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Talk: Thinking with Poetry
Talk: Thinking with Poetry
Talk: Thinking with Poetry By Anna Cristina Ribeiro (Philosophy, Texas Tech University) Date: Thursday October 5, 2023 Time: 1730-1900 Zoom: tbd Abstract: Poetic language is sensuous and imagistic: its sounds often form a rhythm, and its images ground us in the concrete world. Moreover, the rhythm and images of a poem seem inextricable from what it says. These features would […]
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Talk: Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Princess of Wales – Her Role in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
Talk: Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Princess of Wales: Her Role in the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence By Gregory Brown (Philosophy, Houston) Date: Thursday October 12, 2023 Time: 15.30-17.00 Room: H232 Abstract: In this paper I briefly discuss the events that unfolded in the runup to the correspondence between Leibniz and Newton’s ally and apologist, Samuel Clarke. I then focus on the role that Caroline of […]
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Talk: Meter-Kybele in Pergamon
Talk: Meter-Kybele in Pergamon
Talk: Meter-Kybele in Pergamon By Felix Pirson (German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul/ Head of the Pergamon excavation) Date: Wednesday 1 November, 2023 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: C-Blok Amphi Abstract: The Phrygian mother-goddess Meter-Kybele was among the most popular deities in Anatolia and Greece during Antiquity. She was venerated both in monumentalized sanctuaries and in natural shrines in city and countryside. According […]
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Talk: Objectivity as Prophecy
Talk: Objectivity as Prophecy
Title: Objectivity as Prophecy: The Long View from West Africa in 1903 By Jeanne-Marie Jackson (English Literature, Johns Hopkins) Date: Thursday, November 2, 2023 Time: 1730-1900 Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/9505380471?pwd=NEhLVnhxQW93d3U2dGp4U0VQK0UxQT09Meeting ID: 950 538 0471Passcode: 633717 Abstract: This talk presents a literary reading of Gold Coast political history, focused mainly on legal-humanistic treatises by the Fante writer-statesmen J.E. Casely Hayford and John Mensah […]
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Talk: The Case for Commitment
Talk: The Case for Commitment
Title: The Case for Commitment By Sarah Paul (Philosophy, NYU Abu Dhabi) Date: Friday, November 3, 2023 Time: 1530-1700 Room: H232 Abstract: Theories of structural, instrumental rationality generally do not make reference to anything we might call 'commitment', beyond the sense in which all intentions are a kind of settled commitment. Some views do allow for things like commitment, resolutions, […]
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