 In: Events —  Date: November 10th, 2009 This week, CSUN Philosophy student, Alvin Mayorga, will present his paper titled, Ekstinction by virtue of the System phenomenon itself. This will be a discussion on the role of Existential-Phenomenology in the twenty-first century and the importance of understanding the interconnection between freedom, action, and responsibility
As always, feel free to bring your philosophically-interested friends! | Topic: | Man as Possibility-to-Himself
| | Date: | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | | Time: | 6pm – 7:15pm | | Place: | Sierra Tower 503
(the philosophy library/study room on the fifth floor) |
Some links that you might enjoy taking a look at before the meeting: In: Events — Date: November 7th, 2009 For those interested, the 12th Southern California Philosophy Conference will take place this Saturday. Hosted by the Claremont Colleges’ departments of philosophy, the conference will take place at Pitzer College. Admission is FREE! Also of note, our very own Dr. Tim Black will be presenting on epistemology in a talk titled, How To Do Epistemology. Additionally, Dr. Julie Tannenbaum—who many of you will remember from CSU, Northridge, and who currently is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College—will be co-presenting a paper titled, Full Moral Status of the Cognitively Impaired: Rescuing the Commonsense View, along with Dr. Agnieszka Jaworska, from UC Riverside. Click here for a complete program (with abstracts and an updated room listing).
| Event: | The 12th Southern California Philosophy Conference
| | Date: | Saturday, November 7, 2009 | | Time: | 9:30am – 6:15pm | | Location: | Pitzer College (Parking/Conference Location Map)
1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA 91711 (Directions)
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Come support these professors of ours and check out the various other presentations that will be going on that day:
- Saba Bazargan (UC, San Diego), “On the Permissibility of Participating in Unjust Wars”
- Sara Bernstein (University of Arizona/ UNC-Chapel Hill), “The Social Composition Problem”
- Noell Birondo (Claremont McKenna College), “The Wrong Kind of Reasoning.”
- Tim Black (CalState, Northridge), “How To Do Epistemology”
- Michael Cholbi (CalState Poly, Pomona), “A neo-Kantian view of moral dilemmas”
- Amy Coplan (CalState, Fullerton), “Feeling without Thinking: Lessons from the Ancients on Emotion and Virtue Acquisition”
- Sean Greenberg (UC, Irvine), “Controlling Consent: Malebranche on Human Freedom”
- Pamela Hieronymi (UC, Los Angeles) “Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism”
- Kristen Irwin (UCSD/Biola Univ.) “Bayle’s “Qualified Academic Skepticism”
- Agnieszka Jaworska (UC, Riverside) & Julie Tannenbaum (Pomona College), “Full Moral Status of the Cognitively Impaired: Rescuing the Commonsense View”
- Brandon Johns (USC), “How to Try without Intending”
- A. J. Julius (UC, Los Angeles), “Wrongness, the fourth dimension”
- JeeLoo Liu (CalState, Fullerton) “Memory, Quasi-memory and Personal Identity”
- Marcy Lascano (CalState, Long Beach) “Early Modern Women on the Cosmological Argument: A Case Study in the Methodology of Feminist Historiography”
- Gideon Manning (Caltech) “Descartes’ genetic answer to the other minds skeptic”
- Chris Naticchia (CalState, San Bernadino) “Nonideal Normative Theory in International Relations: The Case of Recognition.”
- Calvin Normore (UC, Los Angeles) “The Discovery of Self in Avicenna and Olivi”
- David Pitt (CalState, Los Angeles) “Demonstrative Thoughts”
- Gila Sher (UC, San Diego), “Forms of Correspondence: The Intricate Route from Thought to Reality”
- Clinton Tolley (UC, San Diego), “Kant and Frege on the Generality of Logic”
- Cory Wright (CalState, Long Beach) ‘Pluralism about Truth: A Progress Report’
- Aaron Zimmerman (UC, Santa Barbara) “On Inferring “Ought” from “Is”"
In: Events — Date: November 3rd, 2009 This week the topic is David Benatar’s book, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. CSUN Philosophy student, Alberto Mendoza, will give us a presentation of this book and lead a discussion about it.  In Better Never to Have Been, Benatar argues that coming into existence is a serious harm, regardless of the feelings of the existing being once brought into existence, and that, as a consequence, it is always morally wrong to create more sentient beings.
Many take Benatar’s conclusion to be more than a little counterintuitive, so count on a lively discussion after the presentation! Also, as always, feel free to invite your friends to this meeting, as well as all those in the future. | Topic: | David Benatar’s book, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence | | Date: | Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | | Time: | 6pm – 7:15pm | | Place: | Sierra Tower 503
(the philosophy library/study room on the fifth floor) |
Some links that may help familiarize you with this book and its author before the meeting: In: Events — Date: October 27th, 2009 For this week’s meeting, our very own Dr. Takashi Yagisawa will give a presentation on some of the topics within in his upcoming book, Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise. This description of his book will give a clear idea of what to expect during his presentation:  Modal realism says that non-actual possible worlds and individuals are as real as the actual world and individuals. Takashi Yagisawa defends modal realism of a variety different from David Lewis’s theory. The notion of reality is left primitive and sharply distinguished from that of existence, which is proposed as a relation between a thing and a domain. Worlds are postulated as modal indices for truth on a par with times, which are temporal indices for truth. Ordinary individual objects are conceived as being extended in spatial, temporal, and modal dimensions and their transworld identity is explicated by the closest-continuer theory. Impossible worlds and individuals are postulated and used to provide accounts of propositions, belief sentences, and fictional discourse.
Currently Professor and Chair of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, Dr. Yagisawa’s upcoming book is scheduled to debut in Feburary 2010 and will be published by Oxford University Press. Seats will definitely fill up for this presentation, so make sure to come early! | Topic: | Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise
| | Date: | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | | Time: | 6pm – 7:15pm
| | Place: | Sierra Tower 503
(the philosophy library/study room on the fifth floor) |
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