philosophy

Simone de Beauvoir is best known for The Second Sex, but also published a four-part memoir that stands as a chronicle of post-war French intellectual culture. The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk with Laura Hengehold, professor in the Department of Philosophy, examining Beauvoir...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a “Faculty Work-in-Progress” lecture featuring Chris Haufe, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy. In his talk “Of Interest,” Haufe will examine the role that “interestingness” plays in research in the sciences and humanities. He argue...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics, had a symposium published by the University of Wroclaw surrounding his work. Based around Bendik-Keymer’s ideas on the politics of wonder, the symposium was published in English by Studia Philosophica Wratislavensia, the philosophy jour...

Thirty years have passed since George H. W. Bush declared the "decade of the brain." In that time, remarkable advances in brain imaging technology have spurred massive growth in neuroscience research. Now in early adulthood, the field is setting aside credulous, phrenological, positivistic and reduc...

Following the online fallout of the 2018 “grievance studies" hoax, one is struck by the enormous range of estimates of its significance, and of the variegated diagnoses of what the hoax does or does not show. The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture with ...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, recently had a book published titled Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene. The book introduces the idea of anthroponomy—the organization of humankind to support autonomous...

The Ethics Table, organized by Bharat Ranganathan, Beamer-Schneider SAGES Teaching Fellow in Ethics, will discuss "The Common Good and Human Dignity" on Friday, Feb. 21, from 12:45 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. The Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the inh...

Anthony Jack, associate professor of philosophy and assistant professor of neurosciences and neurology, will present “The Mind's Essential Tension: How Neuroscience Can and Must Drive a New Renaissance” at the next Science Café Cleveland event. His talk will be held Monday, Nov. 11, from 7 to 8 p.m...

Laura Hengehold, professor of philosophy, has won a 2018 French Voices award from the FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for the recent translation of texts by French-Algerian philosopher Seloua Luste Boulbina, titled Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa. The Fr...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics, co-wrote an op-ed with Misty Morrison, a printmaker and painter, for Aesthetics for Birds and Cleveland Review of Books. Their piece, titled “Trauma-feeding,” is a critique of the exploitation of trauma in contemporary art. Read the ...