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Philosophy Reimagined: Power & Necropolitics in Healthcare

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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

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

Balter Lecture: Myisha Cherry

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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)

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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)

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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