Conferences and Speakers: 2000-2003
Department of Philosophy
CSU Long Beach

2000-2001   2001-2002   2002-2003


Department events: 2002-2003

Lucius Outlaw Jr., Professor of Philosophy
Vanderbilt University
Monday September 23, 3:30 - 5 p.m.
LIBE 110 (Anatol Center)
"'American Philosophy’? Reconsiderations"

Tuesday September 24, 3:30 - 5 p.m. 
LIBE 110 (Anatol Center)
"What is Africana Philosophy?"

Co-sponsored by the Student Philosophy Association, the Black Studies Department, 
and the Black Studies Student Association



Ed Quest, Professor of Philosophy, CSULB
Thursday, October 3, 3:30-5 p.m.
Patio Room (off LIBE 110)
"How Grave is Sin? An Attempt to Understand Anselm's Doctrine of Redemption"
Comments by Thomas Schmidt, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, CSULB
sponsored by the Odyssey Program


Marc Hight, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  Hampden-Sydney College (Virginia)
"Persons, Organisms, and Psychology: What Matters in Personal Identity" 
    Thursday, October 24, 2002: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00
Anatol Center -- Patio Room (LIBE)

James Petrik, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ohio University
"Evil and the Infinite"
Wednesday, November 6, 2 p.m.
LIBE 110 (Anatol Center)
sponsored by the Odyssey Program


Jerry Miller, Post-Doctoral Fellow
UC Humanities Research Institute
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College (beginning fall 2003)
"Critical Authority and the Raced Spectator"
Wednesday, November 13, 3:30 p.m.
LIBE 110 (Anatol Center)


Michael Tooley, Professor of Philosophy
University of Colorado, Boulder
"Evil and the Existence of God"
Thursday, November 21, 2 p.m.
LIBE 110 (Anatol Center)
sponsored by the Odyssey Program


David Macarthur, Macquarie University (Australia)
"A Contextualist Reponse to Agrippa's Trilemma"
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 -- 1:00 p.m.
Main Library - Fifth  Floor Gallery


Max Langan Rosenkrantz, University of Texas, Austin
"On Quine's Doctrine of Ontological Commitment"
Thursday, January 23, 2003 -- 1:00 p.m.
LA1-309


Todd N. Davis, Santa Barbara, CA
"Practice, History, and the Constitutive A Priori:
Ian Hacking's Philosophy of Science"
Friday, January 24, 2003 -- 1:00 p.m.
Main Library -- Fifth Floor Gallery


Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin
 “Intelligent Design is Untestable. What about Natural Selection?”
Saturday, February 8, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. in CBA 139
Keynote for the day-long CSULB Student Philosophy Conference
(9:30-5:30, CBA Atrium and classrooms)


Eric Schwitzgebel, University of California, Riverside
“How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience?”
Friday, February 21, 3-4:30 p.m.
LIBE110 (Anatol Conference Center)


Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, California State University, Northridge
Tuesday, March 4, 3:30-5 p.m.
“Judging the Past: Prophetic Challenge and Moral Responsibility”
LIBE110A (Patio Room)

Philosophy Pre-Law Speaker

Sue Hong 
BA-Philosophy, CSULB, 1999; JD, Cardozo School of Law, 2002
"How to Survive and Thrive in Law School"
Thursday, March 6, 7-8 p.m. 
LA2-109


Micheal Thau, University of California, Los Angeles
“What is Disjunctivism?”
Friday, March 7, 3-4:30 p.m.
LIBE110A (Patio Room)


Conference on religion and science

Thursday, March 20, 7:00 p.m. 
Robert Audi, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Main Library, 5th floor gallery
Friday, March 21, Time TBA 
Del Ratzsch, Calvin College & Ernest Sosa, Brown University
LIBE110 (Anatol Conference Center)


