Thursday, February 16, 2012

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

2nd Feb 28TH Jeff Dievendorf

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

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