Year | Date | Topic | Speaker |
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2016 | November 11 | “Ternary Orders in Temporal Topology, Personal Identity and Theory of Ground” | Dr. Cody Gilmore UC Davis |
2016 | November 10 | “Personal Identity and Theories of Fission” | Dr. Cody Gilmore UC Davis |
2016 | November 12 | “Medieval Mysticism and Embodied Religious Experience” | Dr. Christina Van Dyke, Calvin College |
2016 | November 11 | “Eating Disorders, Gender, Platonism. etc” | Dr. Christina Van Dyke, Calvin College |
2016 | Fall 2016 | The Value of Philosophy in the Age of Google | Dr. Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore |
2016 | Fall 2015 | “Is Sherlock Holmes Real?” | Dr. Reina Hayaki, University Nebraska-Lincoln |
2016 | April 23 | “The Wealth of Wonder Waiting in a Socratic Dialogue” | Dr. Stewart Gardner, Boise State University |
2016 | March 14 | “Neuromachen Ethics” | Dr. Garret Merriam, University of Southern Indiana |
2016 | March 13 | “If There is a God, Anything is Permissible” | Dr. Garret Merriam, University of Southern Indiana |
2016 | March 7 | “Swinburne’s Aesthetic Appeal” | Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Washington University |
2016 | March 6 | “The Father of Lies?” | Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Washington University |
2016 | February 28 | “Philosophy of Oppression: Discussion” | Dr. Jason J. Campbell, Nova Southeastern University |
2016 | February 27 | “Philosophy of Oppression: revolution without revenge” | Dr. Jason J. Campbell, Nova Southeastern University |
2014 | October 4 | “The Good, The Sad, and The Ugly” | Dr. Nina Strohminger, Duke University; Dr. Jonathan Weinberg, University of Arizona |
2014 | October 3 | “The ICK Factor” | Dr. Nina Strohminger, Duke University |
2014 | September 25 | “Multiple Types of Entrenchments in the AGM Model of Belief Revision” | Ms. Elizabeth Bell, University of Wyoming |
2014 | April 26 | “Re-orienting Discussions of Scientific Explanation: A Functional Perspective” | Dr. Andrea Woody, University of Washington |
2014 | April 25 | “Do We Still Need Live Performance?” | Dr. Andrea Woody, University of Washington |
2014 | February 21 | “What was Cultural Relativism?” | Dr. Kendall House, Boise State University |
2013 | November 16 | “Conceptions, Understanding, and Wisdom” | Dr. Marc Moffett, UTEP |
2013 | November 15 | “Philosophy, Hunting, and Fair Chase” | Dr. Marc Moffett, UTEP |
2013 | April 26 | “Freedom and Perfection” | Dr. Kevin Timpe, Northwest Nazarene University |
2013 | April 6 | “Omissions as Possibilities” | Dr. Sara Bernstein, Duke University |
2013 | April 5 | “Time Travel: A Practical Guide” | Dr. Sara Bernstein, Duke University |
2012 | October 19 | “Moral Considerations in Immigration Law and Policy” | Dr. Matt Lister, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law |
2012 | September 14 | “Vague Desire: the Sorites and the Money Pump” | Dr. David Etlin, University of Groningen in the Netherlands |
2012 | April 23 | “Reconciling Faith and Reason: Aquinas’s Solution and Its Contemporary Implications” | Dr. Creighton Rosental, Mercer University |
2012 | April 20 | “Connections between Logic and Philosophy in Aristotle, Buridan and Boole: Three Philosophical Moments in the History of Logic (or: Three Logical Moments in the History of Philosophy)” | Dr. Creighton Rosental, Mercer University |
2012 | April 14 | “Three Ways Truth May be Relative” | Dr. Angel Pinillos, Arizona State University |
2012 | April 13 | “What is Experimental Philosophy” | Dr. Angel Pinillos, Arizona State University |
2011 | December 2 | “When Do Things Die” | Dr. Cody Gilmore, assistant professor of philosophy at University of California at Davis |
2011 | December 3 | “What Do Quantifiers and Variables Contribute?” | Dr. Cody Gilmore, assistant professor of philosophy at University of California at Davis |
2011 | August 26 | “Zarathustra’s Metaethics” | Dr. Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore |
