Washington Philosophy Circle presents:
Past Events
of Philosophical Interest in the
Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area
Monday, March 8
6:30 p.m., Goethe Institute, 2nd floor, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Peter Kalkavage: "Principles of Motion and the Motion of Principles: Hegel's
Inverted World."
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Monday, February 8
6:30 p.m., Goethe Institute, 2nd floor, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Yitzhak Melamed: "Spinoza's Deification of Existence."
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Friday, February 19
2:10 p.m., School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
Graduate Student Spring
2010 Lecture Series
Giorgio Pini, Fordham University: "Scotus on What It Is to Think".
Sunday, February 28
1 p.m. - 3 p.m., Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC
(entrance on 20th St.)
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “"Is the Individual
More Important than the Community?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Sunday, January 10
1 p.m. - 3 p.m., Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC
(entrance on 20th St.)
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “Should We Always Say
What We Believe?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
5 pm, Quarry House Tavern, 8401 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring , MD 20910; (301)
587-8350
Silver Spring Socrates Cafe Meetup Group
Discussion: What
is "Loyalty?"
Monday, January 11
6:30 p.m., Goethe Institute, 2nd floor, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Thomas Goldring on Saadia Gaon, a 10th century Jewish rabbi whose Book of
Beliefs and Opinions presents rationalist proofs for the existence of God
and creation ex nihilo.
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Tuesday, January 12
10:00 a.m., Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW., Washington,
DC (202) 797-6105
Religious Expression in American Public Life
A group of religious and secular leaders will unveil a joint
statement about current laws regarding religious expression in the United States
and discuss current legal protections of religious expressions. FREE.
Saturday, January 16
1 pm, Cleveland Park Library,
3310 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008; (202) 282-3080
Book Club: Readings in Existentialism
Discussion: Samuel
Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
Sunday, January 17
12 noon, Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
8th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC
The DC Philosophy
Cafe January Meetup
First meeting.
Monday, January 18
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Book talk: Rebecca
Goldstein: 36 Arguments For The Existence Of God
Tuesday, January 19
7 pm, Teaism Penn Quarter, 400 8th Street NW Washington, DC
Socrates Cafe DC
Discussion: What
moral obligations do we have to animals?
No more spots for participants.
Friday, January 22
2:10 p.m., School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
Graduate Student Spring
2010 Lecture Series
Marina McCoy, Boston College: "Woundedness and Political Community in
Sophocles' Philoctetes"
Saturday, January 23
6:00 pm, Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Book talk: Jeffrey
Herf: Nazi Propaganda For The Arab World
Sunday, January 24
1 p.m. - 3 p.m., Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC
(entrance on 20th St.)
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “Philosophy, as a Comprehensive
System, Self-Contradictory?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Sunday, August 9
1 p.m. - 3 p.m., Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC
(entrance on 20th St.)
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “Why Study History?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Wednesday, May 13
6:45 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 Seventh Street, NW,Washington, DC (next to
Gallery Place Metro)
The American Goethe Society
presents:
Dr. Peter Kalkavage, St. John's College, on Hegel's Romance of Reason.
Dr Kalkavage will also sign his book, The Logic of Desire, which AGS
is making available at the discounted price of $15.00.
Please RSVP to Erika Joyce, President, AGS at e3rj@aol.com
or 703-237-0858 (to ensure sufficient refreshments for everyone).
Refreshments to follow the discussion.
Sunday, May 24
1 p.m. - 3 p.m., Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC
(entrance on 20th St.)
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Sunday 19 April
1 p.m. - 3 p.m., Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC:
NEW DAY & VENUE (entrance on 20th St.)
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “What is Fairness?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday 20 April
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Bonnie Dixon, on the traveling Unitarian Universalist ministry of Michael
Dowd and Connie Barlow.
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Sunday 26 April
1 p.m. - 3 p.m., Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC:
NEW DAY & VENUE (entrance on 20th St.)
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “Can One Believe in Both
God and Evolution?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
March 2009
Monday 16 March
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Speaker: Kenneth Feigenbaum on Leo Strauss' Critique of Spinoza's Theological
Political Treatise
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Sunday, March 22
1 p.m. - 3 p.m., Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC:
NEW DAY & VENUE (entrance on 20th St.)
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “Is Violence a Form of
Communication?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
February 2009
Sunday, February 1
1 p.m. - 3 p.m., Reiter's Book Store, 1990 K St., NW, Washington, DC:
NEW DAY & VENUE (entrance on 20th St.)
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “What Would Utopia Look
Like (Part II), in terms of technology, adaptiveness, value changes and happiness?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday 9 February
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Speaker: Tim Beardley on "Spinoza's Anticipation of the Principles
of Modern Biology"
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
December 2008
Saturday, December 13
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “What Would Utopia Look
Like?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday, December 15
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Speaker: Steve Sandbank on Thomas Paine
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
November 2008
Saturday, November 8
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “What Should a Post-Capitalist
Society Look Like?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
October 2008
Saturday, 11 October
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “What is Self--Organization?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
September 2008
Saturday, 13 September
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “Is It Worse to Kill
a Human Zygote or an Adult Cow?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
August 2008
Saturday, 9 August 2008
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “When is Knowledge Bad?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Saturday, 23 August 2008
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “Does Something Have
to Make Sense to be True?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
July 2008
Saturday, 26 July 2008
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “Is myth more important
than fact?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
June 2008
Saturday, 14 June 2008
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “What is the Self?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Saturday, 28 June 2008
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “If Malthus is right,
then what is the moral thing to do?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
May 2008
Monday, May 19
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Open meeting
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Saturday, May 24
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “Does It All Come Down
to a Joke?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
April 2008
Friday, April 4
2:10 p.m., Catholic University of America, Aquinas Hall Auditorium
Terry Pinkard, Freedom and
Forms of Life in Hegel’s Thought
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
Adam Schulman, On
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Saturday, April 5
9 am– 5:30 pm, The George Washington University, Room 301, Marvin Center
Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference
Featured Speaker: John Mikhail (Georgetown Law)
Friday, April 11
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
Chester Burke, On
Maxwell
Saturday, April 12
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “What is the Relationship
between Critical Thinking and Ethical Thinking?”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Thursday, April 17
6:30 p.m., Reiter's Books, 1990 K St. NW, Washington, DC; (202) 223-3327.
DAVID APGAR discusses & signs copies of Relevance: Hitting Your
Goals by Knowing What Matters.
Friday, April 18
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
Matt Caswell, “Kant
on Evil and Human Nature"
Saturday, April 26
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: “My Language Defines
My Reality”
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday, April 28
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Irmard Scherer: "Hume's Theory of Ideas and Kant's Response"
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
March 2008
Tuesday, March 4
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Presentation begins 6:30 pm
Café Scientifique:
Martin Ogle, Chief Naturalists, Potomac Overlook:
"Gaia Theory Fullest Expression of Ecology?"
For more information contact kbreen@arlingtonva.us.
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Saturday, March 8
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Should the State Eliminate
Poverty?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
2 - 4 pm, National Science Foundation, Room 110, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington,
VA
National Capital Area Skeptics
Speaker & Honoree of 2008 NCAS Philip J. Klass Award:
Robert L. Park (Physics), The Lingering Death of Superstition -- 2,600 Years
After the Birth of Science
Sunday, March 9
2:00 - 4:00 pm, Center For Inquiry/DC, 621 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington,
DC
Roberta Shaffer: Junk Science, Junk Justice
Must RSVP to mhensley@centerforinquiry.net or call 202-546-2331
Public: $6, Free to Friends of the Center.
Monday, March 10
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Book
talk: Chris Hedges, I Don't Believe in Atheists.
Wednesday, March 12
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Book
talk: JOSEPH HOROWITZ, Artists in Exile.
Thursday, March 13
6:30 p.m., lecture begins; refreshments 6:00-6:30 p.m.
German Historical Institute, 1607 New Hampshire Ave., NW; Washington, DC
Maria Diedrich (Universität Münster), Of Borderstates and
Leeches: Ottilie Assing and the Douglasses
Lecture Series: "African Americans and Germans Historical Encounters -
Spring 2008
Metro: Red Line, Dupont Circle (Use Q Street/North Exit)
RSVP (acceptances only): Phone: 202.387.3355 - Fax: 202.387.6437 - E-mail: events@ghi-dc.org.
Friday, March 14
2:10 p.m., Catholic University of America, Aquinas Hall Auditorium
Lawrence Dewan, Thomistic Metaphysics
as an Example of the Greek Heritage of Early Christianity
Saturday, March 15
4:00-6:00 p.m., House of Sweden, Embassy of Sweden, 2900 K Street NW, Washington,
DC 20007
Science Café: The Interplay of Art and Science
Speakers: Ann Rosen, Artist, Sound Sculptor who collaborates with artists, musicians,
researchers and architects
Helaman Ferguson, Artists, Sculptor who has discovered the common ground of
mathematics and art
Moderator: Mats Widbom, Cultural Counselor, Embassy of Sweden
RSVP by March 14 to RSVP-hos@foreign.ministry.se.
Friday, March 21
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
Prof. Mitchell Miller, On
Plato
Monday, March 31
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Ken Feigenbaum: "Is Spinoza a Jewish Philosopher, or what is the
question?"
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
February 2008
Tuesday, February 5
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Presentation begins 6:30 pm
Café Scientifique:
Discussion with linguist Doug Whalen from NSF:
Disappearing Languages: Why it Matters & What it Means
For more information contact kbreen@arlingtonva.us.
