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Past Talks:

Spring 2012

  • “The Grecian and Judeo-Christian Background in Heidegger’s Conception of Dasein: A Possible Meeting-point for Eastern and Western Philosophies”  Wensheng Wang, Professor of Philosophy, National Chengchi University, Tapei, Taiwan

  • 3/22  "Identity Crisis" Jeremy Henry

  • 3/1:  "Information Ethics - A View from the Trenches"  Oskars Rieksts, KU Computer Science Department

  • 2/2/:  "The Ethical Dimension of a Drug Deal"  Jenn Dum

  • 2/16  "To Be or Not to Be the Value of a Bound Variable"  Milo Crimi

Fall 2011

  • 12/9/:   "Why We Should Believe in Libertarian Free" Will  Howard Robinson, Professor of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
  • "It's All About Barbara:  A Case in Modalilty  James Pearson B.A. Philosophy Kutztown
  • "Cultural Imperialism? A Case in Muslim India"  Colleen Fitzgerald B.A. Philosophy Kutztown, M.A. English Lehigh

  • 10/27:  Panel Discussion on Deep Ecology

  • 10/6  "Ockham's Ups and Downs"  Milo Crimi

  • 9/22  "The Tragedy of Gorgiza"  Zach Groff

  • 9/8  "Why I Hate Bad Movies"  Allan, Back, Philosophy Department

 

Spring 2011

  • 4/14:  "Cosmic Fine-Tuning and God"  Dr. Robin Collins, Messiah College
  • 3/24:  "How Dewey Ducks the Moral Issues"  Zachary Groff
  • 2/24:   "How to Walzer Your Way to the Top"  Nicholas Clarkin-Wright
  • 2/10:  "Assault and Battery upon Anselm"  Milo Crimi
     

Fall 2010

  • 12/10  "Science and Values"  Hugh Lacey, Department of Philosophy, Swarthmore College

  • 11/18  "A Soul Is a Terrible Thing for a Mind to Think It Has to Waste" Isaac Earley

  • 11/4  "The Reality of Fiction" Deanna Smith, KU alumna and Philosophy MA candidate, Texas Tech University

  • 10/21  "The Tao of Aquinas"  Jeremy Henry

  • 10/07  "Zen Zombies...The Truth about Bruce Lee" Professor Allan Back, Kutztown University

  • 9/23 "First I Look at the Peirce"  Milo Crimi

  • 9/9 "All you need is love"  Peter Secor

Spring 2010

  • 4/8  "Bradley and the Ideality of Thought"  Zachary Groff

  • 3/25  Darwin's 'Voyage of the HMS Beagle' Revisited"  John Studenroth, BFC Chaplain

  • 2/19  "Agape and Eros Revisited" Professor Andrew Payne, Department of Philosophy, Saint Joseph's University

  • 2/09  "Is Human Nature All That Bad?"  Peter Secor

  • 1/28  "Epistemic Failure"  Milo Crimi

Fall 2009

  • 12/11/09:  "Mistakes of Reason: Aristotle on the Practical Syllogism"  Professor Allan Back, KU Philosophy Department

  • 11/12/09:  "I Think; Therefore God Is:  Anselm's Ontological Argument"  Brian Lust

  • 10/29/09:  "Thinking Clearly About Violence'  Allan Back, KU Philosophy Department

  • 10/8/09:  "The Incarnation and Unity of Consciousness" Joseph Jedwab, KU philosophy Department

  • 10/02/09:  "Dialethism and the Limits of Language"  Graham Priest, Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne and Arche Visiting Professor, University of St. Andrews

  • 9/24:  "Is Brain Death Death?"  Dr. John Lizza, KU Philosophy Department

  • 9/10/09:  "No Willing Sinners:  The Prudential Paradox of Socrates"  Vadim Fedorovsky

Spring 2009

  • 4/24/09:  "Similarities out of Balance:  The Dictator, the Blob, and You"  Professor Michael Morreau, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland

