Colloquia & Lectures 2023 - 2024

Fall 2023 Series

Thursday, October 12, 2023 
Samantha Matherne (Harvard): "The Value of Creativity: A Kantian Perspective"
Samantha Matherne has written the first recent book in English on the philosophy of Cassirer, covering the full range of his thought. Her research also explores the reciprocal relationship between perception and aesthetics. She approaches these issues largely through a historical lens, as they are taken up by Kant and developed in Post-Kantian traditions in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Phenomenology and Neo-Kantianism.
4:10-6:00 PM
716 Philosophy Hall

Thursday, November 30th, 2023
Matthew Boyle (University of Chicago): "Anger, Intentionality, and the View from Within"
Matthew Boyle works on topics in the philosophy of mind and on some issues in the history of philosophy. In the former area, he has been especially concerned with the question of how we know our own minds and with debates about the scope and limits of such knowledge. He is presently at work on a book called The Significance of Self-Consciousness (under contract with Oxford University Press) on the distinction between rational and nonrational minds, the connection between rationality and the capacity for first-person awareness of one’s own cognitive activity, and the continuing relevance of these topics to contemporary debates in philosophy and psychology. 
4:10-6:00 PM
716 Philosophy Hall

Spring 2024 Series

Thursday, February 15th, 2024
Verity Harte (Yale): “Errant Attitudes: Plato, Judgment and Pleasure”
Verity Harte is a specialist in ancient philosophy, with particular research interests in ancient metaphysics, epistemology and psychology, especially of Plato and Aristotle. She is the author of Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure, and is the editor of several important books on ancient philosophy.
4:10-6:00 PM
716 Philosophy Hall

Thursday, March 7th, 2024
Nandi Theunissen (University of Pittsburgh): “Is Good Fundamental?"
Nandi Theunissen (PhD Columbia) is an associate professor of philosophy. She works on foundational topics in ethics with a focus on the nature of value, including the value of humanity. She is currently thinking about excellence, the well-lived life, and our relationship to ourselves. She is the author of The Value of Humanity, recently published with Oxford University Press.
4:10-6:00 PM
716 Philosophy Hall