2012-2013 Discussion Groups

The GPPC sponsors the following discussion groups:

Asian and African Philosophy Discussion Group
Meets Tuesday evenings, 5:00-8:30pm
Main Hall 132
West Chester University
700 South High Street, West Chester, PA 19383

Dates:
9/18, 10/2, 10/16, 10/30, 11/13, 11/27, 12/11

Book:
Rychetta Watkins, Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities (University Press of Mississippi, 2012

Contact:
Timothy J. Golder, tgolden@wcupa.edu or Frank J. Hoffman, fhoffman@wcupa.edu
Epistemology Discussion Group - Work in Progress
Check main page for meeting times.
Papazian, Room 325
Swarthmore College

Contact:
Peter Bauman, Department of Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081 pbauman1@swarthmore.edu.

Email for confirmation, more information and directions to the meeting place and information for subsequent discussion meetings.
Philosophy of Religion Discussion Group
Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7:30-9:30pm
Greaton Room - Barbelin-Lonergan Building, 116
Saint Joseph’s University

Dates:
9/12, 10/10, 11/14, 12/12

Free parking at 54th and City Avenue, Philadelphia.
Light refreshments provided, courtesy of the GPPC.

Book Details:
Zizek, Slavoj, and John Milbank, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox of Dialectic?, edited by Creston Davis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009)
Hardback 2009: $29.95
Paperback 2011: $13.95
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51620-4

Contacts:
David Carpenter, Saint Joseph’s University, dcarpent@sju.edu
For further info contact Joanne Devlin, jdevlin@sju.edu - 610.660.1564

2012-13 Program

Except where otherwise noted, all GPPC events are free and open to the public.

Interpreting Plato:
A Conference in Honor of Charles Kahn

Friday, October 5, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
Saturday, October 6, 2012, 10am - 7pm
University of Pennsylvania, 402 Cohen Hall
249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Speakers:
Susan Sauvé Meyer, University of Pennsylvania
Julia Annas, University of Arizona
Vassilis Karasmanis, National Technical University of Athens
David Wolfsdorf, Temple University
Christopher Bobonich, Stanford University
André Laks, Université Paris-Sorbonne/Universidad Panamerica, Mexico

Session Chairs:
Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
Verity Harte, Yale University
Daniel Muñoz-Hutchinson, St. Olaf's College
Alexander Mourelatos, University of Texas, Austin
Paul Woodruff, University of Texas, Austin
Alexander Nehemas, Princeton University
Richard Patterson, Emory University

Full program available at http://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/events/2012/interpreting-plato-conference-honor-charles-kahn

Coordinator: Susan Meyer, University of Pennsylvania

For further information and to register contact smeyer@phil.upenn.edu

This event is sponsored by the GPPC and the Department of Philosophy, Department of Classical Studies, Center for Ancient Studies, The School of Arts and Sciences, and the University Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania

Public Issues Forum: Morality in the Marketplace

Saturday, March 9, 2013, 1pm to 5pm.
Rosemont College, McShain Auditorium, Brown Science Building
1400 Montgomery Ave., Rosemont, PA 19010

Speakers:
Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame
Joe DesJardins, St. John's University
Daryl Koehn, University of St. Thomas

Chair: Frank J. Hoffman, West Chester University, Chair, GPPC Board of Directors

Coordinator: Alan Preti, Rosemont College, GPPC Board of Directors

For further information contact Alan Preti at apreti@rosemont.edu or 610.527.0200

This event is co-sponsored by the GPPC Board of Governors, the GPPC, and the Institute for Ethical Leadership and Social Responsibility at Rosemont College.

Philosophy on Film Series: Terrence Malick's World

Location: Bryn Mawr Film Institute
824 West Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

Dates, Films, and Speakers:

Thursday, March 21, 2013, 7pm - 10pm.
Badlands (1973)
Presenter: Jeremy Millington, Philosophy Department, Temple University

Thursday, March 28, 2013, 7pm - 10pm.
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Presenter: Joe Volpe, PhD, Philosophy Department, La Salle University

Thursday, April 4, 2013, 7pm - 10pm.
The Tree of Life, part 1 (2011)
Presenter: John Hymers, PhD, Philosophy Department, La Salle University

Thursday, April 11, 2013, 7pm - 10pm.
The Tree of Life, part 2 (2011)
Presenter: John Hymers, PhD, Philosophy Department, La Salle University

Fee: $40.00 per person (for the whole series).

Registration opens March 1, 2012 on Bryn Mawr Film Institute’s website: http://brynmawrfilm.org/education/

This event is sponsored by the GPPC and the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.

