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This week we are delighted to welcome David Estlund, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy and Lombardo Family Professor of Humanities at Brown University, to the Practical Philosophy Workshop. Professor Estlund will be presenting a paper entitled “What Good is It? … Continue reading →

The schedule for the Winter 2012 term will be as follows: 1/13 – Rafeeq Hasan (Chicago, graduate student) – “Self-Respect, Solidarity, and the Demands of Justice” 1/20 – David Estlund (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy and Lombardo Family Professor of … Continue reading →

For our final meeting of the fall term we are delighted to welcome Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern) to the Practical Philosophy Workshop. Professor Ebels-Duggan will be presenting a paper entitled “Dealing with the Past: Responsibility and Personal History”. The meeting will … Continue reading →

This Friday (November 18th) we are delighted to welcome Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza Università di Roma) to the Practical Philosophy Workshop for a joint session with the Wittgenstein Workshop. Professor Donatelli will be giving a talk entitled “Reshaping Ethics After Wittgenstein”. The paper will not … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to welcome Nate Zuckerman (Chicago, graduate student) to the workshop to present a paper entitled “Ability and Finitude: The Aristotelian Concepts Behind Heidegger’s Account of Human Life in Being and Time“. The meeting will take place … Continue reading →

For our second meeting of the term, we are very pleased to welcome José M. Torralba (Universidad de Navarra, visiting scholar at UofC) to present a paper entitled “Brute Facts and the Intentionality of Action”. Following our usual practice, Professor … Continue reading →

For our first meeting of the term, we are delighted to welcome Lisa Hicks (Chicago, graduate student) to the Practical Philosophy Wokshop. Lisa will be presenting a paper entitled “The Kernel of Man: Schopenhauerian Echoes in Nietzsche’s Account of the Self”. … Continue reading →

Welcome back to Chicago, and to the third year of the Practical Philosophy Workshop! Our schedule for the fall is below. A couple of comments: 1) As stated on the time schedules, the workshop will usually meet on even weeks … Continue reading →

We are delighted to welcome Anselm Mueller (University of Trier) to the Practical Philosophy Workshop to present his paper “Teaching Virtue”. The meeting will take place on Friday May 13th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Rosenwald 405. Professor Mueller will give a 10-15 … Continue reading →

Anselm Mueller’s talk has been rescheduled from this Friday to next Friday (May 13th). The title of the talk will be “Can Virtue Be Taught?”. We’ll be in our usual place at our usual time; further details, plus the paper, … Continue reading →