Please note: this list is continually being updated. Please check back frequently for new events.

We invite you to listen to our recorded colloquia.

Conference: Cognitive Disabilities: A Challenge to Moral Philosophy

The conference will take place September 18-20th at Stony Brook Manhattan. Please see http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/cdconference/ for information.

Conference: The Philosophy of Luce Irigaray

The conference will take place September 12-13th at Stony Brook Manhattan. Please see http://www.irigaray.org for information.

Conference: Philosophy and Art Conference at Stony Brook Manhattan

The conference will take place March 27-28th, 2009 at Stony Brook Manhattan. Please see http://www.philosophyartconference.org/ for details.

Defenses

Recent defenses:

Fri 12/14 Julie Sushytska (Dissertation)
Originary Metaphysics: Why Philosophy has not Reached its End
Fri 4 pm, Harriman 214
Fri 12/14 Aaron Krempa (Master's Thesis)
Fri 2:15 pm, probably Harriman 214
Thurs 12/6 Peter V. Warden
Critique of the Hommuncular Model of Mind from the Neo-Vitalist Perspective
Thursday 4 PM, Harriman 214
Fri 11/16 Andrew Smith
Conviction and Responsibility: How Committing to Conscience Can Foster Political Consideration
Friday 11 AM, Harriman 214

Colloquia and Talks

(We invite you to listen to our Recorded Colloquia.)

recent colloquia:

Fri 4/4/08 Claudia Baracchi
New School for Social Research
The Experience of Nature
Fri 4pm, Harriman 214
Thurs 4/10/08 Don Ihde
Stony Brook University
Book Release Party Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound (2007)
4pm, Harriman 214
Mon 4/14/08 Provost's Lecture: 4:30 pm in 1006 Humanities Paul Forman
Curator, Division of Medicine and Science
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of American History
Trust in Science is No Longer Rational
Thurs 4/17/08 Nanda Golden, Stony Brook University
Three Sources of Trust in Aristotle'sRhetoric
4pm, Harriman 214
Thurs 4/28/08 Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook University
Book Release Party:
Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness (2007)
4pm, Harriman 214
Mon 4/28/08 Provost's Lecture: 4:30 pm in 1006 Humanities
Martin Marty
University of Chicago
Stony Brook Templeton Fellow 2007-8
The Public's Trust and the Public Trusts
Thurs-Fri 5/1 - 5/2/08 Queer Symposium
Ladelle McWhorter, University of Virginia
Outlining the Queer Body
(Several papers by graduate students, please check back for details)
Harriman Hall 214
Fri 5/2/08 Templeton Series: Final Event: Retreat at the Little Portion Friary

Recorded Colloquia (LINK)

TRANSATLANTIC COLLEGIUM LECTURE SERIES 2007
Prof. Manfred Baum (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
"KARL MARX AS MORAL PHILOSOPHER"

MARX AN IMMORALIST? 3/8/07
ALIENATION OR EMANCIPATION 3/15/07
MARX AND JUSTICE 3/22/07
THE LATER MARX AND HUMANISM 3/29/07

Graduate Student Colloquium

Talks take place in Harriman 214. Coffee, tea, and snacks.

Past talks this semester:

11/28/07 Daniel Loick, "Force of Law. Walter Benjamin's Suspension of State Violence"
11/14/07 Sam Butler, "The Misery of Arendt"
11/7/07 Mark Green, "Nietzsche's Conception and Use of Evidence"
10/29/07 Brady Heiner, "Foucault and the Black Panthers"
10/24/07 Marcus Dracos, "Why ask Why-Questions: Aristotle's Dia Ti and Interrogatives"
10/10/07 Chad Kautzer "Locke, Colonialism, and the Problem of Jurisdiction"

Technoscience seminar invited lecturers

Templeton Colloquia


Please visit the homepage of the Trust Institute for more information about the Templeton Seminar and Lecture Series.

In the News

Dr. Bonnie Mann (Ph.D. Stony Brook 2002) wins Gustave O. Arlt Book Award.  Dr. Mann is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon.

The award is in recognition of Professor Mann's book, Women's Liberation and the Sublime: Feminism, Postmodernism, Environment (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Bonnie Mann, winner of Gustave O. Arlt Book Award




Other events on campus

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New York Philosophy Consortium Events

The Philosophy Department at Stony Brook participates in the New York Philosophy Consortium. Graduate students and professors from any of the listed schools are invited to attend public events and to participate in courses (with permission from the professor).