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What is Well Being?

Thursday Mar 30 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Join us for a keynote talk by Rhonda V Magee to hear more about mindfulness and “What Is Well Being?”

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Moudy North

Moudy North
2805 South University Dr.
Fort Worth, TX 76129

About Philosophy Department

The Original Academic Discipline Philosophy is the original academic discipline–the first and most basic. It deals primarily with the notions of meaning, knowledge, truth and goodness. It’s grounded in a literature spread over the last 2500 years. To study philosophy is to think and discuss in logical ways such general concepts, the basis of all critical inquiry. It involves learning to construct, defend and criticize alternative positions on the most fundamental issues that human beings have continued to think about over that time. Through this practice students also come to understand the grounds and merit of positions on narrower issues of all sorts, as well as the implications of their assumptions about value and meaning in their own lives.

Questions about this event?

Melissa Payton

Email: M.PAYTON@TCU.EDU

Phone: 8177067756

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What is Well Being?

Wednesday Mar 29 - Mar 31 | 7:30 pm - 11:30 am

Green Honors Chair, Rhonda V. Magee, joins us for a live Interview Podcast “Reconcile This!” and a keynote talk the next evening. Please scan the QR Code to register for one or both events!

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Van Cliburn Concert Hall

Van Cliburn Concert Hall

About Philosophy Department

The Original Academic Discipline Philosophy is the original academic discipline–the first and most basic. It deals primarily with the notions of meaning, knowledge, truth and goodness. It’s grounded in a literature spread over the last 2500 years. To study philosophy is to think and discuss in logical ways such general concepts, the basis of all critical inquiry. It involves learning to construct, defend and criticize alternative positions on the most fundamental issues that human beings have continued to think about over that time. Through this practice students also come to understand the grounds and merit of positions on narrower issues of all sorts, as well as the implications of their assumptions about value and meaning in their own lives.

Questions about this event?

Melissa Payton

Email: M.PAYTON@TCU.EDU

Phone: 8177067756

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March Mindfulness

Wednesday Mar 1 - Mar 31 | 11:30 am - 11:30 am

Several mindfulness events are happening in March, including Keynote Speakers Richard Davidson and Rhonda v. Magee.

Virtual Link.

Van Cliburn Concert Hall

Van Cliburn Concert Hall

About Philosophy Department

The Original Academic Discipline Philosophy is the original academic discipline–the first and most basic. It deals primarily with the notions of meaning, knowledge, truth and goodness. It’s grounded in a literature spread over the last 2500 years. To study philosophy is to think and discuss in logical ways such general concepts, the basis of all critical inquiry. It involves learning to construct, defend and criticize alternative positions on the most fundamental issues that human beings have continued to think about over that time. Through this practice students also come to understand the grounds and merit of positions on narrower issues of all sorts, as well as the implications of their assumptions about value and meaning in their own lives.

Questions about this event?

Melissa Payton

Email: m.payton@tcu.edu

Phone: 8172574377

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VIRTUAL Keynote Address by Richard J Davidson

Wednesday Mar 1 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Richard Davidson is Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The mission of the Center for Healthy Minds (Center) is to cultivate well-being and relieve suffering through a scientific understanding of the mind. Faced with mental and physical health challenges at a global scale, the Center conducts rigorous scientific research to bring new insights and tools aimed at improving the well-being of people of all backgrounds and ages. The Center’s research, rooted in neuroscience, comes down to on basic question: “What constitutes a healthy mind?”

To begin to answer this, the Center has investigated the science of emotions, contemplative practices and qualities of mind suspected to affect well-being, including attention, resilience, equanimity, savoring positive emotions, kindness, compassion, gratitude and empathy. The Center, part of one of the world’s top research institutions, benefits from cross-disciplinary collaborations in the arts and humanities, the physical and natural sciences, and the social sciences.

Healthy Minds Innovations (HMI), which was also co-founded by world renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson is a non-profit organization driven by the mission to translate science into tools that cultivate well-being. HMI takes discoveries and insights gleaned from research and translates them into tools that help people around the world learn and build skills of well-being. These tools include a donation-supported app, the Healthy Minds Program (which uses podcast style lessons and meditations to support increased awareness, connection, insight and purpose), and our workplace program Healthy Minds @Work (a science-based program that offers a suite of tools to improve well-being in the workplace). In addition to creating products and services and sharing them widely, HMI also manages philanthropic activities, public speaking engagements and special initiatives that bring this work to the world.

The Center and HMI both seek to work as widely as possible, reaching the farthest corners of the globe to realize a vision of a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world.

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Virtual-Attend or sign up online

Virtual-Attend or sign up online
2800 S. University Drive
Fort Worth, TX 76129

About Philosophy Department

The Original Academic Discipline Philosophy is the original academic discipline–the first and most basic. It deals primarily with the notions of meaning, knowledge, truth and goodness. It’s grounded in a literature spread over the last 2500 years. To study philosophy is to think and discuss in logical ways such general concepts, the basis of all critical inquiry. It involves learning to construct, defend and criticize alternative positions on the most fundamental issues that human beings have continued to think about over that time. Through this practice students also come to understand the grounds and merit of positions on narrower issues of all sorts, as well as the implications of their assumptions about value and meaning in their own lives.