Symposium on ethics of stem cell research/human cloning

Saturday, April 5, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Jorge Garcia, Boston College, Bonnie Steinbock, SUNY-Albany, and 
Radhika Rao, Hastings College of Law
LIBE110 (Anatol Conference Center)

Sponsored by the Center for Applied Ethics


Shane Andre, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, CSULB
“Response to Evil” (a response to the Fall 2002 Odyssey mini-conference on evil)
Wednesday, April 9, 12:30-1:45 p.m.
LIBE110 (Anatol Conference Center)


Nicholas Smith, Lewis & Clark College
Wednesday, April 30, 3:30-5 p.m.
LIBE110 (Anatol Conference Center)

Department events: 2001-2002

Conference: "Challenging Democracy: 
Religious Diversity and Political Institutions on a Global Scale"
Friday, March 8, 2002: 12:00 noon - 8:30 p.m.
This symposium considered religious diversity and the challenges it presents to democratic institutions, both generally and related to the events of September 11.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Ethics, the Department of Philosophy, 
the Department of Religious Studies, and the Student Philosophy Association

Partial funding from the California Council for the Humanities, 9/11 Community Dialogue Fund



Conference: "Cognitive Science in the New Millennium 
Foundations, Directions, Applications, and Problems"
April 11-14, 2002


Guest Lectures: 2001-2002

Robert Audi
Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
University of Nebraska
Wednesday, January 30, 2002: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Religion, Politics, and International Justice"


Alice Sowaal
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Texas Tech University
Thursday, May 9, 2002, 3:30-5 p.m. -- East Library Room 110
"Descartes' Reply to Gassendi: 
We Can Know All of God, All at Once, but Still Have More to Learn"



Michael Pritchard
Professor of Philosophy and Director, WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society
Western Michigan University
Monday, November 26, 2001, 3:30-5 p.m. -- East Library Room 110
"Perception and Imagination in Engineering Ethics"


Xinyan Jiang 
Assistant Profesor of Philosophy, University of Redlands
Tuesday, October 16, 2001: 3:30 - 5 p.m -- East Library Room 110
"Rational Beings and Moral Agency in Xunzi"

David Shoemaker
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Northridge
Thursday, October 4, 2001: 3:30-5 p.m. -- East Library Room 110
"Identification and Identity OR Caring about Necessity in 5 Easy Steps"

Department events: 2000-2001


Conference:" The Ethics of the Human Genome Project"
Saturday, April 21, 2001
CSULB East Library Conference Center

Sponsored by the
Center for Applied Ethics and the Department of Philosophy

For streaming video of the conference speakers, click here


Philosophy Pre-Law Speaker

Kathryn Gainey
BA (Philosophy and Economics) CSULB, 2000
Harvard Law School: First Year Student
Tuesday, March 27, 2001 -- 2:00
University Library, Fifth Floor Gallery, followed by a reception.



Leibniz Lecturer: 2000-2001

John Vickers, Claremont Graduate School
Thursday, March 22, 2001 -- 3:30-5:00
"Value and Belief in the Good"



Department Colloquia: 2000-2001

Jeffrey Mason, Lecturer, Irvine Valley College
"The  Rhetoric of Philosophy: or 
Things they Don't  Tell You in Class"
Thursday, April 5, 2001
3:30-5:00 -- 5th Floor Gallery - Main Library

Alex Rajczi, Lecturer, CSULB
"A Plea for 'A Plea for Excuses'"
Monday, February 5, 2001
3:30-5:00 p.m. -- LA1-204

Thillaisthanam Raghunath, Lecturer, CSULB
"Some Arguments and Counter-arguments on the
Existence of God in Classical Indian Philosophy"
Thursday, November 16, 2000
2:00-3:30 p.m. -- 5th Floor Gallery Conference Room


The Department hosted the Fifth Annual 
Southern California Philosophy Conference
Saturday, October 21, 2000

The Department hosted the Pacific Meetings of
the Society for Women in Philosophy
Saturday, May 19, 2001




Posted: December 29, 2004