Humanities Division Philosophy-Internal

Sharon Krause, Political Theory Workshop

02 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Pick Hall 506
Monday, November 2, 2009, 12 – 1:20pm

Discussant: Jennie Han

Paper available on website.

Building/Room: Pick 506
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Sharon Krause, Brown University
Title: "Agency, Inequality, and the Meaning of Freedom"
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ptw.uchicago.edu…

Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop

02 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Monday, November 2, 2009, 4 – 6pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): TBA
Title: Foucault: "The Lives of Infamous Men."
Contact Name: Daniel Rodriguez Navas
Contact E-mail: danielrn@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Creation: Genesis and Other Beginnings in Jewish History and Culture Symposium

02 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 110
Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:30 – 5:30pm

The Symposium will be followed by a Reception in Honor of the Opening of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies.

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Jewish Studies
Presenter: David Schloen and Orit Bashkin
Lecture Title: David Schloen - “The Creation of Ancient Israel”; Orit Bashkin - “The Creation of the Arab-Jew”
Contact Name: Daniel Hantman
Contact E-mail: hantmand@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The first of three quarterly symposia featuring short lectures by Chicago Faculty in Jewish Studies.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (AGARP)

04 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Nick Houlahan
Contact E-mail: nick@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Faculty Meeting

05 Nov 2009 22:35:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 4:35 – 6:05pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Samuel Fleischacker, Modern Philosophy Workshop

06 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Friday, November 6, 2009, 10:30am – 12:20pm

The paper is available in advance via email (please contact
polzik@uchicago.edu). It will not be read during the
workshop.

If you would like to be added to the email list for the Modern
Philosophy Workshop to receive such announcements and papers
in the future, please email polzik@uchicago.edu.

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Samuel Fleischacker (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Title: “True to Ourselves? – Adam Smith on Self-Deceit”
Contact Name: Dasha Polzik
Contact E-mail: polzik@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Vincent Descombes: Wittgenstein Workshop

06 Nov 2009 19:30:00 GMT

Cobb 102
Friday, November 6, 2009, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Cobb 102
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Vincent Descombes (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
Title: “My Self, Myself, and Me”
Contact Name: Silver Bronzo
Contact E-mail: bronzo@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Pub outing (Woodlawn Tap) with MAPH philosophy students

07 Nov 2009 00:30:00 GMT

Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap - 1172 E 55th
Friday, November 6, 2009, 6:30 – 8:30pm

Building/Room: Woodlawn Tap
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Graduate Students
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Jacob Swenson
Contact E-mail: jswenson@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Undergraduate Philosophy Club

08 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT

South Lounge, Reynolds Club (2nd floor, across from the
coffee shop)
Sunday, November 8, 2009, 3 – 4pm

Another group has the room right up to 3, so we’ll convene in the hallway beforehand. Even if you’ve never studied philosophy before, or didn’t come last week you are more than welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting, as well as future meetings.

Building/Room: S. Lounge, Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Brian Hillman
Contact E-mail: bghillman@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Website has a link to the paper.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ugphilclub.wordpress.com

Mary Dietz, Political Theory Workshop

09 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Pick 506
Monday, November 9, 2009, 12 – 1:20pm

Building/Room: Pick 506
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Mary Dietz, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Title: "Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle's Politics"
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The Political Theory Workshop is a forum for the presentation of new research in all varieties of political theory and political philosophy, including work in the history of political thought; contributions to normative political theory; theoretical engagements with problems in contemporary politics and public policy; and theoretical reflection on fundamental political concepts or phenomena., Discussant: Lindsay Knight
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ptw.uchicago.edu…

Barbara Fried, Law and Philosophy Workshop

09 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Law School
Monday, November 9, 2009, 4 – 6pm

Note to prospective students: This workshop/seminar (called Workshop in the Law School and Seminar elsewhere, in keeping with what it is and what those terms mean in different places) enrolls around 10 students, by permission of the instructors. Applications are due by September 20. See website for details.

