Introduction

The study of philosophy begins with questions that are as personal as they are universal: What truths can I know? How should I live? Who, or what, am I? Where is my place in the grand scheme of things? To respond fruitfully to such questions requires training in critical habits of mind, learning from the rich traditions and the great minds that have reflected on such questions and engaging in lively discussion with a community of inquirers. Seattle University undergraduate philosophy courses communicate the value of philosophy and impart knowledge of its most influential figures. Courses in the curriculum help students to bring their own intellectual concerns into dialogue with great minds of the past and present, and to hone skills of reasoning and argumentation that make that questioning illuminating, reliable, and useful.  Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair Scholar Seminar Series

Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair Scholar Seminar Series

Fall Seminar: “Deleuze and the Phenomenological Tradition”          

Dr. Joshua Kates, Indiana University

November 13, 2009, 3:30-5:00 

Puget Power Room (4th floor Pigott Building)

About the Pigott-McCone Chair: The appointment of the Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair is made by the President of Seattle University and the chair holder is a member of the faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences. The mission of the endowed chair is to promote scholarship both in that College and in the university as a whole.

About the Scholar Seminar Series: In line with the mission of the Pigott-McCone Chair, the Seminar Series brings to campus outstanding scholars who present their current scholarship to interested faculty and students in an interactive seminar setting. Their work is available in advance of the seminar. For details contact Kate Reynolds, Administrative Assistant to the Pigott-McCone Chair (reynoldk@seattleu.edu).

Joshua Kates is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University. He has published two books on Jacques Derrida: Essential History (2005) and Fielding Derrida (2008). These works explore the roots of Derrida’s thinking in Husserlian phenomenology; the second also connects Derrida’s work to developments in the history and philosophy of science, in philosophy of language, and in literary and political theory, as well as to other strands of phenomenology. Kates’ essays and reviews have appeared in Husserl Studies, Modern Language Notes, Philosophy Today, and numerous other journals.

Burt Hopkins, Chair and Professor of Philosophy, is the 2008-2010 holder of the Pigott-McCone Chair. He is the author of Intentionality in Husserl and Heidegger together with the forthcoming The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein and The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl. He is editor of Husserl in Contemporary Context and Phenomenology: Japanese and American Perspectives and founding co-editor of the journal The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. 

Previous Scholarship Sponsored by the 2008-2010 Pigott-McCone Chair

Lectures by:

Claudio Majolino, University Lille (France)
Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
Eva Brann, St. John’s University
Thomas Szlezák, University of Tübingen
Kenneth Sayre, University of Notre Dame

For More Information: contact Kate Reynolds (reynoldk@seattleu.edu)

Recent News

Daniel Dombrowski, Professor of Philosophy, received the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for his latest publication Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response.  Please read more on the award.  Alpha Sigma Nu Award