2011 | August 27 | “The Gap Between Thought and Ought” | Dr. Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore |
2011 | April 15 | “Mathematics: Discovered or Invented?” | Dr. Kit Fine, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University |
2010 | April 27 | “Priority Ensemblism” | Dr. Joshua Spencer, Syracuse University |
2010 | March 12 | “Can Science Disprove the Existence of God?” | Dr. Peter van Inwagen, is the John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame |
2010 | March 13 | “Causation and the Mental” | Dr. Peter van Inwagen, is the John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame |
2010 | November 13 | “Responding Rationally to Religions Disagreement” | Dr. Samuel Ruhmkorff, Bard College at Simon’s Rock |
2010 | November 13 | “How the Pessimistic Induction Begs the Question” | Dr. Samuel Ruhmkorff, Bard College at Simon’s Rock |
2009 | September 10 | “Tracing and Epistemic Condition on Moral Responsibility” | Dr. Kevin Timpe, Northwest Nazarene University |
2009 | May 9 | “Evolutionary Ethics and Wager Arguments” | Dr. Zac Ernst, University of Missouri-Columbia |
2009 | May 8 | “Two Composition Problems in Action” | Dr. Sara Chant, University of Missouri-Columbia |
2009 | April 17 | “An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design” | Dr. Bradley Monton, University of Colorado |
2009 | April 18 | “Against Multiverse Theodicies” | Dr. Bradley Monton, University of Colorado |
2008 | December 5 | “Endless Hierarchies and Morally Perfect Beings” | Dr. Brian Kierland, Boise State University |
2008 | November 21 | “Why Water Isn’t H2O” | Dr. Ken Dickey, Boise State University |
2006 | October 27 | “Perspectives in Imaginative Engagement with Fiction” | Dr. Elisabeth Camp, University of Pennsylvania |
2006 | October 28 | “Poesis without Metaphor” | Dr. Elisabeth Camp, University of Pennsylvania |
2005 | December 6 | “The Ethics of a Politically Correct Christmas” | Mr. Jim Stockton, Boise State University |
2005 | November 11 | “Colloquium on Endangered Species” | Speakers: Mr. Jon Marvel, Executive Director, Western Watersheds Project Mr. Laird Lucas Attorney & Executive Director, Advocates for the West Dr. Tony Roark, Boise State University Dr. Andrew Schoedinger, Boise State University Organized by Dr. Erin Anchustegui, Boise State University |
2005 | April 21 | “Intrinsic Vale and Intrinsic Properties” | Dr. Josh Parsons, Univeristy of California at Davis |
2005 | April 22 | “Some New Zeno Puzzles” | Dr. Josh Parsons, Univeristy of California at Davis |
2005 | April 8 | “Who’s your Daddy?” | Dr. Donald C. Hubin, Ohio State University |
2005 | April 9 | “Responsibility for Dependent Life” | Dr. Donald C. Hubin, Ohio State University |
2005 | February 18 | “The Gap of Between Art and Life” | Dr. Arthur C. Danto, Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University |
2004 | November 18 | “Protecting Public Lands from Federally-Funded Abuses by Ranchers” | Mr. Jon Marvel, Western Watersheds Project |
2004 | September 1 | “The Saints of Non-Violence: Christ, Gandhi, and Buddha” | Dr. Nick Gier, University of Idaho (emeritus) |
2004 | February 27 | “How to Lose your Leg … Without Paradox” | Dr. Mark Heller, Southern Methodist University |
2004 | February 28 | “The Conventionality of the 3-D/4-D Debate” | Dr. Mark Heller, Southern Methodist University |
2003 | May 2-3 | “The Essentialist Nominalism of John Buridan, and Consequences of a Closed, Token-Based Semantics: the Case of John Buridan” | Dr. Gyula Klima, Fordham University |
2003 | April 25 | ” The Quick Talk” | Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Washington University |
2003 | March 30 | “Vague, So Untrue” | Dr. Theodor Sider, Rutgers University |
2003 | March 31 | “A New Grandfather Paradox?” | Dr. Theodor Sider, Rutgers University |
2002 | April12 | “Truth in Fiction: The Whole Story” | Dr. Frances Howard-Snyder, Western Washington University |
