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Balter Lecture: Myisha Cherry

The Misuses of Anger Audre Lorde, Self-Hatred, and the Anger it Fuels   Feminist thinker Audre Lorde’s “Uses of Anger” is a canonical text in feminist philosophy. In the essay, first given as a speech in 1981, Lorde defends anger’s … Read more

Beginning of the Year Speaker: Susan Brison (Dartmouth College)

Title: “Belonging to the Future by Changing the Past” Abstract: This talk was sparked by my recently reading Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus for the first time since high school. I’d never forgotten the first two sentences: “There is but one truly serious … Read more

Speaker Series: Berislav Marusic (University of Edinburgh)

Caldwell 105 Caldwell 105 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill

Title: Transparency, Self-Knowledge, and the Sociality of Belief Abstract: Several prominent accounts of our knowledge of our own beliefs appeal to the transparency of the question "Do you believe that p?" to the question "Is p true?": we typically answer the former … Read more

Speaker Series: Nic Bommarito (Simon Fraser University)

Caldwell 105 Caldwell 105 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill

Title: The Background Virtues   Abstract: When you read this sentence, you're looking at black letters that make up the words. But you're also looking at a white background that is both necessary for and implied by those black letters. Taking this … Read more