This series, presented by the Felician College Department of Philosophy in conjunction with the Felician Ethics Institute, continues during the Spring 2012 semester with the following scheduled talks (all talks take place in Kirby Hall Rm. 334, at 1:00pm, except unless otherwise specified). As of 2010, all ethics-oriented talks will be sponsored by the Ethics Institute, and non-ethics-related talks will be sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. In the interests of completeness, both ethics-related and non-ethics-related talks are listed below.
2012
March 14 (Wednesday): Tiger Roholt (Philosophy, Montclair State University)
“A Phenomenological Approach to Musical Subtlety.” Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.
January 27 (Friday): Robert Talisse (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University)
“Impunity and Republican Freedom.” Sponsored by the Felician Ethics Institute.
2011
December 14 (Wednesday): Donald Casey (Philosophy, Felician College)
“St. Francis of Assisi as a Source of Ethical Reflection.” Sponsored by the Felician Ethics Institute.
November 11 (Friday): Ishani Maitra (Philosophy, Rutgers-Newark)
“What Assertion Is.” Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.
September 28 (Wednesday): “9/11 + 10: Reflections.”
A Panel Discussion with members of the Felician College faculty: Joseph Biehl (Philosophy), Fr. John O’Neill (Religious Studies, Campus Ministry), and Gary Krulish (Criminal Justice). Obal Hall 310, 1 pm. Sponsored by the Felician Ethics Institute.
March 28 (Monday): Irfan Khawaja (Philosophy, Felician College)
“Singer on the Afghan War: The Use and Abuse of the Last Resort Criterion.” Sponsored by the Felician Ethics Institute.
Singer on the Afghan War
February 18 (Friday): Michael Menser, (Philosophy, Brooklyn College/Graduate Center CUNY)
“How Best to Solve the Global Food Crisis? Sovereignty, the Right to Food and the Role of the State.” Sponsored by the Felician Ethics Institute.
2010
November 8: Irfan Khawaja (Philosophy, Felician College)
“And the Last Shall Be First: A Critique of the ‘Last Resort’ Criterion of Just War Theory.” Sponsored by the Felician Ethics Institute.
April 26: Joseph Biehl (Philosophy, Felician College)
“Keep the Faith, Hold the Knowledge.” Sponsored by the Dept. of Philosophy.
February 29: Donald Casey (Philosophy, Felician College)
“Jalaluddin Rumi on Faith and Reason.” Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.
2009
November 16: Jeff Buechner (Philosophy, Rutgers-Newark)
“Critical Thinking Skills Which You Think You Have, But Really Don’t.”
October 26: Vincent Rama (Philosophy, William Paterson University)
“Lessons for Professional and Business Ethics in Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito.”
April 29: Irfan Khawaja (Philosophy, Felician College)
“Locke and Load: Gun Control and the Right to Self-Defense.”
March 2: Joseph Biehl (Philosophy, Felician College)
“The Denial of Objective Normative Standards”
2008
November 10: Joyce Mullan (Philosophy, New Jersey City University)
“Women and Political Violence.”
October 14: Nita de Oliveira (Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
“Global Justice, Ethics, and Politics.”
September 29: Michael Sanford (Mathematics, Felician College)
“The Mathematics of Voting: How Do We Make Choices in a Democracy?”
April 14: Irfan Khawaja (Philosophy, Felician College)
“‘Why They Hate Us’: Judging, Explaining, and Understanding Islamist Terrorism.”
March: Donald Casey (Philosophy, Felician College)
“The Platonism of Pope Benedict XVI”
