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Speaker Series: Gina Schouten (Harvard University)

Caldwell 105 ,

Title: Liberal Feminism, Social Critique, and Moral Methodology: What Can Reflective Equilibrium Accomplish?   Abstract: This paper brings together two strands of opposition to liberalism: First is the substantive strand, concerning liberalism’s feminist, anti-racist, and egalitarian credentials. Second is the … Read more

Speaker Series: Robert Pasnau

Caldwell 105 ,

Title:  Who Killed Agent Causation? A Murder Mystery   Abstract:  It’s a familiar claim in recent philosophy that causation is a relationship between events. But, famously, things didn’t used to be that way. Throughout antiquity, the Middle Ages and the … Read more

Philosophy Reimagined: Philosophy of Cruelty and Humanity

Caldwell 105 ,

“Philosophy Reimagined is an upcoming series of seminars March 28-30 being organized and facilitated by the 2023 Balter Fellows, a cohort of undergraduate students interested in diversifying the field of philosophy. Our Fellows have organized a three-part seminar series, which … Read more

Philosophy Reimagined: Power & Necropolitics in Healthcare

Caldwell 105 ,

Philosophy Reimagined is an upcoming series of seminars March 28-30 being organized and facilitated by the 2023 Balter Fellows, a cohort of undergraduate students interested in diversifying the field of philosophy. Our Fellows have organized a three-part seminar series, which … Read more

Philosophy Reimagined: Navigating Unjust Institutions

Philosophy Reimagined is an upcoming series of seminars March 28-30 being organized and facilitated by the 2023 Balter Fellows, a cohort of undergraduate students interested in diversifying the field of philosophy. Our Fellows have organized a three-part seminar series, which … Read more

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