The New Materialisms

The New Materialisms: Emergence or Panpsychism?
March 25, 2017
1:00 - 5:00
Bartley Hall, Room 1011
Villanova University
Open to the Public - Reception to follow

Speakers:
Jane Bennett (Political Science, Johns Hopkins University) "Life, Intensities, and Outside Influence" Evan Thompson (Philosophy, University of British Columbia) "The Nature of Nature" Commentator:
Georg Theiner (Philosophy, Villanova University For more information contact John Carvalho (Philosophy, Villanova University): john.carvalho@villanova.edu

Philosophy on Film 2017

Philosophy on Film Series 2017
Alan Resnais: The Weight of Time
Sponsored by the GPPC and the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.
Three consecutive Thursdays
7pm - 10pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
824 West Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Fee: $30.00 per person (for the whole series)
Registration opens on January 1, 2017.
Register on the BMFI website: http://brynmawrfilm.org/education/

Thursday, March 23:
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Thursday, March 30:
My American Uncle (1980)

Thursday, April 6:
Wild Grass (2009)

Presenter:
Marc Moreau, Ph. D. (La Salle University)
Contact:
Marc Moreau: moreau@lasalle.edu

Annual Anscombe Lecture in Ethics

Art and Morality: on the Relationship Between Aesthetics and Ethics
Sir Roger Scruton April 5, 2017
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
392 Cohen Hall
University of Pennsylvania

For more information contact Elizabeth Feeney: elife@sas.upenn.edu

GPPC Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Presented by the GPPC, the Drexel University Department of English & Philosophy, and the Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences:

Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2017
Saturday, March 4, 2017
9:00am - 5:00pm
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
CALL FOR PAPERS: Undergraduates are invited to submit philosophical essays suitable for a fifteen to twenty minute presentation on any topic, to be followed by commentary and discussion. Papers must not exceed 2,500 words or 10 pages, double-spaced, and must be prepared for blind review. One submission per person.

The top eight submissions will be read by their authors at the conference and published in Fresh Philosophy, the undergraduate philosophy blog/journal of the GPPC. Reviewers will include Philosophy faculty and undergraduate Philosophy majors including the journal editors.

The deadline for submissions is Sunday, December 18, 2016.

Please send your submission by email attachment as an electronic file in .doc or .rtf format to Peter Amato at peterama@drexel.edu.

Notification of accepted papers will be sent by Saturday, February 4, 2017. Commentators will be needed to present brief remarks following each paper. If you are interested in being a commentator, whether or not you intend to submit a paper, let us know.

For further information write to peterama@drexel.edu or check the conference website at: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~pa34/gppcupc2017.pdf.

Author Meets Critics: Jill Stauffer, Ethical Loneliness

Author Meets Critics:
Jill Stauffer, Ethical Loneliness: the Injustice of Not Being Heard
 

February 25, 2017, 1pm – 5pm
Haverford College
Magill Library, Philips Wing

Speakers: Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr College)
Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University)
Yannik Thiem (Villanova University)
Krista Thomason (Swarthmore College) Contact: Jill Stauffer, jstauffe@haverford.edu

Penn Reasons & Foundations in Epistemology

Penn Reasons & Foundations in Epistemology
Friday & Saturday, November 11-12, 2016
Friday 3pm – 4:45pm
Saturday TBD
University of Pennsylvania
Claudia Cohen Hall 402
Speakers:
Julia Driver (Washington University, St Louis)
Ram Neta (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers University - keynote speaker)
Miriam Schoenfield (NYU / Texas) For more information contact Errol Lord: erlord@phil.upenn.edu

GPPC Public Issues Forum:Refugee Rights & State Responsibilities

The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium announces:

Public Issues Forum:
Refugee Rights & State Responsibilities
Friday, October 14, 2016
12:30pm - 4:00pm
The College of New Jersey
Education Building - Room 115
2000 Pennington Road
Ewing, NJ

Free and Open to the Public.
Speakers: Bill Frelick (Refugee Policy Director, Human Rights Watch)
Andy Lamey (University of California San Diego)
Hans Van de Weerd (Vice President, International Rescue Mission)
Moderator: Morton Winston (The College of New Jersey)
For more information please contact Morton Winston, mwinston@tcnj.edu.

