Visiting Speakers

March 2009

Stephen Mumford 
(University of Nottingham)

Public Lecture:
"The Lawless World" 
Friday, March 20th 
2:30-4:30 PM 
ARTS 146

Seminars:
"Against Causal Necessity"
Friday, March 20th 

"Modelling Causes As Vectors"
Saturday, March 21st

February 6, 2009

Marie-Eve Morin
(University of Alberta)

"Impossible Fences/Possible Defenses: Derrida on Community"
3:30 PM, Room 12, Edwards School of Business
This visit is jointly sponsored by the President’s Employment Equity Enhancement Fund, Office of the Dean of Arts & Science through the Role Model Speaker Fund and the Department of Philosophy

November 14, 2008

Marie-Eve Morin
(University of Alberta)

"Impossible Fences/Possible Defenses: Derrida on Community"
3:30 PM, Room 12, Edwards School of Business
This visit is jointly sponsored by the President’s Employment Equity Enhancement Fund, Office of the Dean of Arts & Science through the Role Model Speaker Fund and the Department of Philosophy

November 14, 2008

Adam Scarfe 
(Research Associate, USPPRU; California State University, Bakersfield) 

"James Mark Baldwin and Alfred North Whitehead on Organic Selection: 
The Neglected Side of 'Evolutionary Machinery'"

Co-sponsored with the University of Saskatchewan Process Philosophy Research Unit 
3:30 PM, STM 344A

October 22, 2008

Daniel Regnier
(St. Thomas More College, U of S)

"Being or Not Being: Plato on Imagination"
4:00 PM, STM Room 344B

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean, STM

October 3, 2008

Martin Drechsler 
(Kreuzlingen, Switzerland) 

"Why There Must Be Dualism - But Not a Cartesian One"  [abstract

A joint colloquium with the U of S Department of Mathematics and Statistics 
2:30 - 3:20 PM, ARTS 202 

Department Colloquia

All talks held Fridays at 3:30 PM in St. Thomas More College Room 344A, unless otherwise indicated.

Sep 12 Sarah Hoffman "Love: A Philosophical Conundrum"
Sep 26 Jeff Sabine "On the Possibility of Pan-World Time Travel"
Nov 7 Avi Akkerman
(Department of Geography)
"Mind and the Built Environment" 

Joint colloquium with the Department of Geography, held in STM 344B
Nov 21 Phil Dwyer "The Identity of the 'I' Entity"
Jan 9 Emer O'Hagan "On Self-Knowledge and Moral Stupidity"
Jan 23 Devin Ens "Are Emotions Subject to Moral Evaluation?"
Feb 27 Bryan Wiebe "Sleep Bad?"
Mar 13 Daniel Regnier "Aristotle on Imagination and Consciousness"
Apr 3 Will Robbins "Ricoeur's Narrative Identity and Science Fiction"