2014-2015 Philosophy Colloquium

The Department of Philosophy is applying for funding form the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series for its 2014-2015 Colloquium Series. This series of public presentations will provide opportunities for students, faculty, and community members, both within and outside the Department of Philosophy, to hear and discuss stimulating lectures on a wide range of topics. Each lecture program includes considerable time for questions and discussion, and special consideration is given to allowing and encouraging undergraduates time to speak up. Several of the scholars are also willing to spend more time at UMaine interacting with students and others in classrooms and informal settings. Our program includes a diverse range of distinguished speakers and topics. Speakers include Autumn Fiester, PhD the Director of Education in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Fiester will give a lecture, teach a session of the philosophy capstone, and meet informally with interested students from philosophy and the health professions programs. Our planned speakers range from very promising early career scholars to established scholars of national and international reputation. The topics presented intersect with our core curriculum, and reflect our commitment to diversity and to raising philosophical issues of importance for members of our university and greater central Maine community

2006-2007 Philosophy Colloquium

Philosophy Colloquium Series for 2006-2007 with the emphasis on interdisciplinary topics and approaches. These programs will allow the Philosophy Department to reach out to other departments and programs on campus

2007 - 2008 Philosophy Colloquium Series

Series of public talks will provide the opportunity for students, faculty, and community members both within and beyond the Department of Philosophy to hear and discuss stimulating lectures on a wide range of topics that are relevant both to the core themes of the department\u27s philosophy curriculum as well as to current issues of ethical, political, social, and philosophic import

2012-2013 Philosophy Colloquium Series

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2013-2014 Philosophy Colloquium

The Department of Philosophy is applying for funding from the Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series for its 2013-2014 Colloquium Series. This series of public presentations will provide opportunities for students, faculty, and community members, both within and outside the Department of Philosophy, to hear and discuss stimulating lectures on a wide range of topics. Each lecture program includes considerable time for questions and discussion. Several of the scholars are willing to spend more time at UMaine interacting with students and others in addition to their colloquium program. Speakers include Professor Fred Dallmayr, one of the outstanding philosophers in the world, as well as several other scholars of highest international and national status and several outstanding Maine philosophers. The topics reflect our department\u27s commitment to diversity and to raising philosophical issues of the greatest relevance for members of our university community, Maine citizens, and the contemporary world. Topics relate to the core themes of our department\u27s curriculum as well as contemporary issues of ethical, political, social, and philosophical significance

2011- 2012 Philosophy Colloquium

The Department of Philosophy is seeking funding support from the Cultural Aflairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund for its 201 l-2012 Philosophy Colloquium Series. This series of public talks will provide the opportunity for students, faculty, and community members both w¡thin and beyond the Department of Philosophy to hear and discuss stimulating lectures on a wide range of topics that are relevant both to the core themes of the department\u27s philosophy curriculum as well as to current issues of ethical, political, social. and philosophic import

Dennis Patterson Visit

The speaker will be Dennis M. Patterson form Rutgers School of Law. His topic will be Wittgenstein and Contemporary Legal Philosophy

Colloquium Series- Speaker Tim Crane

Our first speaker, Tim Crane, has been in the Philosophy Department of University College of London since 1990. He is currently Tutor to MA students and Director of the Philosophy Programme in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Professor Crane has worked mostly in the broad area of Philosophy of Mind, with a focus on physicalism and mental causation, intentionality and the philosophy of perception. He is currently working on the relationship between intentionality and consciousness. We are sure that faculty and students across the campus and community, especially in the departments of psychology and computer science, will find much of interest in Professor Crane\u27s lectur

Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series

The Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series exposes students and other attendees to discussions of different philosophical topics and viewpoints. Two of the speakers this year will address environmental themes