Community/AlumniAnother in our regular series of Philosophy Goes Public talks at the Guelph Public Library is on Wednesday, March 3 at 7pm. Aaron Massecar, a PhD candidate in our department, will speak in the Main Branch, 100 Norfolk St (map). Title: "It's Just a Bad Habit" and Other Misconceptions About Habits. This year's Guelph Lecture in Philosophy is to be given in March by Professor Paul Franks of the University of Toronto, an accomplished scholar of Kant, Jewish philosophy and German Idealism, and author of the recent book All or Nothing: Skepticism, Transcendental Arguments and Systematicity in German Idealism (Harvard University Press, 2005). The title of his talk is “German Idealism, Anti-Semitism, and the Significance of Jewish Philosophy in Multicultural Modernity.” Date and location to be announced soon. For more information see our speakers and conferences page, which includes information about departmental talks—all of which are open to interested members of the public. |