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
4:30-6:00 pm, George Mason University, Johnson Center, 3rd floor, room B
Philosophy Depart Colloquium Series
Jim Freeman, "Resolving One Type of Moral Dissensus: Insights from Argumentation
Theory"
Saturday, February 9
2 - 4 pm, National Science Foundation, Room 110, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington,
VA
Stephen Brush, D. Phil., Postmodernism vs. Science vs. Fundamentalism
National Capital Area Skeptics
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Are There Limits to
Tolerance?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Wednesday, February 13
Embassy of Sweden, 2900 K Street NW, Washington DC 20007
At the waterfront in Georgetown at the end of 30th street
Swedish Institute, National Science
Foundation &nd American Association for Advancement of Science
Science Café - A Special Event Hosted by the House of Sweden
Are Homo Sapiens Just Another Type of Animal?
RSVP to rsvp-hos@foreign.ministry.se.
Friday, February 15
2:10 p.m, Catholic University of America, Aquinas Hall Auditorium
Richard Cross, Duns Scotus’s
Cognitive Psychology
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
Robert Druecker, "You
are That!"
Saturday, February 23
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St., NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Is Religion Compatible
with Reason and Liberal Democracy?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday, February 25
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Rene deBrabander on Stephen Toulmin's Return to Reason
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Wednesday, February 27
Embassy of Sweden, 2900 K Street NW, Washington DC 20007
At the waterfront in Georgetown at the end of 30th street
Swedish Institute, National Science
Foundation &nd American Association for Advancement of Science
Science Café - A Special Event Hosted by the House of Sweden
The Interplay of Art and Science
RSVP to rsvp-hos@foreign.ministry.se.
Friday, February 29
2:10 p.m., Catholic University of America, Aquinas Hall Auditorium
G. r. f. Ferrari, Socratic
Irony as Pretence
January 2008
Saturday, January 26
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., New location: Marshall's Bar and Grille, 2524 L St.,
NW
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Can We Choose Goals
Rationally?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday, January 28
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Daniel Spiro on Spinoza and Unitarian Universalism
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
December 2007
Friday, December 7
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Charles Kahn, University of Pennsylvania
"From Myth to Reason"
Monday, December 10
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Discussion of Spinoza-related questions
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
November 2007
Friday, November 2
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Georg Wieland, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
"Source and Quotation: Early Greek Philosophers in Medieval Commentaries
on Aristotle’s Metaphysics"
Tuesday, November 6
7 - 9 p.m.(approx.), Teaism,
400 8th Street NW, Washington, DC. Lower level
Washington Metro Literary Group
Discussion: William Blake's Manuscript Lyrics (In Commemoration of Blake’s
250th Birthday)
See meeting announcement & poems
for details.
Friday, November 16
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
John McCarthy, The Catholic University of America
"Bacon’s
Third Sailing: The 'Pre-Socratic' Origins of Modern Philosophy"
Monday, November 19
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Firmin DeBrabander, author of Spinoza and the Stoics.
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Friday, November 30
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Richard Velkley, Tulane University
"Primal Truth, Errant Tradition and Crisis: The Pre-Socratics in Late
Modernity"
October 2007
Friday, October 5
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Patricia Curd, Purdue University
"The
Immateriality of Love and Strife in Empedocles"
Tuesday, October 9
5:30 p.m., Johns Hopkins University, Kenney Auditorium, 1740 Massachusetts
Ave. NW, Washington DC
"Still a Community of Values? Historical Reflections on the Normative
Basis of the West"
Lecture by Dr. Heinrich August Winkler, Humboldt University.
Free; for reservations call (202) 332-9312.
Friday, October 12
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Kenneth Dorter, University of Guelph
"'Changing,
It is at Rest': Whole and Parts in Heraclitus"
Saturday, October 13
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
New location, Penn Quarter, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Should Subjectivity
Have any Role in Probability?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday, October 15
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Dennis Skocz, "Spinoza: Proposition 15: The Heart of the Argument
and Arguments of the Heart."
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Friday, October 19
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, University of Texas at Austin
"Parmenides,
Astronomy, and Scientific Realism"
3:15 pm, Georgetown University, New North 204
Philosophy Department Lecture Series
Elizabeth Spelman - Philosophy
and Waste
Saturday, October 20
2 - 4 pm, Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Rd., Bethesda, MD (near Metro)
National Capital Area Skeptics
Speaker: Rick Wood, Beamed Aboard a UFO by a Psychic Sasquatch . . .
Understanding Paranormal Belief in the 21st Century
Friday, October 26
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Daniel Graham, Brigham Young University
"Anaxagoras:
Science and Speculation in the Golden Age"
Tuesday, October 30
7:30 p.m., Free.
Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington,
6125 Montrose Road, Rockville., (301) 881-0100.
EMIL FACKENHEIM: PHILOSOPHY AND JEWISH LIFE,
lecture by Indiana University chancellor's professor Michael Morgan.
September 2007
Friday, September 7
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
David Lightfoot, National Science Foundation,
The Complexity
of Language: How It Is Learned and How It Changes
Saturday, September 8
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "I Contradict Myself.
So What?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday, September 10
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Steve Sandbank, Leibniz's Monads and the Movie Crash.
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Monday, September 17
7 p.m., National Academy of Sciences,
2101 Constitution Ave. NW., (202) 357-3030. $15.
Book talk: Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window
into Human Nature.
Tuesday, September 18
2:30 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
"Affirmative
Action Today: Race, Class, Immigration, and the Constitution"
Professor Deborah Malamud, New York University School of Law.
Friday, September 21
12:15 pm, George Washington University, Phillips Hall 510
Philosophy Dept. Brown Bag Series
Dr. Eric Saidel, "Insufficient
Normativity"
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
James Lesher, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"A
Systematic Xenophanes?"
Saturday, September 22
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What is Life?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Friday, September 28
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Aquinas Hall (formerly: Life Cycle Institute),
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Carl A. Huffman, DePauw University
"Reason and Myth in Early Pythagorean Cosmology"
3:15 pm, Georgetown University, New North 204
Philosophy Department Lecture Series
Lydia Goehr - Perspectivism Without Perspective
Contact Philosophy Department: philosophy@georgetown.edu, (202) 687-7487.
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
James Gates, University of Maryland
SUSY and the
Lords of the Ring: Supersymmetry Theory
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
Professor David McNeill, University of Essex
"Knowledge, Ignorance and Imitation in Book 10 of Plato's Republic"
Lecture series: (410) 626-2539.
August 2007
Saturday, August 25
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Are There Some Things
We Should Not Know?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
July 2007
Tuesday, July 10
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Presentation begins 6:30 pm
Café Scientifique:
Discussion with computer scientist George Strawn and physicist-author Nancy
Forbes:
Computing Conundrum: Whither the Future?
This event only will also feature a special performance by the bluegrass
band "Don't Tell Bob"!
Contact mhanson@nsf.gov
or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
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Saturday, July 14
1 p.m. - 2:45 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What is the Relationship
Between Psychology and Philosophy of Mind?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
3 pm, Chapters Literary Bookstore
Book talk: Michael Boylan on his new philosophical novel, The
Extinction of Desire.
June 2007
Saturday, June 9
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Is There a Categorical
Difference Between Human Beings and Other Animals?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Tuesday, June 12
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Presentation begins 6:30 pm
Café Scientifique:
Discussion with Rick Potts, National Museum of Natural History:
The Emergence of Humans: What Makes Us Different?
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May 2007
Thursday, May 10
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC.
Book talk: Christopher
Hitchens: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Friday, May 11
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
The 76th Joseph Henry Lecture
The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back
to the Dawn of the Universe
John Mather, 2006 Nobel Laureate
Saturday, May 12
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "A sense of shame is
necessary for a well-functioning democracy"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday, May 14
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Annual Spinoza Society Free for All
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Event: "The Existence of God: Theism vs Atheism": dinner party
& panel discussion
Host: DC International Connection
Location: The Fireplace Mansion
2301 First Street, Washington NW, DC
When: Saturday, May 19, 7:45pm
Phone: 703-475-8328
Click here for evite.
Tickets will be $15 at the door or you can get advanced discount tickets online. The ticket cost is waived if you contribute a main dish or salad serving 5 or more. One dish per person. You must RSVP on the evite with your dish type & arrive no later than 7:45.
Schedule:
7:45PM: Doors open, with International Buffet.
8:30PM Our Intros & discussion begin.
9:30PM Your questions and brief comments.
10:00PM Party socializing until after midnight from the rooftop.
Speakers:
Ralph Dumain (independent scholar) on atheism, irreligion, & rationality
See statement with
web links & bibliography
Richard Akin (Alliance of Secularists USA), former Baptist minister turned
atheist
Rick Wingove (American Atheists, Beltway Atheists), main speaker on the
issue of "God or no god?"
Lori Lipman Brown (Secular Coalition of America), main speaker on church
& state issues, moral atheism
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld (Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah - The National Synagogue
{Orthodox}), main speaker defending the theist perspective
Click here for main
speaker bios.
Saturday, May 26
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Why Obey the Law?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Wednesday, May 30
6:00 p.m. (book signing and reception to follow)
LOCATION: AAAS Auditorium, 1200 New York Avenue, NW
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships Seminar:
"The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief"
Francis S. Collins, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
Dr. Collins is recognized for his landmark discoveries of disease
genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP), a multi-institutional,
international effort to map and sequence all human DNA. Now he is presenting
his crackpot views on religion. Free copies of his book will be available.
