Department of Philosophy

Please join the Department of Philosophy at the 2011 – 2012 Bachelor’s Essay presentation on Friday, 4/13/12 from 2:00 – 3:30 pm in ECTR 113. Meredith Oliver will be presenting her Bachelor’s Essay Sentiment and Circuits: the Effects of Human-Robot Interaction on Ethical Intuitions.

The Philosophy Department and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences present

“Aesthetics in Participatory, Socially Engaged Art”
Michael Kelly, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Contemporary art is increasingly participatory and socially engaged. What are the aspirations, operations, and effects of such art? What are its predecessors? How has aesthetics been an explicit partner in the development of participatory art when, by contrast, so much art since the 1960s has been committed to an anti-aesthetic stance? Is art still tied to aesthetics as it becomes ever more socially engaged?

Thursday, April 12, 3:15PM
Tate Center 202,
Reception to follow

For further information contact Professor Jonathan Neufeld, Department of Philosophy: neufeldja@cofc.edu

Please join the Department of Philosophy for Prof. Glenn Lesses’ sabbatical talk “Austere Affections” on Thursday, 3/29/12 at 3:15 p.m. in Room 113 of the Education Center.

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Please join the Department of Philosophy for the talk “The Norms of Nature Appreciation” by Dr. Glenn Parsons on Thursday, 3/15/12 at 3:15 p.m. in the Wachovia Auditorium, 115 Beatty Center.

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Please join the Department of Philosophy for the talk “From Edinburgh to Algiers: Hume and Camus on Philosophical Modesty” by Dr. Robert Zaretsky on Thursday, 2/23/12 at 6:30 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Hall in Randolph Hall

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Jonathan Neufeld and Jennifer C. Lena (Sociology, Barnard) founded the “Music, Authority, and Community” project that commissioned a new musical work by Guggenheim award winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank. The piece, Hilos, was premiered and recorded in Nashville by the Alias Chamber Ensemble in 2010. The CD, released by Naxos in February 2011, was nominated for a Grammy Award on November 30.  For a newspaper article about the project, click here: http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/fall-guide-classical-and-opera/Content?oid=1819292 Congratulations to the project participants!

Please join the Department of Philosophy for the talk “The Inertness of Reason & Hume’s Legacy” by Dr. Elizabeth Radcliffe on Friday, 11/4/11 at 2:15 p.m. in the Alumni Center of the School of Education Health & Human Performance.

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Professor Ned Hettinger will be presenting a paper on  “Evaluating Positive Aesthetics” at the Annual Meetings of the American Society for Aesthetics in Tampa, Florida, October 2011.  http://www.aesthetics-online.org/annual/2011p.pdf

Professor Jonathan Neufeld will be giving a talk entitled, “Feeling Critically: Aesthetic Education and the Musical Public” at Tilburg University in the Netherlands on October 8, 2011.  The conference is entitled “Towards a Contemporary Aesthetic Education.”

Professor Christian Coseru will be presenting a paper on Friday, 10/7/2011, at the Contemporary Perspectives on Buddhist Ethics Conference, to be held at Columbia University, New York, on  ”Practical Reason and the Spontaneity of Compassion.”