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Weekly Colloquium
This Week's Colloquium
The colloquium will be held from 3:00-5:00 pm (Atlantic time) on Friday, December 13 both in person, in Room 2130 of the Marion McCain Arts and Social Science Building, and online via zoom (details below).
This will be the last colloquium of the fall semester. To celebrate the holidays, there will be some snacks and drinks available before the talk begins.
Speaker: Todd Calder (SMU)
Title: Creepy, Again
Abstract: Creepiness is a poorly understood and underappreciated moral concept. Most people recognize that certain sorts of actions, such as a man staring relentlessly at a woman at a bar, are creepy. However, it is difficult to say exactly what makes these actions creepy, and why, or whether, creepiness is morally significant. This paper offers a theory of creepiness which captures our judgements about cases and explains the moral significance of creepiness. It begins by distinguishing the moral emotion of “the creeps” from anger, disgust, and fear. It then argues that our understanding of the creeps puts constraints on plausible theories of creepiness. After developing a theory of creepiness, I respond to important objections and point out deficiencies with previous accounts.
Dal Philosophy is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Colloquium
Time: Dec 13, 2024 03:00 PM Atlantic Time (Canada)
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AFFILIATED GROUPS
- Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
- Minorities and Philosophy
- Dalhousie Women Around Philosophy
- Evolutionary Studies Group
- Animal Studies Group
- The Canadian Philosophical Association - see the CPA's Good Equity Practices
- The Dalhousie Philosophy Equity Committee
DEPARTMENT KUDOS
- Congratulations to Erik Nelson who defended his PhD dissertation, The Nonlinguistic Mind: Nonlinguistic Concepts, Normativity and Animal Cognition, this June.
- Congratulations to our PhD student, Clarisse Paron, for being awarded the Hadden Prize by the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science for presenting on of the best two student papers at the Annual Meeting, June 2024. The title of her paper is “Are the New American Pediatric Obesity Guidelines Eugenic? Eugenic Logics and the Medicalization and Pathologization of Children’s Bodies.”
- Congratulations to our PhD students, Lara Millman and Clarisse Paron, for being awarded Dalhousie’s President’s Graduate/Undergraduate Student Teaching Award (2 of 3 available university-wide awards!)
- Congratulations to Dr. Travis LaCroix, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Durham University, starting in the fall of 2024.
- Congratulations to Dr. Travis LaCroix, who has been award an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council! Travis’s research project is entitled “Philosophy on the Spectrum: The Philosophy of Autism and Autistic Philosophy.”
- Tyler Hildebrand’s paper “Inductive Reasoning Involving Social Kinds” (with Barrett Emerick) has been published in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. https://philpapers.org/rec/EMEIRI
- Congratulations to Kayla Beals, who is the 2024 recipient of the F. Hilton Page Memorial Prize, awarded to a graduating student whose thesis is judged to be outstanding.
- Congratulations to George Arnott, who is the 2024 recipient of the Roland Puccetti Memorial Award for the best essay submitted by a student in a 3000- or 4000-level class. George’s essay is entitled "The Virtuous Cohort" Habituation and Character-Friendship as Rational Motivators for Aristotelian Courage.