Please note the following dates, topics, and authors for this semester's "Dialogues on the Square," hosted by Richard Shusterman (Professor of Philosophy at Temple University). The events are held at 7:30 pm at Barnes and Noble, Rittenhouse Square, 1805 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA. The public is cordially invited to attend.

February 23: "Globalization and its Effects on American Culture" with Dan O'Hara, Professor of English, Temple University, and author of Empire Burlesque.

March 29: "The Moral Theory and Practice of George W. Bush" with Peter Singer, Professor of Bio-ethics, Princeton University, and author of The President of Good and Evil.

April 19: "Philosophy Between History and Myth" with Christian Delacampagne, Professor of French, Johns Hopkins University, and author of A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century and Here Be Dragons.

May 6: "The Somatic Philosophy of Moshe Feldenkrais" with David Zemach-Bersin, Somatic Educator (Feldenkrais Trainer) and author of Relaxercise.

Past speakers and topics:

Lewis Gordon (Brown University "Existentia Africana"), Susan Herbst (Temple University "On Opoinion Polling"), Hans Oberdiek (Swarthmore College "On Tolerance"), Shannon Sullivan (Penn State, "On Feminism, Embodiment, and Pragmatism"), Charles Kahn (University of Pennsylvania, "Presocratic Philosophy), Susan Brison (Dartmouth College, "Trauma, Healing, and the Uses of Philosophy), Vincent Colapietro (Penn State, "The Life and Mind of C. S. Peirce"), Louis Menard (CUNY, "Pragmatism and its Historical Context"), Hugh Lacey (Swarthmore, "Is Science Value Free?"), John Cooper (Princeton, "On Plato"), Jean-Michel Rabate (Penn, "Philosophy and the body"), Tamsin Lorraine (Swarthmore, "On feminism and French philosophy"), Dennis Schmidt (Villanova, "On Heidegger"), Jack Caputo (Villanova University, on "Derrida and Deconstruction"), Christopher Hitchens (The Nation, on "Truth, Politics, and Election 2000"), Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College, on "Wittgenstein"), Jitendra Mohanty (Indian Philosophy), Carolyn Korsmeyer (Food and Philosophy), James Miller (Rock and Roll), John Stuhr (Pragmatism), Jean-Michel Rabate (Contemporary French Philosophy), Andrew Light (Environmental Ethics), Alexander Nehamas (on Socrates), Lucius Outlaw (on Race), Charlotte Peirce-Baker (on Silence, Truth, and Rape), Paul Guyer (on Kant), Richard Bernstein (on Freud), William Sullivan (on Community), Leonard Harris and Tommy Lott (on Alain Locke and African-American Philosophy).