The Catholic University of America

Fall 2010 Lecture Series

The Modern Turn

September 10          Richard Hassing, The Catholic University of America
                             Modern Turns in Mathematics and Physics (webcast)

September 17          Nathan Tarcov, University of Chicago
                             Machiavelli’s Modern Turn (webcast)

September 24          Michael Rohlf, The Catholic University of America
                             Happiness in Rousseau and Kant (webcast)

October 1                      Thomas W. Merrill, American University
                                    Slave to the Passions:
                                    On Science and Philosophy in Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (webcast)
 

October 8                Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University
                             Tocqueville's Alliance of Religion and Liberty (webcast)

October 15              Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania
                             Kant, Autonomy, and Modernity (webcast)

October 22              Nicholas Jolley, University of California, Irvine
                             Leibniz: Modern or Pre-Modern Philosopher?  (webcast)

October 29              Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin, Madison
                             Spinoza and Toleration (webcast)

November 12           Michael Pakaluk, Ave Maria University
                             From Natural Law to Natural Rights in John Locke (webcast)

November 19           Tad Schmaltz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
                             Descartes’s Critique of Scholastic Teleology (webcast)

December 3             Michael Gillespie, Duke University
                             Distinguishing Crime and virtu: Machiavelli's Modernism and the Christian Tradition                              (webcast

December 10            Rémi Brague, The Sorbonne, Ludwig Maximilian University
                              The Failure of the 'Modern Project' (webcast)


All lectures are held at 2:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of Aquinas Hall at
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 20064.

This series is made possible by a generous grant from the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation
and the support of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation and the George Dougherty Foundation.

For further information, contact the Office of the Dean, School of Philosophy, 202-319-5259,
philosophy@cua.edu and see http://philosophy.cua.edu.

To request disability accomodations, contact Ms. Melissa Grim (x5260) at least a week prior to the event.  A good faith effort will be made to provide the accommodations requested.