April 2007
Thursday, April 5
4 pm, George Washington University
Prof. Eva Feder Kittay, SUNY / Stony Brook
2006-2007 Elton Lecture
Monday, April 9
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Bonnie Dixon on Emerson
Friday, April 13
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
"St. Thomas and the Political Common Good"
John Goyette, Thomas Aquinas College
3:15pm, New North 204, Georgetown University
Georgetown University Philosophy Dept. Lecture Series
David Oderberg, "The
Structure of Essence"
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
Mark Skousen, Grantham University,
The Secret
to Benjamin Franklin's Electrifying Success
April 13 - 15
American Center for Physics (University of Maryland), One Physics Ellipse,
College Park, MD
New Directions
in the Foundations of Physics
Speakers:
Yakir Aharonov (Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University)
Gilles Brassard (Informatique et Recherche Opérationelle, Université
de Montréal)
Bill Demopoulos (Philosophy, University of Western Ontario)
Nicolas Gisin (Physics, Université de Genève)
Shelley Goldstein (Mathematics, Rutgers)
Basil Hiley (Theoretical Physics, Birkbeck College)
Richard Jozsa (Computer Science, University of Bristol)
Simon Kochen (Mathematics, Princeton University)
Sandu Popescu (Physics, University of Bristol)
Bas van Fraassen (Philosophy, Princeton University)
The number of participants is limited by AIP regulations; participation
is by invitation only.
For further information, contact Rob Rynasiewicz
Saturday, April 14
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Can We Be Rational?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Wednesday, April 16
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building,
Room 1115
Foundations of Physics
MEIR HEMMO, Philosophy, Haifa U
Thursday, April 19
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Homewood Campus, Building: Gilman Hall Room: 348, Johns
Hopkins University
Seminar in Political and Moral Thought
Brad Ingwood. University of Toronto, Philosophy Department
Contact Professor John Marshall at JHU, (410) 516-0458
Friday, April 20
3:30pm, SIS Lounge, American University
48th Annual Bishop Hurst Lecture
Dr. Nancy Tuana, Pennsylvania State University
"Witnessing
Katrina: Feminist Contributions to Socially Responsible Science"
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
“Darwin and State of Nature”
Mr. Jason Tipton, St. John’s College
Thursday, April 26
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Homewood Campus, Building: Gilman Hall Room: 348, Johns
Hopkins University
Seminar in Political and Moral Thought
Professor J.G.A. Pocock. Johns Hopkins University, History Department
Contact Professor John Marshall at JHU, (410) 516-0458
7:00 pm, Hirshhorn Gallery of Art, Independence Ave. at 7th St. SW, Washington,
DC
PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA, documentary film featuring critical-studies
theorist Slavoj Zizek
Friday, April 27
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
Anthony J. Tether, Director, DARPA, Technologies
of the Future
Saturday, April 28
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Has Evolution Set Limits
to Our Understanding?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
March 2007
Friday, March 2
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Sahar Akhtar, Department of Philosophy, Duke University
Tuesday, March 6
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Presentation begins 6:30 pm
Café Scientifique:
Discussion with David Goldstein, President, Electric Vehicle Association on
"The "Shocking" Science Behind Electric Cars", with
actual cars to see & touch!
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or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
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Wednesday, March 7
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Mariska Leunissen, Department of Philosophy, Leiden University
Friday, March 9
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
"Nietzsche's Critique of Compassion Revisited"
Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Nathaniel Stein, Department of Philosophy, Oxford University
Saturday, March 10
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Why Do We Believe What
We Cannot Prove?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Monday, March 12
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington,
DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Suzanne Barry & Daniel Spiro on Spiro's book The Creed Room
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Wednesday, March 14
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building,
Room 1115
Foundations of Physics
DAVID BAKER, Philosophy, Princeton U, "The Everettian Fuzzy Link"
Wednesday, March 21
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building,
Room 1115
Foundations of Physics
VALIA ALLORI, Philosophy, Rutgers U
"On the Common Structure of Quantum Theories Without Observers"
6:30 pm, Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Joachim Radkau and Lawrence Scaff, "Max
Weber – A Passionate Thinker"
In cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington DC. RSVP 202-289-1200
ext. 177.
Saturday, March 24
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Should There Be Laws
Against Victimless Acts?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Wednesday, March 28
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building,
Room 1115
University of Maryland Committee
for Philosophy and the Sciences Colloquium
Helen Longino, Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
"Theoretical Pluralism in the Sciences of Human Behavior"
Friday, March 30
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
"Hume's Naturalism and its Discontents"
Barry Stroud, University of California, Berkeley
3:15pm, New North 204, Georgetown University
Georgetown University Philosophy Dept. Lecture Series
Rachana Kamtekar, Topic
to be announced
February 2007
Friday, February 2
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
"Why Descartes Isn't What We Take Him to Be"
Dennis Sepper, University of Dallas
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Ray Buchanan, Dept. of Philosophy, New York University
Saturday, February 3
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy
Chase, Maryland. Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists: Maryland-DC
Chapter
John Nugent, "Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Origin of Ethics"
Monday, February 5
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building,
Room 1115
Foundations of Physics
ALLEN STAIRS, Philosophy, U Maryland, "Making Gauge Theory Intrinsic"
Wednesday, February 7
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Elizabeth Tropman, Dept. of Philosophy, Colorado State University
"Renewing Moral Intuitionism"
Friday, February 9
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Jason Brennan, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
Saturday, February 10
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What Is Love?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
2:30- 4:30 pm, Tysons-Pimmit Library, 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls
Church, VA
National Capital Area Skeptics meeting.
Sharon Weinberger, Imaginary
Weapons - Pentagon Fringe Science
Monday, February 12
Darwin Day
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington,
DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Kenneth Feigenbaum on Antonio Damasio's book Looking for Spinoza: Joy,
Sorrow and the Feeling Brain
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Wednesday, February 14
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Dan Moller, Dept. of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, February 15
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Homewood Campus, Building: Gilman Hall Room: 348, Johns
Hopkins University
Seminar in Political and Moral Thought
Jennifer Pitts. Political Science Department, Princeton University
Contact Professor John Marshall at JHU, (410) 516-0458
Friday, February 16
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Elizabeth Jelinek, Department of Philosophy, Duke University
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
Steiner Lecture: "Form and Figure in Greek Art: Ideal Beauty, Individualism,
and Political Space in Greek Architecture and Sculpture"
Ms. Camille Paglia, University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at
the University of the Arts in Philadelphia
Wednesday, February 21
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Damon Horowitz, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
7:30 pm, Barnes & Noble-Bethesda, 4801 Bethesday Ave. (301)
986-1761.
Daniel Spiro discusses his philosophical
novel The Creed Room.
Thursday, February 21
12:00 noon, Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW., Washington,
DC.
JOHN PATRICK DIGGINS discusses Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the
Making of History.
For reservations call (202) 789-5229.
Friday, February 23
3:15pm, New North 204, Georgetown University4 pm, George Washington University
Linda Martín Alcoff, Prof. of Philosophy, Women's Studies, and
Political Science, Syracuse University
2006-2007 Goutman Lecture
Monday, February 26
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Arlington Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy
St., Arlington, VA. 703-993-8761.
(Between Washington Blvd. & Fairfax Drive; closest to Ballston or Virginia
Square Metro stops)
Dr. Mary McCutcheon, "Evolution, Creationism and Intelligent Design"
Sponsored by George Mason University's Mason
Speakers program.
Friday, February 28
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Alexis Burgess, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
January 2007
Saturday, January 6
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy
Chase, Maryland. Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists: Maryland-DC
Chapter
Frank Hebblethwaite, "Was Abraham Lincoln a Secular Humanist?"
Monday, January 8
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington,
DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Lisa Blum, Loyola College Philosophy Dept., "Juan de Valdes—A
Jewish-Catholic Dissenter in the Early 16th Century"
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Tuesday, January 9
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Café Scientifique
Presentation begins 6:30 pm.
Discussion with anthropologist Doug Ubelaker (National Museum of Natural History):
"How Bones Talk to Us: Clues From Forensic Science"
Contact mhanson@nsf.gov or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
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Saturday, January 13
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Does Capitalism Promote
Amorality?"
For more information, contact Ken
Feldman.
2:00 - 3:30 pm, Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Rd., Bethesda,
MD
National Capital Area Skeptics meeting.
Dr. Michael Stebbins, "Restoring
Science Integrity in Washington," on the newly formed Scientists
and Engineers for America.
Friday, January 26
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Erin Eaker, Dept. of Philosophy, Western Ontario
"How
not to be puzzled about belief"
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
Joseph Smith, “The
Diffidence of Reason—A Reading of the Conclusion of Book I of Hume’s
“Treatise”
Saturday, January 27
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What Are Proper Life
Goals?"
For more information, contact Ken Feldman.
