The Center for Philosophic Exchange

Upcoming Talks

All talks are held in 220-221 Seymour Union,
SUNY Brockport

The Embodied Mind and the Bodily Machine in Descartes
Gary Hatfield
University of Pennsylvania
11:30am, October 11, 2011

The Phenomenology of Visual Space
Gary Hatfield
University of Pennsylvania
1:15pm, October 11, 2011

God's Values
C. D. C. Reeve
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:45am, October 20, 2011

The Tripartite Soul in Plato's Republic
C. D. C. Reeve
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1:15pm, October 20, 2011

Virtue and Flourishing in our Interpersonal Relationships
Lorraine Besser-Jones
Middlebury College
9:45am, November 10, 2011

What Drives the Virtuous? Examining the Aristotelian-inspired Thesis that with Virtue, Comes Pleasure
Lorraine Besser-Jones
Middlebury College
1:15pm, November 10, 2011

The Ontological Argument for God’s Existence and Objects of Thought
Edward Wierenga
University of Rochester
3:00pm, February 23, 2012
220 Seymour Union

Omnipotence and the Stone Paradox
Edward Wierenga
University of Rochester
1:25pm, February 24, 2012
220 Seymour Union

Other Outside Events

Past Talks

Relativism and the Limits of Epistemology
Michael Williams
Johns Hopkins University
October 5, 2006

What are Basic Beliefs and Are There Any
Michael Williams
Johns Hopkins University
October 6, 2006

Nietzsche’s 'New Happiness': Longing, Boredom, and the Elusiveness of Fulfillment
Bernard Reginster
Brown University
October 19, 2006

Free Will and Responsibility
Bernard Reginster
Brown University
October 20, 2006

Socrates and Plato on Poetry
Dr. Nick Smith
Lewis and Clark College
September 21, 2006

Socrates on How Wrongdoing Damages the Soul
Dr. Nick Smith
Lewis and Clark College
September 22, 2006

Jennifer Whiting
University of Toronto
November 3, 2005

Jennifer Whiting
University of Toronto
November 4, 2005

Dean Zimmerman
Rutgers University
November 17, 2005

Dean Zimmerman
Rutgers University
November 18, 2005

The Emergence of Consciousness
William Seager
University of Toronto at Scarborough
October 6th, 2005

Consciousness and Time: the Loschmidt Scenario
William Seager
University of Toronto at Scarborough
October 7th, 2005

Linda Zagzebski
University of Oklahoma
October 20, 2005

Freedom and Foreknowledge
Linda Zagzebski
University of Oklahoma
October 21, 2005

Family Resemblances:
Adoption, Personal Identity, and Genetic Essentialism
Dr. Charlotte Witt
University of New Hampshire
April 7th, 2005

Why Aristotle's Distinction between Potentiality and Actuality Matters
Dr. Charlotte Witt
University of New Hampshire
April 8th, 2005

Paradoxes of Time Travel
Greg Janssen
University of Rochester
February 25th, 2005

Dreams and Philosophy
Ernest Sosa, Romeo Elton Chair
Brown University
February 25th, 2005

Problems of Skepticism
Ernest Sosa, Romeo Elton Chair
Brown University
September 24th, 2004

Bas van Fraassen
Princeton University
December 2nd, 2004

Bas van Fraassen
Princeton University
December 3rd, 2004