Department of Philosophy
Speaker Series
 

STFX hosted the Atlantic Region Philosophers Association 2008 Annual Meeting on October 24 & 25.  The well attended conference was highlighted by the keynote speaker Professor Jerry Fodor (Rutgers) with his talk "What Darwin Got Wrong." 

A few pictures from the weekend

Professors Fodor (left) and Byrne fielding questions

Audience for Dr. Fodor's address

Dr. Fodor

Too see more pictures from the conference, click ARPA 2008

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~ 2007-08 ~

September 28

Dwayne Raymond (Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan)

A Look At The Contingency In Future Contingencies

November 08&09
Michael Ruse (Philosophy, Florida State University)
Can An Evolutionist Be A Christian? (08 Nov)
Does Darwinism Imply That “Might is Right”? (09 Nov)

February 07&08
James Arieti (Classics, Hampden-Sydney College)

How to Read a Platonic Dialogue (07 Feb)
Sex, Lies, and Bacchantic Grape:  Why the Symposium’s Not About What You Think it’s About (08 Feb)

March 28

Camilla Mryglod (Religious Studies, McMaster University)

Through a Glass Darkly  –  Camus and Augustine  –  Mirrored Trajectories

~ 2006-07 ~

November 23
Michael Hymers (Philosophy, Dalhousie University)
Wittgenstein on Meaning, Morality, and Method

February 16
James Mensch (Philosophy, St. Francis Xavier University)
Politics and Freedom

February 21
Christine Overall (Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies,
Mount Saint Vincent University)
Sex/Gender Transitions: Identity and Personal Aspiration

March 07
Timothy Christie (Director of Ethics Services, A
tlantic Health Sciences Corporation)
Reducing Harm and Injection Drug Use

March 16
Douglas Al-Maini (Philosophy, St. Francis Xavier University)
The Maturing Philosopher in Plato’s Myth of the Cicadas

March 23
Jim Gerrie (Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Cape Breton)
Doctor Assisted Suicide from a Philosophy of Technology Perspective

April 03
Robert Lamb (Politics, University of Exeter, UK)
John Locke and the Rights of the Poor 

~ 2005-06 ~

October 13&14
Christine McKinnon (Philosophy, Trent University)
Character and Virtue Ethics (13 Oct)
Varieties of Insincerity (14 Oct)

February 10
Lawrence Burns (Bioethics, Dalhousie University)
Bodyworlds or Body Works of Art? Assessing the Educational Merits of the “Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies”

March 10
Richard Mathews (Philosophy, Mount Allison University)
Dirty Hands and the Problem of Torture

March 17
Slobodan Perovic (Philosophy, Saint Mary’s University)
Does The Principle Of Natural Selection As A Law Concerning Physical Systems Grant Explanatory Autonomy Of Biology?