Political Philosophy Colloquium Schedule

Political Philosophy Colloquium

  SPRING SEMESTER 2011


Professor Dennis Rasmussen, Department of Political Science, Tufts University
Thursday, January 20, 5:00 pm
Case 331
“In Defense of the Enlightenment"
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Andrew Bibby, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, MSU
Friday, February 25th, 3:00 pm 
South Kedzie 104
“Montesquieu on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations”
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Professor Eric Petrie, James Madison College, MSU
Tuesday, April 5, 5:00 pm
South Kedzie 104
“The Problem of Promise-Keeping in the Age of the Death of God: Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men
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Brad Jackson, PhD candidate, MSU Department of Political Science
Tuesday, April 19, 5:00 pm
South Kedzie 104
“The Divine Justice of the Leviathan: Prophecy and Law in Thomas Hobbes”
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Jack Byham, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, MSU
Friday, April 29, 3:00 pm
South Kedzie 104
“Locke on Education, Civic Responsibility, and Intellectual Freedom”
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