  • 4/16/09:  "Free speech and Government speech"  Charles Cieri, KU Philosophy graduate

  • 3/31/09:  "Organ Transplantation, Personal Identity, and Social Justice"  Tangjia Wang, Fudan University/Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Southern Illinois University

  • 3/26/09:  "Sludge 101:  From the Flush to Your Food Source"  Daree Sicher

  • 3/12/09:  "The Logic of God"  Andrew Dorman, KU Philosophy graduate

  • 2/19/09:  "Adultery:  Immoral or Not?"  Vadim Fedorovsky

  • 2/5/09:  "The KI to Power in the Martial Arts"  Allan Back, KU Philosphy Department

  • 1/22/09:  "Is the Veil of Ignorance "Bear"able?  Jonathan Sandman

Fall 2008

  • 12/09/08: "Representation, Cognition, and Language" Dr. Mark H. Bickhard, Henry R. Luce Professor in Cognitive Robotics & The Philosophy of Knowledge,

    Lehigh University

  • 11/13/08: "Schizophrenic? Ask Jekyll and Hyde" Jonathan Sandman

  • 10/31/08: "Revisiting Plato's Generation of Number" Mike Barkasi

  • 10/23/08: "Potentiality and Persons at the Margins of Life" John Lizza, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

  • 10/08/08:  "Logic and Theology in the Middle Ages" Paul Thom, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney

  • 10/02/08:  "Carrot killing -- and other problems of a vegan philosophy"  Michael Piccillo

  • 9/18/:  "A Conversation with Michael Parenti: Terrorism and Super-Patriotism" Dr. Michael Parenti

  • 9/4/08:  "A Gambling Problem Even God Can't Solve [Although I Might be Mistaken]"  Mike Barkasi

Spring 2008

  • 4/22/08: "Sober on Intelligent Design Theory and the Intelligent Designer" Professor John Beaudoin, Dept. of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University

  • 4/14/08: "Religious Ultimates and the Prejudice of Mutual Exclusivity:  A Pluralistic Problematique"  Professor Matthew S. Lopresti, Hawai’i Pacific University

  • 4/7/08:  "Naturalism and Non-Naturalism in Ethics" Professor Noell Birondo, Department of Philosophy, Pomona Colege

  • 4/2/09: "A Lockean Theory of the Trinity and Incarnation" Professor Joseph Jedwab, Oriel College, Oxford

  • 3/27/08:  "Alternative Conceptual Schemes" M. Ashraf Adeel, Philosophy Dept.

  • 3/11/08:  "O Say Can You See" Jonathan Sanders

  • 2/21/08:  "Why Fair trade is Unfair" John Riley, Political Science Dept.

  • 2/7/08:  "Is God Necessary?"  Allan Back, Philosophy Dept.

  • 1/24/08:  "Just Campaigning or Just Campaigning: Plato and the Elections" Mike Barkasi

Fall 2007

  • 11/29/07: "Mathematical Explanation in Science" Dr. Alan Baker, Department of Philosophy, Swarthmore College

  • 11/15/07: "No More Meatings" James Pearson, KU Philosophy Student

  • 11/1/07: "Tao as Fundamental Reality" Andrew Dorman,  KU Alumnus

  • 10/19/07: "Chic Ironic Bitterness" Dr. R. J. Magill, American Academy of Berlin

  • 10/4/07:  "The Precautionary Principle and Ethical Issues in Toxicology" Dr. Steven G. Gilbert, Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders, Seattle, Washington

  • 9/20/07:  "Taking the Racy out of Racism" Michael Barkasi, KU Philosophy Student

  • 9/6/07:  "A Man's Right to Choose" Deanna Smith, KU Philosophy Student

Spring 2007

  • 4/30/07: "Consciousness and Mental Qualities" Dr. David Rosenthal, Graduate Center, City University of New York