Wednesday, January 31
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building,
Room 1115
University of Maryland Committee
for Philosophy and the Sciences Colloquium
Malcolm Forster, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Constancies
of Nature"
December 2006
Friday, December 1
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
John Rist, University of Toronto and the Istituto Patristico Augustinianum,
"Augustine: Philosophical Questions, ‘Theological’ Answers"
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Trenton Merricks, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
Stephen Welby, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, "Military
Robotics: Status and Challenges"
Saturday, December 2
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists: Maryland-DC
Chapter
Dr. Goetz Oertel, "The Problems and Prospects of Clean Nuclear Energy"
Sunday, December 3
2 pm, Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW, Washington, DC
Washington Jewish Film Festival: Who
Killed Walter Benjamin?. $10.00; Student, 65+Senior $9.00
Monday, December 4
8 p.m, George Mason University Center for the Arts, 4400 University Drive,
Fairfax. (703) 993-8888.
Rainald Lohner (GMU), COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES: THE THIRD PILLAR OF THE EMPIRICAL
SCIENCES
Tuesday, December 5
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Café Scientifique:
Amazing Polymers & Plastics: From Electronics to Life Itself,
Andy Lovinger, Materials Scientist. (Presentation begins at 6:30)
Contact mhanson@nsf.gov
or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
Cafés will generally be held the first Tuesdays of the month, rotating
locations in Arlington and in Washington D.C.
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Wednesday, December 6
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Carl Craver, Departments of Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychololgy, Washington
University
(CPaS colloquim)
Saturday, December 9
2:30- 4:30 pm, Tysons-Pimmit Library, 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA
National Capital Area Skeptics meeting.
Karl J. Roberts, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, PGCC, Germ
Frenzy - Hype and Reality
Sunday, December 10
2 p.m., George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale,
VA
Northern Virginia Chapter (WASH-NVC) of Washington
Area Secular Humanists
John W. Nugent, "Darwin, Sexual Selection and the Origin of Ethics"
Monday, December 11
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Sidney Bailin, "Amazement: ontological, epistemological, existential,
logical and aesthetic"
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Wednesday, December 13
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Heidi Tiedke, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland
Friday, December 15
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
Mike Roco, National Science Foundation, Nanotechnology
Wednesday, December 20
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Michael Cifone, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland
December 27-30 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
American
Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 103rd Third Annual Meeting
November 2006
Friday, November 3
1-6 pm, McDowell Formal Lounge, American University.
16th Annual McDowell Conference, Fall 2006 Program.
RIGHTS
OF AND RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARD CHILDREN
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Matthias Vorwerk, The
Catholic University of America, “Magna quaestio: Augustine on Ideas of
Individuals”
Tuesday, November 7
12 noon, Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, African/Middle Eastern Reading
Room,
101 Independence Ave. SE., Washington, DC. (202) 707-8485.
LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR: THINKER, STATESMAN, AND POET, lecture by Northwestern
University professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne.
Wednesday, November 8
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Ben Caplan, Department of Philosophy, University of Manitoba
Friday, November 10
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Wayne J. Hankey, Dalhousie University and Kings College, Halifax, “Augustine
in the Twentieth Century Revival of Neoplatonism in France”
3:15 pm, Room 204, New North, Georgetown University
Lecture: Barbara Herman (Philosophy, UCLA), "Morality Unbounded"
Saturday, November 11
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Odeon Cafe/Italian Restaurant, upstairs, 1714 Connecticut
Ave. (near Dupont Circle), Washington, DC
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Plant, Animal, Human: What
Does It Mean to 'Respect Life'?"
RSVP Ken Feldman, Coordinator.
2:30- 4:30 pm, Tysons-Pimmit Library, Falls Church, VA
National Capital Area Skeptics
Dr. Ed Hudgins, Objectivist Center Executive Director, "Objectivism
& Skepticism: A Good Match?"
Monday, November 13
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Dennis Skocz, If God is Love . . ."
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Tuesday, November 14
6:00-8:00pm ( presentation begins 6:30), Bailey's Pub & Grill, Level 1
(under Macy's Furniture), Ballston Common Mall, Arlington VA (Directions)
Café Scientifique:
Ray Brogan, Educational Psychologist: "The Science of Educational Testing:
What Really Happens Behind the Scenes"
Contact mhanson@nsf.gov
or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
Cafés will generally be held the first Tuesdays of the month, rotating
locations in Arlington and in Washington D.C.
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Wednesday, November 15
5.30 p.m., Grand Ballroom, Marvin Center, The George Washington University,
800 21st Street, N.W. Washington, DC.
Prof. Peter Caws, Lecture: REASON AND HOPE: Knowledge, Belief, and the Future
of Humanity
RSVP if possible by November 10, at (202) 994-8899.
Friday, November 17
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Gerard O’Daly, University of College London, “Subject and Substance
in Augustine’s Thought”
Sunday, November 19
2:00 p.m., George Mason Regional Library (GMRL), 7001 Little River Turnpike,
Annandale, VA
Northern Virginia Chapter (NVC) of Washington
Area Secular Humanists
Steven Goldberg, "Humanist Perspectives on Bioethics"
Monday, November 27
6:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Film: A Face in the
Crowd, USA, 1957, DVD, 125 min., Director: Elia Karzan
Opening film to the workshop “On Truth, Lies, Politics and Media”
Admission: $6 / $4. 202-289-1200 or info@washington.goethe.org.
Tuesday, November 28
5:30 p.m., Olsson's Books & Records, 418 7th St. NW, Washington, DC
DANIEL SPIRO discusses and signs The Creed Room: A Novel of Ideas.
7-9 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Workshop, Day 1: On
Truth, Lies, Politics, and Media: In Dialogue with Hannah Arendt
Free. RSVP 202-289-1200 ext. 166 or info@washington.goethe.org.
Wednesday, November 29
9 a.m.-9 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Workshop, Day 2: On
Truth, Lies, Politics, and Media: In Dialogue with Hannah Arendt
Free. RSVP 202-289-1200 ext. 166 or info@washington.goethe.org.
October 2006
Monday, October 2
7:00 p.m. at Bar Pilar, 1833 14th Street NW, between S & T Streets, Washington,
DC
Café Scientifique:
four science authors: "speed reading."
The audience will be divided into four smaller groups, and spend ten minutes
with each author and rotate, in a round robin fashion, for a two hour period.
RSVP by emailing cafescientifique@nas.edu
for the speed reading program only if you plan to attend.
A general public reception will follow at 9:00 pm (no RSVP is required). This
will feature a meet-n-greet, book sale, and signing.
Books provided for sale by Olsson's: In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy,
and the Unity of Nature, by John Whitfield; Pandora's Baby: How the First
Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution, by Robin Marantz Henig;
Sex, Drugs and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted, by Mike Stebbins; Not
Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical
Law, by Peter Woit. Free (with cash bar & dinner specials).
Tuesday, October 3
7:00 p.m., Olsson's Books, The Lansburgh/Penn Quarter, 418 7th St., NW, Washington,
DC.
Book Talk: Craig Nelson, Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and
the Birth of Modern Nations
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Café Scientifique:
Spring Vacation 2050: The Science Behind Climate Change,
Oceanographers David Evans (Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science) & and
Margaret Leinen (NSF Assistant Director for Geosciences).
Contact mhanson@nsf.gov
or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
Cafés will generally be held the first Tuesdays of the month, rotating
locations in Arlington and in Washington D.C.
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Wednesday, October 4
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Al Mele, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
October 6-7, 2006
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va
Conference
on The Future of Democracy
Guest speakers include: Sandra Day O'Connor, Philip Pettit, Robert Audi, William
Galston, John Kekes, Dennis Thompson, Michael Perry, George Sher, Loren Lomasky,
Nick Wolterstorff, Pippa Norris.
Friday, October 6
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
James Wetzel, Villanova University, “Augustine’s
Short History of Philosophy”
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
What is Science
and Why Do We Really Care?
G. Peter Nanos, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Saturday, October 7
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists: Maryland-DC
Chapter
WASH Board member, Northern Virginia Chapter Coordinator, and WASH Vice President
Peter Ansoff, The American Flag in History and Myth.
Sunday, October 8
2 p.m., George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale,
VA
Northern Virginia Chapter (WASH-NVC) of Washington
Area Secular Humanists
Rob Boston, Assistant Director of Communications, Americans United for Separation
of Church and State,
Speaking on: "In Defense of the Secular State."
Thursday, October 12
12:00 noon, Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC.
Book talk: Dr. Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptic Society,
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design.
Reservations strongly recommended: http://www.cato.org/events/calendar.html
(bottom of page) or call (202) 218-4606 or e-mail events@cato.org.
The Cato Institute requests business attire.
7 pm, Oakton High School, 2900 Sutton Rd., Vienna, VA 22181
Book sales 7 :00 pm to 7:30 pm. The program will start at 7:30 pm.
Why Darwin Matters:
The Case Against Intelligent Design (book
info)
Talk & book signing by Michael Shermer, Skeptics Society Executive Director
Free NCAS 20th Anniversary memorabilia to all who attend this
event.
Co-sponsored with the Alliance for Science.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus (Baltimore, MD),
Gilman Hall Room: 348
COLLOQUIUM - TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Talbot Brewer, University of Virginia.
Friday, October 13
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Gareth Matthews, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), “God
and Evil in Augustine and Descartes”
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus (Baltimore, MD),
Gilman Hall Room: 348
COLLOQUIUM: TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED
John M. Fischer, University of California, Riverside.
Saturday, October 14
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Odeon Cafe/Italian Restaurant, 1714 Connecticut Ave. (near
Dupont Circle), Washington, DC
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Does unchanging human nature
condemn us to repeat past mistakes?"
RSVP Ken Feldman, Moderator.
