Applied Philosophy Lyceum

The Story, in Brief…

Since 1992 the Philosophy Department has sponsored an annual lecture series devoted to issues in applied philosophy. Conceived with Aristotle’s Lyceum in mind, the Applied Philosophy Lyceum (APL) aims to stimulate private reflection and public reasoning on matters of human praxis, broadly conceived. Topics have ranged from issues in environmental ethics to theories of love and friendship. The list of speakers and topics, past and present, can be found below.

A reception typically follows each lecture.

For further information on the Lyceum go to the Contacts Page

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Spring 2024 Applied Philosophy Lyceum

Zahi Zalloua

Whitman College

 

Fanon, Zizek, and the Question of Palestine

 Friday, April 5, 2024 @ 5:00 pm – COE, Room 164 

Flyer for Zahi Zalloua’s talk

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Stephen Ferguson

North Carolina State University

 

“Another World is Possible”: the Marxist Philosophy of Revolution”

 Friday, April 19, 2024 @ 5:00 pm – COE, Room 164 

Flyer for Stephen Ferguson’s talk

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From the Past…

Fall 2023	Eric Thomas Weber, University of Kentucky	Freedom in Education: A Philosophical Critique of Current Conflicts in Educational Policy	11/17/2023	COE 164
Spring 2023	John J. Stuhr, Emory University	Freedom, Democracy, and Its Institutions	3/31/2023	COE 164
Spring 2023	Carol Gould, Hunter College & Graduate Center of City Universiy of New York	From Fraternity to Solidarity:  Towards a Feminist Reconstruction	4/21/2023	COE 1664
Fall 2022	Tadd Ruetenik, St. Ambrose University	Sports: The Flywheel of the Military Industrial Complex	9/16/2022	COE 164
Spring 2022	Richard Eldridge, Swarthmore College	Imagining Life Together: Psychosexual Intimacy, Social Roles, and Contemporary Comedies of Remarriage	4/27/2022	COE 164
Fall 2019	Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt University	Overdoing Democracy: The Problem of Political Polarization	10/04/2019	COE 160
Spring 2019	David Schweickart, Loyola University Chicago	Against Democracy??: Libertarianism, Climate Change Denial, Democracy (In Chains)	04/12/2019	COE 164
Spring 2019	Erin C. Tarver, Oxford College of Emory University	Bigger than Football: Fan Anxiety and Memory in the Racial Present.	02/15/2019	COE 164
Fall 2018	Alfred Frankowski, Southern Illinois University	Spectacle Terror Lynching, Public Sovereignty, and the Architecture of Lived Racial Violence	09/21/2018	COE 164
Spring 2018	Espen Hammer, Temple University	Thinking of Being versus Dialectical Negativism: Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger	04/06/2018	COE 164
Fall 2017	Michael Monahan, University of Memphis	Decolonizing Reason: Sylvia Wynter and ‘The Human Project’	11/10/2017	COE 164
Spring 2017	Ronald Aronson, Wayne State University	Social Hope in the Time of Trump	04/21/2017	COE 164
Spring 2016	Mary Beth Mader, University of Memphis	Being Genealogical: Contemporary Philosophical Reflections on Kinship	04/22/16	COE 164
Spring 2016	Michael Sullivan, Emory University	Philosophy, Pragmatism, and the Supreme Court	04/01/16	COE 164
Spring 2015	James Bielo, Miami University	Immersive Christianity: On Religion, Entertainment, and Globalization	03/27/15	COE 164
Fall 2015	Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University	From Solitary Confinement to Solidarity: Phenomenology as a Practice of Liberation	09/18/2015	COE 164
Spring 2015	Bonnie Mann, University of Oregon	Gendered Play and Gendered Torture: Lessons from the War on Terror	02/27/15	COE 164
Spring 2014	David Wood, Vanderbilt University	Disconcerting Experience	04/11/14	BAS S128
	Cinzia Arruzza, New School for Social Research	Gender as Social Temporality: Butler and Marx	03/28/14	COE 164
Fall 2013	Carlin Romano, Ursinus College	America the Philosophical	11/08/13	COE 164
Spring 2013	Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University	Pragmatism, Somaesthetics, and Contemporary Art	02/01/13	JUB 304
	Kelly A. Parker, Grand Valley State University	What Ought We to Sustain? A Pragmatic Framework for the Question	03/22/13	JUB 304
Spring 2012	Bill Martin, DePaul University	What Can Nothing Do for Politics? Mao, Mu Badiou, Buddhism	04/06/12	JUB 304
	John Lysaker, Emory University	Coming to Terms with Selfhood	04/20/12	JUB 304
Spring 2011	Bart Ehrman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Misquoting Jesus: Scribes Who Changed the Bible and Readers Who May Never Know	02/18/11	BAS, State Farm Rm
	Paul C. Taylor, Pennsylvania State University	What’s a Black Artist? Philosophy, Identity, and Black Aesthetics	04/08/11	JUB 304
Spring 2010	Hilde Hein, Brandeis University	The Responsibility of Representation	02/19/10	JUB 304
	Scott Pratt, University of Oregon	Creation and Liberation: The Ontology of American Indian Origins	04/16/10	JUB 304
