Talk on Philosophy of Language on Tuesday!

“A Defense of a Weak Linguistic Relativist Thesis”
A talk by Juan Colomina-Almiñana
Tuesday, April 22nd at 5:30pm in Wyatt 109  

In this public talk, Professor Colomina-Almiñana will discuss the relationship between language, culture, and thought. He argues that some aspects of language mold some aspects of thought and that language could provide new patterns to adequately accomplish certain social interactions.

Juan Colomina-Almiñana is Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies and an affiliate of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain. His research is focused on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

Talk today! Transforming Ordinary: Strike Debt Jubilee

 

Transforming Ordinary: Strike Debt Jubilee

a talk by Ali Aslam, Lecturer at Princeton University

5pm, Thompson 193

Is a world without debt possible? How? What would it take? What obstacles must be overcome? This talk will explore these questions and the Strike Debt resistance movement through the lens of recent debates in democratic political theory.