Andrea Pitts (B.A., UNF 2006; currently pursuing her Ph.D. at USF) will be presenting our first annual UNF alumni lecture at Saturday’s conference. The title of her paper is “A Chimera, Lie, and Illusion: Reciprocal Love in Rousseau.” Here is the abstract:
Archive for the ‘Early Modern Philosophy’ Category
“A Chimera, Lie, and Illusion”
Posted in Conferences, Early Modern Philosophy on September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Schroeder on Bloggingheads
Posted in Action Theory, Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics, Moral Psychology on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Schroeder (USC) discusses his book Slaves of the Passions.
S.C. Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy
Posted in CFPs, Conferences, Early Modern Philosophy on August 3, 2007 | Comments Off
Information and the CFP (deadline September 20th) are available here.
Don Garrett: The Interview
Posted in Early Modern Philosophy, Interviews on March 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The FSPB welcomes Don Garrett (NYU) to our blog.
FSPB: Hi, Don, thank you for joining us.
DG: Thanks, Rico—it’s a pleasure.
FSPB: Congratulations on the upcoming publication of Hume. Could you tell our readers, briefly, the central focus of the book.
DG: As you may know, it is part of the Routledge Philosophers series edited by Brian Leiter. [...]
“Losing One’s Self”
Posted in Early Modern Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy on February 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… a colloquium with Cheshire Calhoun at the University of Miami today (Friday, February 2nd) at 3:30 P.M. Details available here.
In philosophy news from the northern part of the state today, UNF welcomes Benjamin Hale (Colorado), who will present his paper, “What’s So Moral about the Moral Hazzard?” at 4:00 P.M. For more details, contact the Department [...]
The Checkershadow Illusion
Posted in Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Brian Weatherson of Thoughts, Arguments, and Rants has an interesting discussion of the Checkershadow Illusion here. The accompanying Powerpoint presentation is helpful in clarifying the illusion … and it might be a useful tool for those teaching (or attending) classes concerning, e.g., external world skepticism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, etc.
Josh Gert (FSU) has recently done some [...]
