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The Philosopher as Artist

March 7, 2016Raphael Sassower, Professor of Philosophy at University of Colorado (Colorado Springs), has written on subjects from the avant-garde and post-capitalism to technoscience and…

Kant and the Ethics of Marketing

Michael Smith, PhD, will present “Kant and the Ethics of Marketing,” on Tuesday, 10 November in Knapton 214. This our second Deemer Forum speaker of…

Ethical Dilemmas Arising in Medical Practice

On Tuesday, 20 October Clay Merchant, MD, MPH, ScD made the first of this year’s Ethics and the Professions presentations to philosophy and pre-health students:…

Two New Articles on Berkeley

Professor of Philosophy Nancy Kendrick published two articles

What it means to be good

The Philosophy Club will have its first meeting to discuss the question, “What does it mean to be good?” Everyone is welcome to attend the…

Meeting Miranda Fricker, author of Epistemic Injustice

Students enrolled in the Senior Seminar in Spring 2015 heard Miranda Fricker defend her ideas at a conference at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, on…

This Is What We Look Like

Jessica Gordon-Roth, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Lehman and Wheaton alumna ’03, has started a campaign to “change the way we think about women…

The Epistemology of Debunking Arguments

The Philosophy Department hosted the final colloquium of the semester on Thursday, Mar. 26, 5-6:30, Knapton 214.

Professor Kendrick’s Prize-winning Essay on Berkeley

Professor Kendrick’s essay, “The ‘Empty Amusement’ of Willing: Berkeley on Agent Causation,” has won the Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize. The prize…

Does Happiness Make For a Good Life?

Several Wheaton philosophers pondered this question recently at Brown University, where Daniel Haybron gave a talk with that question as its title on Friday, March…

Flash Seminar on Consent

Associate Professor Stephen Mathis offered a Flash Seminar sponsored by the Education Council of SGA last Wednesday, March 4th. It was entitled “Comparing Affirmative Consent…

The Philosophy of Pain

Professor Brendan O’Sullivan (Stonehill College) presented a paper entitled “Where Does It Hurt? Tensions in Our Concept of Pain” as part of the Philosophy Department’s…