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Upcoming Events
Friday, April 26th - 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: John Stuhr, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at Emory University
Location: Phillips B152
Title: Pragmatism about God, Death and the Absurd
See more information on the event flyer.
Past Events
2013 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Friday, March 1st -12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Funger Hall Room 222
*A pizza dinner will follow at 5:15 p.m. in the Smith Hall Art Gallery
Schedule
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2013 Thacher Lecture
Friday, March 22nd - 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Kristin Andrews, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at York University in Toronto
Location: Phillips 411
Title:
See more information on the event flyer.
GW DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY FALL 2012 ALUMNI CONFERENCE
Friday, September 28th
Marvin Center 404-405
For more information please see the schedule.
University Professor Of Philosophy Peter Caws will also be giving a lecture as a part of Alumni Weekend
Saturday, September 29th at 9:30 am
For more information please see the abstract.
2012 Thacher Lecture
Friday, April 20th- 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Peter Godfrey-Smith, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Location: Phillips 411
Title: The Evolution of Meaning
See more information on the event flyer.
Other Past Events
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 - 2012 Goutman Lecture by David Cole: Accounting for Torture after 9/11: The Challenge of Looking Backwards
Friday ,November 18th, 2011 - 2011 Elton Lecture by Graham Priest: Between the Horns of Realism and Idealism: The Philosophy of Madhyamaka Buddhism
Friday, April 29th, 2011 - 2011 Goutman Lecture by Frances Kamm: Justice After War: Proportionality and Compensation
Friday, February 25th, 2011 - 2011 Thacher Lecture by Shaun Nichols: On the psychological origins of dualism: Dual-process cognition and the explanatory gap
Friday, October 1st, 2010 - 2010-11 Elton Lecture by Ed Casey: "On Not Putting Too Fine an Edge on Things"
April 16, 2010 - 2009-10 Elton Lecture by Robert Goodin: "Against Striving"
February 19, 2010 - 2009-10 Goutman Lecture by Christopher Heath Wellman: "Taking Human Rights Seriously"
February 5, 2010 - 2009-10 Thacher Lecture by José Bermúdez: "Mindreading in Animals: Can Animals Think About Thinking?"
October 28, 2009 - 2009 Annual Meeting for the Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology
April 23, 2009 - 2008-09 Elton Lecture by Steven Nadler: "Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Gods of the Philosophers"
March 6, 2009 - 2008-09 Thacher Lecture by Marc Hauser: "How We Evolved A Moral Organ"
November 6, 2008 - 2008-09 Goutman Lecture by Allen Buchanan: "The Egalitarianism of Human Rights"
April 14, 2008 - 2007-08 Thacher Lecture by Stewart Shapiro: "Philosophy of Mathematics: Kant's Heroic Synthesis"
March 11, 2008 - 2007-08 Elton Lecture by Ezekiel Emanuel: "A Proposal for Health-Care Reform"
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
The George Washington University Philosophy Club hosts an Undergraduate Philosophy Conference every Spring.
- Conference announcements are usually distributed in January.
- Submissions are usually due by the beginning of March.
- For more information, contact the faculty liaison, Michael Sigrist.
Student Spotlight: From Refugee to Author
At an age when most students are completing secondary school, Makwei “Joseph” Mabioor Deng was living at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, having fled there with his family to escape atrocities taking place in his southern Sudanese village. But, thanks to the Banaa Scholarship and his sheer determination to not just survive but make a difference, the Philosophy major published a book in his native language, Dinka, and has aspirations for law school.