Wednesday, October 18
Reception 6:30 PM, Lecture and Discussion 7:30-8:30 PM
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Washington Science Policy Alliance (WSPA)
1200 New York Ave. NW, 2nd floor auditorium
Washington DC, 20005 (1 block from Metro Center on blue/orange/red lines)
Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER)
"What
New Technology is Telling Us About the Dead Sea Scrolls"
Dr. Adolfo
Roitman, Ph.D., Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Director of the Shrine
of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem
RSVP BY OCTOBER
13.
Friday, October 20
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Eric Gregory, Princeton University, “The Alleged Anti-Perfectionism
of Augustinian Politics”
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Mark Richard, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University
(The Philosophy of Language Lecture Series)
8:15 p.m., Francis Scott Key Auditorium, St.
John's College, Annapolis, MD
Paul Bagley, Professor at Loyola College of Maryland, "On Why Spinoza's
Teaching in the Tractatus is Necessarily Theologico-Political"
Tuesday, October 24
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC.
Book talk: Richard
Dawkins, The God Delusion, contends that religion is not only irrational,
it is deadly.
Wednesday, October 25
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Lindley Darden, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland
(DST lecture)
October 26-28, 2006
George Mason University Arlington (VA) campus
Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle
Conference theme "Body
and Institution."
Friday, October 27
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Zoltan Szabo, Department of Philosophy, Yale University
(The Philosophy of Language Lecture Series)
Saturday, October 28
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Odeon Cafe/Italian Restaurant, upstairs, 1714 Connecticut
Ave. (near Dupont Circle), Washington, DC
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What Are Values For?"
Worldwide Café Philo debate.
RSVP Ken Feldman, Coordinator.
Monday, October 30
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Prof. Emmet Holman, George Mason University: David Hume on Natural Religion
and the Argument from Design.
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
September 2006
Wednesday, September 6
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Jason Stanley, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
(The Philosophy of Language Lecture Series)
Thursday, September 7
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Café Scientifique
Chemist Joe Schwarcz : "Quacks, Charlatans and Scientists: How to Distinguish
Between Hocus-Pocus and Sound Advice"
Contact mhanson@nsf.gov or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
Cafés will generally be held the first Tuesdays of the month, rotating
locations in Arlington and in Washington D.C.
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Friday, September 8
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Kevin White, The Catholic University of America, “Augustine
on Number and Species”
Saturday, September 9
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "The most important news
of the day is never found in the newspapers."
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists: Maryland-DC
Chapter
First MDC General Monthly Meeting for 2006-2007
American Humanist Association (AHA) Development Associate Maggie
Ardiente will speak on The Student Secular Alliance (SSA). She will explain
how this student run organization works, and tell us why it is so critical for
secular people to support the effort of free thinking students to spread the
word that there is a rational alternative to mindless “faith” on our
college campuses and elsewhere.
2:30 pm at Tysons-Pimmit Library, Falls Church, VA. New Time & Location.
National Capital Area Skeptics meeting.
Veritas Vioxx - Ripped From the Headlines: Looking
at Junk Science & Junk Justice By Roberta Shaffer.
Free NCAS 20th Anniversary memorabilia to all who attend this
event.
Scientific literacy among judges who rule on the acceptance of expert testimony
and the legitimacy of arguments about the nature and scope of science is crucial
to ensuring reality-based interpretation of law.
Sunday, 10 September
1:30 p.m., Community Room, C. Burr Artz Library, 110 East Patrick St., Frederick,
MD
Frederick Secular Humanists (FRESH)
John Puhalla and Frank Kovac, "Epicurus and his Guide to Living Without
the Gods"
Monday, September 11
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Tom Goldring: review of the Teaching Company's course "Science and
Religion."
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
7:00 p.m, Room 2, Headquarters Branch, Central Rappahannock Regional Library,
1201 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, VA
Fredericksburg Secular Humanists (FSH)
Discussion: "The Rise of Christian Nationalism"
Friday, September 15
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Roland Teske, Marquette University, “Time,
the World-Soul, and the Heaven of Heaven in the Confessions”
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
Growing Older:
Challenges and Opportunities in Aging
Richard Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging
Saturday, September 16
2 p.m., Samuels Public Library, 538 Villa Avenue, Front Royal, VA
Shenandoah Area Secular Humanists (SASH)
"God's Next Army"
This documentary investigates Patrick Henry College, set up
five years ago in Virginia near Washington D.C. to train young fundamentals
to become the next generation of America's cultural and political leaders. With
financial backing from the evangelical community, the college aims to re-Christianize
America to preserve the world from the sinfulness of man.
Sunday, September 17
3 p.m., Washington DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th Street NW, southeast
corner of 16th & Q St.
The 2006 Annual Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival
Rebecca
Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Tickets: $8; Discounted Member Price, $6
Wednesday, September 20
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Peter Railton, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan
6 p.m., Morain Humanist Center, 1777 T St. NW., Washington DC
HUMANISM: AN INTRODUCTION, lecture on the history, philosophy, and contemporary
implications of humanism.
Free. (202) 238-9088.
Friday, September 22
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Christopher Cullen, Fordham University, “Real Humanism: Bonaventure’s
Philosophy of Human Nature.”
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus (Baltimore, MD),
Gilman Hall Room: 348
COLLOQUIUM - TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Paul Coates, University of Hertfordshire.
Saturday, September 23
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "?"
Friday, September 29
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Steven P. Marrone, Tufts University, “Henry
of Ghent and Seeing Augustine through Plato-Colored Glasses”
August 2006
Tuesday, August 1
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Café Scientifique
Geologist Tom Wagner: "From Dust to Us: a Brief History of the Earth and
Moon"
Contact mhanson@nsf.gov or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
Cafés will generally be held the first Tuesdays of the month, rotating
locations in Arlington and in Washington D.C.
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6:00-8:00pm, Lobby Bar, Wardman
Park Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC, next to Woodley Park Metro Station
Cash bar (6:00-6:30), presentation (6:30-7:00), discussion (7:00-8:00). Limited
seating -- first come, first seated. Free.
Dr. Shawn Carlson Exec. Director, Society for Amateur Scientists
"Is Science for Amateurs? Ben Franklin Thought So!"
A discussion about: (1)how science has evolved as a profession, (2) the role
of amateur scientists yesterday and today, (3) how “public” accessibility
to science has changed.
Alternative event for Café Scientifique.
This event is part of the 2006 Naval S&T Partnership Conference, presented
by National Defense Industrial Association with technical support from Office
of Naval Research. Cafe attendees are welcome to visit the conference
exhibit hall on August 1 beginning at 4 pm with welcome e-mail from Café
Scientifique as letter of admission.
Monday, August 7
7 p.m., Stacy's Coffee Parlor, 709 West Broad Street, Falls Church, VA. (Closest
Metro stop: West Falls Church.)
Progressive Book Club: The Philosophy of Leo Strauss (philosophical mentor
of the neocons).
See blog & yahoo
discussion group.
Saturday, August 12
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What Comes First: What's
Right or What's Good?"
Wednesday, August 16
7 p.m., Teaism,
lower level, 400 8th Street NW, Washington, DC (around corner from Archives/Navy
Memorial Metro stop).
Literary Group discussion: Jorge Luis Borges: "The
Congress" & poems.
See also On
“The Congress” by Jorge Luis Borges: Observations and Questions
by Ralph Dumain.
Saturday, August 26
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What is Wrong with Terrorism?"
July 2006
Saturday, July 8
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Is Consumerism at War with
Personal Identity?"
To support the restaurant, be prepared to spend a minimum of $3.
Thursday, July 13
6:30 - 7:30 p.m., Inter-American Development Bank, 1330 New York Ave.
NW, Washington DC; Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center. (Metro Center, 13th
Street exit or McPherson Square, 14th Street exit.)
Free; Photo ID required
Lecture:
"Borges, Politics and Ethics" by Dr. Bruno Bosteels, Dept.
of Spanish, Cornell University
to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986).
Saturday, July 22
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Can Evolution Explain Morality?"
Background reading: "Evolutionary
Ethics"
To support the restaurant, be prepared to spend a minimum of $3.
June 2006
Thursday, June 1
6 p.m., Morain Humanist Center, 1777 T St. NW. (202) 298-0921.
HUMANISM: AN INTRODUCTION, lecture on the history, philosophy, and contemporary
implications of humanism.
Tuesday, June 6
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
Café Scientifique
Neuroscientist Kathie Olsen: "Your Phantasmagorical Brain!"
Contact mhanson@nsf.gov or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
Cafés will generally be held the first Tuesdays of the month, rotating
locations in Arlington and in Washington D.C.
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Saturday, June 10
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Why Are We Here?"
New policy: admission fee: $3 / person. Group must collectively spend a minimum
of $50.
So why are we here?
Saturday, June 24
1:00 p.m. Monthly Meeting: 1 p.m., George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little
River Turnpike, Annandale, VA
Northern Virginia Chapter (WASH-NVC) of Washington
Area Secular Humanists
John Daken will describe his "Crossing the Potomac: A Journey
from War to Peace." In the wake of 9/11, the bulk of America's "defense"
response has come in the form of military offensives. The government has clung
to the hope that through deterrence and pre-emption the nation can be kept safe.