  • 4/18/07: "Framing and Scheming: What Metaphors To To - and For - Us" Dr. Elisabeth Camp, Philosophy Department, University of Pennsylvania

  • 4/12/07: "Zeno is Fein" Greg Fein, KU Philosophy Student

  • 3/22/07: "God in Retirement: Securalism and the Origins of Modernity" Dr. Eric Johnson, History Department, Kutztown University

  • 3/8/07: "How to Survive a Zombie Uprising" Greg Fein, KU Philosophy Student

  • 3/1/07: "The Ideas of Educating and Learning in Confucian Thought" Dr. Chen Lai, Peking University

  • 2/22/07: "Theories of Science: Underdetermined or What?" Dr. M Ashraf Adeel, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

  • 2/8/07: "Islamic Philosophy? Or: The Perils of Multiculturalism" Dr. Allan Back, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

  • 1/25/07: "The truth if it 'Suits' You" Michael Barkasi, KU Philosophy Student

Fall 2006

  • 12/1/06: "Hispanic Identity and Art" Dr. Jorge Gracia, Philosophy Department, University at Buffalo

  • 11/28/06: "Innate Moral Consciousness and Virtue: A Neo-Confucian Conception" Dr. Yang Guorong, Professor and Director of Institute of Modern Chinese Thoughts and Culture, East China Normal University

  • 11/16/06: "Women: Source of Sin?" Colleen Fitzgerald

  • 11/2/06: "Defining Child Abuse" Jonathan DeRaymond, M.Ed.

  • 10/19/06:  "Anarchy in Education:  Breaking the Mold of Conservative Pedagogical Practices"  Dr. Mark Holowchak, Philosophy Department,  Kutztown University

  • 10/17/06: "Daoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine" Dr. Linghong Kong, Zhejiang University

  • 9/21/06: "Citizenship in a Time of War" Dr. Michael Gambone, History Department, Kutztown University

  • 9/7/06:  "Using Your Noodle in Religion," Deanna Smith, KU Philosophy Student

Spring 2006

  • 5/1/06:  "Is Everything Interconnected?  Bell's Theorem and Quantum Reality" Dr. Tim Maudlin, Philosophy Department, Rutgers University

  • 4/25/06:  "Writing for the Eye"  Dr. Danielle Macbeth, Philosophy Department, Haverford College

  • 3/9/06: "A Not Too Intelligent Design"  Dr. William Towne, Biology Department, Kutztown University

  • 2/23/06:  "Modality and Probability"  Dr. Tianping He, Assistant Professor, Research Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University

  • 2/9/06:  "Ethical Responsibility of Free Speech:  Should Danish and other European newspapers have published cartoons denigrating Islam?"  A roundtable discussion

  • 1/26/06:  "Invulnerability:  Protecting Oneself from the 'Arrows of Fortune'"  Dr. Mark Holowchak, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

Fall 2005

  • 12/09/05:  "The Biological Foundations of Cognitive Science"  Dr. Mark Bickhard, Henry R. Luce Professor in Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge, Lehigh University

  • 11/17/05:  "Race in Medicine"  Glenn Ellis

  • 11/03/05:  "The Nature of Community"  Erin Bixler

  • 10/17/05:  "Daoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine"  Linghong Kong, Director, Daoism Study Center, Zhejiang University, People's Republic of China

  • 10/06/05:  "The Coherence of the Holy Trinity:  Three as One"  Matt Reffie, KU Philosophy Student

  • 9/22/05:  "Was Immanuel Kant the grandfather of the social construct of reality?" Prof. Robert Paul Wolff, Director, Afro-American Studies Program, UMass Amherst

  • 9/8/05:  "Islamic Ways of Knowing"  Professor Allan Back, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

Spring 2005

  • 4/21/05:  "Extreme Makeovers:  The Limits of Self-Fashioning"  Dennis M. Weiss, York College of Pennsylvania

