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Workshop: Leo Strauss, Islamic Philosophy, and the End of Pre-Modernity

Philosophy - Public The Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative is a three-year project, designed to support the expansion and enhancement of the study of Islam at the University of Chicago. Administered by the Divinity School, the initiative is a cross-divisional collaboration, intended to create a sustained campus conversation about the future of Islamic studies. Building/Room: Swift Commons Room. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Mellon Islamic Studies. Conference Title: Workshop: Leo Strauss, Islamic Philosophy, and the End of Pre-Modernity. Presenter(s): 9:00 am - Introduction: David Nirenberg (University of Chicago), Leonardo Capezzone (Sapienza-Università di Roma) 9:30 am - Steven Harvey (Bar-Ilan University) Leo Strauss’ Reading of the Falâsifa and Its Reverberations in the Study of Medieval Islamic (and Jewish) Philosophy Chair: James Robinson 10:30 am - Joshua Parens (University of Dallas) From Strauss’s Spinoza to ‘Scholasticism’ and back again to Alfarabi Chair: David Nirenberg 11:30 am - Coffee break 11:45 am - Miriam Ga… Contact Name: Mellon Islamic Studies. Contact Phone: 773-702-9565. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This workshop aims to focus on Strauss’ concern with Islamic political philosophy. With a few important exceptions, the long history of criticism applied to Strauss’ thought has neglected the pedagogical weight of that itinerary, an itinerary intended to mark a disruptive way – to quote Strauss himself – to begin the study of medieval philosophy. Our workshop is intended as an occasion to verify to what extent the Straussian inquiry devoted to the Islamic sources of a historical “Western” tension can serve… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 24, 2013. Swift Hall Common Room. For more info visit misi.uchicago.edu.

John Bengson – “Practical Perception” - Practical Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Wieboldt 408. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Presenter(s): John Bengson (University of Wisconsin at Madison). Title: “Practical Perception”. Contact Name: Nir Ben Moshe. Contact E-mail: nir@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 24, 2013, 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM. Wieboldt 408. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

CANCELLED: Haim Gaifman, "Vagueness, tolerance and contextual logic" - Semantics & Philosophy of Language Workshop

Philosophy - Public Professor Gaifman's talk relates to Part I (§3, pp. 7-29) of his 2010 paper of the same title, a corrected draft of which is available here: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/semantics/files/2013/05/VTC-online-version-chicago-2013.pdf. Building/Room: Wieboldt 111. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Other Sponsor(s): Linguistics. Presenter(s): Haim Gaifman (Philosophy, Columbia). Title: "Vagueness, tolerance and contextual logic". Contact Name: Dhananjay Jagannathan. Contact E-mail: djagannathan@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This will be the last in for the last in our yearlong series of talks on vagueness. See abstract on website, below. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 24, 2013, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Wieboldt 111. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

Ryan Bochnak and Peet Klecha, Semantics & Philosophy of Language Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Wieboldt 111. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Presenter(s): Ryan Bochnak and Peet Klecha (Linguistics, UChicago). Contact Name: Dhananjay Jagannathan. Contact E-mail: djagannathan@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: See abstract on website, below. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 24, 2013, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Wieboldt 111. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

Spinoza's Ethics, Seminar on Important Things

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: SS 205. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Seminar on Important Things. Contact Name: Alex Moffett. Contact E-mail: amoffett@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: During this meeting we will continue our study of Spinoza's Ethics, turning to part four of this book which is entitled "Of Human Bondage, or the Powers of the Affects. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 24, 2013, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. Fishbein Center, Social Sciences Building Room 205.

Amos Browne, "Rational explanation" - Wittgenstein Workshop

Philosophy - Public The paper will not be distributed in advance, but Amos recommends reading pp. 104–114 of David Finkelstein's Expression and the Inner. Building/Room: Cobb 430. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Presenter(s): Amos Browne (University of Chicago, graduate student). Title: "Rational explanation". Contact Name: Nic Koziolek. Contact E-mail: nkoziolek@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 24, 2013, 1:30 PM – 4:20 PM. Cobb 430. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

Jonny Thakkar, There Is No Such Thing As Society: Reflections on Thatcher and Plato - The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Foster Hall 505. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought. Presenter: Jonny Thakkar. Lecture Title: There Is No Such Thing As Society: Reflections on Thatcher and Plato. Contact Name: Anne Gamboa. Contact E-mail: agamboa@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 24, 2013, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Foster 505.

