The Focal Group in Philosophy and Literature brings together scholars and students from eight departments to investigate questions in aesthetics and literary theory, philosophically-inflected literary texts, and the form of philosophical writings. It offers undergraduate major tracks within nine programs, a graduate workshop, and a lecture series.
Schedule of events, AY 2013-2014
Wednesday November 6, 4:30-6:00 pm
Stacie Friend (Philosophy, Heythrop College, UK): Title TBA
Building 260, room 216
Wednesday December 4
Garry Hagberg (Bard): "Wittgenstein Re-reading"
Building 100, Room 101K
Wednesday February 19, 2014, 5:15-7:00 pm
Toril Moi (Comparative Literature, Duke)
Thursday February 20, 2014, 12:00-1:00 pm
Discussion with Toril Moi of her paper,
“‘They practice their trades in different worlds’:
Concepts in Poststructuralism and Ordinary
Language Philosophy.”
This paper is available here; please read ahead of the discussion.
Building 260, room 216
Saturday March 1 - Sunday March 2
Science of Story and Imagination:
Perspectives from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and the Humanities
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Saturday March 1, 10-11am: Introduction
Frederick Aldama (English, Ohio State)
Alison Gopnik (Psychology, UC Berkeley)
Joshua Landy (French, Stanford University)
Saturday March 1, 11:15am-1:15pm: Development of the Imagination
Paul Harris (GSE, Harvard University)
Deena Skolnick Weisberg (Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)
Marjorie Taylor (Psychology, University of Oregon)
Saturday March 1, 3-5pm: Imagination, Possibility, and Fiction
Raymond Mar (Psychology, York University)
Tamar Gendler (Philosophy, Yale University)
Uri Hasson (Psychology, Princeton University)
Sunday March 2, 10am-12 noon: Fictional Objects
Patrick Colm Hogan (English, University of Connecticut)
Blakey Vermeule (English, Stanford University)
Lisa Zunshine (English, University of Kentucky)
Sunday March 2, 12:15-1:15pm: Concluding Discussion (All participants)
Cosponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center,
the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Institute,
UC Berkeley Psychology, and OSU English.
Wednesday April 16, 2014
Author Meets Critics:
Robert Pippin (Committee on Social Thought, Chicago)
After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Visual Modernism.
Further details to be announced.
Please visit the Philosophy and Literature Initiative's website:
For our archive of video recorded events:
https://www.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/cgi-bin/web/groups/philosophy-and-literature/multimedia
