Past Colloquia

Spring 2005

March 4
J. C. Beall, University of Connecticut
True, False, and Other

March 11
Jon Mandle, University at Albany
Rawls on Domestic and Global Justice

April 22
Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University
Just Cause for War

April 29
Michel Seymour, University of Montreal
Allen Buchanan's Remedial Right to Secede

May 4 at 4:00 PM
2005 Graduate Student Prize Essay
Peter Murray, University at Albany
The Ontological Status of Mathematical Objects in Plato's Republic

Fall 2005

September 16
Roy Sorensen, Dartmouth College
A Seance with an Immortal

November 18
Roger White, New York University
Explanation and Underdetermination

December 9
Christopher Mirus, UAlbany
Aristotle on Beauty and Goodness in Nature

Spring 2006

Monday, Jan.23
Kristen Hessler, Iowa State
Agricultural Biotechnology and Human Rights

Friday, Jan.27
Adrienne Martin, National Institutes of Health
Hope Must be a Minefield: A Theory of Hope in Practice
Location: Campus Center Assembly Hall

Monday, Jan.30
J. Jeremy Wisnewski, East Carolina University
What We Owe the Dead

Friday, Feb.10
Derrick Darby, Georgetown, Texas A&M
Making the Souls of Black Folk

Friday, Apr.21
Alex London, Carnegie Mellon University
Reasonable Risks in Clinical Research: The Integrative Approach

Friday, May 5
Lisa Warenski, Union College
on naturalized epistemology

The Future of Bioethics in a Divided Democracy
July 13-14, 2006
http://politics.bioethics.net

The Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI) is holding a Special Summer Conference of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities.

Fall 2006

September 15
2006 Graduate Student Prize Essay
Kevin Olbrys, University at Albany
Aristotle on Moral Motivation and Weakness of the Will

September 29
Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland
Beauty is not One: The Many Species of Beauty

November 3
Livia Mara Guimaraes, NYU & Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Skeptical Tranquility and Hume's Manner of Death

Spring 2007

Friday, January 12
Nathan Powers (Princeton University)
Ancient versions of the argument from design

Tuesday, January 16
Mariska Leunissen (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle's Cosmology

Friday, January 19
Keith McPartland (Cornell University)
Aristotle's Theory of Relations

Monday, January 22
Andreas Anagnostopoulos (University of California, Berkeley)
Aristotle's Parmenidean Dilemma

Wednesday, January 24, 4:00, SS 117
Shlomi Segall (Harvard University)
Is Health Care (Still) Special?

Monday, January 29, 3:30, SS 117
John K. Davis (University of Tennessee)
Selecting Potential Children and Unconditional Parental Love

Friday, February 2, 3:30, SS 117
Maureen Kelley (University of Alabama, Birmingham)
Moral Compromise and Transitional Justice

Wednesday, February 7, 3:30, SS 117
James Tabery (University of Pittsburgh)
A 'Genetic Predisposition' to Violence?: Rethinking the Ethical and Legal Implications of Genetic Research on Antisocial Behavior

Wednesday, February 14, 4:00, SS 117
Scott James (University of Kentucky)
The Caveman's Conscience: Evolution and Moral Realism

Friday, February 16, 3:30, SS 117
Lisa Fuller (University of Sheffield)
Pogge on International Non-Governmental Organizations: A Critique

Fall 2007

September 28
2007 Graduate Student Prize Essay
John Milanese, University at Albany
Taking the Jury Theorem to Trial

November 16
Alvin Goldman, Rutgers University
Externalism, Internalism, and the Architecture of Justification