Tag: philosophy
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Philosopher Krista Thomason Awarded National Humanities Center Fellowship
Associate Professor of Philosophy Krista Thomason was recently recognized as a leading scholar by the National Humanities Center (NHC) with a 2021 residential fellowship to continue work on her second book project, Worms in the Garden: Bad Feelings in a Good Life. The residential fellowship will allow Thomason to spend her sabbatical year at the NHC working alongside other fellows,…
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Announcing Professor Krista Thomason as Coordinator
Prof. Krista Thomason will serve as Coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies program at Swarthmore College during the academic year 2019-2020. Prof. Thomason is an accomplished Associate Professor of Philosophy, who has served diligently on the Peace and Conflict Studies Committee for many years. She is wonderfully capable, and we are all certain to…
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Prof. Krista Thomason: Faculty Lecture Tomorrow
Krista Thomason, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Member, Peace and Conflict Studies Faculty Committee Tuesday, Feb. 13th, 4:15PM McCabe Library Atrium Child Soldiers and Moral Responsibility “It is common to think that child soldiers cannot be morally responsible for the violence they commit: not only are they underage, they typically are forced to join paramilitary units, they…
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Jill Stauffer’s Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard
From our friends at Haverford and including our own Prof. Krista Thomason Upcoming GPPC / Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium event: Author Meets Critics: Jill Stauffer’s Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard Saturday, February 25, 2017,1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Philipps Wing, Magill Library, Haverford College Speakers: Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr) Robert Bernasconi (Penn…
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Ethical Loneliness – New Book by Jill Stauffer
Congratulations to our colleague, Dr. Jill Stauffer, Director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at Haverford College on the publication of her new book! Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being heard. It is the…
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Making Moral Arguments About Divestment
Making Moral Arguments About Divestment Hans Oberdiek, Professor Emeritus Krista Thomason, Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Monday, April 6, 2015 4:30 p.m. Science Center 199 In conversations about divestment, economic arguments often take center stage. What about the moral arguments? Is divesting the right thing to do? Could there be moral arguments against divestment? Moral philosophers…
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Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and why antisemitism poses a challenge for the Left
We would like to share this announcement about an upcoming event that may be of interest: Please join us for a talk by Moishe Postone, the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of History at the University of Chicago, on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. On the basis of a reading of Marx’s social epistemology, Dr. Postone will…
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Prof. Krista Thomason on human rights and service learning
Prof. Krista Thomason will be giving a talk entitled “Philosophy and Human Rights: Scholarship and Activism” at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in March 2013. The talk uses PHIL 051 Human Rights and Atrocity as a model for incorporating service learning into philosophy courses. It will feature examples of some of…
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Islam: Reform and Revival
From our friends at Haverford: A one-day symposium on “Islam: Reform and Revival.” This will be an opportunity to share in the reflections of four distinguished participants in current debates about the nature of Islam (sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and the Distinguished Visitor’s Committee). On Thursday, 8 December, in Stokes…