Navy psychiatrist John Daken has seen the effects of these policies on the participants
in the Middle East up close. He participated in crisis response missions after
the terrorist attacks against the USS COLE and the Pentagon, then deployed to
Iraq with the U.S. Marines in 2004. Convinced that our belligerence is ultimately
counterproductive in the face of violent religious fundamentalism, and unwilling
to override his conscience any longer, John recently submitted his resignation
after 18 years of service in pursuit of a career in the Ethical Culture movement.
John will describe his experiences and chart the path to his conclusion that
world peace will only be achieved by bridging the chasms between the world's
many religions.
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What is an Atheist's Basis
for Morality?"
To support the restaurant, be prepared to spend a minimum of $3.
May 2006
Thursday, May 11
6:45 to 8:45 pm., Goethe-Institut, 812 Seventh St., NW, Washington DC.
American Goethe Society (AGS),
lecture
"Nietzsche, A Question of Values," Professor Martin De Nys (George
Mason University)
Saturday, May 13
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "If I Talk To Myself, Who
is Talking to Whom?"
Monday, May 15
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building, Room 1115
Foundations of Physics
Joan Bromberg (Visiting Scholar, Dept. of the History of Science & Technology,
Johns Hopkins University),
'Complementary Conversations'
Saturday, May 20
1 p.m., George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale,
VA
Northern Virginia Chapter (WASH-NVC) of Washington
Area Secular Humanists
"The History of Freethought: Religious Critique and Social Reform,"
Fred Edwords, Director of Communications, American Humanist Association.
Saturday, May 27
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Chapters Literary Bookstore
445 11th St., NW (at E St.), Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Have We Learned Anything
from Religion?"
May 15 - June 4, 2006
Wed, Thur & Sun at 7:30 pm, Sun matinees at 2 pm.
Mead Theatre Lab @ Flashpoint, 916 G St NW, Washington, DC 20001. Metro: Gallery
Place/Chinatown.
Alice in Wonderland, adapted by Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project
- directed by Richard Henrich.
Performance by Spooky Action Theater.
An ensemble creation featuring: Joel Reuben Ganz, Jessica Hansen, Marissa Molnar,
Joseph Perna, Francisco Reinoso & Yasmin Tuazon.
Open admission, donation suggested. Reserve by calling 202-248-0647 or e-mail
info@spookyaction.org.
See review by R. Dumain.
April 2006
Sunday, April 2
2 pm, 7:30 pm: final performances
The Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, 916 G St NW, Washington, DC.
Rameau's Nephew: The Enlightenment in Handsprings,
adapted from Denis Diderot by Shelly Berc and Andrei Belgrader.
Performance by Spooky Action Theater;
Director/founder Richard Henrich.
Tickets are FREE, donations accepted. Reservations 202-248-0647 or e-mail info@spookyaction.org.
Tuesday, April 4
6:00-8:00pm, The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
(across from Ballston Common Mall, near the Ballston Metro)
NEW: Café Scientifique
Discussion with astrophysicist Michael Turner on "Before the Big Bang"
Contact mhanson@nsf.gov or sgoforth@nsf.gov.
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Friday, April 7
2:15pm, American University, Mary Graydon Center, Rooms 4 & 5
47th
Annual Bishop Hurst Lecture
"The Poorest of the Poor: Justice and the Feminization of Global Poverty,"
Dr. Alison M. Jaggar, Prof. of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of
Colorado, Boulder
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Jacob Klein
and Phenomenology, Burt Hopkins, Seattle University
Sunday, April 9
2 p.m., George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale,
VA
Northern Virginia Chapter (WASH-NVC) of Washington
Area Secular Humanists
Richard L (Rick) Wingrove (Newly Named Lobbyist for American Atheists), “An
Atheist Goes to Washington”
Monday, April 10
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society: free-form discussion.
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
Thursday, April 20
7:00 p.m, Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., NW, Washington DC.
Book talk: A.C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities.
Friday, April 21
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Ludwig Wittgenstein:
The Outlawed Philosopher, Jaako Hintikka, Boston University
2:00-3:00 pm, Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts
Ave. NW, Washington DC
The
John Henry Cardinal Newman Lecture Series:
Philosophical
Psychology: Psychology, Emotions, and Freedom
Roger Scruton, Ph.D., "Against Biologism
Attendance free, reservations required. Call the Institute
for the Psychological Sciences, (703) 416-1441.
Saturday, April 22
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "I Like What I Like, You
Like What You Like, And That's All There is to Art"
Wednesday, April 26
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building, Room 1115
University of Maryland Committee
for Philosophy and the Sciences Colloquium
"How to Situate Cognition: Letting Nature Take its Course," Rob Wilson
(Philosophy, University of Alberta)
April 28 - April 30
American Institute of Physics, College Park
New Directions in
the Foundations of Physics conference
March 2006
Thursday, March 2
7 p.m., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Visitor Center Auditorium, 8800 Greenbelt
Road, Greenbelt.
THE
MAN WHO DID NOT STAY QUIET: EINSTEIN ON RACE AND RACISM,
lecture by authors Jerome
Taylor and Rodger Taylor.
Free. For reservations call (301) 286-2893.
For events, reservations, and volunteer opportunities see Eyes
on the Sky 2006: Unveiling the Unseen Universe.
Monday, March 6
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building, Room 1115
Foundations of Physics
Nick Huggett (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago):
'Identity of Indiscernibles
for Every Kind of Quarticle'
Tuesday, March 7
6:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Frank Dixon presents a chapter from his unpublished book The Several Roads
to Serfdom.
Friday, March 10
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Essence and
Definition in Aristotle, Deborah Modrak, University of Rochester
Saturday, March 11
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Is Randomness of Greater
Complexity than Life?"
Saturday, March 18
2 p.m., Silver Spring Branch Library, 8901 Colesville Road, Silver Spring,
MD (301) 587-3827.
National Capital Area Skeptics Public Lecture
Series
Prof. Marvin Zelkowitz, University of Maryland, "Positively Skeptical:
A Way of Knowing"
Tuesday, March 21
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC.
Book Talk: Seth Lloyd, Programming
the Universe
Friday, March 24
2:00-3:00 pm, Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts
Ave. NW, Washington DC
The
John Henry Cardinal Newman Lecture Series:
Philosophical
Psychology: Psychology, Emotions, and Freedom
Rev. Benedict M. Ashley, O.P., "The Service of Metaphysics to Psychology"
Attendance free, reservations required. Call the Institute
for the Psychological Sciences, (703) 416-1441.
Saturday, March 25
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "How Does the Idea of Death
Affect Life?"
Monday March 27
Reception 5:45 PM, Lecture and Discussion 6:30-8:00 PM
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Ave. NW, 2nd floor auditorium
Washington DC, 20005 (1 block from Metro Center on blue/orange/red lines)
Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER)
“The Dance of the
Fertile Universe: Chance and Destiny Embrace”
Lecturer: George V. Coyne, S.J., Vatican Observatory
Friday, March 31
4:30 pm, Goethe-Institut Washington, 812 Seventh St., NW, Washington DC. Goethe
Forum.
The Philosopher
as a Politician: Martin Heidegger's 1933/34
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Bernd Martin, Department of History, Universität Freiburg,
Germany
Organized by the Washington, DC Heidegger Group
February 2006
Tuesday, February 7
6:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Lecture: Prof. Irmgard Scherer, Philosophy Dept., Loyola College,
on "Confessions of a Beautiful Soul" from Goethe's philosophical novel
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
Thursday, February 9
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Johns Hopkins University
Homewood Campus, Building: Gilman Hall Room: 348
"POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AS A DEMOCRATIC PROCESS"
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University, Political Science
Friday, February 10
8:15 p.m., Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Philosophical Society of Washington
"Imaging
the Brain – Finding Emotion," Claudia Wassmann, National Institutes
of Health
Saturday, February 11
event cancelled: 2 p.m., West End Library, 1101 24th Street, N.W. at L Street,
N.W., Washington, D.C.
National Capital Area Skeptics Public Lecture
Series
Prof. Marvin Zelkowitz, University of Maryland, "Positively Skeptical:
A Way of Knowing"
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Are Democracy and Capitalism Becoming
Incompatible?"
Sunday, February 12: Darwin Day
10:30, Baltimore Ethical Society meeting.
Baltimore Chapter, Washington Area Secular
Humanists
Topic: Greg Paul on his paper in the Journal of Religion and Society
Tuesday, February 14
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC.
Book Talk: Daniel Dennett, "Breaking
the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon"
Wednesday, February 15
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building, Room 1115
University of Maryland Committee
for Philosophy and the Sciences Colloquium
"Causally Productive Activities," Jim Bogen (HPS, University of Pittsburgh)
Thursday, February 16
Refreshments will be served at 6 pm. Lectures begin at 6:30 pm.
The German Historical Institute, 1607 New
Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC (near Dupont Circle)
"Knowledge: Science & Education in Germany and the United States"
Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University), Christoph Strupp (German Historical
Institute, Washington, DC)
GHI Lecture Series: Competing
Modernities, Spring & Fall 2006
RSVP (acceptances only): Phone: (202) 387-3355; Fax:
(202) 387-6437; Email: c.brown@ghi-dc.org
Friday, February 17
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
"Genes,
Flux, and Forms: Are Natural Kinds Essential or Accidental?"
Richard v. Sternberg, National Institutes of Health; National Museum of Natural
History
Saturday, February 18
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Free parking.
