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Colloquia and Public Events, 2010-2011

• September 30, 2010
  Distinguished Alumna Lecture
  "Inference Blindness"
  Debbie Hutchins(Philosophy, Gonzaga University)
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host:tba
  

• October 14, 2010
  Graduate Colloquia Series
  "Including Growth and Process in Explanations of Evolutionary Change"
  Charles Carlson
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host:Linda Radzik

• October 21, 2010
  Inaugural Lecture
  "Is Something Wrong with my Bulldog?: Breeding, Ethics, and Harm to Animals"
  Clare Palmer (Philosophy, Texas A&M University)
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host:Linda Radzik

• October 28, 2010
  "The Culture of Fear"
  Pascal Bruckner
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host:Ted George

• November 11, 2010
  Author Meets Readers
  From Bondage to Freedom: Spinoza on Human Excellence, Oxford University Press: 2010
  Michael LeBuffe (Philosophy, Texas A&M University)
  Reader(s):Yitzhak Melamed and Robin Smith (Philosophy, Texas A&M University)
  3:45pm, tba
  Host:Kristi Sweet

• November 12-14, 2010
  South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy Bolton Hall, Room 213
  Contact: Michael LeBuffe

• November 18, 2010
  Graduate Colloquia Series
  "Mental Agency and Attributional (or 'Real Self') Accounts of Moral Responsibility"
  Margaret Schmitt
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host:Linda Radzik

• December 2, 2010
  "Resemblance Nominalism and Truthmakers for Negative Truths"
  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Philosophy, Oriel College - University of Oxford)
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host:Robert Garcia

• January 31, 2011
  Glasscock Notable Lecture, Sponsored by the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
  "The Gap between Productivity and Sustenance: Making the Ethics Case for Agricultural Research"
  Paul Thompson (Philosophy & Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
  4:00pm, Stephen W. Hawking Auditorium, Mitchell Physics Building
  Contact: Clare Palmer

• February 3, 2011
  And God Created Woman: Judaism, 'Otherness', and Sexual Difference
  4:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Glasscock 311
  The reading for this event may be found here: http://wgst.tamu.edu/
  Host: Claire Katz

• February 4, 2011
  Solitude is Not Freedom: Levinas, Liberalism and Social Death
  Lisa Guenther, (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University)
  4:00PM - 5:30PM in Bolton 213
  Host: Claire Katz

• February 4-5, 2011
  Levinas Research Seminar
  Bolton 213
  Contact: Claire Katz

• February 10, 2011
  Graduate Colloquia Series
  "Aristotle's Moral Absolutes: A Preliminary Look"
  Victor Saenz
  3:45PM in Bolton 213
  Host: Linda Radzik

• February 18, 2011
  Co-Sponsored with the Africana Studies program and the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
  Booker T. Washington and the Horrible Gift of Freedom
  Bill Lawson (University of Memphis, Philosophy)
  3:30PM in Evans Library, room 204E
  Host: Tommy Curry

• February 24-26, 2011
  Society for Social and Political Philosophy Roundtable
  Contact: Daniel Conway

• March 3, 2011
  "The Common Sense Problem of Evil, and An Uncommon Theodicy"
  Trent G. Dougherty (Philosophy, Baylor University)
  3:45PM in Bolton 213
  Host: Chris Menzel

• March 10, 2011
  Joshua Wood (Philosophy, Texas A&M University)
  "Hume and the Phenomenology of Agency"
  3:45PM in Bolton 213
  Host: Michael LeBuffe

• March 24, 2011
  Inaugural Lecture
  José Bermúdez (Philosophy, Texas A&M University)
  "Decision theory: Psychology and norms"
  3:45PM in Bolton 213
  Host:Theodore George

• April 14, 2011
  "Trust, hope, forgiveness: Kierkegaard and the problem of self-love"
  John Lippitt (Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire)
  3:45pm in Bolton 213
  Host: Daniel Conway

• April 21, 2011
  Graduate Colloquia Series
  "From Individuality to Universality: the Role of Aesthetic Education in Kant"
  Anton Kabeshkin
  3:45PM in Bolton 213
  Host: Linda Radzik

• April 28, 2011
  Davenport Lecture and Student Awards Ceremony
  "Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom: Seeking Common Ethical Ground in a Pluralist World of Conflicting Beliefs"
  Robert Kane (Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin)
  3:30PM, Rudder 301
  Host: Daniel Conway

• May 1-3, 2011
  North American Levinas Society
  For more information, please see the conference webpage or contact Claire Katz