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Meet Duke Philsophy Department’s new chairman, Alexander Rosenberg
On July 1, Alexander Rosenberg will replace Tad Schmaltz as Chair of the Department. At that time Andrew Janiak will replace Rosenberg as Director of Undergraduate Studies. Karen Neander will remain Director of Graduate Studies.
Conference in honor of Professor David Sanford
March 28th, 2009
Conference website:
http://web.duke.edu/philosophy/bio/Sanford.html
Colloquia
Professor Patrick Forber
Tufts University
Topic: “Confirmation and the Signatures of Selection”
Date: September 11th, 2009, 3:30pm
Venue: 202 West Duke
43rd Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy
Topics: Website
Date: October 16th – 18th, 2009
Venue: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor Amie Thomasson
University of Miami
Topic: “Modal Normativism and the Methods of Metaphysics”
Date: October 23rd, 2009, 3:30pm
Venue: 202 West Duke
Professor Lisa Shabel
Ohio State University
Topic: “Symbols, Diagrams and Kant’s Theory of Sensibility”
Date: October 30th, 2009, 3:30pm
Venue: 202 West Duke
Professor Marilyn Adams
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Topic: “Whose Thought? The Soul and the Subject of Action in Aquinas, Terreni, Wylton, and Ockham”
Date: November 6th, 2009, 3:30pm
Venue: 202 West Duke
Professor Edward P. Mahoney Conference (1932–2009)
Metaphysics and Psychology in Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Conference Website: http://web.duke.edu/philosophy/bio/Mahoney.html
Date: November 7th, 2009
Venue: 105 West Duke
Speakers:
Thérèse Druart (CUA): “Avicenna’s Influence on Duns Scotus’s Question 21 of his Quaestiones super secundum et tertium De anima”
John F. Wippel (CUA): “Siger of Brabant’s Final Thoughts on Intellection in his Quaestiones super Librum de causis”
Stephen Brown (Boston College): “The Eternity of the World at the End of the 14th Century (Peter of Candia)”
James Hankins (Harvard University): “Heavenly Bodies and Heavenly Souls: The Animation of the Heavens in Renaissance and Early Modern Thought”
Professor Thomas W. Polger
University of Cincinnati
Topic: “Moorean Supervenience”
Date: November 13th, 2009, 3:30pm
Venue: 202 West Duke