School of Philosophy

The Catholic University of America

 

Fall 2009 Lecture Series

 

The Issue of Truth – In Honor of Robert Sokolowski

 

 

September 4              John McCarthy, The Catholic University of America

                                     Hume’s Curious Love of Truth

 

September 11            John Brough, Georgetown University

                                     Photography, Film, Phenomenology, and the Human Person

                                                                                                                                          

September 18            Guy Mansini, OSB, St. Meinrad’s Seminary, Indiana

                                     Christianity and Plotinus

 

September 25            Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame

                                     Ends and Endings

 

October 2                   Alva Noë, University of California, Berkeley

                                     On Over-Intellectualizing the Intellect   

 

October 9                   Daniel Maher, Assumption College

                                     “To signify not one is to signify nothing”: Aristotle on Unity and Contradiction

 

October 16                 Francis Slade, Saint Francis College

                                     Philosophy and Political Form

 

October 23                 Richard Cobb-Stevens, Boston College

                                     The Contemporary Relevance of Husserl’s

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology

  

October 30                 James Hart, Indiana University

                                     The Singularity of Love

 

November 6               John Rist, University of Toronto and the Istituto Patristico Augustinianum

                                     We Don’t Do Truth

               

November 20             John Drummond, Fordham University

                                     Having the Right Attitudes

 

December 4               John Wippel, The Catholic University of America

                                     Aquinas on Creation: A Philosophical or Theological Issue?

 

 

 

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,

cua-philosophy@cua.edu and see http://philosophy.cua.edu.