Building/Room: Law School
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Law School
Presenter(s): Barbara Fried, Law, Stanford University
Contact Name: Lorrie Wehrs
Contact E-mail: lorrie_ragland@law.uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The purpose of the workshop will be to reflect about the varieties of utilitarianism that have been influential in law and the philosophical criticisms of them. We hope to emerge with a better understanding of both the utilitarian proposals and their rivals. All meetings are Monday 4 to 6 PM. Sessions led by non-Chicago speakers are followed by a working dinner. Two students each time will attend the dinners, at our expense, and all faculty attendees are welcome to join any dinner, at their own expense
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.law.uchicago.edu…

Francois Recanati, Philosophy of Semantics and Language Workshop

09 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Franke Institute
Monday, November 9, 2009, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Philosophy of Semantics and Language
Presenter(s): Francois Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod, École Normale
Title: Varieties of context-dependence
Contact Name: Josef Stern
Contact E-mail: j06s@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: In addition to indexicality (which itself comes in several varieties), Abstract: I will argue that we need to make room for other forms of, context-dependence such as modulation and relativization.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Mary Dietz, The Project on Language, History, and Political Theory

09 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Wilder
House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.)
Monday, November 9, 2009, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Wilder House
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Mary Dietz, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Title: Reading Aristotle Politically
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: In reading Aristotle, what happens when we pledge allegiance first and foremost to political questions of significance to contemporary reality rather than starting from a particular school of text interpretation or a specific orientation toward methodological concerns? Professor Dietz tries to answer this question by showing how a political theoretical point of view decisively attuned to the politics of Aristotle's Politics invites an eminently sensible pluralism (if not a riot) of approaches to the text. When crises of empire, territory, citizenship, and power come to the fore, in other words, and the demands of politics seize our attention at center stage, historical perspectives get effectively commingled with ontological attunements, and contextual and deconstructive maneuvers can readily unite, while the author both commands and is defeated by the circulation of the language of the text., There is no paper for this session. Attendees may wish to read the paper that Professor Dietz will be presenting at the Political Theory Workshop earlier in the day, available one week in advance at ptw.uchicago.edu.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lhp.uchicago.edu

Anne Knafl, Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible Workshop

10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Swift 403
Monday, November 9, 2009, 6 – 7pm

Check the website to download the paper.

Building/Room: Swift 403
Primary Sponsor: Jewish Studies
Presenter(s): Anne Knafl, Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago Divinity School
Title: Chapter of her dissertation dealing with anthropomorphism in Deuteronomy
Contact Name: Erik Dreff
Contact E-mail: edreff@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: A forum for all things Judaica, from Moses to Leo Strauss.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Stefan Giesewetter: Contemporary Philosophy Workshop

10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Cobb 119
Monday, November 9, 2009, 6 – 8pm

Building/Room: Cobb119
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Stefan Giesewetter
Title: "An Inconsistency in Baker and Hacker's Account of the Status of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Rule-Following"
Contact Name: Sara Bosworth
Contact E-mail: bosworth@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Francois Recanati, Philosophy of Semantics and Language Workshop

10 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Franke Institute
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Philosophy of Semantics and Language
Presenter(s): Francois Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod, École Normale
Title: Relativization: what it is and why it matters
Contact Name: Josef Stern
Contact E-mail: j06s@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Abstract: I will argue that the complete content of a representation, whether linguistic or mental, is made up of two things: the explicit content of the representation and the situation with respect to which that, content is to be evaluated. I will show how, using this framework, we, can account for implicit aspects of content and provide a more, satisfactory analysis of a number of phenomena.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Ted Cohen: A Panel on the Poetics of Robert Hass

10 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Rosenwald 405
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 4:30 – 5:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): The History and Forms of Lyric Series
Presenter(s): Ted Cohen, Richard Strier, Robert von Hallberg, Kelly Austin.
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: A California native, the former Poet Laureate Robert Hass has been a major contributor to American poetry and for decades. Please join faculty members as they present short papers and lead an open discussion on the Pulitzer Prize winning poet and his work.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (AGARP)

11 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Nick Houlahan
Contact E-mail: nick@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Francisco Recanati, Philosophy of Semantics and Language Workshop

11 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Franke Institute
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Philosophy of Semantics and Language
Presenter(s): Francisco Recanati, (CNRS, Paris)
Title: Egocentricity and shiftability
Contact Name: Josef Stern
Contact E-mail: j06s@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Abstract: According to some authors (e.g. Lewis), the situation with respect to, which an autonomous representation is evaluated has got to be the, situation in which the representation is tokened. Alternatively, one may draw a distinction between a variety of representational modes, and construe the egocentric mode (i.e. the mode of thought or discourse such that the situation of evaluation is the situation of tokening) as a special case. I will spell out the contrast between these two views and discuss some of their consequences.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

