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“With All Convenient Speed: Plotting Development in Postcolonial Singapore”Peter Ribic, University of Wisconsin, English Literature
Peter Ribic, University of Wisconsin, English Literature Monday, February 18th, 5:40-7:00 pm, G-160 “With All Convenient Speed: Plotting Development in Postcolonial Singapore” During the period of decolonization after the Second World War, the meaning of economic “development” shifted from a process to a project as politicians and political economists attempted, not only to identify the stages through which national […]
“Explaining Contingent Facts”,By Fatema Amijee (SFU, Philosophy)
“Explaining Contingent Facts” By Fatema Amijee (SFU, Philosophy) Date: Friday, 15th February, 2019 Time: 1100-1230 Place: H-232 Abstract: I argue against a widely accepted principle taken to govern metaphysical explanation. This is the principle that no necessary facts can, on their own, explain a contingent fact. I then show how this result makes available a response to a longstanding objection to the Principle of Sufficient Reason—the objection that the Principle of Sufficient […]
“Farewell to Sola Scriptura: Lessing and the Critique of Early Modern Philology.”Matthew Stoltz, Cornell University, German Studies
Matthew Stoltz, Cornell University, German Studies Thursday, February 14th, 5:40-7:00, G-160 "Farewell to Sola Scriptura: Lessing and the Critique of Early Modern Philology." This presentation explores the ways in which Lessing’s critique of theology during the fragment controversy (1774-1780) destabilized the doctrine of sola scriptura, which served as the backbone of Protestant hermeneutics up to the eighteenth century. In my presentation, […]