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Roundtable Schedule 2011-12

Date      Presentation
Sept 1 Senior Presentations
Sept 8
Peter Jaworski, Instructor and PhD candidate at Bowling Green State University will present “How to Interpret the Constitution: Why Meaning Doesn't Matter” and Mark Wells (Wooster '06), PhD Candidate at Bowling Green State University will discuss graduate school.

Sept 15 April Contway (Wooster '99), “Feyerabend and Wittgenstein on the Conflict Between Religion and Science”
Sept 22 Evan Riley, Department of Philosophy presents "On McMahan's Challenges to Human Equality"
Sept 29 Lee McBride, Department of Philosophy, presents "Insurrectionist Ethics and Pathos".
Oct 6 David Gedalecia, Department of History, "Why You Should Vary Your Route To and From Lowry: A Neo-Daoist Perspective"
Oct 13 Jennifer Bowen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
Oct 20 Aaron Novick, Senior I.S. presentation, "Structural Realism: Viable Scientific Realism?"
Oct 27 Joshua Koch, Senior I.S. presentation, "Exploring the Recesses of the Brain: An Examination of Tourette Syndrome"
Nov 3 Lindner Lecture in Ethics "Author Meets Critics" session with Christine Korsgaard (Harvard), Melissa Barry (Williams College), and Connie Rosati (University of Arizona)
Nov 10 Gregg Hunter
Nov 17 Mary Brickhouse, Senior I.S. presentation, "Agrarianism: Red Barns, Happy Cows, and Ignorant Farmers? Or Is There More To It?"
Nov 24 Thanksgiving Break
Dec 1 Kinsey Walker, Senior I.S. presentation, "Young, Poor, Black, & Male = BAD?"
Dec 8 Holiday Party (No Roundtable)
Winter Break
Jan 19 Chris Howe, Senior I.S. presentation, “The Value of Technology: Efficiency and Practice”
Jan 26 Senior I.S. presentations: Jared Fink presents "Authenticity and Art" and Aaron Smith presents "Clarifying Cosmetic Psychopharmacology"
Feb 2 Senior I.S. presentations: Molly Davis presents "My Child, Your Child, Our Child? The Nature of Children, Familial Relations, and the Obligation to Educate" and Brandon Andrew presents "The Will To Be Oneself: How Kierkegaard’s Subjective Faith Triumphs Over Despair"
Feb 9 Senior I.S. presentations: Maria Millan presents "Buddhist ‘Emptiness’ and the Practice of Non-conceptual Content" and Logan Pry presents "An Investigation of the Ethical Implications of Human Genetic Engineering"
Feb 16 Senior I.S. presentations: Remington Jackson presents "The Necessary Criteria to Save a Dying Practice: An Attempt to Morally Justify Capital Punishment" and Michael Cohen presents "Senior I.S. presentation"
Feb 23 Senior I.S. presentations: Andrew Smiles presents "School Out: Now What? Investigating the purpose of modern education" and Emily DeTar presents "Absurdity with God: Walker Percy’s mediated conversation between Albert Camus and Søren Kierkegaard"
Mar 1 Senior I.S. presentations: Alex Ehrhardt presents "Caring about Stories: Narrative Art and Moral Understanding" and Michael Stevens presents "A Critique of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophical Interpretation of Psychoanalysis"
Mar 8 Senior I.S. presentation: James Lance presents "How Can Theatre Enhance an Understanding of Ethics Perfected by Unconditional Love?"
Spring Break
Mar 29 Jason Waller, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University
Candidate for Visiting Professor Position
Apr 5 Katherine Thomson-Jones, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Oberlin College, presents "How Movies Move in the Digital Age"
Apr 12 Anita Allen-Castellitto, Bell Lecturer
Apr 19  
Apr 26  
May 3 Mandatory Meeting with Juniors

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