KANT'S 5 QUESTIONS: A Symposium

12 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT

The Institute for the Humanities,
Lower Level Stevenson Hall, 701 S. Morgan Street, UIC.
Thursday, November 12 – Friday, November 13, 2009

Building/Room: UIC Stevenson Hall, LL
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): UIC
Conference Title: KANT'S 5 QUESTIONS: A Symposium
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Linda Vavra
Contact E-mail: huminst@uic.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.uic.edu…

Perspectives on the Lekton: A Conference on Contemporary Work on Mental Representation and Context in Semantics, Philosophy of Mind, and Epistemology

12 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Franke Institute
Thursday, November 12 – Friday, November 13, 2009

Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: Linguistics
Other Sponsor(s): Philosophy, Franke Institute
Conference Title: Perspectives on the Lekton: A Conference on Contemporary Work on Mental Representation and Context in Semantics, Philosophy of Mind, and Epistemology
Presenter(s): Featuring talks by François Recanati (CNRS, Paris), Pranav Anand (UCSC), Michael Glanzberg (UC Davis), Peter Lasersohn (UIUC) and John McFarlane (Berkeley)
Contact Name: Josef Stern
Contact E-mail: j06s@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Faculty photo shoot

12 Nov 2009 20:45:00 GMT

Stuart 202
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 2:45 – 4:45pm

Building/Room: Stuart 202
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Sign up for a 10 minute photo time slot with Valerie.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Ben Laurence, Modern Philosophy Workshop

13 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Friday, November 13, 2009, 10:30am – 12:30pm

All papers will be posted on this website a week in advance of the presentation, and members of the workshop will be notified via email. Papers will not be read during the workshop. To be added to the email list, please contact Dasha Polzik (polzik at uchicago dot edu).

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Ben Laurence, University of Chicago
Title: on Rousseau (title t.b.a.)
Contact Name: Dasha Polzik
Contact E-mail: polzik@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Coffee Hour

13 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Anscombe Lounge
Friday, November 13, 2009, 4:30 – 5:30pm

"neither coffee nor an hour"

Building/Room: Anscombe Lounge
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Graduate Students
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Jacob Swenson
Contact E-mail: jswenson@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: open to graduate students, faculty, and staff
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Undergraduate Philosophy Club

15 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT

South Lounge, Reynolds Club (2nd floor, across from the
coffee shop)
Sunday, November 15, 2009, 3 – 4pm

Another group has the room right up to 3, so we’ll convene in the hallway beforehand. Even if you’ve never studied philosophy before, or didn’t come last week you are more than welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting, as well as future meetings.

Building/Room: S. Lounge, Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Brian Hillman
Contact E-mail: bghillman@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Website has a link to the paper.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ugphilclub.wordpress.com

Thomas Fossen: Political Theory Workshop

16 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Pick Hall 506
Monday, November 16, 2009, 12 – 1:20pm

Building/Room: Pick 506
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Thomas Fossen - Practical Philosophy, Utrecht University
Title: “Taking Stances: A Performative Conception of Political Legitimacy”
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ptw.uchicago.edu…

Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop

16 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Monday, November 16, 2009, 4 – 6pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): TBA
Title: Foucault: "Of Other Spaces"
Contact Name: Daniel Rodriguez Navas
Contact E-mail: danielrn@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Mary Dietz, Political Theory Workshop

16 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Wilder
House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.)
Monday, November 16, 2009, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Wilder House
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Mary Dietz, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: In reading Aristotle, what happens when we pledge allegiance first and foremost to political questions of significance to contemporary reality rather than starting from a particular school of text interpretation or a specific orientation toward methodological concerns? Professor Dietz tries to answer this question by showing how a political theoretical point of view decisively attuned to the politics of Aristotle's Politics invites an eminently sensible pluralism (if not a riot) of approaches to the text. When crises of empire, territory, citizenship, and power come to the fore, in other words, and the demands of politics seize our attention at center stage, historical perspectives get effectively commingled with ontological attunements, and contextual and deconstructive maneuvers can readily unite, while the author both commands and is defeated by the circulation of the language of the text., There is no paper for this session. Attendees may wish to read the paper that Professor Dietz will be presenting at the Political Theory Workshop earlier in the day, available one week in advance at ptw.uchicago.edu.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lhp.uchicago.edu

Steven Nadler, Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible Workshop

17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Swift 403
Monday, November 16, 2009, 6pm

Check the website to download the paper.