Community Lecture: The Limits of Forgiveness

Thursday, February 7, 2013, 7pm to 8:30pm.
Cherry Hill High School East
1750 Kresson Road, Cherry Hill, NJ

Speaker:
Morton Winston, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Religion and Classical Studies, The College of New Jersey

Chair: Frank J. Hoffman, West Chester University, Chair, GPPC Board of Directors

This event is co-sponsored by the GPPC Board of Governors and the GPPC.

Graduate Conference on Political Theory:
The Correspondence & Independence of Moral Philosophy & Political Philosophy

Friday, November 9, 2012, 5pm to 6:30pm - Keynote speaker followed by brief reception.
Saturday, November 10, 2012, 9am-6pm.
University of Pennsylvania, 402 Cohen Hall
249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Keynote Speaker:
T.M. Scanlon, Harvard University

A detailed schedule of speakers will be posted closer to the event.

For more information contact Chris Melenovsky at 610.830.7311 or cmeleno@sas.upenn.edu

This event is sponsored by the GPPC and University of Pennsylvania.

Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
50 Years On...

2012 marks the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn's landmark work
in the history, sociology, and philosophy of science.

Saturday, December 1, 2012
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey

Keynote Speaker:
Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

Coordinators: Pierre Le Morvan and Rick Kamber, TCNJ

For more information contact Pierre Le Morvan at kuhnconf@tcnj.edu or see http://www.tcnj.edu/~lemorvan/KuhnConference.htm

This event is co-sponsored by the GPPC and The College of New Jersey's Department of Philosophy
Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
50 Years On...

2012 marks the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn's landmark work
in the history, sociology, and philosophy of science.

Saturday, December 1, 2012
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey

Keynote Speaker:
Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

Coordinators: Pierre Le Morvan and Rick Kamber, TCNJ

For more information contact Pierre Le Morvan at kuhnconf@tcnj.edu or see http://www.tcnj.edu/~lemorvan/KuhnConference.htm

This event is co-sponsored by the GPPC and The College of New Jersey's Department of Philosophy
Thinking about Knowledge:
Epistemology 50 Years after Gettier's Paper

Saturday, April 13, 2013, 10am - 5pm
Swarthmore College, Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Building
500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081

Speakers:
Fred Dretske, Duke University
Alvin Goldman, Rutgers University
John Greco, Saint Louis University

Chair and Coordinator: Peter Baumann, Swarthmore College

For more information contact Peter Baumann at 610.328.8433 or pbauman1@swarthmore.edu

This event is co-sponsored by the GPPC Board of Directors, the GPPC, and the Mellon Foundation.

Philosophy on Film Series: Estrangements

The GPPC, in conjunction with the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, presents:

2012 Philosophy on Film Series: Estrangements
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
824 West Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Dates, Films, and Speakers:
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 7pm - 10pm.
Michael Tolkin’s The Rapture (1991)
Presenter: John Carvalho, Chair, Philosophy Department, Villanova University

Thursday, April 5, 2012, 7pm - 10pm.
Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Presenter: Richard Kamber, Department of Philosophy, Religion & Classical Studies, College of New Jersey

Thursday, April 12, 2012, 7pm - 10pm.
George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Presenter: S. Joel Garver, Philosophy Department, La Salle University
Fee: $30.00 per person (for the whole series).

Registration opens March 1, 2012 on Bryn Mawr Film Institute’s website: http://brynmawrfilm.org/education/

For further information contact Marc Moreau, Chair, Philosophy Department,
La Salle University, moreau@lasalle.edu

Aristotle and the Philosophy of Action

The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium presents:


Aristotle and the Philosophy of Action
Saturday, 24 March 2012
Haub Center, 5th Floor
McShain Hall
Saint Joseph’s University
5600 City Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19131
Schedule

1:00pm
“Aristotle on Action and Teleology”
Ursula Coope (Oxford University)
Commentator: Fred Adams (University of Delaware)
3:00pm
“Teleology and Free Will”
Scott Sehon (Bowdoin College)
Commentator: Matthew Walker (Rutgers University)
For more information, contact Andrew Payne: apayne@sju.edu

Sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium and the Saint Joseph’s University Philosophy Department

"The Will to Nothingness" at Haverford

The Haverford College Department of Philosophy presents:

“The Will to Nothingness”
Bernard Reginster
Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
Friday, 23 March 2012
2:00pm - Gest 101
Bernard Reginster’s book on Nietzsche, The Affirmation of Life, was published in 2006 by Harvard University Press.

