These are the slides from a talk Nathan Nobis recently did for the Atlanta Science Tavern:

On Monday, April 27, 2009 at 5:00pm, the Philosophy and Religion Society will feature Lucius T. Outlaw (Professor of Philosophy and of African-American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University) in the second meeting of the Philosophy and Religion Lecture Series. Dr Outlaw will speak on the subject: “The Academy and Philosophy: Good for Black Folks?”

Dr. Outlaw’s research interests include African and African American philosophy, political theory and social thought. He has published works such as On Race and Philosophy, In Search of Critical Social Theory in the Interest of Black Folks, and “Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Social- Political Theory: Critical Thought in the Interest of African-Americans” (of the Philosophy Born of Struggle anthology)

The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Henderson Lounge of Merrill Hall. All are invited. We encourage you and your students to come (if interested).

Taurean J. Webb

President, Philosophy and Religion Society
Morehouse College

The Philosophy Department at Georgia State University is pleased to welcome Julia Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, as the next and final speaker in our 2008-2009 Colloquium Series. Prof. Annas will give a paper entitled "The Unity of Virtue," at noon on April 20, 2009, in the Conference Room at the Philosophy Department, 34 Peachtree St., 11th floor.

Who: Julia Annas (Arizona)
What: Colloquium Series Paper ("The Unity of Virtue")
When: Monday, April 20, noon
Where: Georgia State University, Philosophy Department, 34 Peachtree St., 11th Floor

Penelope Mackie
part of the Heather and Scott Kleiner Lecture Series
University of Nottingham
Friday, April 3, 2009
3:30 PM, Room 205S
Peabody Hall
Associate Professor and Reader in Philosophy
Abstract:
What is involved in the conception of the future as ‘open’ in contrast to the past as ‘closed’ or ‘fixed’? And is such a
conception in conflict with determinism? In ‘Counterfactual Dependence and Time’s Arrow’, David Lewis argued that
the asymmetry between fixed past and open future can be captured in terms of an asymmetry of counterfactual
dependence that is compatible with determinism. A natural response to Lewis’s proposal is to object that no such
asymmetry as the one to which Lewis appeals can be adequate to capture the intuitive notion of the open future that we
care about, perhaps in general, or perhaps in connection with human freedom in particular. In my paper, I defend a
‘weak branching’ conception of the open future that is compatible with determinism, and which is similar to, although in
certain respects different from, Lewis’s conception, and argue that this ‘weak branching’ conception is employed in
much of our thinking about future possibilities. If it is nevertheless insufficiently robust fully to capture the notion of the
open future that we care about, this is for reasons that are largely independent of concerns about human freedom, and
which, I suggest, reflect an instability in our thinking about future possibilities.
“Compatibilism and the Open Future”

Georgia Philosophical Society
Spring Meeting
Saturday, March 28th
Clayton State University*
9:00 Coffee & Conversation
9:30 Stephen Matthew Duncan: “Can I Be Many?”
Georgia State University
10:30 Nathan Nobis: “Why Francis Beckwith’s Case
Against Abortion Fails” Morehouse College
11:30 Business Meeting
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Raleigh Miller: “Two Dimensions of Moral
Responsibility” Georgia State University
3:00 Roger Wertheimer: “Origin of Metalinguistic
Misconception” Agnes Scott College
Advance copies available by e-mail from Raymond Woller at
rwoller@uga.edu
DIRECTIONS TO CAMPUS
http://www.clayton.edu/maps.htm
We’re meeting in 260 University Center
Once you enter campus on Clayton State Blvd, follow it down and around the curve
(Arts & Sciences bldg is on right at bottom) and park in a lot on the left. En route to
the parking, you can see the University Center off to the right just beyond dorms on the
left. It’s the tall new-looking building in the middle of the campus For help on campus
call our host Ron Jackson at 404-790-4830.

CALL FOR PAPERS


THE 6TH ANNUAL NORTH GEORGIA STUDENT
PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE AT KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY


FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
APRIL 3RD THROUGH APRIL 4TH, 2009


KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DR. THOMAS KASULIS
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY


DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTION SUBMISSIONS:
MARCH 10th, 2009


Submission is open to all students enrolled for undergraduate and
graduate study at an accredited institution of higher education during
the 2008-2009 academic year. For complete submission guidelines, visit
our website. Abstracts of 150 words or less will be accepted in lieu
of complete papers and must be received via email as an attachment no
later than the above date. All submissions must have a .doc or .rtf
file extension in order to be accepted. Notifications will be made via
email no later than March 10th 2009. Earlier notifications will be
made for papers submitted before the deadline. In addition to your
abstract, we must have a completed conference cover sheet, which is
available on our website. If you have any questions, please email us:
http://philosophystudentassociation.blogspot.com/
Please submit papers to NorthGaConf@yahoo.com
Selected preceedings to be published by North Georgia Philosophy
Studies, a division of the Georgia Philosophy Series in association
with the Philosophy Student Association at Kennesaw State University.


CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS
for the upcoming meeting of the
GEORGIA
PHILOSOPHICAL
SOCIETY
at
Clayton State University
Morrow, GA
(Just South of Atlanta)
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Twenty minute reading time limit
Blind review
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
March 6
Graduate student submissions welcome
Send Papers to
Raymond Woller: rwoller@uga.edu