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The Boston-Area Philosophy Calendar, 2007–2008
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MARCH 2008
Saturday, March 1
Critical Theory in One-Dimensional Society
Community Forum
Claus Dierksmeier
"Quantitative versus Qualitative Freedom"
Wednesday, March 5
Boston
University Institute for Philosophy and Religion
Fundamental Concepts in Buddhist Thought
The Leroy Rouner Memorial Lecture
Janet Gyatso
"Medicine"
Thursday, March 6
Harvard
University
Philosophy
Department M&E Workshop
Aaron Zimmerman
"Introspective Knowledge: Thought v. Experience"
Friday, March 7
Tufts University
Philosophy Department
Lecture Series
Objectivity and Positivism in Science
Warren Goldfarb
"Logical Syntax and the Philosophy of Mathematics"
Monday, March 10
Boston College
Boston Colloquium in
Medieval Philosophy
Sarah Coakley
"In Persona Christi: Desire, Gender and the Eucharist"
Thursday, March 13–Friday, March 14
Harvard
University
Department
of Government
Edmond J. Safra
Foundation Center for Ethics
Philosophy
Department
Colloquium with G. A. Cohen
Friday, March 14
Boston College
Bradley Lecture Series
Thomas Pangle
"A Guide to Xenophon's Symposium"
Monday, March 17
Boston
Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
"Einstein's Methodology and Unification Program"
Tuesday, March 18
Harvard
University
Philosophy
Department Colloquium Series
Verity Harte
TBA
Wednesday, March 19
Boston
University
Institute for
Philosophy and Religion
Fundamental Concepts in Buddhist Thought
Dale Wright
"Wisdom"
Thursday, March 27
Boston College
Philosophy Department
Lecture Series
Marina McCoy
"Caring, Vulnerability and Community"
Thursday, March 27
Boston College
Boston
Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Harvey Yunis
"Dialectic and Purpose in Plato's Rhetoric"
Friday, March 28–Saturday, March 29
Boston College
Ninth
Annual Graduate Student Conference
"Violence and Non-Violence"
Friday, March 28
Tufts University
Philosophy Department
Lecture Series
Ethics, Law and Society
Faviola Rivera Castro
TBA
Monday, March 31
Boston
Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
"The Aristotelian Foundations of Today's Biology"
APRIL 2008
Thursday, April 3
Boston College
[no web link available]
The LaBreque Lecture in Medical Ethics
Maureen Condic
"Faith, Reason and the Nature of Human Embryos"
Thursday, April 3
Brandeis
University
Philosophy
Department Colloquium Series
Richard Moran
TBA
Thursday, April 3
Harvard
University
Department
of Government
Political Theory
Colloquium
Leora Batnitzky
TBA
Friday, April 4
Tufts University
Philosophy Department
Lecture Series
Objectivity and Positivism in Science
Michael Weisberg
TBA
Wednesday, April 9–Friday, April 11
Harvard
University
Tanner
Lectures on Human Values
Tony Kushner
TBA
Wednesday, April 9
Boston
University
Institute for
Philosophy and Religion
The Future of Philosophy of Religion
John Caputo
"Events: Prospects for a Postmodern Theology to Come"
Thursday, April 10
Harvard
University
Department
of Government
Political Theory
Colloquium
Elizabeth Beaumont
TBA
Friday, April 11–Sunday, April 13
Boston
University
Institute for
Philosophy and Religion
The Future of Philosophy of Religion
Symposium for Younger Scholars
Monday, April 14
Boston
Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
"Are there Natural Kinds?"
Thursday, April 24
Harvard
University
Philosophy
Department Colloquium Series
Ram Neta
TBA
Friday, April 25
Boston
Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
"A Function for Fictions in Science"
Friday, April 28
Boston College
Philosophy
Department Lecture Series
John Brough
"Consciousness is Not a Bag: Immanence, Transcendence, and Constitution
in Husserl's Idea of Phenomenology"
MAY 2008
May
1–2
Harvard
University
Philosophy
Department Whitehead Lectures
Susan Wolf
TBA
Links
to web sites with schedules of events
Boston
Area
Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Boston-Area
Philosophy Mailing List
Boston College
Philosophy Department
Boston
College Institute for the Study of Politics and Religion
(Bradley Lecture Series)
Boston
Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
Boston
University Institute for
Philosophy and Religion
Boston
University
Philosophy Department
Brandeis
University Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
(Philosophy of Education Research Colloquia)
Brandeis
University Philosophy
Department
Clark
University Philosophy Department (Note: listings at present are
for events in 2006)
Harvard
University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Harvard
University Department of Government (Political Theory
Colloquium)
Harvard
University Philosophy
Department
M.I.T.
Philosophy
Department
Tufts
University Center for Cognitive Studies
Tufts
University Philosophy Department
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statements
contained in those sources.
This site is maintained by Miles Rind.
Please send corrections and addenda to me at rind@brandeis.edu.
Last modified March 1, 2007