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Lunchtime Seminar Talks

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

Friday, January 18
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)
TBA


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
(NOTE THE MONDAY DATE!!!)
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”