Minnesota Philosophical Society to meet here Oct. 22

The University of St. Thomas Philosophy Department will host the Minnesota Philosophical Society’s 2005 meeting. Philosophers from around the state will present papers 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005, in John R. Roach Center for the Liberal Arts.

Students, faculty members and other interested parties are invited to attend any of the talks. Please consult the Philosophy Department’s Web site for details about the day’s schedule.

Keynote speaker Dr. G. Felicitas Munzel will present “The Pedagogical Problem of Self-Interest: Kant in Reply to His Contemporaries.” Munzel teaches in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Kant’s Conception of Moral Character: The “Critical” Link of Morality, Anthropology, and Reflective Judgment (The University of Chicago Press, 1998). Her annotated translation of Kant’s 1775/76 Friedländer lectures will appear as a volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation.

Any questions, please contact Nicole Mass, administrative assistant, Philosophy Department, (651) 962-5350, or Sandra Menssen, chair, Philosophy Department, (651) 962-5365.