Colloquium Series

Inaugurated in 2006, the Philosophy Colloquium series has enabled the Department to offer lectures and seminars by leading and emerging scholars working in a wide range of philosophical discourses. The colloquium series has reinvigorated a long tradition of hosting visiting scholars at Colorado College.

Our colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the Rubens Family Fund, the Robert Lewis Endowed Fund for Philosophy, the J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Fund, the Dean's Office, and friends and alumni of the Philosophy Department.

Next Colloquium:

Our first speaker will be Derrick Darby of the University of Kansas on Friday, 1 November 2013, speaking on the topic, "Why the Rich and Poor Don’t See Eye to Eye on Inequality and Why this Matters for Justice."

2013 - 2014 Colloquia

Our series this academic year will address the theme of "Bodies, Rights, and Knowledge."

Block 8: Date TBA
Location TBA
Title TBA
Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines and the European Graduate School

Block 6: Thursday, 6 March 2014, 3:30 p.m.
The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Gaylord Hall, Worner Student Center
Title TBA
Matthew Ratcliffe, Durham University

Block 5: Thursday, 30 January 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Student Center
"Disability and Quality of Life Judgments: Exploring the Disability Paradox"
Sara Goering, University of Washington

Block 4: Thursday, 12 December 2013, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Student Center
"When Rights Go Wrong: Hegel, Honneth, and Contemporary Social Pathologies"
Chad Kautzer, University of Colorado at Denver

Block 3: Friday, 1 November 2013, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Student Center
"Why the Rich and Poor Don’t See Eye to Eye on Inequality and Why this Matters for Justice"
Derrick Darby, University of Kansas

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Archives of Past Colloquium Series

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2012 - 2013

Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 3:30 p.m.
“Environmental Ethics and the Anthropocene"
Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College

Thursday, 7 March 2013, 3:30 p.m.
The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
"Thinking Love: Heidegger and Arendt"
Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico

Thursday, 24 January 2013, 3:30 p.m.
"Newcomb's Problem: An Antinomy of Practical Reason"
Terry Horgan, University of Arizona

Thursday, 6 December 2012, 3:30 p.m.
"We Fight for Roses, Too: Time-Use and Gender Global Justice"
Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder

Thursday, 1 November 2012, 3:30 p.m.
"Greed and Justice in Aristotle's Ethics"
Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee, University of Colorado at Boulder

Thursday, 4 October 2012, 3:30 p.m.
"Things and Persons in Early Heidegger: A Kantian Exercise in Moral Ontology"
James D. Reid, Metropolitan State University of Denver

2011 - 2012

Thursday, 3 May 2012
“Prostrating Before Adrasteia: Comedy and 'One's Own' in Book V of Plato’s Republic"
Sonja Tanner, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
"Weaving the Cosmos: Understanding Aztec Philosophy"
James Maffie, University of Maryland 

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
"Dussel's Transmodernism"
Linda Alcoff, Hunter College, City University of New York

Thursday, 15 December 2011 
"Integrating Philosophy with Anthropology in an Approach to Morality"
David B. Wong, Duke University

Thursday, 10 November 2011 
"The Death of God and the Birth of Impressionism:
Forms and Transformations of Narcissism in the 19th Century"
John Riker, Colorado College

Thursday, 13 September 2011 
"Emotion, Perception, and Moral Judgment"
Robert C. Roberts, Baylor University

2010 - 2011

Thursday, 14 October 2010
"Enacting the Self: A Buddhist and Enactive Account of Emergence"
Matthew MacKenzie, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Thursday, 9 December 2010
"Living with Boredom"
Cheshire Calhoun, Arizona State University

Thursday, 10 March 2011
The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
"Ordinary Modernism: Agency and Fate in American Film Noir"
Robert Pippin, University of Chicago

Thursday, 31 March 2011
"Does Love Make Us Blind?"
Troy Jollimore, California State University, Chico

2009-2010

Thursday, 1 April 2010
"Friendship, Betrayal, and Trust: Tracing the Bodily Roots of the Existential Emotions"
Maria Talero, University of Colorado, Denver

Thursday, 25 February 2010
The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
"Race and Liberalism"
Charles Mills, Northwestern University

Thursday, 28 January 2010
"Testimony, Incredulity, and the Power of Ignorance"
Lorraine Code, York University

Thursday, 5 November 2009
"Living with Contradictions: The Logic of Kantian Moral Principles in a Nonideal World"
Robert Hanna, University of Colorado at Boulder

Thursday, 15 October 2009
"Archaic Gestures and Modernist Poetics"
Jonathan Lee, Colorado College

Thursday, 17 September 2009
"Constituting Democratic Culture: Dissent in the Great Debate over the Constitution"
Robert Martin, Hamilton College

2008-2009

Thursday, 16 October 2008
"The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States"
Philip Cafaro, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Thursday, 6 November 2008
"Answering the Question, 'What Is Life?'"
Carol Cleland, University of Colorado at Boulder

Thursday, 5 February 2009
"Love, Subjectivity, and the Truth about the World"
Rick Furtak, Colorado College

Thursday, 26 February 2009
"Wisdom and Work"
Valerie Tiberius, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Thursday, 9 April 2009
The J. Glenn Gray Memorial Lecture
"The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World"
Owen Flanagan, Duke University

2007 - 2008

Over the course of the 2007-2008 academic year, the Department of Philosophy celebrated the life and work of J. Glenn Gray, Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College from 1948 until his death in 1977. One of the most influential, inspiring, and beloved professors in the history of Colorado College, Professor Gray made many important and enduring contributions to the discipline of philosophy. He is the author of Hegel and Greek Thought, The Promise of Wisdom, and The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle, among other writings. Gray also served as the General Editor of the first translations of Martin Heidegger's works into English.

Thursday 10 April 2008
The J. Glenn Gray Memorial Lecture
"The Promise of Politics"
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Columbia University

Thursday 6 March 2008
"Ancient Wisdom, Modern Lives: Why the Greeks Still Matter"
John Riker, Colorado College

Thursday 7 February 2008
"Heidegger on Ontotheology: The History That We Are"
Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico

Wednesday 12 December 2007
"Fighting Wars and Moral Responsibility"
Carl Ficarrotta, United States Air Force Academy

Wednesday 14 November 2007
"Philosophy in a Time of War"
Martin Woessner, City College of New York, City University of New York

Thursday 11 October 2007
"J. Glenn Gray's Vision of Philosophy"
Jane Cauvel, Colorado College

2006-2007

Thursday, 26 April 2007
"Virtue Ethics, Character, and Moral Psychology"
Candace Upton, University of Denver

Thursday, 12 April 2007
The J. Glenn Gray Memorial Lecture
"The Blessings and Curses of Being a Stoic Warrior"
Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University

Monday, 29 January 2007
"The Emotional Construction of Morals"
Jesse Prinz, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Wednesday, 6 December 2006
"Must Naturalists Be Nihilists?"
Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College