Forum Schedule | Contact the Forum | Philosophy Department | University of Mississippi
Forum Schedule | Contact the Forum | Philosophy Department | University of Mississippi
| Date | Speaker
for more information on the each speaker click the* |
Topic | Location & Time |
| Thursday,
September 15, 2005 |
Lori Bogle*
(United States Naval Academy) |
"Religion in the US Military" | Tupelo Room
Barnard Observatory 4pm |
| Wednesday,
September 28, 2005 |
Sanford Goldberg*
(University of Kentucky) |
"Spreading Knowledge" | Bondurant 204c 4:15pm |
| Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
Les Fields*
(University of Mississippi) |
"'Nature' as Human, Sexual, and Divine: Icons, Idols, and Concepts in Late Antiquity" | Tupelo Room Barnard Observatory 4pm |
| Thursday,
November 10, 2005 |
Rocco Gennaro*
(Indiana State University) |
"Higher-Order Representational Theories of Consciousness" | Tupelo Room Barnard Observatory 4pm |
The 2005-2006 Forum Series is made possible through the support of:
The College of Liberal Arts
The Department of Philosophy and Religion
Revision September 12, 2005. Return to: [Phil. Dept.|UM Home ]Lori Bogle (B.A., Missouri Southern State College; Ph.D., University of Arkansas) teaches History at the United States Naval Academy. She is author of several works, including The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind (Texas A&M Press 2004). Her recent research focuses on the role of religion in the US Military against the background of the Cold War and in relation to the notion of an American civil religion.Sanford Goldberg (Ph.D Columbia University) is Director of the Cognitive Science Program and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. His work focuses on philosophical problems relating Language, Mind, and Knowledge. He will be visiting Assoc. Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for Fall 2005. For more information visit http://www.uky.edu/AS/Philosophy/SanfordGoldberg.htm
Professor Goldberg will also be presenting at the Annual Spindel Philosophy Conference Sept. 29-Oct. 1. For more information click here.
Les Field (PhD UCLA) is Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.His principal research and teaching interests pertain to Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, and the Middle Ages. His publications include On the Communion of Damasus and Meletius: Fourth-Century Synodal Formulae in the Codex Veronensis LX, with Critical Edition and Translation Studies and Texts 145 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2004); My Response to T.D. Barnes: Positivistic Straw Arguments Do Not Review Books (University, Miss.: J.D. Williams Library, 2002); and Liberty, Dominion, and the Two Swords: On the Origins of Western Political Theology (180-398) Publications in Medieval Studies 28, ed. John Van Engen (Notre Dame, London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998). For more information visit http://olemiss.edu/depts/history/faculty/field.html
November Speakers:
Rocco Gennaro (PhD Syracuse) is Professor and Interim Chair of Philosophy at Indiana State University. His areas of specialization are Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science, Metaphysics, History of Early Modern Philosophy (including Kant). Other areas of interest include Applied Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Science, History of Analytic Philosophy, Logic. His major publications include: Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, editor, John Benjamins Publishers, 2004;A Dialogue on Ethical Issues of Life and Death, University Press of America, 2002; New Essays on the Rationalists, edited with Charles Huenemann, Oxford University Press, 1999. For more information visit:http://isu1.indstate.edu/rgennaro/gennaro.htm
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