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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Renée Jorgensen (Michigan & Harvard), whose talk is titled, "Moral and Political Obligations Under Normative Opacity". The talk's abstract can be found on the poster linked below.

Zoom details will be distributed to the colloquium mailing list the day of the event. If you are not on the mailing list but wish to receive Zoom or other details, please contact philug@queensu.ca.

Departmental Colloquium: Renée Jorgensen (Michigan & Harvard) | Poster (PNG 152 KB)

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Colin Chamberlain (Temple). The colloquium will be held in Kingston Hall, Room 201. Those who cannot join in person are invited to tune in via Zoom. Zoom details will be distributed to the colloquium mailing list the day of the event. If you are not on the mailing list but wish to receive Zoom or other details, please contact philug@queensu.ca.

Talk title: “Pears, Witches and Werewolves: Malebranche on the Imagination”

Abstract: Malebranche holds that the proper function of the senses is to help us preserve our bodies. The senses tell us what we need to do to survive, and they represent the world in such a way that we can easily do it. But Malebranche also holds that the senses share this function with the imagination and passions. This combination of views generates a puzzle about the division of labor between these mental faculties. If the senses tell us virtually everything we need to know to survive, nothing seemingly remains for the imagination and passions to contribute to the preservation of the body. In this paper, I focus on Malebranche’s account of the imagination’s contributions to self-preservation. I argue that the imagination’s contributions are threefold. First, the imagination allows us to adapt to different circumstances through a process of associative learning. Second, it allows us to form reliable expectations about what the future holds for us, e.g. that if we touch the fire, it will hurt. Third, the imagination underwrites our capacity for sympathy, which is a prerequisite for surviving in the distinctively social world we inhabit.

Departmental Colloquium: Colin Chamberlain (Temple) | Poster (PNG 135 KB)

Members of the ���ϳԹ���Դ community are invited to join, over Zoom, the sixth and final workshop of the 2021 , which will welcome Miriam Ronzoni (University of Manchester), whose paper is titled, "Rescuing Justice from Perfect Duties".

If you are interested in joining the session, please write to Grégoire Webber (gregoire.webber@queensu.ca), joint convenor of the Colloquium, to request the Zoom link. The convenors will be using the Waiting Room feature and will only admit participants who have received the Zoom link from them.

Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.

Members of the ���ϳԹ���Դ community are invited to join, over Zoom, the fifth and penultimate workshop of the 2021 , which will welcome Ekow Yankah (Yeshiva University), whose paper is titled, “Compulsory Voting and Black Citizenship".

If you are interested in joining the session, please write to Grégoire Webber (gregoire.webber@queensu.ca), joint convenor of the Colloquium, to request the Zoom link. The convenors will be using the Waiting Room feature and will only admit participants who have received the Zoom link from them.

Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.

Members of the ���ϳԹ���Դ community are invited to join, over Zoom, the fourth workshop of the 2021 , which will welcome Kim Ferzan (University of Pennsylvania), whose paper is titled, “Why Credit Time Served?".

If you are interested in joining the session, please write to Grégoire Webber (gregoire.webber@queensu.ca), joint convenor of the Colloquium, to request the Zoom link. The convenors will be using the Waiting Room feature and will only admit participants who have received the Zoom link from them.

Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.

Members of the ���ϳԹ���Դ community are invited to join, over Zoom, the third workshop of the 2021 , which will welcome Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA), whose paper is titled, “Fairness, Sanction, and Condemnation". 

If you are interested in joining the session, please write to Grégoire Webber (gregoire.webber@queensu.ca), joint convenor of the Colloquium, to request the Zoom link. The convenors will be using the Waiting Room feature and will only admit participants who have received the Zoom link from them.

Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Omar Bachour (Queen's), titled, "Four Proposals for a Post-work Society".

Further details, as well as Omar's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).