  • 4/7/05"  "Kant on Criminal Justice"  Charles Cieri

  • 3/22/05:  "Zen/Chan Buddhism"  Dr. HONG Xiuping, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Nanjing University/Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute

  • 3/17/05:  "Religion in Politics Today"  Professor Fouad Kalouche, Philosophy Department, Albright College

  • 2/24/05:  "Defining Child Abuse"  Jonathan DeRaymond, KU Criminal Justice Grad, School Counselor, Bethlehem School District

  • 2/10/05:  "Why No One Knows You Better than Your Dog"  James Hall, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

  • 1/27/05:  "Loving Death"  Professor Allan Back, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

Fall 2004

  • 12/10/04:  "Being Brain-Dead in Japan"  Professor William LaFleur, Saunders Professor in Japanese Studies, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

  • 11/18/04:  "Business Ethics:  What a difference some fraud makes"  Jason Mugridge, Ernst & Young, KU Graduate

  • 11/04/04:  “Justice and Healthcare”  Christy A. Rentmeester, Anderson Fellow in Ethics and Humanities, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network Graduate Medical Education, Center for Educational Development and Support 

  • 10/07/04:  "Seneca on Suicide and Self-Sufficiency" Dr. Mark Holowchak, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

  • 9/22/04:  "Theologos as Tyranny"  Heather Walters

  • 9/8/04:  "Multiculturalism: Commonality and Difference"  Dr. Yong Huang, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

Spring 2004

  • 4/28/04:  "Unjust War"  Dr. Jeff McMahan, Philosophy Department, Rutgers University

  • 4/8/04: "Buddhist Meditation"  Luangpor Thong, Buddhist Monk

  • 3/30/04:  "A soldier's personal experience of war in Iraq"  Sergeant John Loomis

  • 3/18/04:  "The Hegemony of Western Knowledge and the Disintegration of Traditional Chinese Learning"  Dr. Zhao-Hui Fang, Tsinghua University, Beijing and Harvard-Yenching Institute

  • 02/26/04:  "Are Brains Needed for Consciousness?"  Andrew Earley, KU Philosophy Student

  • 02/12/04:  Waking Life:  Some Philosophical Questions"  Steve Henrick

  • 01/29/04:  "Why Knowledge is Moral and Psychology is Not"  Curtis Sharp

Fall 2003

  • 12/05/03:  "Dao De Jing as Process Thought" Dr. Frank Hoffman, Philosophy Department, West Chester University

  • 11/20/03:  "Can Fanaticism be Understood"  Jason Chubb

  • 10/30/03:  "Should Life Support be withdrawn from Terry Schiavo"  Dr. John Lizza, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

  • 10/16/03:  "Spaceballs" Curtis Sharp and Viral Amin

  • 10/06/03:  "Meet the Philosopher"  Dr. Louis Pojman, Professor of Philosophy, United States Military Academy

  • 09/18/03:  "Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Steroids:  Coming Clean about Cleaning Up Baseball"  Dr. Mark Holowchak, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

  • 09/04/03: "Victims and Martyrs: Revisiting 9/11" Marco Drogo, KU student

  • 05/09/03:  "On Quantification" Dr. Zoltan Szabo, Cornell University

Spring 2003

  • 03/27/03:  "9/11 Conspiracy Theories:  Part One, Pentagate"  Dr. Phillip Ferreira, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

  • 02/27/03:  "Unlocking the Mystery of Life:  The Theory of Intelligent Design"  John Studenroth, Ph.D., Bible Fellowship Church

  • 02/13/03:  "I Think; Therefore Siam:  Reflections on Thailand"  Curtis Sharp

  • 01/30/03:  "Iraq and Non-Violence"  Andrew Dorman and Dr. James Hall, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

Fall 2002

  • 12/06/02:  "The Uses and Abuses of Godel's Incompleteness Theorems"  Dr. John Dawson, Penn State York.