2002 | March 15 | “Oppression and Epistemic Advantage: Why The View is Better From The Margins” | Dr. Audre Brokes, St. Joseph’s University |
2002 | March 16 | “The Reference Class Problem and Direct Inference” | Dr. Audre Brokes, St. Joseph’s University |
2001 | October 9 | “Is It Stupid To Believe In God?” | Speakers: Dr. Ken Sanderson, Professor and Chair, Department of English; Rabbi Daniel Fink, Ahavath Beth Israel and Saikat Guha, Philosophy Major. |
2001 | April 20 | “Inexplicable Contingency: Is There Any Explanation For Why Things That Could Have Been Otherwise Are the Way They Are?” | Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Washington University |
2001 | April 21 | “Nothing But Dust and Ashes” | Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Washington University |
2001 | March 10 | “Touching” | Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Washington University |
2000 | October 20 | “Notre Dame, Can Science Disprove the Existence of God?” | Dr. Peter van Inwagen, John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame |
2000 | October 21 | “What Do We Refer to When We Say ‘I’?” | Dr. Peter van Inwagen, John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame |
1999 | October 29 | ” Morality & the Limits of Technology” | Dr. Clarence Johnson, Middle Tennessee University |
1998 | November 13 | “The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide” | Dr. Ralph Baergen, Idaho State University |
1998 | November 14 | “Eptisemic Internalism” | Dr. Ralph Baergen, Idaho State University |
1998 | March 11 | ” A Sound Argument Concerning Existence of God” | Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Washington University |
1997 | April 25 | “St. Augustine: Rhetoric and Religion in Roman North Africa” | Prof. Paul Beddoe, St. Andrews University |
1997 | February 27 | “Creationism vs. Evolutionism.” | Dr. Andrew B. Schoedinger & Reverend B. Fisher, Boise State University |
1996 | March 8 | “Inevitable Factual, Legal & Moral Errors: A Case Against the Death Penalty” | Prof. Jeff Johnson, Eastern Oregon State |
1996 | March 9 | “Hare’s Internalism” | Mr. Patrick Beach M.A., Boise State University |
1996 | February 6 | “Something Pertaining to Philosophy & Mathematics” | Dr. Randall Holmes, Boise State University |
1995 | November 17 | “Does Technological Progress Prove Our Cosmology to be True?” | Dr. Charles Huenemann, Utah State University |
1995 | October 20 | “Advance Directives for Medical Care: What Are Our Goals and Why Aren’t We Achieving Them?” | Dr. Ralph Baergen, Idaho State University |
1995 | March 17 | “How to Read Philosophy: An Easy Introduction to Foucault and Derrida” | Dr. Terry Mazurak, Albertson College |
1995 | February 6 | “Plato & Friendship” | Dr. Mary Karol Taylor, Montana St. University |
1994 | March 19 | “A Multidisciplinary Look at Biotechnological Advances” | Philosophy/Psychology/Psy Chi/Psy Honorary |
1993 | December 3 | “Moderated Philosophy Club & Campus Crusade for Christ, Freethought Society”[McLuggage/Brandt] | Dr. Alan Brinton, Boise State University |
1990 | October 29 | “Pain and Ethical Naturalism [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly]” | Dr. Andrew B. Schoedinger, Dr. Alan Brinton and Dr. Warren Harbison, Boise State University |
1990 | April 10 | “The Phenomenology of Stupidity as a Factor in Argument and Ethos” | Dr. Laurence Rosenfield, Queens College of the City University of New York |
1990 | March 18 | “The Great Showdown” | Dr. Andrew B. Schoedinger and Dr. Ed McLuskie, Boise State University |
Other | February 15, 1989 | “Idealism in Descartes & Malebranch” | Dr. Russell Wahl, Idaho State University |
Other | June 10, 1988 | “Values Implicit in the Concept of Suicide,” and Hume’s Birthday all nighters to see “if the sun will truly rise.” | Dr. Michael J. Wreen, Marquette University |
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