Philosophy

This week's film:

Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg). 100 min. EPB 109.

Walkabout is a 1971 adventure survival film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the 1959 novel by James Vance Marshall. It centers on two white schoolchildren who are left to fend for themselves in the Australian Outback and who come across a teenage Aboriginal boy who helps them to survive. [Wikipedia]

Muhammad Ali Khalidi, CUNY Graduate Center

“Psychological Science and Social Values”

Steven Wall, University of Arizona

Carrie Figdor, University of Iowa

“Rethinking Medium (or Substrate) Independence in the Sciences of the Mind”