  • 10/17/02:  "Is Accounting a Criminal Profession?"  Jason Mugridge, KU Graduate

  • 10/03/02:  "Embrace Diversity?"  Marco Drogo

  • 09/19/02:  "Death of a Dichotomy:  Come to the Public Execution of the Two-World Assumption"  Andrew Dorman

  • 09/05/02:  "The Contributions of Islamic Philosophy"  Dr. Allan Back, Philosophy Department, Kutztown University

  • 05/17/02:  "Truth, Value, and Education:  Revising Dewey's Appeal for Shared Meaning"  Dr. Jessica Wahman, Dickinson College.

Other Topics and Their Speakers:

  • "Recurring Themes in African American Political Thought" - Bernard Boxill, Prof. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • "Criminal Justice Plotting, Planning and Planting by the Power Elite" - Cora Mae Mann, Prof. Emerita of Criminal Justice, Indiana University and Florida State University

  • "Feminist Ethics: Justice and Care" - Virginia Held, Distinguished Prof. of Philosophy, City University of New York

  • "Is Christianity the Only True Religion?" - Yong Huang, Asst. Prof. of Philosophy, Kutztown University

  • "Non-Violence in the Martial Arts" - Allan Bäck, Prof. of Philosophy, Kutztown University

  • "The Mandala and the Cosmos" - Heidi Ulrich, Student, Kutztown University

  • "The Emergence of the Outsider" - Amanda Winkler, Student, Kutztown University

  • "The Philosophical Basis of Feminism" - Matt Szundy, Student, Kutztown University

  • "What are Bumble Bees For?" - William Towne, Prof. of Biology, Kutztown University

  • "Some Philosophical Implications of Recent Advances in Neuropsychology" - G. Dennis Rains, Prof. of Psychology, Kutztown University

  • "Nature, Myself and Society" - Cory Allan Orndorff, Student, Kutztown University

  • "How to Interpret the Bible Correctly" - Phillip Krey, Asso. Prof. of Church History, Philadelphia Lutheran Theological Seminary

  • "William James and the Intellectuals" - Phillip Ferreira, Asst. Prof. of Philosophy, Kutztown University

  • "Aristotle, The Big Bang, and Creationism" - Gregory Scott, Prof. of Philosophy, New York University

  • "Environmental Ethics in India" - Jayapaul Azariah, Prof. of Zoology, Madras University, Chennai, India

  • "No ThySelf - Self-Esteem and Zen Buddhism" - Allan Back, Professor of Philosophy, Kutztown University

  • "Missing Existentialism" - Dr. Timothy Galluci, Prof. of Art Education and Craft, Kutztown University

  • "Christian Idealogy in Myst and Riven" - Lisa Ferrell, Philosophy Student, Kutztown University

  • "Taoist Freedom" - Dr. Yong Huang, Professor of Philosophy, Kutztown University

  • "The Predicament: Cultural Relativism and Universal Values" - Dr. Allen Fanger, Prof. of Anthropology and Sociology, Kutztown University

  • "Pythagorean Number Mysticism" - Father Theodore Heckman

  • "A Science of Racism?" - Joseph Smith, Student, Kutztown University

  • "How Reason Determines Conduct: Moral Feelings in Kant" - Charles Stone, University of Cincinnati

  • "Heaven: Here and Now A Chinese Perspective" - Professor Guorong Yang, Chair, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University

  • "Headbirths: Reconceiving Russell's Theory of Definite Descriptions" - Stephen Hoffert, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati

  • "Abortion, Death, and Potentiality" - Dr. John Lizza, Chairperson, Department of Philosophy, Kutztown University

  • "Paradigm Shift: From System to Symbol in Social Construction of the Self" - Dr. Diane Johnson, Professor of Sociology, Kutztown University

  • "Darwin Among the Machines" - Dr. Philip T. Grier, Department of Philosophy, Dickinson College