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The Philosophy Forum is a venue for faculty to present research to the members of the club and the general WCU audience.  Faculty from any department may present, as long as the research is appropriately related to philosophy.  Students are encouraged to approach faculty about this opportunity.  Ask your favorite 'prof' to present.  Interested faculty presenters should contact mpierlott@wcupa.edu.

Upcoming Lectures

Wednesday, November 22^th

3:15-4:45pm

Sykes Student Union, Room 210

Punishing Crime in America

Fred Struckmeyer (WCU Philosophy, recent retiree)

The system of relatively harsh criminal sentencing, which has been in place in America for close to 30 years, needs to change.  Its cost in dollars and lives is simply too high.  Both ethics and empirical data suggest that we must reform if not abolish what some call the Prison Industrial Complex.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!

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Previous Lectures

Fall 2008

• September:  I. Larry Udell, "Taking Employment Seriously." 

Spring 2008

• March:  Donald C. Lindenmuth (Penn State University), "Plato's Presentation of the Young Socrates." 

Fall 2007

• November:  Bruno Garofalo, "Personal Identity."

• September:  I. Larry Udell, "Popper and Rawls: Two Liberal Fallibilists." 

Spring 2007

• April: Helen Daley Schroepfer, "Pursuing the Enemies of Freedom: Religion in the Persuasive Rhetoric of the Bush Administration."

• April: John Boland, "Outsourcing: Should we be sending American jobs overseas?"

• March:  Kurt W. Kolasinski, "Sustainability and Energy"

Fall 2006

• November:  Matt Pierlott, "Freedom and Fate: Resolving Stoic Determinism and Moral Culpability"

• October:  Tim Golden, "From the Frying Pan into the Fire:  Prophetic Pragmatism and Process Theodicy"

Spring 2006

• April:  Graham MacPhee,  "Guantánamo: Hannah Arendt and the Disappearance of Human Rights"

Fall 2005

• September:  Open Discussion of the so-called "Academic Bill of Rights [ABoR]"

Spring 2005

• May:  Hayat-Un Nessa,  “Human Rights and Discourses of Empire”

• April:  Frank J. Hoffman,  “Arguments against Caste in Early Buddhism”

• March:   Jeffrey Nicholas,  “Heterosexism, Evil Practices, and Thomism”

Fall 2004

• December:  Larry Udell,  “Justice, Innovation and Employment: Rawlsian and Schumpeterian Perspectives”

• November:  Tom Young,  “Habermas on Faith and Knowledge:  A philosopher’s response to 9/11”

Spring 2004  (as "Philosophy Department Discussion Group")

• March:  Marilynn Lawrence and Leon Niemoczynski (graduate students),  "Why Heidegger?"

Fall 2003  (as "Philosophy Department Discussion Group")

• October:  W. Steve Croddy and Marilynn Lawrence (graduate student),  “Responding with Empathy" 

Spring 2003  (as "Philosophy Department Discussion Group")

• April:  Fred Struckmeyer,  “From 'Just War' to Pacifism: a Personal Pilgrimage”

Fall 2002  (as "Philosophy Department Discussion Group")

• November:  Paul Streveler,  “The Place of Philosophy in the Idea of the University"