Fall 2007 Speaker Series Past Philosophy Department Speakers Chris Hom (Texas Tech): Public Lecture: "Hating and Hysteria: Social Misconceptions of Racial Epithets" Thursday, October 4th 7:00 pm, English/Philosophy LH01 Departmental Colloquium: "Hating and Necessity: Semantic Misconceptions of Racial Epithets" Friday, October 5th 3:30 pm, Philosophy 264 Mark Scala (Texas Tech): Public Lecture: "Theories of Persistence: What the heck are we saying when we say that Muhammed Ali is Cassius Clay" Thursday, October 18th 7:00 pm, English/Philosophy LH01 Departmental Colloquium: "Parthood and Persistence" Friday, October 19th 3:30 pm, Philosophy 264 Francesca Di Poppa (Texas Tech): Public Lecture: "The causal containment principle: from triumph to demise" Thursday, November 1 7:30 pm, English/Philosophy LH01 Departmental Colloquium: "Spinoza as a Process Philosopher?" 3:30 pm, Philosophy 264 Baird Callicott (North Texas): Public Lecture: "Naturalizing the Boundary Between Humanity and Nature" Thursday, November 15 7:00 pm, English/Philosophy LH01 Departmental Colloquium: "From the Land Ethic to the Earth Ethic: Environmental Ethics and Global Climate Change" Friday, November 16 3:30 pm, Philosophy 264 Aaron Meskin (Leeds): Public Lecture: TBA Thursday, November 29 7:00 pm, Philosophy 264 Our public lecture series is made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.