Maryland-DC Chapter, Washington Area Secular
Humanists
Monthly Meeting: organizational discussion
Sunday, February 19
2 p.m., George Mason Regional Library
Washington Area Secular Humanists, Northern Virginia
Chapter (WASH-NVC)
Dr. Sven Sinclair, How We Make Ethical Decisions and What to Do About It.
Monday, February 20
6:00-8:00 p.m. (Public reception,6:00 pm; lecture begins, 6:30 pm)
The German Historical Institute, 1607 New
Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC (near Dupont Circle)
"DADA: The Geographic
Dimension"
Timothy Benson (Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
RSVP (acceptances only): Phone: (202) 387-3355; Fax:
(202) 387-6437; Email: c.brown@ghi-dc.org
Saturday, February 25
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What Might Philosophy Have
To Say About "Intelligent Design'?"
January 2006
Tuesday, January 3
6:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W., Washington, DC
(one block from the Gallery Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.)
Washington Spinoza Society
Lecture: Chaim Gartman, Beccaria's "Crimes and Punishments"
Meetings on the first Tuesday of each month, September - May.
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
The group is devoted to philosophy generally and, especially, to the study of
Baruch Spinoza.
Saturday, January 7
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library,
8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland. Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists, Maryland
/ DC Chapter (MDC)
Matt Kailey speaking on "Gender Identity and Gender Transitions."
Saturday, January 14
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Sacrifice"
2 - 4 p.m., Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road (short walk from Bethesda
Metro station)
National Capital Area Skeptics meeting.
Rob Boston, Asst. Dir.of Communications, Americans United for Separation of
Church and State,
"The Evolution of Creationism: What's Next in the Debate Over Intelligent
Design?"
Wednesday, January 25
7:00 p.m., Olsson's Books, The Lansburgh, 418 7th St., NW, Washington, DC.
(202) 638-7610
Book talk: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosophy, Princeton University, Cosmopolitanism:
Ethics in a World of Strangers.
Thursday, January 26
Reception 5:15 PM, Lecture and Discussion 6:00-8:00 PM
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Ave. NW, 2nd floor auditorium
Washington DC, 20005 (1 block from Metro Center on blue/orange/red lines)
Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER)
“Chance or Necessity
- Modeling Origins of Life”
Lecturer: Andrew Pohorille, Ph.D., Exobiology Program, NASA-Ames Research Center
Respondent, Walter Shropshire, Jr., Ph.D., M.Div., Adjunct Professor of Science
& Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary
Friday, January 27
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC.
Book Talk: Matthew Stewart, The Courtier and the Heretic (Leibniz vs
Spinoza)
Saturday, January 28
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Should Ethics Be Based on Reason?"
December 2005
Thursday, December 1
Reception 5:15 PM, Lecture and Discussion 6:00-8:00 PM
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Ave. NW, 2nd floor auditorium
Washington DC, 20005 (1 block from Metro Center on blue/orange/red lines)
Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER)
The
Assembly of Protocells
Keynote Speaker: Steen Rasmussen,
Ph.D., Team Leader, Self-Organizing Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Respondent: Peter
Madsen, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Applied
Ethics and Political Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, December 2
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
John Rist, University of Toronto and the Istituto Patristico Augustinianum
"Aesthetics and Ethics: Some Common Problems of Foundationalism"
Saturday, December 3
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists: Maryland-DC
Chapter
WASH Board member Dr. Stuart Jordan.
The basic thesis is that the conflict between the religious reactionary right
and the center/left elements in American society today is only one case of a
global phenomenon. This phenomenon is the increasingly intense reaction against
“modernism” that is occurring, as the reactionaries become increasingly
aware of the more profound implications of modern science. Dr. Jordan will offer
examples from around the globe, and describe what he believes may be the only
way of eventually breaking out of the current pattern of worldwide ignorance
and violence.
Sunday, December 4
11 a.m., 225 Nutley St., Vienna. Free. (703) 437-3161.
Northern Virginia Ethical Society
Frank Kirschner, WASH founder, "Science and Ethics"
On the ways in which science can explain our ethical inclinations.
2:00 p.m., George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale,
VA 22003-5975, tel. 703-256-3800.
Washington Area Secular Humanists, Northern Virginia Chapter (WASH-NVC):
monthly chapter meeting.
Greg Paul, "Catholic Corruption: It's Much, Much, Much Worse Than You Think"
Thursday, December 8
6 - 8 p.m.
The German Historical Institute, 1607 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC
(near Dupont Circle)
"Kunst der Freiheit" or "Phänomen spätbürgerlicher
Dekandenz"? The Art of Die Brücke in the Cold War
Christian Saehrendt, Humboldt University, Berlin
Fall lecture series, One
Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the
Public
RSVP (acceptances only): Phone: (202) 387-3355; Fax: (202) 387-6437;
Email: c.brown@ghi-dc.org
Friday, December 9
8:15 p.m., Philosophical Society
of Washington,
Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC.
Einstein's Warped
Universe
Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
Saturday, December 10
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Can We Uphold Our Values Without
Destroying Others' Values?"
November 2005
Tuesday, November 1
6:30 p.m.
Washington Spinoza Society
Lecture: Prof. Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Freie Universitat (Berlin) & Institute
for Advanced Study (Princeton),
on Spinoza and the Kabbalah.
Friday, November 4
1-6 pm, in the Boardroom, Butler Pavilion, 6th Floor, American University.
15th Annual McDowell Conference, Fall 2005 Program
"Ethics
and Genetics"
Monday, November 7
4:00 pm, University of Maryland College Park, Skinner Building, Room 1115
Foundations of Physics
"Making Making Quantum
Copies Copies," PAUL LOPATA (US Army Research Lab)
Thursday, November 10
6 - 8 p.m.
The German Historical Institute, 1607 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC
(near Dupont Circle)
"Expressionism and the Third Reich"
Jonathan Petropoulos, Claremont McKenna College
Fall lecture series, One
Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the
Public
RSVP (acceptances only): Phone: (202) 387-3355; Fax: (202) 387-6437;
Email: c.brown@ghi-dc.org
Friday, November 11
2:00-3:30 p.m., 1136 Tydings Hall, University of Maryland, College Park
Committee
for Philosophy, Politics, and Public Policy Workshop Series 2005-6
Adrienne Martin, National Institutes of Health
”Hope in Our Relationship with Medicine”
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
J. Budziszewski, University of Texas at Austin
"Natural Law as Fact, as Theory, and as Sign of Contradiction"
Saturday, November 12
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "What Constitutes Good Judgment?"
2 - 4 pm, Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road (short walk from Bethesda Metro
station)
National Capital Area Skeptics meeting.
"The Interaction of Battlefield Archaeology and Forensic Science"
Walter F. Rowe, PhD, Dept. of Forensic Sciences, George Washington University
Friday, November 18
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Mary Keys, University of Notre Dame
"Politics Pointing Beyond the Polis and the Politeia: Aquinas on Natural
Law and the Common Good"
Sunday, November 20
2:00 p.m., George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale,
VA
Northern Virginia Chapter of Washington Aread Secular Humanists presents:
Kamal Nawash, President, Free Muslims Coalition: "Islamic Extremism and
Terrorism."
Wednesday, November 30
University of Maryland Committee
for Philosophy and the Sciences Colloquium
"Probability and Symmetry," Jill North (Philosophy, NYU)
October 2005
Tuesday, October 4
6:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W. (one block from the Gallery
Place Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.), Washington, DC.
Washington Spinoza Society
Lecture: Prof. Dale Snow, Loyola College, Dept. of Philosophy; "Schelling's
Spinoza."
Saturday, October 8
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "How Do We Evaluate Extra-scientific
Truths?"
2 pm, Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road
National Capital Area Skeptics.
Prof. Mike Epstein, "Teaching Skepticism in a Physical Science Class for
Non-Science Majors"
Friday, October 14
8:15 p.m., Philosophical Society
of Washington,
Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC.
The Theory of Chaos
James Yorke, University of Maryland
Wednesday, October 19
7:30 p.m., Washington Theological Union, 6896 Laurel St. NW. Free. (202) 726-8800.
BONAVENTURE, TEILHARD, AND THE COSMIC CHRIST,
lecture by Fordham University professor emeritus Ewert Cousins.
How globalism has changed our sense of history and in turn, the understanding
of Christ.
Thursday, October 20
Reception 5:15 PM, Lecture and Discussion 6:00-8:00 PM
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Ave. NW, 2nd floor auditorium
Washington DC, 20005 (1 block from Metro Center on blue/orange/red lines)
Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER)
"Evolution
of Biological Complexity”
Keynote Speaker: Christoph Adami,
Ph.D., Digital Life Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Respondent: James
B. Miller, Ph.D., Senior Program Associate, DoSER, AAAS
Friday, October 21
12:00 pm, George Washington University, Philosophy Dept. seminar room, Phillips
510
Brown-Bag talk: Dr. Lloyd Eby, "Ethical Issues Concerning Technology"
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Nelson Lund, "The Natural Moral Law in the United States Supreme Court"
Saturday, October 22
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC. Discussion topic: "Can Ethical Judgments Be True?"
Wednesday, October 26
4:00 p.m., 1115 Skinner Hall
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy, Colloquium
Speaker: Michael Tye, University of Texas, Austin
September 2005
Saturday, September 3
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists
(Note: From September through June the Maryland-DC Chapter (MDC) meets on the
first Saturday of each month.)
