PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIA EVENTS
Sponsored by theBSU Department of Philosophy
and theBSU Philosophy Club
BSU College of Arts and Sciences
Boise State University
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2006
10/27-28 Dr. Elisabeth Camp, University of Pennsylvania, Perspectives in Imaginative Engagement with Fiction, and Poesis without Metaphor.
2005
12/6 Mr. Jim Stockton, BSU Department of Philosophy, The Ethics of a Politically Correct Christmas.
11/11 Colloquium on Endangered Species, organized by Dr. Erin Anchustegui, BSU Department of Philosophy. Speakers: Mr. Jon Marvel (Executive Director, Western Watersheds Project); Mr. Laird Lucas (Attorney & Executive Director, Advocates for the West); Dr. Tony Roark (Assistant Professor, BSU Department of Philosophy); Dr. Andrew Schoedinger (Professor, BSU Department of Philosophy).
4/21-22 Dr. Josh Parsons, Univeristy of Califormia at Davis, Intrinsic Vale and Intrinsic Properties, and Some New Zeno Puzzles.
4/8-9 Dr. Donald C. Hubin, The Ohio State University, Who's Your Daddy?, and Responsibility for Dependent Life.
2/18 Dr. Arthur C. Danto, Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, The Gap Between Art & Life.
2004
11/18 Mr. Jon Marvel, Western Watersheds Project, Protecting Public Lands from Federally-Funded Abuses by Ranchers.
9/1 Dr. Nick Gier, University of Idaho (emeritus), The Saints of Non-Violence: Christ, Gandhi, and Buddha.
2/27-28 Dr. Mark Heller, Southern Methodist University, How to Lose your Leg ... Without Paradox, and The Conventionality of the 3-D/4-D Debate.
20035/2-3 Dr. Gyula Klima, Fordham University, The Essentialist Nominalism of John Buridan, and Consequences of a Closed, Token-Based Semantics: the Case of John Buridan.
4/25 Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Wasington University, The Quick Talk.
3/30-31 Dr. Theodor Sider, Rutgers University, Vague, So Untrue, and A New Grandfather Paradox?
2002
4/12 Dr. Frances Howard-Snyder, Western Washington University, Truth in Fiction: The Whole Story.
3/15-16 Dr. Audre Brokes, St. Joseph’s University, Oppression and Epistemic Advantage: Why The View is Better From The Margins, and The Reference Class Problem and Direct Inference.
2001
10/9 Is It Stupid To Believe In God? a public forum. Speakers: Dr. Ken Sanderson, Professor and Chair, Department of English; Rabbi Daniel Fink, Ahavath Beth Israel; Saikat Guha, Philosophy Major.
4/20-21 Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Wash. University, BSU graduate, Inexplicable Contingency: Is There Any Explanation For Why Things That Could Have Been Otherwise Are the Way They Are?, and Nothing But Dust and Ashes.
3/10 Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Wash. University, BSU graduate, Touching.
2000
10/20-21 Dr. Peter van Inwagen, John Cardinal O’Hara Professor, Notre Dame, Can Science Disprove the Existence of God?, and What Do We Refer to When We Say ‘I’?
1999
10/29 Dr. Clarence Johnson, Middle Tennessee Univ., Morality & the Limits of Technology.
1998
11/13-14 Dr. Ralph Baergen, Idaho State Univ., The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide, and Eptisemic Internalism.
3/13 Dr. Hud Hudson, Western Wash. Univ., A Sound Argument Concerning Existence of God.
1997
4/25 Prof. Paul Beddoe, St. Andrews University, St. Augustine: Rhetoric and Religion in Roman North Africa.
1996
3/8 Prof. Jeff Johnson, Eastern Oregon State, Inevitable Factual, Legal & Moral Errors: A Case Against the Death Penalty.
3/9 Patrick Beach, BSU graduate, O’Hare’s Internalism.
1995
11/17 Dr. Charles Huenemann, Utah St. Univ., Does Technological Progress Prove Our Cosmology to be True?
10/20 Dr. Ralph Baergen, Idaho St. Univ. , Advance Directives for Medical Care: What Are Our Goals and Why Aren’t We Achieving Them?
4/17 Dr. Terry Mazurak, Albertson College, How to Read Philosophy: An Easy Introduction to Foucault and Derrida.
2/6 Mary Karol Taylor, Montana St. Univ., BSU graduate, Plato & Friendship.
Other
2/27/97 Dr. Andrew B. Schoedinger & Rev. B. Fischer, Creationism vs. Evolutionism.
2/6/96 Dr. Randall Holmes, Boise St. Univ., Something Pertaining to Philosophy & Mathematics.
3/19/94 Philosophy/Psychology/Psy Chi/Psy Honorary, A Multidisciplinary Look at Biotechnological Advances.
12/3/93 Dr. Alan Brinton, Boise State Univ., moderated Philosophy Club & Campus Crusade for Christ, Freethought Society [McLuggage/Brandt].
4/3-5/93 1993 Idaho Intercollegiate Philosophy Conference Osprey Point/Donnelly.
4/3-5/92 1992 Idaho Intercollegiate Philosophy Conference Osprey Point/Donnelly.
4/19-21/91 1991 Idaho Intercollegiate Philosophy Conference Osprey Point/Donnelly.
10/29/90 Dr. Andrew B. Schoedinger, Dr. Alan Brinton, Dr. Warren Harbison, Pain and Ethical Naturalism [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly].
4/10/90 Dr. Laurence Rosenfield, Queens College of the City Univ of New York, The Phenomenology of Stupidity as a Factor in Argument and Ethos.
3/18/90 Dr. Andrew B. Schoedinger & Dr. Ed McLuskie, The Great Showdown.
2/15/89 Dr. Russell Wahl, Idaho St. Univ., Idealism in Descartes & Malebranch.
6/10/88 Dr. Michael J. Wreen, Marquette Univ., Values Implicit in the Concept of Suicide, and Hume’s Birthday all nighters to see “if the sun will truly rise.”
