Arts and Science Hall
Arts and Sciences Hall (ASH)
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Department of Philosophy 
and Religion

Presentations and Events

1 February 2013 "What Bowties Teach Us about Biological Explanation and HIV", Nicholaos J. Jones, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Alabama in Huntsville
31 January 2013 "Hermeneutics and Causation in Huayan Buddhism," Nicholaos J. Jones, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama in Huntsville

31 October 2012

Philosophy Student Open House
15 October 2012 "How Many Headaches is Your Life Worth?" Paul Kelleher, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

14 September 2012

"Could There Be a Complete Explanation of Everything ?”
Tim O'Connor, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University Bloomington
14 September 2012Philosophy Seminar: Tim O'Connor, Professor of Philosophy, INdiana University Bloomington
13 March 2012 "Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Skepticism, and Agency," John Doris, Professor, Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
27 February 2012 Critical Reasoning Series, Cathal Woodsm Associate Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Wesleyan College - "IQ vs RQ: What is Rationality? Thoughts on STanovich's Tri-Process Theory"
24 February 2012 Philosophy Colloquium, Cathal Woods, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Wesleyan College - "Traditional" Citizenship and the "Modern" Polis in Aristotle's Politics
27 January 2012 Philosophy Colloquium, Lisa Shabel, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University
26 October 2011 Philosophy Student Open House
21 October 2011 Colloquium, Robert Audi, Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame University - “Prospects for a Naturalistic Intuitionism”
21 October 2011 Colloquium, Chaehyun Chong, Professor of Philosophy, Sogang University, South Korea - "The Mojing: On the Conception of Rationality in Ancient China"
20 October 2011 Colloquium, Chaehyun Chong, Professor of Philosophy, Sogang University, South Korea - "The Mojing: On the Conception of Rationality in Ancient China"
23 September 2011 Colloquium, Jeffrey Brower, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University - "Aquinas on Human Personhood and Death"
23 September 2011 Faculty/Majors Workshop: Jeffrey Brower, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University - "Aristotelean Eudurantism: A New Solution to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics"
March 4 2011 Ryan Nichols (Cal State Fullerton & University of Notre Dame) "The Origins of the PRoblem of Evil & The Cognitive Science of Religion"
January 25 2011 Saul Kripke (CUNY, Graduate Center) "The First Person"
October 21, 2010 Sarah McGrath (Princeton University) "Skepticism about Moral Expertise as a Puzzle for Moral Realism"
April 30, 2010

Peter Van Inwagen (Notre Dame University) Lecture: "Can Science Disprove the Existence of God?"

March 9, 2010 Jonathan Lowe (University of Durham, Englad) Lecture: "Why My Body is Not Me: The Unity Argument for Self-Body Dualism"
February 18, 2010 Rajka Rush (University of Nebraska at Omaha) Lecture: "Communicative Rationality and Methodological Atheism: Jürgen Habermas' Salvage of Western Philosophical Principles"
October 15, 2009 Tom Rockmore (Peking University, Duquesne University) Lecture: Kantian Epistemology and Hegelian Phenomenology: Rethinking German Idealism"
May 1, 2009 Ryan Nichols (California State University at Fullerton) Lecture: "A Genealogy of early Confucian Moral Psychology"
April 16, 2009 Al Casullo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Lecture: "Knowledge of Modality"
March 27, 2009 David Cunning (University of Iowa) Lecture: "Descartes on the Necessity of Every Last Truth"
November 14, 2008 Thomas Flynn (Emory University) Lecture: "The Promise and the Peril of Constructive Memory: Sartre's *Les Mots*(Words)"
November 9, 2008

David Merli (Franklin and Marshall Collge) Lecture: Possessing Moral Concepts"

March 28, 2008 Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa) Lecture: "A Deep Confusion in Massive Modularity"
February 8, 2008 Sarah Buss (University of Michigan) Lecture: "Norms of Rationality and the Superficial Unity of the Mind"
October 27, 2007 Epistemology Fest:
    David Henderson (Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professor Philosophy and the Moral Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln): "Motivated Contextualism"
    William Roche (Texas Christian University): "Coherentism and the Ambiguity of 'Justify'"
    Joshua Smith (Central Michigan University): "Skepticism and the Knowledge Account of Assertion"
    William Melanson (University of Nebraska at Omaha): "The Right to be Sure"
October 12, 2007 Travis Butler (Iowa State University) Lecture: "An (almost) Literal Understanding of Intellectual Vision of Plato's Forms"
February 22, 2007 Alan Schrift (Grinnel College) Lecture: "Toward a Nietzschean Transvaluation of Political Discourse: or, Have I Been Understood? Spinoza Versus Kant"
February 16, 2007 Maya Eddon (Rutgers University): Candidate Presentation
February 2, 2007 Paul Audi (Princeton University): Candidate Presentation
December 1, 2006 Ann-Marie Peil (Iowa State University) Lecture: "On Hume's Supposed Arguments against Resemblance between Objects and Impressions"
October 20, 2006 Diane Jeske (University of Iowa) lecture: "The Unnatural Obsession with Naturalism in Ethics"
April 24, 2006 Günter Zöller (University of Munich) Lecture: "From Trancendental Philosophy to Wissenschafteslehre"
March 24, 2006 Greg Landini (University of Iowa) Lecture: "Russell's Paradox"
December 6, 2005 Sarah Sawyer (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Lecture: "Where in the World is Superman?"
November 3, 2005 Jennifer McKitrick (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Lecture: "Disposition, Causation, and Reduction"
April 1, 2005 Jeffrey Hause (Creighton University) Lecture: "Aquinas on Moral Virtue and Moral Psychology"
March 4, 2005 John Gibbons (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Lecture: Mental Causation without Downward Causation:
February 17, 2005

Benjamin Hill (University of Nebraska at Omaha) Lecture: "Black Against Leibniz's Law: A Hidden Contradiction in the Counter-Example"

   


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