Tag: philosophy

02/26, Week 8: Jonathan Neufeld

December 14, 2024 / Josselyn Haldeman

Jonathan Neufeld is an Associate Professor at College of Charleston, South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from King’s College, London, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University. In his own words:

My research interests are in philosophy and music, aesthetics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. I began university life as a viola performance major studying with Roland Vamos. After a year of hard practice and being in awe of my colleagues, I discovered the joys of political theory and U.S. constitutional law. After writing an M.A. thesis on deliberative democracy and the limits of public reason, I began to work on a Ph.D. dissertation on legal interpretation where I explored what has turned out to be a very fruitful parallel between musical performance and the interpretation of law in constitutional democracies. This led me carefully to consider the myriad relationships between the public performance of music and the political public sphere and has resulted in two book projects: Music in Public: How Performance Shapes Democracy (under contract with OUP) and Aesthetic Disobedience: Protest, Democracy and the Arts.

https://charleston.edu/philosophy/faculty/neufeld-jonathan.php

5/22, Week 8: Stefan Bird-Pollan

March 21, 2024 / Jade Baker

Stefan Bird-Pollan is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He is interested in ethical theories; his first book, Hegel, Freud and Fanon; the Dialectic of Emancipation shows how Fanon’s view of the subject preserves insights of enlightenment while steering clear of racial prejudices which are endemic in European and American society. He is currently working on a book in which he develops an account of Kant’s ethical theory. His second project concerns the metapsychological type of voters who are attracted to different kinds of authoritarian rule. In addition, Stefan is working on several articles on Hegel, both his aesthetics and the Phenomenology of Spirit. He has published articles in numerous journals, including Radical Philosophy, Critical Horizons, Philosophy and Social Criticism and Public Reason. Stefan earned his D.Phi from Oxford in 2003 and his PhD from Vanderbilt in 2008.

Week 6 – Andrew Cutrofello, Wednesday, 2/13, 2019 11:30-1pm in the Recital Hall of the COM Building – to be rescheduled, canceled due to snow

June 15, 2021 / Steve

Andrew Cutrofello is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of several books, including All for Nothing: Hamlet’s Negativity (MIT, 2014) and Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2005). His interests include the nature of antinomies — apparent contradictions — and how these play out both in professional philosophy and in everyday life. He is also deeply interested in what T. S. Eliot called the varieties of metaphysical poetry.

Gregg Horowitz: Wednesday, May 2, from 11:30 to 1:00 pm in Purce Hall 1

June 15, 2021 / Steve

Gregg Horowitz is Professor of Philosophy at Pratt. He writes on aesthetics, the philosophy of art, theories of art history, psychoanalysis, and political theory. His publications include the books Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life (Stanford, 2001) and The Wake of Art: Philosophy, Criticism and the Ends of Taste (Routledge, 1998, with Arthur C. Danto and Tom Huhn) and articles on “Robert Pippin’s After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism” (Platypus Review, 2014).“Tradition” (Art Bulletin, 2013), “A Made-to-Order Witness: Women’s Knowledge in Vertigo” in Katalin Makkai, ed., Vertigo: Philosophers on Film (Routledge, January 2013), and “The Homeopathic Image, or, Trauma, Intimacy and Poetry,” (Critical Horizons, 2010). He is also a past Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

Thierry de Duve: Monday, November 9th, 2015, 5:30-7:00 pm in the 2nd floor Recital Hall in the COM Building

June 14, 2021 / Steve

Historian and philosopher of art, Thierry de Duve, is Professor emeritus from the University of Lille 3, and was Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, for the fall semester of 2013. His English publications include Pictorial Nominalism (1991), Kant after Duchamp (1996), Clement Greenberg Between the Lines (1996, 2010), Look—100 Years of Contemporary Art (2001), and Sewn In the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp (2012). He is presently finishing a book of essays on aesthetics, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Thierry du Duve: Wednesday, February 4th, 2015, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1