News and Events in the Philosophy Department

PHILOSOPHY@CALVIN LECTURE SERIES

Fall 2009 Lectures

Mark Murphy, Georgetown University
"Theistic Explanation of Moral Law"
Thursday, September 24, 3:30m, Alumni Board Room (Commons Annex)

Jeffrey Schloss, Biology, Westmont College, currently Crossan Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame
"Biological Explanations of Religion: Science Set Free or Ideology Run Wild?," Thursday, November 19, 3:30pm in the Alumni Board Room of the Commons Annex.

Also: Symposium, the Philosophy Club, meets on Wednesdays at 4pm, Hiemenga Hall 336. Check the postings outside the Jellema Room for weekly events or visit the Symposium website.

And don't forget the annual Stob and Jellema Lectures.

NEWS

• Professor Ruth Groenhout will be the 2009-2010 Calvin Worldview Lecturer. Her lectures will focus on "Care and Justice in Medicine." Learn more.
• Professor Matt Haltemann was recently elected to the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, a prestigious think-tank devoted to reflection on compassion toward animals.
• Professor David Hoekema has written a letter concerning recent petitions to the American Philosophical Association regarding its non-discrimination policy.
• An exhibit of Professor David Hoekema's photographs from Africa is being exhibited at the Atrium Art Gallery of Second CRC in Grand Haven (until November 18, 2008). And check out a short video about how he's been getting to work.
• Our own Profesor Ruth Groenhout was recently featured on the college's Faculty Profiles page. Check it out and learn more about our resident bioethicist and feminist quilter!
• Congratulations to Prof. Matt Halteman who has authored the booklet, Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation for the national Humane Society. Check it out.
• Alvin Plantinga, a former professor in our department and now O'Brien Professor at Notre Dame, recently visited campus and was interviewed by alumna Ashleigh Draft. Read the interview that touches on his philosophical career, the task of Christian philosophy, his work with philosophers in China, and thoughts about the future of philosophy.