PHI 579 S

Religion, Revolution, Terrorism and War

An Urgent Wartime Introduction to Advanced Political Philosophy

All meetings take place in 280 Park Hall at 6pm unless otherwise specified.

 

January 30: Religion, Revolution, Terrorism and War


February 6: Revenge and Reprisals : Debate with Randall Dipert on Military Ethics


February 9 (10am-5pm): Saturday Workshop with Francisco Gil-White (University of Pennsylvania)


February 13: Does Democracy Promote Peace?: Debate with James Ostrowski


February 20: Definitions of Terrorism
Todd Bindig
, Dylan Hall , Daniel Novotny(1) , Daniel Novotny(2)John Rock(1) , John Rock(2)


February 27:  Islam and the West
 Can Secularism Threaten Islam?

Joel Kleinberg : Can Terrorism be Justified?

Joel Kleinberg: Judaism and Islam ( Long Version )
Jeffrey Galko: A Modern View of the West
Jeffrey Galko: Islam and Justice
Jeffrey Galko: Terror Near the Gulf

Ryan Kohl: Brute Force will Cure Terrorism


March 5 (Extra Session, Park 141, 10am) The Enemy Within: American Intellectuals and the War on Terrorism : Stephen Balch (National Association of Scholars)

March 6: Todd Bindig: Just War ( Long Version )
John Rock: J ust War ( Long Version

Daniel Novotny: Objections to Pacifism


March 13: Jonathan Charles Bergman on Human Resource Exploitation  ( Long Version )
Ryan Kohl: Human Intelligence Operations
Darla Martin-Gorski
: Racial, Gender and Religious Profiling

Darla Martin-Gorski: Terrorism and Poverty
Darla Martin-Gorski: Sick Societies and Islamic Nations

Iclal Cetin: Women in Afghanistan


March 16 (10am-5pm): Saturday Workshop with John Fund (Wall Street Journal)


March 20: Patriotism/Ethnocentrism/Nationalism
Ryan Kohl: Conflict Theory
Karen Palmer: Nationalism and Imperialism ( Long Version )
John Rock: The American Burden: Imperialism in the New Millennium

Vincent Rondinelli: Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Geography of Islam
Douglas Black: Solutions to the Terrorism ( Long Version )
Jonathan Charles Bergman: Solutions to Terrorism

John Rock: The Geographical Nature of Terrorism