2019-20 Discussion Groups

The GPPC sponsors the following discussion groups:

Asian and Comparative Philosophy Discussion Group
5:30 - 7:00 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month, 9/18, 10/16, 11/20
West Chester University
Anderson 306
Book Details:
Vrinda Dalmiya, Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahabharata
Contact:
Jea Sophia Oh, joh@wcupa.edu.
Critical Philosophies of Race Discussion Group
Contact:
Ronke Oke, roke@wcupa.edu.
History and Philosophy of Science Discussion Group
Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month to discuss a colleague’s work in progress or to discuss readings that are of particular interest to participants.

6:15pm - 7:45pm
Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
431 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Contact:
Noel Swanson, University of Delaware, nswanson@udel.edu or Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania, hatfield@sas.upenn.edu.

For more information visit History and Philosophy of Science.
Philosophy of Religion Discussion Group
Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Greaton Room
Barbelin-Lonergan Building, 116
Saint Joseph’s University

Dates:
9/11/19, 10/9, 11/13, 12/11

Book Details:
Fall 2019:
Robert Dobie, Thinking Through Revelation: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages
(Catholic University Press, 2019).

Contact:
John-Christopher Keller, jkeller@sju.edu
Philadelphia Philosophy of Psychiatry Working Group
Meets about once a month to discuss publications in philosophy of psychiatry and works in progress by group members.

Saturdays, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Dates: TBD
Location: TBD

Contact:
Ginger Hoffman, St. Joseph's University, ginger.hoffman@sju.edu.

Work in Progress in Epistemology
Meets about once a month to discuss works in progress in epistemology by group members.

Dates: TBD
Location: Swarthmore College, room TBD

Contact:
Peter Baumann, Swarthmore College, pbauman1@swarthmore.edu.

2016-17 Program

The GPPC is pleased to announce its 2016-17 program of events. All GPPC events are open to the public and, except where otherwise noted, free of charge.

Calendar of Events
Click on any of the following events for more information.

SEPTEMBER 2016
Language and the (Dis)organization of Mind - September 17, 2016
OCTOBER 2016
GPPC Public Issues Forum: Refugee Rights & State Responsibilities - October 14, 2016
NOVEMBER 2016
Penn Reasons and Foundations of Epistemology Conference - November 11-12, 2016
FEBRUARY 2017
Perceptual Learning and Expertise I - February 24-25, 2017 Author Meets Critics: Jill Stauffer, Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard - February 25, 2017
MARCH 2017
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference - March 4, 2017

The New Materialisms: Emergence or Panpsychism? - March 25, 2017

3rd Annual Penn-MAP Non-western Philosophy Conference: Global Feminisms - March 24-25, 2017
MARCH - APRIL 2017
Philosophy on Film Series 2017 - March 23 and 30, April 6, 2017
APRIL 2017
2nd Annual Philosophy and Engagement Conference - April 7-9, 2017
MAY 2017
Bryn Mawr and Penn - Perceptual Learning and Expertise II - May 2017
Please also note our ongoing Philosophy Discussion Groups:

Philosophy Discussion Groups Asian and Comparative Philosophy Discussion Group - West Chester University
History & Philosophy of Science Reading Group - Consortium for the History of Science
Philosophy of Religi­on Reading Group - Saint Joseph's University
Philadelphia Philosophy of Psychiatry Working Group - Location TBD
More information on these is available under Discussion Groups and in periodic updates on the home page.

Lloyd Gerson on Platonism v. Naturalism

Lloyd Gerson on Platonism v. Naturalism
April 22-23, 2016
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Friday, April 22
3pm - 5pm "'Socrates' 'Autobiography' in Plato's Phaedo: An Epitome of Platonism"
Lecture by Lloyd Gerson (University of Toronto)
Temple University - Main Campus
Anderson Hall 821
Women's Studies Lounge Directions:
by train: Take SEPTA Regional Rail to Temple University Station. Walk west on Berks St. to Anderson Hall. Take elevatore to Women's Study Lounge on 8th floor.
by car: There is parking at the Montgomery Ave Parking Garage next to Anderson Hall.

