Monthly Archives: March 2014
LUC Grad Conference: Philosophy, Virtue, and Personhood – April 11-12
Mark your calendars! Our graduate conference is April 11th-12th, at the Lakeshore campus on the 4th floor of the Klarchek Information Commons.
The theme is Philosophy, Virtue, and Personhood. We’re going to hear papers from graduate student philosophers from various philosophical backgrounds. And we have excellent keynote speakers slated for both evenings of the conference. We’re hoping to generate some quality discussion on the ways philosophy affects and transforms our lives.
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FULL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
Friday, April 11th
10:00 – 10:45
Continental Breakfast
10:50 – 11:35
Jonathan Spelman (University of Colorado at Boulder) – Consequences and Virtue
11:40 – 12:25
Theodore Bergsma (Miami University) – On the Substantial Subject: “Aspectival Captivity” in Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch (on your own)
2:00 – 2:45
Ryan Gustafson (New School for Social Research) – Genealogy, Critique, and Normativity
2:50 – 3:35
Justin Kitchen (San Francisco State University) – Virtue as the Skill of Living: Inducing ‘The Good Flow’
3:45 – 5:00
FACULTY KEYNOTE: Hanne Jacobs (Loyola University Chicago) – Husserl on Self-Constitution and Personhood
Saturday, April 12th
10:00 – 10:45
Continental Breakfast
10:50 – 11:35
Jessica Adkins (Marquette University) – Finding the Good in Dying: Defending Physician Assisted Death of the Akratic Agent
11:40 – 12:25
Daniel Rodriguez Navas (University of Chicago) – The Pursuit of Truth and Ethical Self-Constitution: On Foucault’s Kantianism According to Hacking
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch (on your own)
2:00 – 2:45
Matthew Howery (San Francisco State University) – Posthumous Agency
2:50 – 3:35
David Antonini (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) – Kant on Virtue
3:45 – 5:00
KEYNOTE: Gabriel Richardson Lear (University of Chicago) – Plato on Moral Beauty and the Look of Love
Congratulations, Merritt!
The recipient of this year’s Graduate Student Teaching Award is Merritt Rehn-DeBraal.
We congratulate Merritt on her teaching achievements. And we want to congratulate the other applicants for the award, all of whom have been successful teachers and taught innovative and engaging courses.
via Dr. Wike
Loyola ranks 3rd at the IEB Nat’l Ethics Bowl Championships 2014
We are very pleased to announce that LUC’s Ethics Bowl team placed 3rd at the 2014 IEB National Ethics Bowl Championships! Well done! The team consists of Paul Kubicki, Noah Whitney, Monica Finke, MaryKate Brueck, Alex Bravo, and Amanda Epstein, and is coached by Dr. Jennifer Parks and Sarah Babbitt. Congratulations!
We’d also like to congratulate the IEB champions at the University of Montana, the other finalists, and the University of California Santa Cruz, the winner of the Spirit of the Ethics Bowl award (and the creators of that snazzy t-shirt, above).
Ethics Bowl 2014 Finalists
Champion: University of Montana
Finalist: University of Oklahoma
Semifinalist: Loyola University of Chicago
Semifinalist: University of North Florida
Quarterfinalist: Oklahoma Christian University
Quarterfinalist: Providence College
Quarterfinalist: Union College
Quarterfinalist: Whitworth College
