Sun Kyeong Yu, MSU Mankato, A Recipient of the Summer 2009 Teaching Scholar Fellowship, "When Science Meets Philosophy" Thursday, November 12, 2009, 12noon, CSU 201.
Jaime Hoffman, MSU Mankato, "Contrastive 'We-Intentions,' the Public/Private Distinction, and the Possibility of a Greater Moral Community?", Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:30PM, Armstrong Hall 319.
Clark Wolf, Iowa State University, “Intergenerational Justice, Human Needs, and Climate Policy,” Thursday, October 29, 2009, 7PM, 121 Trafton Science Center C; “Authenticity and History in Legal Interpretation and Music Performance,” Friday, October 30, 2009, 11AM, Morris Hall 102
Brandon Cooke, MSU Mankato, "The Data of Aesthetics," Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 4:30pm, Armstrong Hall 319.
Alex Rosenberg, The R. Taylor Cole Professeor of Philosophy and the Chair of Philosophy Department, Duke University, "Is Darwinism the only game in town?", Thursday, September 17, 2009, 7:00pm, 121 Trafton Science Center C; "Must Naturalism be Nihilistic?", Friday, September 18, 2009, 11:00am, Morris Hall 102.
Anita Silvers, Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, Friday, April 24rd, 9:30am, "Twenty-Five years after Baby Doe: Ethical Decision-Making About Start of Life."; Thursday, April 23rd, 7pm, "Discarding Disability Indentity: Life for Wounded Warriors and Everyone Else in a New Era for Civil Rights"
Alan Love, University of Minnesota,Thursday, March 19th, 3:00pm, "Temporal Dimensions in Reductionism in Biology"
Thomas Donaldson, Warton School, University of Pennsylvania, April 15th, 7:00pm, CSU Ballroom (Business Ethics Lecture)
Jeff Johnson, College of St. Catherine, Feb. 18th, 2009, "Seeing Things"
Linda Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, Women's Studies & Political Science, Syracuse University, October 2nd and 3rd, 2008.
Henry West, Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College, Thursday, November 13th, 2008.
Jeremy Iggers , Director of the Twin Cities Media Alliance, former writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and author of Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest, will be this year's Annual Business Ethics Lecturer. His lecture is titled "The Increasing Irrelevance of Journalism Ethics," and will take place on Thursday, April 17th, at 7:30pm in Wiecking Auditorium.
Daniel Dennett, a philosopher and cognitive scientist who teaches at Tufts University and is Director of the Tufts Center for Cognitive Studies, will be visiting MSU April 3-4, for a Thursday evening presentation and a round table discussion the following morning. Thusday, April 3, 7:30pm, CSU Ballroom: "Religion as a Natural Phenomenon." Friday, April 4, 9:00am, CSU 253-4-5: "Evolution and Evitability, Free Will and Responsibility"
Gary Iseminger from Carleton College will give a colloquium on experiential theories of aesthetic value.
"Politics, Pluralism, and Religion" Conference
April 13-14, 2007
Peter Singer, The Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, presented the annual Business Ethics Lecture in March, 2006. A native of Australia, Singer balances two part-time faculty positions on opposite sides of the globe. He is He has written or co-authored more than 40 books, including his recent One World: The Ethics of Globalization, published by Yale University Press, focusing on international ethics. He is perhaps best known for his book Animal Liberation, widely regarded as the ethical foundation of the animal liberation movement.
PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, & ECONOMICS (PPE)
Minnesota State University, Mankato’s new bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE). This unique combination of disciplines allows you to focus on the dynamic relationships between the economic, political and legal systems of our society. The PPE major will prepare you for a career in law, business, public policy, journalism, civil service or international affairs.
Fall 2008
PHIL 450/550: Environmental Philosophy
This course focuses on the idea of wilderness and includes a one week wilderness paddling trip in the Boundary Waters & Quetico Wilderness area on the border between Minnesota & Canada. This wilderness area is a vast system of lakes, unparalleled in beauty and abundant wildlife (bald eagles, moose, deer, bear, wolves, etc.), and perhaps the very best canoe country in the world.