A map of the main campus: https://temple.edu/maps-and-directions Anderson Hall is Building #2 at the corner of 11th and Berks Sts.

Saturday, April 23
3pm - 5:45pm Discussion of Lloyd Gerson's paper "Platonism v. Naturalism"
comments by Danielle MacBeth, followed by open discussion
Seminar on Platonism v. Naturalism
Temple University - Center City Campus
1515 Market Street
Room 421 Directions:
by train: Take SEPTA subway to City Hall Station or regional rail to Suburban Station, where Temple University's Cener City building is located.
by car: There are two parking lots nearby: Laz Parking (1500 Market St., entrance on 16th near Ranstead St.) and Parkway (1700 Market St.).

The Saturday event is a read ahead event. The paper is available for download: Platonism Versus Naturalism (PDF).

Note that attendance at the Saturday event does not presupppose attendance at the Friday event.

Events are free and open to the public

For more information please contact David Wolfsdorf, dwolfsdo@temple.edu.

The Ethics of Bodily Commodification

The Ethics of Bodily Commodification
Saturday, April 2, 2016
The College of New Jersey
Ewing, NJ

Keynote Speakers: Mark J. Cherry (St Edwards University)
Samuel Kerstein (University of Maryland)
Download FULL PROGRAM (Word doc file).

For more information please contact James Stacey Taylor, jtaylor@tcnj.edu.

Blessed Are the Tolerant: Religion, Pluralism, & Virtue

Blessed Are the Tolerant:
Religion, Pluralism, and Virtue
Saturday, March 19, 2016
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Dunleavy Room, Union Building
La Salle University
1900 W. Olney Avenue
Philadelphia, PA

Program:

"Tolerance Troubles: Virtue, Vice, or Craft?"
Speaker: John Bowlin (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Respondent: Matthew Puffer (Villanova University)

"Political Freedom as an Islamic Value"
David Decosimo (Boston University)
Respondent: Isra Yazicioglu (St Joseph's University)
A panel discussion with Q&A follows the two talks.

The La Salle Union is #48 on the campus map (PDF): http://www.lasalle.edu/campusmap/pdf/printer_friendly.pdf

La Salle University is accessible by public transit via the Broad Street Subway (Olney Transportation Center), the Wister Station on regional rail, and the 26 and 18 SEPTA bus routes. There is free parking available on the street and in lots G and J1.

Schedule:

1pm
Introductions

1:20pm - 2:20pm
"Tolerance Troubles: Virtue, Vice, or Craft?"
Speaker: John Bowlin (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Respondent: Matthew Puffer (Villanova University)

2:45pm - 3:45pm
"Political Freedom as an Islamic Value"
Speaker: David Decosimo (Boston University)
Respondent: Isra Yazicioglu (St Joseph's University)

4pm - 5pm
Panel discussion for Q&A

The symposium will be held in the Dunleavy Room, Union Building, 3rd Floor. There will be signage to direct visitors.

John R. Bowlin is the Robert L. Stuart Associate Professor of Philosophy and Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he works on Christian ethics, moral philosophy, social ethics, and the history of moral theology. He is the author of Contingency & Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics (Cambridge, 1999) and the forthcoming Tolerance among the Virtues (Princeton, 2016).

David Decosimo is assistant professor of theology at Boston University where he works on ethics, religion and politics, philosophy of religion, and Christianity and Islam. He is the author of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger award-winning Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue (Stanford, 2014) and the forthcoming Four Tasks of Christian Ethics.

Matthew Puffer is currently Catherine of Siena Fellow at Villanova University. He works on theological ethics with an interest in rival versions of the imago dei and human dignity and their implications for ethics. He will respond to Bowlin's talk on "Tolerance Troubles".

Isra Yazicioglu is associate professor of Islamic studies at St. Joseph’s University. She works on interpretation of scripture in the contemporary age, Islamic theology, and faith, reason and science. She will respond to Decosimo's talk on "Political Freedom as an Islamic Value".

For more information please contact S. Joel Garver, garver@lasalle.edu.