James Evans: Ambiguity and Intellectual Engagement - Fishbein Workshop in the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Social Sciences 224. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Fishbein Workshop in the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science. Presenter(s): James Evans (Chicago). Title: Ambiguity and Intellectual Engagement. Contact Name: Beth Calderon. Contact E-mail: bethcalderon@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: How do knowledge cultures differ in their precision of expression? And what is the consequence of ambiguity in knowledge claims? Do ambiguous claims lead to greater integration, drawing competing interpretations into conversation with one another, or do they fragment fields as distinct interpretations avoid or ignore one another? We develop a measure of ambiguous expression that involves the calculation of Shannon information entropy on the substitution frequency of words with their synonyms, conditioned on… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 24, 2013, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Social Sciences 224.

Coffee Hour

Building/Room: STU 216. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Thomas Schulte. Contact E-mail: thomas.schulte11@gmail.com. Contact Phone: 773-702-8513. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: "Neither coffee nor an hour.". Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 24, 2013, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM. Stuart 216.

Memorial Day - University closed

Building/Room: Stuart 202. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Valerie Wallace. Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu. Monday, May 27, 2013, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. Stuart 202.

Graduate Student Meeting

Building/Room: Stuart 216. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Arnold Brooks. Contact E-mail: arnoldr.brooks@gmail.com. Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Stuart 216.

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Classics 21. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Arnold Brooks. Contact E-mail: arnoldr.brooks@gmail.com. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 4:30 PM – 6:20 PM. Classics 21. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

Christopher Lynch, "War as a Way of Life: Philosophy and Machiavelli's Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca" -CST Colloquium

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Foster 305. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought. Presenter(s): Christopher Lynch, CST alumnus and Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Political Science at Carthage College. Title: "War as a Way of Life: Philosophy and Machiavelli's Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca". Contact Name: Luke Parker and Alex Orwin. Contact E-mail: lukeparker@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM. Foster 305.

Nominations due for graduate student teaching in philosophy award

Contact Jennifer Johnson with questions about the award. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Jennifer Johnson. Contact E-mail: johnsonj@uchicago.edu. Event Description: Who is eligible for nomination: any philosophy graduate student who worked with you in *this academic year* (2012-2013) in a teaching/mentoring capacity. This includes your tutorial teachers, your course assistants, your BA preceptors, grad students who led reading groups or research projects for you, or similar. How to nominate someone: please send an email to Amy Schulz [aschulz@uchicago.edu] in the Philosophy Department office with the subject line "Graduate Student Teaching Award." In the body of… Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Stuart 202.

Graduate Student and Faculty Meeting

Building/Room: STU 216. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Valerie Wallace. Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8513. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor if you need assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, May 30, 2013, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM. Stu 216.

Laurence Hooper, Exile and the canzone in Dante's Earthly Paradise

Philosophy - Public Lecture free and open to the public. https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07e7a1ajr8b1997a6c&oseq=&c=&ch=. Building/Room: location forthcoming. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): The Lumen Christi Institute The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the Medieval Studies Workshop. Presenter: Laurence Hooper, University of Chicago. Contact Name: Ursula Pawlowski. Contact E-mail: upawlows@lumenchristi.org. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, May 30, 2013, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM. location forthcoming.

Daniel Telech, Early Modern Philosophy Workshops

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Wieboldt 130. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Presenter(s): Daniel Telech, UofC. Contact Name: Andew Pitel. Contact E-mail: apitel@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 31, 2013, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Wieboldt 130. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

Marko Malink - Wittgenstein Workshop & German Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Cobb 430. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Presenter(s): Marko Malink (University of Chicago). Title: talk title forthcoming. Contact Name: Nic Koziolek. Contact E-mail: nkoziolek@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 31, 2013, 1:30 PM – 4:20 PM. Cobb 430. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

End of the Year Party

Building/Room: SS Quad. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Valerie Wallace. Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8513. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Open to faculty, staff, graduate students and invited guests of the Department of Philosophy Significant others and children welcome Bring your lawn chairs and lawn blankets. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 31, 2013, 4:15 PM – 6:15 PM. Social Sciences Quad (behind Stuart Hall) Stuart 216 rain location.

