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John McCormick "Political Theology and Biblical Atheism"
This event has been supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
John P. McCormick is Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching interests include political thought in Renaissance Florence (specifically, [...]Guicciardini and Machiavelli), 19th and 20th century continental political and social theory (with a focus on Weimar Germany and Central European emigres to the US), the philosophy and sociology of law, the normative dimensions of European integration, and contemporary democratic theory. He is the author of Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Cambridge, 1997), and Weber, Habermas and Transformations of the European State: Constitutional, Social and Supranational Democracy (Cambridge, 2006). His latest work is Machiavellian Democracy (Cambridge, 2011).
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Michael Gillespie "The Anti-Trinitarian Sources of Liberalism"
Supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Michael Gillespie (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Political Science at Duke University, and the author of The Theological Origins of [...]Modernity. He is also co-editor of Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics, and Ratifying the Constitution, and has published articles on Montaigne, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and various topics in American political thought, as well as on the relation of religion and politics. He is currently completing a book entitled Nietzsche's Final Teaching . Professor Gillespie has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Templeton Foundation, the Liberty Fund, and the Earhart Foundation, and is the Director of the Gerst Program in Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies.
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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
“From Vienna Circle to Harvard Square and to Boston University†Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics and History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard.
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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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Science Breaks Loose: Some Milestones by Ernan McMullin is a Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.
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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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
American Philosophers in Science at Work in the 1950s: Philipp Frank, Ernest Nagel, and the Prospects for an Empirical History of Philosophy of Science in America by Alan Richardson, Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of [...]British Columbia.
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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Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
Founding the Center and Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science by Robert Cohen, professor of Physics and Philosophy, Emeritus, at Boston University.
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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Noah Feldman Part 1 of 2
Noah Feldman, Bemis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, speaks on “Madison’s Politics of Religion Revisited,†on October 27, 2010.This lecture is part of the 2010-11 Lecture Series, “Toleration and Freedom in a Global [...]Age,†hosted by the Institute for Philosophy & Religion.
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David Hall part 1 of 2
David D. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School, speaks on “Charitable Hatred? The Civil State and Liberty of Conscience in Early America,†on October 20, 2010. This lecture is part of [...]the 2010-11 Lecture Series,“Toleration and Freedom in a Global Age,†hosted by the Institute for Philosophy & Religion.
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Susanne Sreedhar Part 1 of 2
Susanne Sreedhar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Boston University speaks on her paper “Hobbes and Locke on Toleration†on September 29, 2010. This lecture is part of the 2010-11 Lecture Series, “Toleration [...]and Freedom in a Global Age,†hosted by the Institute for Philosophy & Religion.
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