Events Archive: 2015 - 2016
Visiting Speakers
October 2-4, 2015 |
The Western Canadian Philosophical Association 52nd Annual Meeting Conference theme: Moving Images: Emotion, Art, and Value Keynote speaker: Eva Dadlez (University of Central Oklahoma) For more information: www.usask.ca/philosophy/WCPA |
March 18-19, 2016 |
The 2016 Walter Murray Lecture Kathryn Norlock "Real (and) Imaginal Relationships with the Dead" Friday, March 18, 3:30 - 5:00 PM Abstract: As a philosopher of forgiveness, I am often asked if we can forgive the dead. I always aver it is possible, because living individuals can have real, non-imaginary, valuable relationships with deceased loved ones. This is important to establish because arguments for such relationships better generate claims in applied ethics about our conduct with respect to our dead. The importance of one’s most dearly held relationships with living individuals is best explained in terms of imaginal content, as well. In other words, some interpersonal relationships between the living are personally important because of their imaginal content. Once we appreciate this, it is clearer why recognizably real, imaginally informed relationships with the living cannot possibly be cut off on the day someone dies. Death in itself is not an obstacle to the imaginal relationships we already have with living loved ones.
"Non-Ideal Ethical Theory" "Forgiving the Dead" |
Department Colloquia
Fridays, 3:30 - 5:00
All talks in Edwards School of Business (ESB) Room 12 unless otherwise noted
ESB is wheelchair accessible [Accessibility map, PDF]
| Sep. 18 | Peter Alward | "A New Intentionalist Theory of Interpretation" |
| Oct. 30 | Emer O'Hagan | "On the Development of Moral Virtue" [abstract] |
| Nov. 20 | Rob Hudson | "The Philosophic Basis to the Legal Notion of Indigenous Title" |
| Dec. 4 | Sarah Hoffman | "I put on my robe and wizard hat: Cybersex and the paradox of fiction" |
| Jan. 29 | Brian Zamulinski | "The Partiality Problem" [abstract] |
| Feb. 26 |
Panel Discussion: "Recreational Cannabis," with Sarah Hoffman (Philosophy),Sean Trembath (Saskatoon StarPhoenix), and Dan Malleck (Health Sciences, Brock University) |