https://map.oxy.edu/?id=1103#!m/267740

Talk by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Poet, Essayist and Chekwube Danladi, Occidental College Writer-in-Residence

Chekwube Danladi is the author of Semiotics (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and, Take Me Back, included in the New Generation African Poets chapbook boxset. She has received support from Kimbilio Fiction, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and elsewhere.

Philosophy Dept. Talk by Dr. William Lycan, University of Connecticut

When S believes that P, the content of S's belief is that P.  But for other “propositional” attitudes, the respective notions of content vary considerably.  This paper looks at desire, and at a series of increasingly grave reasons for doubting that desire is propositional in the straightforward way belief is.  I will agree with doubters that desire content works differently from belief content in each of several important ways, but argue in the end that the differences should not be expressed by saying that desire is not propositional at all.  Alo