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Thursday, February 9, 2012
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Philosophy Colloquium "Moral Dumbfounding & Moral Stupidity" by Daniel Jacobson
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
University Center, Room 241
Professor Jacobson works on a range of topics in ethics and moral psychology, especially issues concerning sentimentalism, and the moral and political philosophy of J.S. Mill. He has also published in aesthetics and political philosophy, and has ongoing research interests in those fields. Professor Jacobson is currently working on the Mill volume for the Routledge Philosophers Series, as well as a collaborative book project, Rational Sentimentalism, with Professor Justin D'Arms (Ohio State) for Oxford University Press. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton. Professor Jacobson is the Project Leader of The Science of Ethics, a three-year interdisciplinary project which comprises two summer workshops in moral psychology, support for two book projects, and an essay prize competition. The Science of Ethics project is funded in part by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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Philosophy Colloquium "Empirical Ethics & Singer's Dilemma" by Daniel Jacobson
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Learning Center, Room 180
Professor Jacobson works on a range of topics in ethics and moral psychology, especially issues concerning sentimentalism, and the moral and political philosophy of J.S. Mill. He has also published in aesthetics and political philosophy, and has ongoing research interests in those fields. Professor Jacobson is currently working on the Mill volume for the Routledge Philosophers Series, as well as a collaborative book project, Rational Sentimentalism, with Professor Justin D'Arms (Ohio State) for Oxford University Press. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton. Professor Jacobson is the Project Leader of The Science of Ethics, a three-year interdisciplinary project which comprises two summer workshops in moral psychology, support for two book projects, and an essay prize competition. The Science of Ethics project is funded in part by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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Philosophy Colloquium "Explanatory Kinds" by Bernhard Nickel
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Memorial Bldg, Room 205
Bernhard Nickel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His research interests are in the philosophy of language, especially in the connections between language and other areas of philosophy.
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