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Congratulations

...to the following grad students who successfully defended their dissertations:

Damian Plebuch on September 29, 2010. His title is "Heidegger's Fourfold"

 

Brandon Polite on November 4, 2010. His title is "A Correspondence Theory of Musical Representation"

Nathalie Morasch on January 11, 2011. Her title is "Under What Conditions are Two Utterances Performances of the Same Word?"

Todd Kukla on March 11, 2011. His title is "Kant's Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation of the Argument of the Transcendental Deduction"

Brendan Shea on May 13, 2011. His title is "Concepts of Law of Nature"

Michael Scoville on June 30, 2011. His title is "Environmental Values, Animals, and the Ethical Life"

Loren Zech on September 21, 2011. His title is "Clarifying the Concept of Disease: How Science Determines the Biologically Normal from the Abnormal"

News & Announcements

Reminders

February 9 - META, 4-6 p.m. in 1005 Beckman Institute.  Speakers are Dr. Mark Alfano, University of Notre Dame.  Title: "Factitious Moral Virtue"and Dr. Jonathan Livengood, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Title:  "Causal Reasoning"

February 10 - Colloquim, 3-5 p.m. in 223 Greg Hall.  Speaker is Professor Justin Sytsma of East Tennessee State University.  Title: The Folk and the Concept of Phenomenal Consciousness"

February 11 - META, 1-3 p.m. in 213 Greg Hall.  Speaker is Professor Justin Sytsma of East Tennessee State University. Title:  "Norms, Blame, Responsibility...and the Trolley Problem"

March 11 - Daylight Saving Time begins (spring forward)

March 17-25 - Spring Break

May 4 - May 11 - Final Exams

May 12 - Philosophy/History Convocation, 4:00 p.m. in Smith Hall

May13 - Spring 2012 Commencement

Wed, 07 Sep 2011