Today’s Los Angeles Times “Column One” feature is about “Philosophy Talk,” a radio talk show hosted by Stanford University’s Ken Taylor and John Perry. You can listen to the show at www.philosophytalk.org.
See this L.A. Times article. Then go back to Hume, Wittgenstein, and lots of other philosophical treatments of this issue!
We’ve just received word of a new undergraduate journal, the California Undergraduate Philosophy Review. The journal, created to provide a forum for the best undergraduate philosophy work in the state of California, currently has its home at California State University, Fresno. Works from all California undergraduate students, in all fields of philosophy and religious studies, are welcome. Please use the flyer attached to post or pass on to students.
Instructions for authors are available on the website, http://www.cupr.org. Papers accepted by the journal will appear online first at our website and later in the year, in hard copy. Additional information and announcements will be posted at the website.
Saturday’s L.A. Times has an in-depth article on course podcasts from UC Berkeley. They report extensively on Hubert Dreyfus’s podcasts and its popularity in the general public.
See:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-podclass24nov24,0,5117576.story
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“Colonialism: A Philosophical Profile”
Olufemi Taiwo
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Global African Studies
Seattle University
October 31, 2007
1230 - 2 pm
Lower Herrick
Pizza Lunch Served!!
Professor Homiak is the department chair for 2007-2008.
“The One and the Many”, Paul Hovda, Reed College
Optional background reading:
So far we have two talks events scheduled for this spring:
“Interpreting Hume as Metaphysician and Skeptic”
Professor Donald Baxter, University of Connecticut
Thursday, March 8th, 4:30 p.m., Bioscience 113
“The One and the Many”
Professor Paul Hovda, Reed College
Monday, March 26th, 5 p.m., Bioscience 113
Everyone is invited - Refreshments will be served.
Our first Philosophy Colloquium will take place on Tuesday, November 7th, at 4:30 p.m. in Bioscience 113. Our speaker is Professor Jacqueline Taylor of the University of San Fransisco. Professor Taylor will speak on Hume’s moral theory.
Abstract: While Hume’s claim to be applying the experimental method to moral subjects has been widely cited, little scholarly attention has been paid to how this method applies to his account of the passions. Prof. Taylor will argue that Hume sets out his account of human emotions as an extended series of experiments, and that he succeeds giving us a proper “science of human nature.” She will examine several implications of Hume’s experimental approach.