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Feb

4

Lecture

Selfridge College Talk: Sentience and Moral Status

Location:
Scheler Humanities Forum (Linderman 200)
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by David Chalmers (NYU)Under what conditions does a creature matter morally?  Do only conscious beings matter?  If so, what sort of consciousness is required? The popular "sentientist" view holds that the capacity for positively and negatively valenced…

Feb

3

Oct

15

Event

"Why Study Philosophy?" by Ari Klein

Location:
Neville Hall 003
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Join us for Philosophy's Alumnae/i Career Talk with Ari Klein '98.There will be a Meet & Greet at 4:30pm with snacks and refreshments, followed by the talk at 4:45pm.Ari Klein, a Lehigh Philosophy major, is the Executive Vice Chairman in Cushman & Wakefield’s Chicago…

Sep

5

Event

Conference on Rationalism and Monism

Location:
XS 14A
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Friday, September 52:00pm                   Conference on Rationalism & Monism                 &nbsp…

Mar

28

Class/Workshop

Selfridge Workshop

Location:
The Barnes Room, Philosophy Building
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Selfridge 2025 will conclude with a two-day Selfridge Workshop on "Post-Avicennan Philosophy", which is a theme that represents much of Prof. Adamson's recent research focus. The workshop will include presentations by Prof. Peter Adamson, Prof. Bligh Somma (Fordham University),…

Mar

28

Class/Workshop

Selfridge Workshop

Location:
The Barnes Room, Philosophy Building
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Selfridge 2025 will conclude with a two-day Selfridge Workshop on "Post-Avicennan Philosophy", which is a theme that represents much of Prof. Adamson's recent research focus. The workshop will include presentations by Prof. Peter Adamson, Prof. Bligh Somma (Fordham University),…

Mar

27

Mar

26

Apr

2

Seminar

"Why was Spinoza Excommunicated? by Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Location:
Scheler Humanities Forum (Linderman 200)
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In July 1656, Bento (Baruch) de Spinoza was given the harshest herem (ban or ostracism) ever issued by the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish community. The text of the ban rains curses down upon the young man, for his “abominable heresies and monstrous deeds”. Unlike other bans issued…

Mar

26

Mar

7

Lecture

Selfridge 2024 College Talk: "Becoming One: Theology and Philosophy, Will and Intellect, Finite and Infinite in Spinoza" by Michael Della Rocca

Location:
Scheler Humanities Forum (Linderman 200)
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Professor Michael Della Rocca is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. A rationalist, monist, skeptic, and renegade analytic philosopher, Michael Della Rocca is the author of The Parmenidean Ascent, of two books on Spinoza's philosophy, and of many…

Mar

6

Lecture

Selfridge Lecture 2024: The Original Sin of Analytical Philosophy

Location:
Neville Hall 003
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In this lecture, Professor Della Rocca will examine five crucial and influential episodes from early analytical philosophy in which Frege, Russell, Moore, and others play key roles.  In each episode, the debate is, he argues, structurally analogous to the debate over…