Apr 27th, 2017
The May Day after party, Monday, May 1, will open the 2017 MayWorks festival.
Jeff Noonan
A graduate colloquium Thursday will explore the history of interpretation from antiquity to the present.
Philosophy professor Jeff Noonan will place Donald Trump’s Islamophobia in context in a free public presentation Thursday.
Feb 6th, 2015
Three UWindsor professors will engage with questions surrounding income inequality in a panel discussion Monday, February 9.
Field learning: Chris Reid explores the Campus Community Garden with local youth participating in the “Changing the Odds” program.
Aug 15th, 2013
Participants in the “Changing the Odds” program will present a free public performance on Friday, August 16.
Jan 24th, 2013
Some members of UWindsor faculty and staff are extra-happy to have contributed to the 2012 campus campaign for United Way after winning prizes in a draw reserved for employee donors.
Among the prize winners are:
While science and theology may remain at odds over what happens when we die, philosophers like Jeff Noonan are focused on getting the most out of life while they’re still here on earth.
“Socrates said that philosophy is preparation for death,” said Dr. Noonan, who will deliver a public lecture on the subject next week. “He didn’t mean that in a morbid way. He meant that through the process of reflection we hopefully live better.”
Philosophy professor Gail Presbey of the University of Detroit Mercy will deliver a free public lecture Thursday in downtown Windsor to celebrate World Philosophy Day.
Her lecture, entitled “Revolution and/or Evolution? Grace Lee Bogg’s sustainable activism for Detroit,” begins at 7 p.m. at the Phog lounge.
Jeff Noonan, head of the UWindsor philosophy department, will follow with a commentary. He says Philosophy Day provides an opportunity to remind everyone of the universal scope and public importance of work in the discipline.
An exhibition of installation and video work by MFA candidate Michael Dirisio will provide context for a discussion of financial precarity and alternative economies, Thursday, November 2, in the main gallery of Mackenzie Hall.
“The event will address the role that political art can play in engaging with the city and with each other, and how it can prompt a reconsideration of social norms and conventions,” says Dirisio.
It’s time for society to consider a new definition of materialism and re-think what constitutes ‘the good life,’ according to a philosophy professor who has written a new book on the subject.
In its standard interpretation, materialism says the only things that truly exist are matter and energy and that our reality is defined by them. Ethically, the term has come to be negatively associated with material greed and a fascination with amassing wealth and commodities.