Spring 2009	John Lachs, Vanderbilt University	Education in a Time of Crisis	04/08/09	JUB Hazelwood Dining Room
	Lisa Heldke, Gustavus Adolphus College	Food Security: Three Conceptions of Access — Charity, Rights, and Coresponsibility	04/17/09	JUB 304
Spring 2008	John J. Stuhr, Vanderbilt University	Against Forgiveness	03/28/08	JUB 304
	George Yancy, Dusquesne University	White Looks/Black Bodies	04/11/08	JUB 304
Spring 2007	Charles Mills, University of Illinois, Chicago	The Racial/Sexual Contract	03/30/07	JUB 304
	Robert E. Innis, University of Massachusetts, Lowell	An Aesthetic Encounter: Thinking about Art with Susanne Langer	04/20/07	JUB 304
Spring 2006	Noelle McAfee, American University	Two Feminisms	04/07/05	JUB 304
	Karen Hanson, Indiana University	Dressing Down Dressing Up: The Philosophic Fear of Fashion	04/14/06	JUB 304
Spring 2005	Jessica Wahman, Dickinson College	Fleshing Out Consensus: Radical Pragmatism, Civil Rights, and the Algebra Project	04/01/05	JUB 304
	Carolyn Korsmeyer, SUNY Buffalo	Against Pleasure: The Case of Art and Food	04/15/05	JUB 304
Spring 2004	Jana Craig, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine	Traditional Values and Contemporary Medicine	04/16/04	JUB 304
	Thomas May, Medical College of Wisconsin	The War on Bioterrorism	04/30/04	JUB 304
Spring 2003	Raja Halwani, Chicago Art Institute	The Just Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	03/21/03	JUB 304
	Helen Longino, University of Minnesota	Feminism, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge	04/04/03	JUB 304
	Arthur C. Danto, Columbia University	The Body in Philosophy and Art	04/25/03	JUB 304
Spring 2002	Erin McKenna, Pacific Lutheran University	Pragmatism and Animal Liberation	02/22/02	JUB 304
	Cynthia Gayman, Southern Illinois University	Impossible Freedom	03/15/02	JUB 304
	Vincent Colapietro, Penn State University	Allowing Our Practices to Speak for Themseoves: Peirce and Wittgenstein	04/27/02	JUB 304
Spring 2001	John Lachs, Vanderbilt University	Immortality and Other Unintelligible Hopes	03/02/01	State Farm Lecture Hall, BAS
	Christine Overall, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada	Aging & the Right to Life	04/06/01	JUB 304
	Donald Scherer, Bowling Green State University	How can we save the environment?	04/27/01	JUB 304
Spring 2000	Lewis Gordon: Brown University	The Human Genome Project	02/18/00	JUB 304
	Marvin Belzer: Bowling Green State University	Earth To Parfit: Forget About Fission	04/07/00	JUB 304
	Alan Soble: University of New Orleans	What Did Monica and Bill Do?	04/28/00	JUB 304
Spring 1999	Bryan Norton, Georgia Institue of Technology	Toward a Universal Valuation of Nature: Beyond the Anthropocentrism/Non-Antropocentrism Debate	04/23/99	JUB 304
	John J. McDermott, Texas A&M	The Erosion of Moral Sensibility	03/26/99	JUB 304
	James Marsh, Fordham University	Ghosts and Spirits: Marx, Derrida, and the New World Order	04/9/99	JUB 304
Spring 1998	Charles Mills, University of Chicago, Illinois	The Racial Contract	03/06/98	JUB 304
	Joel Kovel, Bard College	Ecology and Capitalism: A Marriage Made in Hell	02/20/98	JUB 304
	Ted Cohen, University of Chicago	Metaphors of Personal Identification	04/17/98	JUB 304
Spring 1997	David Schweickart: Loyola University of Chicago	Why Capitalism Doesn’t Work	03/07/97	JUB 304
	Robert Bernasconi: University of Memphis	Is Race Real?	03/25/97	JUB 304
	Lynn Hankinson Nelson: Rowan College	Feminism and Sociobiology	04/11/97	JUB 304
Spring 1996	Bill Martin: Depaul University	Truth and Flourishing: Elements of a Communitarian Theory of Knowledge	03/29/96	JUB 304
	David Gerrold: Nebula Award Winning Science Fiction Writer	The Martian Child and the Involuntary Human	03/20/96	TBA
	Milton Fisk: Indiana University	Health Care as a Public Good	04/04/96	JUB 304
Spring 1995	Alisa Carse: Georgetown University	Pornography, Subordination, and Liberty	03/16/95	Nursing 121
	John J. McDermott: Texas A&M University	Philosophy as Therapeia: A Secular Teshuvah	04/13/95	Nursing 121
	Lewis R. Gordon: Purdue University	Bad Faith, Anonymity, and AntiBlack Racism	04/19/95	Nursing 121
Spring 1994	Frithjof Bergmann: University of Michigan	New Work	03/24/94	Peck Hall 227
	Tom Alexander: Southern Illinois University	Incarnations of Love	04/06/94	Peck Hall 227
	Kelly Oliver: University of Texas	Save the Mother	04/21/94	Peck Hall 227
Spring 1993	Marilyn Friedman: Washington University	Codes, Canons and “Correctness”	03/03/93	JUB 304
	Rosemarie Tong: Davidson College	Feminine and Feminist Ethics	03/29/93	Peck Hall 109
	Ron Cooper: Florida Endowment for the Humanities	Waiter, There’s A Person in My Soup: Personhood, Animal Rights and Speciesism	03/15/93	JUB 304
Spring 1992	Michael Emerson: Hiram College	Thinking Nature in a World of Wounds	03/05/92	JUB 304
	Rex Martin: University of Kansas	Democracy and Rights	03/12/92	JUB 304
	Mark Schersten: Siena Heights College	Who Should Live? Patient Characteristics in the Allocation of Health Care Resources	04/09/92	JUB 304