Topic: The End of Faith-Based Violence featuring
Walter Ehrhardt
Tuesday, September 6
6:30 p.m, Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St., N.W. (one block from the Gallery Place
Metro stop at 7th & H Sts.), Washington, DC.
Washington Spinoza Society
Discussion topic: the philosophy of Goethe.
Meetings on the first Tuesday of each month, September - May.
Contact Daniel Spiro at 202-616-3898 or Daniel.spiro@usdoj.gov.
The group is devoted to philosophy generally and, especially, to the study of
Baruch Spinoza.
Thursday, September 8
6:30 pm, lecture; reception at 6:00 pm.
The German Historical Institute, 1607 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC
(near Dupont Circle)
"German Expressionism: Nineteenth-Century Roots"
Prof. Robert Rosenblum, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Opening lecture of fall lecture series, One
Hundred Years of German Expressionism: Painters and Patrons, Politics and the
Public
RSVP (acceptances only): Phone: (202) 387-3355; Fax: (202) 387-6437;
Email: c.brown@ghi-dc.org
Friday, September 9
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Talk: Robert Sokolowski, "Discovery and Obligation in Natural Law"
8:15 p.m., Philosophical Society
of Washington,
Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC.
Life in the Age
of Risk Management
Kimberly Thompson, Dept. of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of
Public Health
Saturday, September 10
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: “Can Symbolic Systems Create Reality?”
2 pm, Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road
National Capital Area Skeptics meeting
Remembering Philip J. Klass (recently deceased famed UFO investigator and NCAS
co-founder)
Monday, September 12
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC.
Book Talk: Noah Feldman, Divided By God
Feldman, a professor at NYU Law School, argues against the notion that political
debate must be secular to be inclusive. A political atmosphere should be forged
"that recognizes religious values and respects the institutional separation
of religion and government."
Wednesday, September 14
7 p.m., U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington,
DC.
REFUGEE HISTORIANS FROM NAZI GERMANY: POLITICAL ATTITUDES TOWARD DEMOCRACY,
lecture by professor of history emeritus Georg G. Iggers.
For reservations call (202) 488-6162.
Friday, September 16
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Talk: Jorge Garcia, "Virtues and the Moral Law"
Monday, September 19
6 - 8 pm
The German Historical Institute, 1607 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC
(near Dupont Circle)
"From Impressionism to Expressionism: Harry Graf Kessler on Modern Art
and its Public in Imperial Germany"
Laird Easton, California State University, Chico
Following the lecture, Sabine Carbon (24pictures, Berlin) will screen her new
documentary
"Harry Graf Kessler – der Mann der alle kannte" (2005)
Tuesday, September 20
7:30 p.m., Embassy of Austria, 3524 International Court NW, Washington, DC
FREUD'S INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE: THE EXAMPLE OF STEFAN SWEIG,
lecture by author Gloria Kaiser on the life and work of the German writer.
Free. For reservations call (202) 895-6776.
Thursday, September 22
Reception 5:15 p.m.
Lecture and Discussion 6:00-8:00 p.m.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Auditorium, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington DC.
AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion Public Lecture Series
Searching
for a second genesis of life in our Solar System featuring Christopher
P. McKay & Rabbi
Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer
Friday, September 23
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Talk: Jean De Groot, "Teleology and Evidence: Reasoning About Human Nature"
Saturday, September 24
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: “Is There Truth in Myth?”
Thursday, September 29
6:45 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 Seventh Street, NW,Washington, DC (next to
Gallery Place Metro)
The American Goethe Society
presents:
Book Conversation
(in English) on Friedrich Schiller's play "WILLIAM
TELL"
With a special guest from the Embassy of Switzerland
Refreshments follow the Conversation.
6:30 p.m., S. Dillon Ripley Center, Lecture Hall; 1100 Jefferson Drive, S.W.,
Washington DC.
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. Tickets: Gen. Admission $20, RAP Members
$15, Senior Member $13.
Lecture: Simon
Blackburn on Discovering Truth
Friday, September 30
2:00 p.m., Auditorium, Life Cycle Institute,
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Talk: David S. Oderberg, "The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law"
August 2005
Thursday, August 11
Birthday of Robert
Green Ingersoll [1833 - 1899]
See also:
Ingersoll
Complete Works online
Ingersoll Infography
Saturday, August 13
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: "Are Our Identities Our Beliefs?"
Tuesday, August 16
6:00 pm, Borders Books, L St. at 18th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
Tim Page, author of What's God Got to Do with It?: Robert Ingersoll on Free
Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State
Saturday, August 27
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: "What is the relationship between logic and reality?"
Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated
Logics (Web Guide)
July 2005
Wednesday, July 20
12 noon, Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Kluge Center Meeting Room,
101 Independence Ave. SE. Free. (202) 707-2692.
THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF HANNAH ARENDT, lecture by Kluge Center Fellow Roy
Tsao on his current research.
Wednesday, July 20
3:30 - 5 p.m, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Auditorium,
1200 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC.
Washington Science Policy Alliance 2004-2005 Seminars.
"History of the Scopes Trial and
the Controversy over the Teaching of Evolution in the Schools."
Reception on the 2nd floor to follow.
RSVP to rsvp@aaas.org by 5 p.m. on Monday,
July 18th.
Saturday, July 23
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: "Privacy: What Does it Mean, and Why Should It Matter?"
Tuesday, July 12
7 p.m., Politics & Prose Bookstore,
5015 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC.
Book talk: Michael Gazzaniga, The Ethical Brain.
Saturday, July 9
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: "Is Poverty Voluntary in Capitalist Societies?"
June 2005
Saturday, June 25 (Ralph's birthday)
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: "Can We Ever Really Inoculate Ourselves Against Political/Social
Manipulation?"
I suggest these resources on ideology:
Ideology Study Guide
Ideology: Points to Ponder
Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide
Marx & Engels on Skepticism & Praxis:
Selected Quotations
"Critical Thinking" links
Wednesday, June 1
7:30 pm, Silver Diner in Arlington, on 3200 Wilson Blvd., intersection of Wilson
and Washington, near Clarendon metro
"Under the Old Shade Tree" (formerly Northern Virginia Philosophy
Meetup)
Discussion topic: "Is
there an artificial God?", essay by Douglas Adams
Thursday, June 2
7 p.m., Teaism,
400 8th Street NW, Washington, DC
Washington Philosophy Circle (formerly Washington Philosophy Meetup)
Discussion topic: Tao Te Ching (Dao De
Jing) [The Book of the Way and Its Nature/Power/Virtue], foundational text
of Taoism (Daoism).
To find English translations online, begin with the Taoism
Information Page.
Saturday, June 4
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists
(Note: From September through June the Maryland-DC Chapter (MDC) meets on the
first Saturday of each month.)
Organizational discussion, plus guest speaker: Edd Doerr, Seminar
on Writing Letters to the Editor.
Saturday, June 11
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: "Why Care About Truth?"
May 2005
Friday, May 6
2:00-3:30 p.m, Room 1136, Tydings Hall, University of Maryland at College Park
University of Maryland Committee on Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy
Workshop
Series, Spring 2005
Christopher Morris
"What's
Wrong With Imperialism?" (Click for full paper.)
Saturday, May 7
2:00 p.m., Chevy Chase Library, 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Free parking.
Washington Area Secular Humanists
(Note: From September through June the Maryland-DC Chapter (MDC) meets on the
first Saturday of each month.)
Greg Paul, guest speaker: The Growing Crisis
of Religion in the West: Why Darwinian Science and Economics Are Devastating
Faith.
Monday, May 9
7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 3040 M St. NW., Washington DC. (202) 965-9880.
Steven Johnson discusses and signs copies of Everything Bad Is Good for You:
How Today's Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter.
See also review at Powell's Books: Don't
Kill Your Television, A Review by Farhad Manjoo
Friday, May 13
8:30 p.m.
Philosophical Society of Washington,
Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington DC
Time, Einstein,
and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
William Phillips, Nobel Prize Winner
Saturday, May 14
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: "Can Philosophy Ever Tell Science That It's Wrong?"
Thursday, May 19
7:30 pm, Embassy of Switzerland, 2900 Cathedral Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
LECTURE IN HONOR OF ALBERT EINSTEIN
Swiss astrophysicist Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Professor
for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor, will honor the Centenary of Swiss scientist Albert Einstein’s
Relativity Theory with a lecture titled Einstein’s Miraculous Year in
Bern and its Effects Today.
Vin d’Honneur to follow the lecture. Reservations required. Tel. 202 745-7928/29
or e-mail culture@was.rep.admin.ch.
Monday, May 23
7 p.m., Teaism,
400 8th Street NW, Washington, DC
Washington Philosophy Circle (formerly Washington Philosophy Meetup)
Discussion topic: Tao Te Ching (Dao De
Jing) [The Book of the Way and Its Nature/Power/Virtue], foundational text
of Taoism (Daoism)
To find English translations online, begin with the Taoism
Information Page.
Thursday, May 26
Reception 5:15 p.m.
Lecture and Discussion 6:00-8:00 p.m.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Auditorium, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington DC.
AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion Seminar Series
"The
God Gene?" featuring Dean
H. Hamer & Lindon
J. Eaves
Saturday, May 28
1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Brasserie Les Halles restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC.
Café Philo DC.
Discussion topic: "How Important Is Equality to Individual Happiness?".
Note: Taste of DC event will occupy Pennsylvania Ave. in front
of Les Halles, possibly necessitating some extra walking to get access the entrance.
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