Lunchtime Seminar Series

Fall 2009, tentative schedule

Sept 4: Chris Heathwood, "Moral and Epistemic Open Question Arguments"

Sep. 11: Claudia Mills, "Artistic Integrity"

Sept. 18: Eric Chwang, "Consent and Cluster Randomization"

Sept. 25: Scott Wisor, "Philosophical Reflections on Sudan Activism"

Oct 2: Alastair Norcross, "Fetishism and Deontology"

Oct 9: Jason Wyckoff, "Why Political Legitimacy Entails Political Obligations"

Oct 16: Brad Monton, "Against Multiverse Theodicies"

Oct 23: Rob Rupert, "Against Group Mental States"

Oct 30: Ryan Mott, TBA

Nov 6: Barrett Emerick, TBA

Nov 13: Amandine Catala, "Is There a Right to Secede?"

Nov 20: Tom Metcalf, TBA

Dec 4: Cory Aragon, TBA

Dec 11: Pamela Lomelino, TBA

Spring 2009

Feb 13, 2009: David Boonin, "Why I Hate Hate Speech Codes (But Still Don’t Hate Hate Crime Laws)"

Feb 20: Michael Zimmerman, "Rapture of the Nerds: The (allegedly) coming
technological 'Singularity'"

Feb 27: Eric Chwang, "On the Moral Force of Coerced Promises"

Mar 6: Dan Kaufman, "Sinful Actions and Sinfulness"

Mar 13: Christian Lee, "Basic Evaluative Properties"

Mar 20: Ben Hale, "Carbon Sequestration, Ocean Fertilization, and the Problem of Permissible Pollution"

Apr 3: Matt Tedesco (Beloit College, CU PhD), "Harm, Consent, and Practical Joking"

Apr 10: Alison Jaggar, "The Philosophical Challenges of Global Gender Justice"

Apr 17: Dan Demetriou, "Honor: The Ethic for Real Men?"

Apr 24: Mike Huemer, "Is There a Right to Immigrate?"

2008

Lunchtime Seminar Talks

All talks are on Fridays 12-1 in Hellems 269. Everyone is welcome!

Friday, January 18, 2008
Visiting Prof. Christina Van Dyke
“Ethical Vegetarianism: Feminist Requirement or Patriarchal Burden?

Friday, January 25
Prof. Alastair Norcross
“Euthanasia and Self-Defense”

Friday, February 2
Dan Demetriou
“What Moral Intuitions Are”

Friday, February 8
Prof. Claudia Mills
“Stigma and Openness”

Friday, February 22
Kendy Hess
“The Modern Corporation as Moral Agent”

Friday, February 29
Lisa Bates
“Privatization, Democracy, and Public Goods”

Friday, March 14
Prof. David Boonin
“What’s Wrong with Racial Profiling?”

Friday, March 21
Dr. Michael Peirce
“It’s Not My Concern: Singer and Plato, Rules, Roles, and Social Organization”

Friday, April 4
Prof. Chris Heathwood
“Desire-Based Theories of Welfare, of Pleasure, and of Reasons”

Friday, April 11
Prof. Gordon Finlayson (University of Sussex)
"Not Much Ado about Habermas and Rawls"

Friday, April 18
Prof. Eric Chwang
“Futility Clarified”

Friday, April 25
Prof. Neera Badhwar (University of Oklahoma)

Sept 5, 2008 Ajume Wingo, "Trustees of Themselves: A New Framework for Human Rights"

Sept 12 Harry Platanakis (University of London), "Aristotle on Political Participation"

Sept 19 Jason Wyckoff, "Can Gratitude Serve as a Basis of Political Obligation?"

Sept 25 (Thursday, 12:30-1:30) Uri Leibowitz, "Particularism in Aristotle's Ethics"

Oct 10 Eric Chwang, "Three Ways of Speaking and the Futility of Coerced Promises"

Oct 17 Chris Heathwood, “Could Morality Have a Source?"

Oct 24 Alastair Norcross, "Intentions, Character, and Consequentialism"

Oct 31 Ryan Mott, TBA

Nov 14 Brad Monton, "Should Intelligent Design Be Taught in School?"

Nov 21 Kendy Hess, “The Metaphysics of Corporate Agency"

Dec 5 David Boonin, “Why I Don’t Hate Hate Crime Laws”

Dec 12 Jason Hanna, "Ulysses Contracts and the Relevance of Consent"


Fall 2007

With one exception, all talks are on Fridays 12-1.

Friday, September 7
Dr. Jackie Colby
“Health Disparities, Ethics, and the HPV Vaccine”

Friday, September 14
Prof. Alison Jaggar
“Ideal Theory versus Critical Theory: Comparing the Philosophical Methods of John Rawls and Iris Marion Young”

Friday, September 21
Prof. Chris Heathwood
“Desire-Based Theories of Welfare and the Possibility of Self-Sacrifice”

Friday, September 28
Jason Hanna
“How Soft Is Soft Paternalism?”

Friday, October 12
Prof. Philip Cafaro, Dept. of Philosophy, CSU
Winthrop Staples, CSU
“The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States”

Friday, October 26
Prof. Alastair Norcross
“Utility, Determinism, and Possibility”

Monday, October 29
Prof. Mariam Thalos, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Utah
“Risk and Resources”

Friday, November 2
Cindy Scheopner
“Creating God: Mormon Metaphysics and the Politics of Polygamy”

Friday, November 9
Prof. Steve Vanderheiden, Dept. of Political Science, CU
“Justice and Global Climate Change”

Friday, November 16
Prof. Claudia Mills
”Fathers and Mothers”

Friday, November 30
Prof. Eric Chwang,
“Against Assent”

Friday, December 7
Audra King
“Justice, Development, and Just Development: An Institutional Approach to Analyzing Development”