{"id":10703,"date":"2023-12-21T09:25:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/?p=10703"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:08:14","slug":"winter-2024-philosophy-seminars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/2023\/winter-2024-philosophy-seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2024 Philosophy Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Winter 2024 Philosophy Seminars\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>As you begin to look forward at the Winter semester, look no further than the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/graduate-seminars-2023-24\/\">Philosophy Winter 2024 Seminars<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/PHIL-4220-Mylopoulos-W24.docx\">PHIL 4220 \u2013 Animal Consciousness<\/a><br>\nDr. Myrto Mylopoulos<br>\nMondays, 11:30 \u2013 2:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10705 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2222-240x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2222-240x201.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2222-160x134.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2222-360x301.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2222.png 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><br>\nIn this seminar, we will examine the topic of animal consciousness through the lens of contemporary philosophical work, drawing on insights from empirical research and findings where relevant. Questions addressed will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What is the best approach to studying animal consciousness?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What, if anything, can major theories of consciousness tell us about animal consciousness?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which animals are conscious?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0What is the moral significance of consciousness?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/PHIL-4320_5350-Lemay-W24.pdf\">PHIL 4320 \u2013 Ethics of Social Movements<\/a><br>\nDr. Marie-Pier Lemay<br>\nTuesdays, 2:30 \u2013 5:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10706 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/3333-240x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/3333-240x155.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/3333-160x103.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/3333-400x258.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/3333-360x233.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/3333.png 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><br>\nThis course explores contemporary ethical debates and theories on social movements. In a 2016 article published in Philosophy Compass, Avery Kolers deplored the lack of attention philosophers have devoted to social movements. Since then, there has unquestionably been a resurgence of writings in ethics and adjacent philosophical fields on normative insights and theories developed from cases of social movements. In this course, we will explore this burgeoning field together. We will examine philosophers and thinkers who develop normative insights and theories from empirical cases. Of course, civil disobedience and violence are on our agenda, but we will also explore the social ontology of groups, the epistemic dimensions of group representation, the ethics of deference, the morality of ecotage, and insights gained from reading Indigenous thinkers on these questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/PHIL-5600-Frankel-W24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PHIL 4005 \u2013&nbsp; Causation and Freedom in Early Modern Philosophy<\/strong><\/a><br>\nDr. Melissa Frankel<br>\nTuesdays, 11:35-14:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/free-photo-of-a-large-tree-in-a-grassy-field-with-a-green-sky-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/free-photo-of-a-large-tree-in-a-grassy-field-with-a-green-sky-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/free-photo-of-a-large-tree-in-a-grassy-field-with-a-green-sky-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/free-photo-of-a-large-tree-in-a-grassy-field-with-a-green-sky-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/free-photo-of-a-large-tree-in-a-grassy-field-with-a-green-sky-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/free-photo-of-a-large-tree-in-a-grassy-field-with-a-green-sky-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/free-photo-of-a-large-tree-in-a-grassy-field-with-a-green-sky.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are laws of nature? What is the relationship between science and metaphysics? In a law-governed world, is there any room for human freedom? What about a law-governed world created and conserved by a divine Being \u2013 can humans be free in such a world, and if so, in what sense? In this seminar we will look at early modern approaches to answering these and related questions about causation and freedom. We will be consulting primary texts from such philosophers as Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, and Leibniz, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you begin to look forward at the Winter semester, look no further than the Philosophy Winter 2024 Seminars! &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; PHIL 4220 \u2013 Animal Consciousness Dr. Myrto Mylopoulos Mondays, 11:30 \u2013 2:30pm In this seminar, we will examine the topic of animal consciousness through the lens of contemporary philosophical work, drawing on insights from empirical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10739,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions\/10739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}