Building/Room: Swift 403
Primary Sponsor: Jewish Studies
Presenter(s): Steven Nadler, William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “Maimonides on Theodicy, Providence and Moral Luck.”
Contact Name: Erik Dreff
Contact E-mail: edreff@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: A forum for all things Judaica, from Moses to Leo Strauss.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (AGARP)

18 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Nick Houlahan
Contact E-mail: nick@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Faculty Meeting

19 Nov 2009 22:35:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:35 – 6:05pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Richard Kraut: Practical Philosophy Workshop

20 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Rosenwald 015
Friday, November 20, 2009, 10:30am – 12:30pm

Building/Room: Rosenwald 015
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Richard Kraut (Northwestern)
Contact Name: Mark Hopwood
Contact E-mail: mhopwood@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humanities.uchicago.edu…

Jean-Philippe Narboux: Wittgenstein Workshop

20 Nov 2009 19:30:00 GMT

Cobb 102
Friday, November 20, 2009, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Cobb 102
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Jean-Philippe Narboux (Université Bordeaux III)
Title: “The Externalist Strand in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”
Contact Name: Silver Bronzo
Contact E-mail: bronzo@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: humnaities.uchicago.edu…

Coffee Hour

20 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Anscombe Lounge
Friday, November 20, 2009, 4:30 – 5:30pm

"neither coffee nor an hour"

Building/Room: Anscombe Lounge
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Graduate Students
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Jacob Swenson
Contact E-mail: jswenson@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: open to graduate students, faculty, and staff
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Undergraduate Philosophy Club

22 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT

South Lounge, Reynolds Club (2nd floor, across from the
coffee shop)
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 3 – 4pm

Another group has the room right up to 3, so we’ll convene in the hallway beforehand. Even if you’ve never studied philosophy before, or didn’t come last week you are more than welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting, as well as future meetings.

Building/Room: S. Lounge, Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Brian Hillman
Contact E-mail: bghillman@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Website has a link to the paper.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ugphilclub.wordpress.com

Robert Gooding-Williams, Political Theory Workshop

23 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Pick Hall 506
Monday, November 23, 2009, 12 – 1:20pm

Building/Room: Pick 506
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Robert Gooding-Williams, University of Chicago
Title: "Du Bois and Political Theory: A discussion of In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America"
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ptw.uchicago.edu…

Eric Posner, Law and Philosophy Workshop

23 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Law School
Monday, November 23, 2009, 4 – 6pm

Note to prospective students: This workshop/seminar (called Workshop in the Law School and Seminar elsewhere, in keeping with what it is and what those terms mean in different places) enrolls around 10 students, by permission of the instructors. Applications are due by September 20. See website for details.

Building/Room: Law School
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Law School
Presenter(s): Eric Posner, Law, University of Chicago
Title: "Human Welfare, Not Human Rights"
Contact Name: Lorrie Wehrs
Contact E-mail: lragland@law.uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The purpose of the workshop will be to reflect about the varieties of utilitarianism that have been influential in law and the philosophical criticisms of them. We hope to emerge with a better understanding of both the utilitarian proposals and their rivals. All meetings are Monday 4 to 6 PM. Sessions led by non-Chicago speakers are followed by a working dinner. Two students each time will attend the dinners, at our expense, and all faculty attendees are welcome to join any dinner, at their own expense
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.law.uchicago.edu…

Mary Dietz, Political Theory Workshop

23 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Wilder
House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.)
Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Wilder House
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Mary Dietz, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Title: Reading Aristotle Politically
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: In reading Aristotle, what happens when we pledge allegiance first and foremost to political questions of significance to contemporary reality rather than starting from a particular school of text interpretation or a specific orientation toward methodological concerns? Professor Dietz tries to answer this question by showing how a political theoretical point of view decisively attuned to the politics of Aristotle's Politics invites an eminently sensible pluralism (if not a riot) of approaches to the text. When crises of empire, territory, citizenship, and power come to the fore, in other words, and the demands of politics seize our attention at center stage, historical perspectives get effectively commingled with ontological attunements, and contextual and deconstructive maneuvers can readily unite, while the author both commands and is defeated by the circulation of the language of the text., There is no paper for this session. Attendees may wish to read the paper that Professor Dietz will be presenting at the Political Theory Workshop earlier in the day, available one week in advance at ptw.uchicago.edu.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lhp.uchicago.edu

