LAVC Philosophy, Economics, & Jewish Studies News
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Philosophy Club Spring 2012 Semester meets on Thursdays 2-3 in CC-205
phi·los·o·phy (fi-los-uh-fee): The rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, and conduct.
Do you enjoy engaging in conversation with fellow students on a variety of topics, such as morality, politics, science, beauty, art, and discussing questions like “why are we all here?” and “what is justice?”
Philosophy club might be just right for you! Come to our weekly informal gatherings to discuss and debate ideas in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. There is no fee to join, just show up and have fun!!!
Club meetings are held EVERY
Thursday at 2:00 pm, in room # CC 205
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.” - Bertrand Russell
Philosophy Lecture Series
Join us here at LA Valley College for a series of exciting and informative lectures. If you have ever been interested in philosophy, then come for one or for all of the lectures that will be held over the course of the spring semester, 2012. These lectures are free of charge and will put on by the gracious efforts of the instructors in the philosophy department at LA Valley College. All lectures will be held in Campus Center 104 on Tuesdays beginning on February 21st from 7 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. To request an accommodation for this event or an alternative format for any printed material, contact Christopher Pallotti at 818-947-2468 at least 5 days in advance of the event.
The first lecture--The Greeks and the Good Life--will be on the 21st of February at 7 P.M.
1st Feb 21ST Christopher Pallotti | Ancient Greeks and The Good Life |
Greek Stoicism and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius | |
3rd March 6TH Christopher Pallotti | Do Some Non-Human Animals Have the Right to Life? |
4th March 13th Jeff Dievendorf | Platonic Influences on Freud's Psychoanalysis. |
5th March 20th Nathan Placencia | What is an Identity? |
6th March 27TH Harold Ravitch | Logic: The Continuum |
7th April 10th Jeff Dievendorf | Psychoanalysis as a Dynamic Theory of Mind |
8th April 17th Farrel Broslawsky | Albert Camus: Resistance and Rebellion |
9th April 24th Nathan Placencia | Am I who I say I am?: Identity without self-knowledge |
10th May 1st Farrel Broslawsky | Herbert Marcuse: The most dangerous man in America |
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Come debate the NBA lockout, November 15, 2011 3-4 PM
DEBATING THE NBA LOCKOUT
A Philosophical Exchange Between Players, Owners and You
Tuesday November 15
3 PM to 4 PM
Monarch Hall
How should the profits be split?
Should players accept a salary cap?
Is there hope for a season?
Come listen and participate in this philosophical debate
Philosophical Poetry Night! November 8, 2011 7:30-8:30
Friday, October 28, 2011
Annual Meetings 2011 of American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
National Association of Professors of Hebrew
11/20/2011
4:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Room: Golden Gate C1 - Marriott
Theme: Book Discussion: Zev Garber, ed., The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation (Purdue University Press, 2011)
Edward Goldman, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institution of Religion, PresidingHerbert Basser, Queens University
Jesus’s Demand to Abandon Worldly Possessions to Enter the Everlasting Kingdom (20 min)
Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University
Psalm 22 in Pesiqta Rabbati: The Suffering of the Jewish Messiah and Jesus (20 min)
James F. Moore, Valparaiso University
Who Do We Say Jesus Is? (20 min)
Steven Leonard Jacobs, University of Alabama
Do Jesus and Paul Truly Matter Judaically? (20 min)
Emily Leah Silverman, Graduate Theological Union
Edith Stein Jewish Husband Jesus (20 min)
John T. Pawlikowski, Catholic Theological Union
Is a Jewish Jesus Significant For the Christ of Christian Faith? (20 min)
Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, Respondent (30 min)