Undergraduate Women in Philosophy Meeting with Jennifer Frey

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: STU 209. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Sabina Bremmer. Contact E-mail: svbremner@gmail.com. Event Description: Jennifer Frey (on the Board of Fellows here, and future professor at USC). Monday, June 3, 2013, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Stuart 209.

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Classics 21. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Arnold Brooks. Contact E-mail: arnoldr.brooks@gmail.com. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 4:30 PM – 6:20 PM. Classics 21. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

Anselm Müller, “The Spiritual Nature of Man”

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Classics 110. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): The Lumen Christi Institute and the Department of Philosophy. Presenter: Anselm Müller, University of Trier and Visiting Professor, Dept. of Philosophy. Lecture Title: “The Spiritual Nature of Man”. Contact Name: Mark Franzen. Contact E-mail: mfranzen@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Are human beings essentially spiritual creatures or can human life be explained entirely by material principles? The great twentieth century philosopher, Elizabeth Anscombe, suggests that we are essentially spiritual beings because we are naturally and consciously oriented beyond our material life toward transcendent norms of truth and goodness. This is the ground of our dignity and value over other, non-spiritual animals. A student of Elizabeth Anscombe and Anthony Kenny at Oxford in the early… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM. Classics 110. For more info visit www.lumenchristi.org.

Faculty Meeting

Building/Room: STU 216. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Valerie Wallace. Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8513. Event Description: Please send any agenda items to Valerie Wallace. Thursday, June 6, 2013, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM. Stu 216.

Gender and Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Foster 305. Primary Sponsor: Linguistics. Contact Name: Hannah Mosher. Contact E-mail: hmosher@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, June 6, 2013, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM. Foster 305.

Jonny Thakkar – “Plato As Critical Theorist: Craftsmanship and Moneymaking in Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Michael Mann” - Practical Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Wieboldt 408. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Presenter(s): Jonny Thakkar (Chicago, graduate student). Title: “Plato As Critical Theorist: Craftsmanship and Moneymaking in Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Michael Mann”. Contact Name: Nir Ben Moshe. Contact E-mail: nir@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, June 7, 2013, 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM. Wieboldt 408. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

Ryan Bochnak and Peet Klecha, Semantics & Philosophy of Language Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Wieboldt 111. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Other Sponsor(s): Linguistics. Presenter(s): Ryan Bochnak and Peet Klecha (Linguistics, UChicago). Contact Name: Dhananjay Jagannathan. Contact E-mail: djagannathan@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: See abstract on website, below. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, June 7, 2013, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Wieboldt 111. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

Matt Teichman - Wittgenstein Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Cobb 430. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Presenter(s): Matt Teichman (University of Chicago, graduate student). Title: talk title forthcoming. Contact Name: Nic Koziolek. Contact E-mail: nkoziolek@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, June 7, 2013, 1:30 PM – 4:20 PM. Cobb 430. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

Coffee Hour

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Classics 21. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Arnold Brooks. Contact E-mail: arnoldr.brooks@gmail.com. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 4:30 PM – 6:20 PM. Classics 21. For more info visit cas.uchicago.edu.

9:15 am - 10:30 am, Office Closed - Humanities Division Staff Meeting

Building/Room: Classics 110. Primary Sponsor: Humanities Division. Contact Name: Judy Mendoza. Contact E-mail: jmendoza@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, June 13, 2013, 9:15 AM – 10:30 AM. Classics 110.

Faculty Meeting

Reception for Graduating and Honors Students

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Stuart 216. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Other Sponsor(s): PRISM. Contact Name: Jacob Swenson. Contact E-mail: jswenson@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, June 14, 2013, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM. Stuart 216 - Anscombe Library/Lounge.

Undergraduate Reception

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: STU 216. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Contact Name: Amy Schulz. Contact E-mail: aschulz@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8513. Friday, June 14, 2013, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM. Stuart 216.

John Martin Fischer, Law and Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy - Public Building/Room: Law School Room E. Primary Sponsor: Philosophy. Other Sponsor(s): Law School. Presenter(s): John Martin Fischer (Philosophy, University of California, Riverside). Title: talk title forthcoming. Contact Name: Ben Laurence. Contact E-mail: benlaurence1@me.com. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, June 20, 2013, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Law School Room E.