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Benjamin Pollock "World-Denial and World Redemption: Franz Rosenzweig's Early Marcionism"
This event has been co-sponsored by Boston University's Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies and supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Professor Pollock is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State [...]University, and received his doctorate in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book, Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2009), was awarded the Salo W. Baron Prize for Outstanding First Book in Jewish Studies by the American Academy of Jewish Research.
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Steven B. Smith "How To Read Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address"
This event has been co-sponsored by Boston University's Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies and supported in part by the kind contribution of the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Professor Smith is the Alfred Cowles Professor of [...]Political Science at Yale University. His research has focused on the history of political philosophy with special attention to the problem of the ancients and moderns, Jewish philosophy, and theories of constitutional democracy. He is currently working on a book dealing with the statecraft and political thought of Abraham Lincoln.
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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
Creating the Disciplinary Space of Philosophy of Science: A History of the PSA Before 1970 by Heather Douglas, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee.
The Boston University Center for Philosophy & History of Science was [...]founded in 1960 as an interdepartmental, inter-university forum on the nature of science.
Hosted by the Center for Philosophy and History of Science on October 22, 2010.
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John Bowlin Part 1 of 2
John Bowlin, the Rimmer and Ruth de Vries Associate Professor of Reformed Theology and Public Life at Princeton Theological Seminary, speaks on “Tolerance, Resentment and Virtue†on December 1, 2010. This is one of the series of lectures [...]hosted by the Institute for Philosophy & Religion in their 2010-11 Lecture Series “Toleration and Freedom in a Global Ageâ€.
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Jose Casanova Part 1 of 3
Jose Casanova, Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, speaks on “The Secular, Secularizations, and Secularisms,†on September 15, 2010. Professor Adam Seligman of Boston University’s Institute for Culture, Religion & [...]World Affairs (CURA) responds. This lecture is co-sponsored by BU’s Institute for Philosophy & Religion and CURA, and is part of the 2010-11 Lecture Series, “Toleration and Freedom in a Global Age.â€
Respondent Adam Seligman, Research Associate, Institute for Culture, Religion & World Affairs (CURA) brings further discussion and brings it to a conclusion.
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Larry Shiner “Art’s Abject Other or the ‘New Cool’: Rethinking the Art/Craft Dichotomyâ€
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Larry Shiner, Emeritus Professor of [...]Philosophy, History and Visual Arts, University of Illinois at Springfield
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Stephen Halliwell “Greek Gods and the Archaic Aesthetics of Lifeâ€
Stephen Halliwell, Professor of Greek, School of Classics, University of St. Andrews
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Nicholas Wolterstorff “Rethinking Religion and Artâ€
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Yale University
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Charles Mathewes "On Being a Mediocre Believer in an Age of Extremities"
This event has been supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Moderator: John Berthrong (Associate Professor of Comparative Theology and Deputy Director of the Division of Religious and Theological Studies, Boston University)
[...]Professor Mathewes' research and teaching are broadly in the areas of Christian thought, Comparative Religious Ethics, and Religion, Culture, and Politics. He has recently written A Theology of Public Life During the World (Cambridge, 2008), on religion's role in public life in pluralistic democracies, and Understanding Religious Ethics (Wiley, 2010), the first undergraduate textbook that attempts to compare Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics, in the context of a variety of contested moral issues. Together with two of his graduate students he is currently completing a four-volume "Major Works" collection for Routledge Publishers on "Comparative Religious Ethics," and he is working on a project exploring the nature of the challenges to religiously and morally sound life in our age, across several traditions.
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