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2001-02 MATCHETTE LECTURES
Funding provided through a grant from the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation
General Theme:
Philosophers Across Borders
The Department of Philosophy at Kent State University is pleased to announce the Kent State University Matchette Lectures for 2001-02. The theme for the lectures is "Philosophers Across Borders." The aim of the lecture series is to engage in a meta-philosophical examination of various philosophical interests that arise within Eastern thought and African/American thought and to compare these with certain aspects of Western philosophical a traditions. Some questions that will be discussed are:
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What do Eastern and Western philosophies have in common that makes it appropriate to call both 'philosophy'?
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Is African-American philosophy really a distinct discipline from Anglo-American philosophy, and, if so, how (if at all) is it shaped by African thought?
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Are there philosophical questions or methodologies that are universal even while receiving different treatment in different traditions?
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Is there some one thing which is philosophy and which is practiced in different ways by thinkers from different cultures?
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Or is there little more than passing resemblance between various intellectual endeavors commonly called 'philosophy' that have arisen in different cultures?
The Kent State University Matchette Lecture Spring 2002 will feature:
Leonard Harris
(Philosophy, Purdue University)
"Cosmopolitanism: Universal Human Liberation"
Wednesday, March 6, 2002
7:00 p.m.
Kent Sent Student Center, Room 310