Contemporary Philosophy Workshop

24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Cobb 119
Monday, November 23, 2009, 6 – 8pm

Building/Room: Cobb119
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Sara Bosworth
Contact E-mail: bosworth@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (AGARP)

25 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Nick Houlahan
Contact E-mail: nick@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Office Closed - University Holiday

26 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Thursday, November 26 – Friday, November 27, 2009

Building/Room: Stuart 202
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Undergraduate Philosophy Club

29 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT

South Lounge, Reynolds Club (2nd floor, across from the
coffee shop)
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 3 – 4pm

Another group has the room right up to 3, so we’ll convene in the hallway beforehand. Even if you’ve never studied philosophy before, or didn’t come last week you are more than welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting, as well as future meetings.

Building/Room: S. Lounge, Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Brian Hillman
Contact E-mail: bghillman@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Website has a link to the paper.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Gregory Freeman, Political Theory Workshop

30 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Pick Hall 506
Monday, November 30, 2009, 12 – 1:20pm

Building/Room: Pick 506
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Gregory Freeman, University of Chicago
Title: "On the first few pages of Rousseau's Emile"
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ptw.uchicago.edu…

Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop

30 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Monday, November 30, 2009, 4 – 6pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): TBA
Title: TBA
Contact Name: Daniel Rodriguez Navas
Contact E-mail: danielrn@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
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Mary Dietz, Political Theory Workshop

30 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Wilder
House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.)
Monday, November 30, 2009, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Wilder House
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Political Science
Presenter(s): Mary Dietz, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Title: Reading Aristotle Politically
Contact Name: Lindsay Knight
Contact E-mail: lindsayk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: In reading Aristotle, what happens when we pledge allegiance first and foremost to political questions of significance to contemporary reality rather than starting from a particular school of text interpretation or a specific orientation toward methodological concerns? Professor Dietz tries to answer this question by showing how a political theoretical point of view decisively attuned to the politics of Aristotle's Politics invites an eminently sensible pluralism (if not a riot) of approaches to the text. When crises of empire, territory, citizenship, and power come to the fore, in other words, and the demands of politics seize our attention at center stage, historical perspectives get effectively commingled with ontological attunements, and contextual and deconstructive maneuvers can readily unite, while the author both commands and is defeated by the circulation of the language of the text., There is no paper for this session. Attendees may wish to read the paper that Professor Dietz will be presenting at the Political Theory Workshop earlier in the day, available one week in advance at ptw.uchicago.edu.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lhp.uchicago.edu

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (AGARP)

02 Dec 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Nick Houlahan
Contact E-mail: nick@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Faculty Meeting

03 Dec 2009 22:35:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4:35 – 6:05pm

Building/Room: Stuart 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Jenn Lockhart: Practical Philosophy Workshop

04 Dec 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Classics 405
Friday, December 4, 2009, 10:30am – 12:30pm

Building/Room: Classics 405
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Jenn Lockhart (Chicago, Graduate Student)
Title: “Kierkegaard’s Indirect Communication as Ethical Teaching”
Contact Name: Mark Hopwood
Contact E-mail: mhopwood@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Michael Kremer: Wittgenstein Workshop

04 Dec 2009 19:30:00 GMT

Cobb 102
Friday, December 4, 2009, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Cobb 102
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Michael Kremer (University of Chicago)
Title: “Russell’s Merit”
Contact Name: Silver Bronzo
Contact E-mail: bronzo@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Coffee Hour

04 Dec 2009 22:30:00 GMT

Anscombe Lounge
Friday, December 4, 2009, 4:30 – 5:30pm

"neither coffee nor an hour"

Building/Room: Anscombe Lounge
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Graduate Students
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Jacob Swenson
Contact E-mail: jswenson@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: open to graduate students, faculty, and staff
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Undergraduate Philosophy Club

06 Dec 2009 21:00:00 GMT

South Lounge, Reynolds Club (2nd floor, across from the
coffee shop)
Sunday, December 6, 2009, 3 – 4pm

Another group has the room right up to 3, so we’ll convene in the hallway beforehand. Even if you’ve never studied philosophy before, or didn’t come last week you are more than welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting, as well as future meetings.

Building/Room: S. Lounge, Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Brian Hillman
Contact E-mail: bghillman@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Website has a link to the paper.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ugphilclub.wordpress.com