Dr. Cagle presents colloquium on moral progress

Wednesday, March 25 | 4:30 p.m. | MacLean 167 Dr. Randy Cagle, Philosophy, will present his colloquium on Wednesday, March 25, at 4:30 p.m. (MacLean Hall 167). His talk is titled “A Kantian Issue for Today: Affirming Moral Progress in a Time of Apparent Regress.” The following is a synopsis of his colloquium: Best-selling author Steven Pinker stirred much controversy […]

Dr. Joe Bessie to give colloquium: Moral thinking in the daily life of a philosopher

Wednesday, Feb. 26 | 4:30 p.m. | MacLean Hall 167 Dr. Joe Bessie, Philosophy, is going to give a colloquium on Wednesday, February 26, at 4:30 pm (MacLean Hall 167). His topic and the synopsis are as follows: “Moral thinking in the daily life of a philosopher: one philosopher’s view of the foundations of moral epistemology in everyday life” Philosophers […]

Drs. Hong, Yu publish Korean-language book

Dr. Chang-Seong Hong (Philosophy Department, MSUM) and Dr. Sun Kyeong Yu (Philosophy Department, MSU Mankato) co-authored a Korean-language book How Bioscience Meets Buddhism and have recently published it in Seoul Korea. Drs. Hong and Yu discussed and provided solutions for the philosophical issues of Aristotelian essentialist biology, Darwin’s evolutionary theory, and contemporary molecular biology in light of Buddhist concepts of […]