Questions about this event?

melissa payton

Email: M.PAYTON@TCU.EDU

Phone: 7370

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The Ronald E. Moore Humanities Symposium on the question “What is well-being?” with Keynote speaker Richard J. Davidson

Wednesday Mar 1 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Join us in person, or livestream, to hear Richard Davidson speak to the question “What is well-being?” and more regarding healthy minds for March Mindfulness!

Virtual Link.

Moudy North

Moudy North
2805 South University Dr.
Fort Worth, TX 76129

About Philosophy Department

The Original Academic Discipline Philosophy is the original academic discipline–the first and most basic. It deals primarily with the notions of meaning, knowledge, truth and goodness. It’s grounded in a literature spread over the last 2500 years. To study philosophy is to think and discuss in logical ways such general concepts, the basis of all critical inquiry. It involves learning to construct, defend and criticize alternative positions on the most fundamental issues that human beings have continued to think about over that time. Through this practice students also come to understand the grounds and merit of positions on narrower issues of all sorts, as well as the implications of their assumptions about value and meaning in their own lives.

Questions about this event?

melissa payton

Email: M.PAYTON@TCU.EDU

Phone: 7370

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Lottocracy

Thursday Oct 13 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Must democracy involve elections? Election is a time-honored, but arguably deeply flawed part of all modern democracies. But what if representatives were chosen randomly–by lottery? Is this still democracy, and of a less elitist kind? In this lecture we will compare the merits of the method of election to those of a carefully designed system of “lottocracy.” The lecture has two main aims. The first is to present a case against what is the heart of almost every modern political system: the use of elections to choose political representatives. The second is to move past what we might call the “Churchillian shrug” (‘the worst form of government, except for all the others…’) by introducing and defending lottocracy, a new kind of political system with a very different heart: a system that uses random selection, rather than elections, to select political representatives. Lottocracy may have the upper hand.

Shaddock Auditorium

Shaddock Auditorium
2900 Lubbock Ave
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Philosophy Department

The Original Academic Discipline Philosophy is the original academic discipline–the first and most basic. It deals primarily with the notions of meaning, knowledge, truth and goodness. It’s grounded in a literature spread over the last 2500 years. To study philosophy is to think and discuss in logical ways such general concepts, the basis of all critical inquiry. It involves learning to construct, defend and criticize alternative positions on the most fundamental issues that human beings have continued to think about over that time. Through this practice students also come to understand the grounds and merit of positions on narrower issues of all sorts, as well as the implications of their assumptions about value and meaning in their own lives.

Questions about this event?

Melissa Payton

Email: m.payton@tcu.edu

Phone: 4377

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Cultural Agency – Prof Manuel Vargas

Tuesday Apr 9 | 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

One’s reasons, values, and sense of what makes a life meaningful are partly a product of one’s particular cultural upbringing. Sometimes the packages of meanings and values afforded to us by our cultural milieus fail to resonate with us. In these cases, how one should live one’s life can seem unclear. Drawing from a neglected strand of existentialist thought, this talk explores some of the challenges that arise from these misalignments in value and life, and it highlights some promising resources for thinking about culturally structured agency.

Manuel R. Vargas is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the overlap of moral, psychological, and legal issues concerning human agency and freedom. He also writes about Latinx and Latin American philosophy. Previously, he was a Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of San Francisco.

Vargas’s research has been recognized with a variety of national awards, prizes, grants, and fellowships. Most recently Vargas and Sanitago Amaya (Universidad de los Andes) were awarded a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for their multi-year international project, “LATAM Free Will, Agency, and Responsibility.”

Moudy North

Moudy North
2805 South University Dr.
Fort Worth, TX 76129

About Philosophy Department

The Original Academic Discipline Philosophy is the original academic discipline–the first and most basic. It deals primarily with the notions of meaning, knowledge, truth and goodness. It’s grounded in a literature spread over the last 2500 years. To study philosophy is to think and discuss in logical ways such general concepts, the basis of all critical inquiry. It involves learning to construct, defend and criticize alternative positions on the most fundamental issues that human beings have continued to think about over that time. Through this practice students also come to understand the grounds and merit of positions on narrower issues of all sorts, as well as the implications of their assumptions about value and meaning in their own lives.

Questions about this event?

Beth Philp

Email: philosophy@tcu.edu

Phone: 817-257-7370

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Florsheim Lecture in Ethics

Thursday Mar 1 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

You are invited – to the Florsheim Lecture in Ethics.
David Boonin, Professor from University of Colorado, Boulder will present
“Sexual Consent and Non-Physical Coercion”
Free and Open to the Public.
Lecture and Q&A to follow.

Palko Hall

Palko Hall
3000 Bellaire Drive North
Fort Worth, TX 76109

About Philosophy Department

The Original Academic Discipline Philosophy is the original academic discipline–the first and most basic. It deals primarily with the notions of meaning, knowledge, truth and goodness. It’s grounded in a literature spread over the last 2500 years. To study philosophy is to think and discuss in logical ways such general concepts, the basis of all critical inquiry. It involves learning to construct, defend and criticize alternative positions on the most fundamental issues that human beings have continued to think about over that time. Through this practice students also come to understand the grounds and merit of positions on narrower issues of all sorts, as well as the implications of their assumptions about value and meaning in their own lives.

Questions about this event?

Beth Philp

Email: b.d.philp@tcu.edu

Phone: 7370