philosophy

Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Philosophy will host the next installment of its 2022 speaker series with a talk titled “White Philosophers and the ‘White Problem,’” Wednesday, March 16, at 6 p.m. The event will feature T. Storm Heter, a native of Kansas, a professor of philosophy…

Chances are, you’ve had days where things don’t seem to be going your way—but then you receive a compliment from someone that turns your day around. While compliments may seem simple, they can have a large impact on you and the people around you, creating a ripple of positivity. But why is…

Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Philosophy will host the next installment of its 2022 speaker series with a talk titled “White Philosophers and the 'White Problem,'” Wednesday, March 16, at 6 p.m. The event will feature T. Storm Heter, a native of Kansas, a professor of philosophy…

As part of its 2022 Speaker Series, the Department of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University invites campus community members to hear from Shaeeda Mensah, assistant professor of philosophy at McDaniel College. Mensah will present “Black Women, State Violence, and the Logic of the Narrative…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…