philosophy

HC Login - nav

CMS Login

Holy Cross Login

Colloquia

Fall 2011

Thursday, October 6, 4 pm, Smith Hall 501

Professor Claire Katz, Texas A&M/Amherst College
"Great Soldiers and Statemen Were Also Great Scholars: Levinas, Jewish Education, and the Crisis of Humanism"

Friday, October 21, 3 pm, Smith Hall 501

Professor Bojana Mladenovic, Williams College
"American Pragmatist Thomas Kuhn"

Thursday, November 10, 7:30pm, Dinand Library, Faculty Room

Professor Debra Nails, Michigan State University
"Two Dogmas of Platonism"

Friday, December 9, 3pm, Smith Hall 501

Professor Carolyn Richardson, College of the Holy Cross
"Philosophy and the First Person"

 

 

Spring 2012

Thursday, February 23, 4 pm, Smith Hall 501

Professor Charles Griswold, Boston University
"Virtue, Liberty, and Civil Religion: Rousseau's Attempted Synthesis and Adam Smith's Alternative"

Thursday, March 15, 4 pm, Smith Hall 501

Professor Paul Franks, Yale University/University of Toronto
"Encounters Between Modernity and Jewish Philosophy"

Thursday, March 29, 4:00pm, Smith Hall 501

Professor Henry Rosemont, Brown University
"Freedom and Human Rights vs. Social Justice: a Confucian Mediation"

Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm, Rehm Library

Professor Gabriella Petrick, George Mason University
"Can Industrial Foods Be Ethical? A Historical Perspective"

Monday, April 16, 12:00pm, Dinand Library, Browsing Room

Professor Doug Allen, University of Maine, Orono
"The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence, Violence, and Makes Life Worth Living"

Tuesday, May 8, 4:00pm, Smith Hall 201

A Debate of the Professors from the Philosophy Department
"The Nature of Philosophy and Its Role in Today's World"

 

 

For more information, contact:
Prof. Predrag Cicovacki
Department of Philosophy
College of the Holy Cross
508-793-2467

Past Colloquia

Fall 2003

Spring 2004

Fall 2005

Spring 2006

Fall 2006

Fall 2007

Fall 2008

Fall 2010

Spring 2011