aesthetic theories of mary mothersill thursday november 21 2020 – 3:45 pm – ymca 401 colloquium events james baldwin vanderbilt university
april 18 2019 colloquium: bob burch texas a&m university biography: robert burch is a member of the tamu philosophy department he has also taught at a number of other academic and non-academic institutions both in the united states and elsewhere including england and russia he has a wide range of interests and is a generalist in philosophy rather than a specialist in some particular philosophical topic abstract: cs peirce invented many devices of mathematical logic long before the philosopher(s) to whom these devices are standardly credited among these devices are the stroke-function and daggerfunction formulations of propositional logic the quantifier/predicate/variable formalism for quantified logic and the theory of lattices (dual groups) it is said that peirce invented a technical account of infinitely great magnitudes prior to richard dedekinds of 1888 and that peirce invented a technical account of infinitesimals prior to abraham robinsons non-standard analysis of 1964 the first claim will be shown to be correct and that peirces account of infinites of 1881 even entails dedekinds account of 1888 the second claim however to the effect that peirce anticipated non-standard analysis does not seem to be quite correct and peirces efforts around 1900 to offer an account of infinitesimals and of the linear continuum likely falls prey to cantors paradox or burali-fortis paradox depending on the audience for the talk the talk may concentrate on the early history of the continuum and infinitesimal analysis – in pythagoras eudoxos aristotle archimedes etc – and reserve most technical discussions of say generalized first-order theories ultrapowers etc for a future address thursday april 18 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news bob burch texas a&m university
april 12 2019 adebayo ogungbure awarded cushing-glasscock graduate humanities research award adebayo ogungbure one of our philosophy graduate students has been awarded a 2019 cushing-glasscock graduate humanities research award to support his research this summer on his project unbounding the black imago: how the representation of blackness in superhero fiction propagates negative models of anti-racist practice congratulations adebayo! adebayo ogungbure one of our philosophy graduate students has been awarded a 2019 cushing-glasscock graduate humanities research award to support his research this summer on his project unbounding the black imago: how the representation of blackness in superhero fiction propagates negative models of anti-racist practice congratulations adebayo! awards news adebayo ogungbure award
april 11 2019 colloquium: duane davis university of north carolina-ashville biography: duane h davis is professor of philosophy at the university of north carolina at asheville he was distinguished scholar in residence in curitiba brazil in 2011 and the ruth and leon feldman research scholar in 2013-14 he has published numerous articles in recent french thought is co-editor (with william hamrick) of merleau-ponty and the art of perception (suny press 2016) and is editor of merleau-pontys later works and their practical implications: the dehiscence of responsibility (humanity books 2001) he served as assistant director of the annual meeting of the international merleau-ponty circle in 1990 and director in 2001 and 2010 and co-directed (with ivan kolev) a conference marking the hundredth anniversary of merleau-pontys birth in sophia bulgaria in 2008 the art of revolutionary praxis: ghosting a history without shadows merleau-ponty in humanism and terror (1947) addresses the spectrum of problems related to revolutionary action it is generally regarded as an exposition on the problems of historicism and revisionism in the immediate post-war political context his essay eye and mind (1960) is best known as a contribution to aesthetics this work includes an appreciation for the unique value of abstract painting and a remarkable account of depth in lived space i propose that there exists a common structure in these apparently disparate works that involves a critique of objective scientific knowledge as well as a critique of subjective knowledge we must reject the illusion of subjective clairvoyance (the genius artist or the world-historical figure) as a standard of revolutionary praxis; but also we must reject any idealized light of reason that illuminates all that purports to make sense of everythingthat promises a history without shadows the revolutionary nature of an act must be established as such through praxis the creative praxes of the political revolutionary or the revolutionary artist are recognized ex post facto; yet each involves the creation of its own new aesthetic wherein the value of that praxis is to be understood spontaneously and all at once thursday april 11 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news duane davis university of north carolina-ashville
march 28 2019 colloquium: ray briggs stanford university biography: ra briggs is a professor of philosophy at stanford university they earned their phd from mit in 2009 and they currently work on formal epistemology the metaphysics of probability measurement theory and voting theory defining dependence (or: when to seek a second opinion) all other things being equal consensus lends more support to a view than a lone peer or expert opinion but when there is dependency among sources (eg when all your friends share opinions because they read the same newspaper) two opinions are not worth much more than one what does such dependence amount to existing characterizations are probabilistic or virtue-theoretic; i supplement them with a causal account that turns on relations of indirect causal dependence thursday march 28 • 3:45 pm • ymca 401 colloquium events news ray briggs stanford university
march 25 2019 faculty book subject of panel discussion at vancouver apa a book that gary varner co-authored with an ecologist and a philosopher of biology will be the subject of a two-hour authors-meet-critics session during the american philosophical association meeting in vancouver in april the journal biology & philosophy will later publish the critics comments and the authors replies events news recently published defending biodiversity panel discussion