Graduate Colloquium Series
The Philosophy Graduate Colloquium Series is an annual, informal venue for graduate students at both the MA and PhD level to present work to their peers. Events have been held since 2009 in both Guelph and Toronto. The event is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.
With any questions, please contact the current organizer, Daniel Griffin, at griffind@uoguelph.ca .
2015 - 2016 (Organizer: Daniel Griffin)
March 30, 2016 (GUELPH) 6:00 P.M.
Location: Ilknur Ozalli's home - 129 Arthur St. North
Bryan Richard, "Hegel Contra Moral Theory"
Thom Campbell
See Abstracts here
March 12, 2016 (GUELPH) 6:00 P.M.
Location: Shannon Buckley's home - 13 Preson Street
Veronica Majewski, "In Defence of John Stuart Mill: A Response to David Christensen's Independence-Based Conciliationism"
Hanna Jones-Eriksson, "Social and Epistemic Value of Disagreement"
See Abstracts here
NOVEMBER 6, 2015 (GUELPH) 7:00 P.M.
Chris Jordan-Stevens
Casey Ford, "The Limits of the Concept in Kant and Deleuze"
See Abstracts here
2014–2015 (Organizer: Daniel Griffin)
NOVEMBER 21, 2014 (GUELPH)
Brent Ables, "On the Possibility of an Immanent Theory of Eternity"
Orsolya Csaszar, "Re-reading Beauvoir in light of contemporary evolutionary biology"
See Abstracts here
OCTOBER 23, 2014 (GUELPH)
Shannon Buckley, "Statelessness, Vulnerability and the Capability Approach"
Corey Sawkins, "Explanatory Spacetime Geometry not Spacetime Structure"
See Abstracts here
MARCH 5, 2015 (GUELPH)
Rachel Elliott, "Political Unification in the State of Embodiment"
Doug Halls, "The Art of Living With Oneself: Autophantasma and the Animal with Logos"
See Abstracts here
APRIL 3, 2015 (GUELPH)
Daniel Griffin, "Hegel and Deleuze on Images"
Vedran Grahovac, "Unity beyond reconciliation: Husserl's investigation of the foundationalism in Logical Investigations"
See Abstracts here
2013–2014 (Organizer: Casey Ford)
MARCH 28, 2014 (GUELPH)
Casey Ford, “On What Grounds?: Becoming, Form and the Labor of Thinking in Deleuze”
Adam Langridge, “The Unity of the Soul: Macro-Indivisibilism in Early-Fourteenth Century Philosophy of Mind”
NOVEMBER 16, 2013 (GUELPH)
Karen Robertson, “Heidegger and Institutional Life”
Martin King, “Causal Explanation: A Lost Cause?”
2012–2013 (Organizer: Casey Ford)
APRIL 26, 2013 (TORONTO)
Jacob Singer, “The Role of Leisure in Aristotle's Politics”
Kelly Jones, “Everyday I'm Stutterin': An Account of Deleuze as the Most Normal Philosopher Ever”
MARCH 1, 2013 (GUELPH)
Brooke Struck, “Square Holes and Round Pegs: Why Cassirer's Structuralism Isn't Realism”
Megan Penney, “Care Ethics, Nightingale, and Nursing”
NOVEMBER 30, 2012 (TORONTO)
Daniel Griffin, “The Fluidity of the Sign in Hegel”
Justin Price, “Words or Worlds?”
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 (GUELPH)
Daniel Harris, “Desire and Affirmation in Nietzsche”
Vedran Grahovac, “The Necessity of Mutual Conditioning in Kant and Husserl: Circularity in the Judgment of Taste and the Whole-Part Relationship”
2011–2012 (Organizer: Doug Halls)
FEBRUARY 11, 2012 (GUELPH)
Lis Paquette, “On the Flesh and Touching”
NOVEMBER 26, 2011 (TORONTO)
Nahum Brown, “Possibility and Necessity only seem to be Different: Hegel’s Theory of Relative Necessity”
Suzanne McCullagh, “Limit and Capacity”
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Brian Rogers, “Religiously We Dwell: On the Later Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy of Religion”
Matthew Martinuk, “A Fundamental Orientation to the Good: Iris Murdoch’s Influence on Charles Taylor”
2010–2011 (Organizer: Nahum Brown)
APRIL 8, 2011 (GUELPH)
Rick Duchalski, “That’s the Snuff: Dimensions of Moral Horror”
Andrew Robinson, selection from dissertation work
MARCH 25, 2011 (TORONTO)
Kelly Hardcastle-Jones, “A Spurious Mystery: allowing for fragments in children’s literature”
Joe Arel, “Negativity in Conscience and the Unhappy Consciousness”
MARCH 10, 2011 (GUELPH)
Dan Harris, “Nietzsche, Naturalisms, and the Sovereign Individual”
2009–2010 (Organizer: Nahum Brown)
APRIL 16, 2010 (GUELPH)
Suzanne McCullagh, “Suffering Constraints as Possibilities for Action”
Nahum Brown, “Hegel on How to Make Free Actualities in Six Steps”
MARCH 26, 2010 (GUELPH)
Brian Rogers, “Phenomenology and hermeneutics in relation to religious experience”
Andrew Robertson, “Lucy Irigaray’s Ethical Project”
FEBRUARY 26, 2010 (GUELPH)
Matthew Furlong, “historiography, the logic of historical events, and causation in Foucault”
Nick Purdy, “The Advantage of the Imagination in Husserl”
