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events
June 6-9: 43rd Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle (Gasson Hall, 10am-7pm).
April 27: “Memory and Temptation: Heidegger’s Reading of Confessions – Book X”, a public lecture by Prof.Costantino Esposito (University of Bari, Italy),4:30pm, Higgins 310.
April 25: Prof.Costantino Esposito (University of Bari, Italy) will lead a seminar on “Kant and the Problem of Modern Ontology” (2:30-4:00pm).
April 20: "Intrinsic increase and actual infinities: Dietrich von Freiberg on the intensification of qualities", by Prof. Brian Conolly (Bard College), Maloney 335, 12:00-1:30pm.
April 19: BACAP lecture by Prof. Robbert van den Berg on "Plotinus' Socratic Intellectualism" ( Walsh Function room, 6:00 - 7:30 pm). He will beforehand lead a seminar on "Plato's Socratic Intellectualism".
April 19: LaBrecque lecture, by Prof. Christopher Tollefsen (Univ. of S. Carolina): "The Philosophical and Theological Roots of Institutional Conscience" (Higgins 300, 7:00pm).
NEWS
Congratulations to Teresa Fenichel, Matt Robinson, Tone Svetelj and Amelia Wirts who have won the 2012 Professional Excellence Award.
Congratulations to Jeff Witt and Matt Robinson, doctoral students, who have accepted tenure track positions in medieval philosophy repectively at Loyola University Maryland and at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
DIANOIA, a newly founded undergraduate philosophy journal, fosters open philosophical discussion and writing among undergraduate students at Boston College. The journal provides a necessary venue for sharing creative, philosophy-based essays that bridge academic disciplines.Organizing this new initiative are Lucia Kim, Kyle Kavanaugh, and Nathaniel Sanders.
Professor Oliva Blanchette has won a first place 2011 Catholic Book Award in the category of biography by the Catholic Press Association (CPA) of the U.S. and Canada. More
Professor Rémi Brague, from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität of Munich, holds, during Fall 11, the Gadamer visiting chair. He will be gving, from September 15 to October 26 a grad/undergrad course on "Aquinas' doctrine of Providence" and a grad seminar on "The legitimacy of mankind".
multimedia
Caring, vulnerability, and community
VIDEO FROM FRONT ROW
Marina McCoy, the Fitzgibbon Chair in Philosophy, discusses approaches to understanding the relationship between society and “vulnerable.”
VIDEO FROM FRONT ROW Robert Wood of the University of Dallas delivers a talk about the work of modern ordinary language philosopher John Searle.
VIDEO FROM @BC
A camera crew came to St. Mary's Hall to film a dinner conversation between William Richardson, S.J., and three eminent philosopher friends.
alumni profile
How does political change occur? Why is it so difficult to make the world a just place? These are questions of particular interest to Serena Parekh, Ph.D. ’05 “The most important reason I chose to focus on philosophy was because I found it to be the best way to think about the political questions that I found so pressing.” More
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First-year Ph.D. candidates
Ten students from all over the world entered the department's doctoral program this year, all with different reasons for choosing Boston College.