As part of the Duke University centennial celebrations, the Duke Philosophy Department is hosting a conference featuring alumni/ae and faculty. Events include a public lecture by Felipe De Brigard, “Memory and Forgiveness”, on Thursday October 3rd at 5:00 pm.
| 2:00 pm | Welcome | Katherine Brading |
| 2:15 pm – 3:00pm | A little department history | Wenjin Liu & Wayne Norman |
| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Color Vision and the Four-Color-Map Problem, Revisited | Thomas Polger University of Cincinnati |
| 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Public Lecture: Memory and Forgiveness | Felipe De Brigard |
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Nature Never Makes Leaps | David Builes Princeton |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Importing Biological Concepts into Bioethics: Three Problematic Cases (Death, Disease, Sex) | Rachell Powell Boston University |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | The Dual-Perspective Model of Resilience in the Zhuangzi | Songyao Ren University of Texas, Dallas |
| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Knowing Yourself, Knowing Your Vibe | Hagop Sarkissian The City University of New York, Baruch College |
| 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Du Châtelet on the epistemology and metaphysics of time | Katherine Brading |
| 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Moving Physics Forward: the Case of Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics (1740 & 1742) | Qui Lin Simon Fraser University |
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | The Autonomy of Economics | Jennifer Jhun |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Degrees of Criminal Responsibility | Eddy Nahmias Georgia State University |
All Duke Philosophy alumni/ae are warmly invited to attend the conference, and to help us celebrate a century of philosophy at Duke and a bright future ahead. For more information, contact Nancy Pfeiffer at nancy.pfeiffer@duke.edu.
Department of Philosophy