Events (2019-2020)
In memory of our beloved graduate, Jesse L. Rowland ’16E, who passed away in September 2017, we share one of his many excellent papers. We will always remember Jesse's sweetness, generosity, and sparkling intellect.
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2019-2020 Forry and Micken Lecture Series on “Just Human Health”
A lecture series funded by the Forry and Micken Fund in Philosophy and Science
First Lecturer of the 2019-2020 Forry and Micken Lecture series will be Douglas Paul Mackay (University of North Carolina).
The talk will take place on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. in the Pruyne Lecture Hall.
Title: "TBA"
Second Lecturer of the 2019-2020 Forry and Micken Lecture series will be Madison Powers (Georgetown University).
The talk will take place on Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. in the Pruyne Lecture Hall.
Title: “TBA”
Third Lecturer of the 2019-2020 Forry and Micken Lecture series will be Marion Hourdequin (Colorado College)
The talk will take place on Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. in Pruyne Lecture Hall.
Title: "TBA"
The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy
Barbara Herman, (Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Philosophy)
Thursday, October 11, 2018, 5:00 p.m., Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall
The title of the Thirteenth Annual ALP Lecture is:
“Motive and Wrongdoing”
Abstract: There is something like a dictum that moral requirement cannot depend on motive because we can only have a duty to do or omit something we can choose and we cannot choose to have a motive. Examining a class of duties that seem to require the presence of a motive – the duties of due care – I argue that we should re-think what we take a motive to be, and so its possible role in moral action, and then let go of the dictum.
Reception will follow
For further information, please phone Dee Brace at (413) 542-5805 or send e-mail to djbrace@amherst.edu.
Other Events & Lectures Scheduled 2018-2019