Past
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Origin Cycle: new musical settings of texts selected from Darwin's On the Origin of Species, featuring Jane Sheldon with The Firebird Ensemble.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
"What is Narrative?" A discussion featuring William Flesch (English, Brandeis), Jonathan Kramnick (English, Rutgers), Joshua Landy (English, Stanford), Blakey Vermeule (English, Stanford), and moderated by Lanier Anderson (Philosophy, Stanford).
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Gregory Currie (Philosophy, Nottingham): "Dis-interpreting The Birds"
Friday, March 13, 2009
Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts
* **(1) Is Narrative an Adaptation?
* **William Flesch (English, Brandeis)
* **Jonathan Kramnick (English, Rutgers)
* **Blakey Vermeule (English, Stanford)
* **(2) Music and the Brain
* **Jonathan Berger (Music, Stanford)* *
* **Daniel Levitin (Psychology, McGill)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Denis Dutton (Philosophy, Canterbury NZ; founding Editor of Philosophy and Literature, creator of Arts and Letters Daily) on his new book The Art Instinct.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
A discussion with Robert Harrison about his new book, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Timothy Hampton (Berkeley), Krista Lawlor (Stanford), and Anthony A. Long (Berkeley): "Essaying Montaigne: An Interdisciplinary Discussion on 'De L' Expérience'."
This panel was part of the conference "Between Experience and Experiment in the Early Modern World," hosted by the DLCL's "Renaissances" group.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
"Reading Literarily, Reading Philosophically":
A roundtable discussion with Louis Menand (English, Harvard University) and Alison Simmons (Philosophy, Harvard University).
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Louis Menand (Harvard University): "A Few Dogmas of Literary Study."
Friday, February 22, 2008
Literature and Cognitive Science roundtables:
** (1)
Irony
* ***Herbert Clark (Psychology)
* ***Joshua Landy (French)
* ***Elaine Scarry (English, Harvard)
* ***Chair: R. Lanier Anderson, Philosophy
* *(2) The Passions
* ***Philip Fisher (English, Harvard)
* ***James Gross (Psychology)
* ***Chair: Blakey Vermeule, English
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Philip Fisher (English, Harvard): "Small Scale Aesthetics: Is Seeing a Form of Reading?"
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Pierre Force (French & History, Columbia): "Hadot's Wittgenstein"
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Pierre Force: "Montaigne: What Kind of a Skeptic?"
Friday, October 19, 2007
Richard Moran (Harvard): "Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty."
Friday-Sunday June 22-24, 2007
Imagination Workshop
* *(1)
The imagination as faculty
* *Blakey Vermeule (English, Stanford)
* *(2) Metaphor and irony
* *Eileen John (Philosophy and Literature, Warwick)
* *(3) The imagination in response to fiction
* *G. Saul Morson (Slavic, Northwestern)
* *(4) Empathy and “imaginative resistance”
* *R. Lanier Anderson (Philosophy, Stanford)
Thursday, May 31, 2007
A discussion with David Hills about his work in progress, "Bottom's Dream: Metaphor and Make-Believe."
Thursday, Apr. 12, 2007
Stephen Palmer (Psychology, U.C. Berkeley): “Aesthetic Science: Oxymoron or a New Branch of Cognitive Science?”
Sponsored by The Stanford Humanities Fellows Program.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
A discussion with Ramon Saldívar about "Bilingual Aesthetics and the Transnational Imaginary," a chapter from his book The Borderlands of Culture.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Winfried Menninghaus: "On the 'Vital Significance' of Kitsch: Walter Benjamin's Politics of 'Bad Taste.'"
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Winfried Menninghaus (Freie Universität, Berlin): "Functional Narratives of Art: Negotiating Transcendental and Evolutionary Aesthetics."
Thursday, November 16, 2006
A discussion with Alexander Nehamas about his book in progress, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
A discussion with Blakey Vermeule about her book in progress, Machiavellian Intelligence and Theory of Mind.
Thursday, April 6, 2006
A discussion with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht about his book Production of
Presence.
Respondents: Robert Harrison (Italian) and Bissera
Pentcheva (Art History).
Friday-Saturday May 20-21, 2005
Colloquium on Erwin Schrödinger
cosponsored with the Philosophical Reading Group
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Jan Assmann (University of Heidelberg): "All Gods are One: The Idea of Unity in Egyptian Polytheism"
Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
Irina Prokhorova: "Intellectual Life and Intellectual Production Under Present-Day Russian Traditionalism"
cosponsored with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Thursday, May 20, 2004, 7 p.m., Building 200, Room 105.
Alexander Nehamas: “The Aesthetics of the Everyday: Art and the Rest of Life.”
Friday March 12, 2004
Philosophy and Literature Graduate Student Colloquium
February 13-14, 2004
Bay Area Philosophical Colloquium: Hannah Arendt
cosponsored with the Philosophical Reading Group
Friday, February 13, 2004
Thomas Pavel: “Littérature et perpléxité morale.”
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Eckart Förster: “Hegel's Debt To Goethe.”
Monday, November 17 & Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Alexander Piatigorsky: “The Buddhist Philosophy of Thinking and Thought (ABHIDHARMA).”
Thursday, May 29, 2003
Robert Pippin: “On ‘Becoming Who One Is’ (and Failing): Proust’s Problematic Selves.”
Friday, April 25, 2003
Kendall Walton: “Experiencing Still Photographs: What Do You See and How Long Do You See It?”
Thursday, February 6, 2003
Glenn Most: “A Dance to the Music of Timelessness: The Gesamtkunstwerk and its Nostalgias.”
Friday January 31, 2003
Miguel Tamen: “My Taste.”
Winter Quarter 2002-3
Philosophy and Literature Colloquium: Descartes, Montaigne, Calvino