It draws on Nietzsche’s unpublished writings to offer a systematic interpretation of the problem of nihilism with its attendant moral disorientation and despair. Reading Nietzsche against Schopenhauer, Reginster examines the way Nietzsche understands the will to power and the thought of the eternal return of the same to lead to an overcoming of nihilism and to an affirmation of life.

The talk “The Will to Nothingness” will focus on the genealogy of morality and especially on Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment.

Mini-Conference on Intentional Agency, Freewill & Neuroscience

University of Delaware Departments of Linguistics & Cognitive Science and Philosophy announce:


Mini-Conference on Intentional Agency, Freewill & Neuroscience

Saturday, 17 March 2012
9:00am - 2:30pm
Room 005 Kirkbride
University of Delaware - Main Campus
Newark, Delaware

Co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Association and UD Class of 1955 Ethics Endowment.

Free and open to the public.

9:00am - 10:30am
Michael Bratman (Stanford University) - "Intention and Rationality"

10:30am - 12:00noon
Alfred Mele (Florida State University) - "Free Will and Neuroscience"

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University) - "A Contrastivist Account of Freedom"

For more information contact: Fred Adams (fa@udel.edu) or Fred Schueler (schueler@udel.edu).

Truth & Argument in Traditional Chinese Philosophy

The GPPC presents:



“Truth and Argument in Traditional Chinese Philosophy”
Bryan W. Van Norden
Vassar College
Professor, Philosophy Department and
Professor, Chinese and Japanese Department

Wednesday, 7 March 2012
1:00pm
West Chester University
Philips Autograph Librar

Sponsored by the Asian and Comparative Philosophy Discussion Group of the GPPC and the West Chester University Philosophy Department.

Directions to WCU: http://www.wcupa.edu/_visitors/

Papers Selected for the Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium announces:

Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Winning Papers to be Presented

Saturday, March 3, 2012
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Holroyd Hall 190
La Salle University
Philadelphia, PA

Jason Kane
The College of New Jersey - New Jersey
“Folk Understandings of the Relationship between Blame and Responsibility”

Omar Quinonez
University of Colorado Denver - Colorado
“Father Why Have You Forsaken Us?”

Ryan Lambert
Rollins College - Florida
“Brutality and Mirror Neurons”


Schedule:

1pm - 2pm: Essay Winners Presentations

2pm - 2:15pm: Break and Refreshments

2:15pm - 3pm: A Conversation on Moral Relativism:
Morgan Wallhagen Ph.D., (Bryn Mawr College)
S. Joel Garver Ph.D. (La Salle University)
3pm - 3:15pm: Second Break.

3:15pm - 4:30pm: Philosophy Slam
Topic: "Morality, What Is It Good For?"

Epistemology Working Group

A group for the discussion of work in progress in epistemology will meet to discuss a paper by Jerry Vision (Temple University), "Much Ado About Nothing".

The meeting will take place at:Swarthmore College, Papazian Building 325
Monday, February 27, 5pmPlease RSVP to Peter Baumann via email: pbauman1@swarthmore.edu.

This time we will not have the paper to distribute in advance.

If you have a paper you´d like to discuss in the group, please let Professor Baumann know.

The purpose of this group is to provide space to informally discuss work in progress among philosophers in the Greater Philadelphia area (including guests) who are interested in epistemology in a broad sense (including, for example, Philosophy of Science). The group meets approximately 3 times per semester.

Driving directions to Swarthmore College: http://www.swarthmore.edu/visitordash/visitors_content_directions.php

The GPPC Community Lecture Series

The GPPC invites you to a Community Lecture:

"Why does Literature Matter?"
Cherry Hill High School East
Thursday, February 9th, 2012 – 7pm to 8:30pm
Speakers:
Richard Kamber, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
The College of New Jersey
"Storytelling as Communication and Art"

Richard Eldridge, PhD
Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy
Swarthmore College
"Learning from Lyric Poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin & Ingeborg Bachmann"

Moderator:
Frank Hoffman, PhD
Associate Professor of Philosophy, West Chester University
Chair, Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium

Discussion Panelists:
Steven Ravitz, Chairman of the Board, Ravitz Family Foundation
Joe Truitt, Independent Scholar, Teacher of Literature and Film
Vinnie Tagliaferro, General Manager, Melitta Coffee, Cherry Hill

Attendance is free of charge

To pre-register for this event (optional):
E-mail steve.esser@permitcap.com and include your name and "GPPC Cherry Hill"