Lewis Department of Humanities Colloquium Schedule
Date Presenter Presentation Title Document
Sept. 11 Bob Ladenson
Humanities

Limitations Upon Legitimate Authority to Suspend and Expel K-12 Public School Students: A Moral Analysis

Download paper.
Sept. 25 Brett Fulkerson-Smith
Sawyier Fellow, Humanities

On the Apodictic Proof and Confirmation of Kant's Revolutionary Hypothesis

Download paper.
Oct. 9 Bill Wimsatt
University of Chicago

Cultural Evolution and Technological Change

Fall 2009 Sawyier Philosophy Lecture in Science, Technology, and Society
MTCC Auditorium, 2:30 p.m

Download paper.
Oct. 23 Chris DiTeresi
Sawyier Fellow, Humanities

What is "Normal Development" Anyway?: Idealization, Variation, and the Practice of Staging Embryos.

Download paper.
Nov. 6 Michael Davis
Humanities, CSEP

Engineers and Sustainability: An Inquiry into the Elusive Distinction between Macro-, Micro-, and Meso-Ethics

Download paper.
Nov. 20 Warren Schmaus
Humanities

Science and the Social Contract in Renouvier

Download paper.
Dec. 4 Sean Anthony
Heresy and Historiography: A Crucified Claimant to Prophecy of Early Islam

Download paper.

All colloquiua except the Sawyier Lecture will take place in the conference room in 218 Siegel Hall, and will begin at 2:00 p.m., unless otherwise announced.