from Steve Luper, Chair . . .

Dear Alumni:

This has been a great year

for support from former

philosophy students!

Trinity Philosophy alum-

na Kathy Schnare ’89

and her husband, William Reid, again made

a generous donation in support of the stu-

dents who submit philosophical essays in the

department’s annual Hemlock Award compe-

tition. They have done this over the past sev-

eral years, and we are very grateful for their

support.

As part of the 2011 Fall Alumni Weekend,

alumnus Robert Curtis ’89, of management

consultation firm Bain & Co., visited campus

and talked with our students about the ways

in which majoring in philosophy can benefit

those who intend to go into the business pro-

fessions.

Philosophy alumni and attorneys Michael

Gross ’84 and Laura O’Donnell ‘93 are

helping to make legal internships at their

firms available to our philosophy majors in-

terested in law careers. Our first legal intern is

Mike Brew ‘13, who is working at Michael

Gross’s firm, Gross & Esparza, this summer.

On behalf of our department, I send out a

personal note of thanks to each of these

alumni for their commitment to supporting

our philosophy students!

Larry Kimmel has now retired, and we all

wish he hadn’t done it. But I guess he is hap-

pily hiking in the mountains of New Mexico.

This winter we will be conducting interviews

for a new scholar in Ethics. In the meantime,

and after teaching the past Fall and Spring

semesters, Nicholas Mantegani, University

of Texas at Austin philosophy scholar, will be

teaching throughout the forthcoming aca-

demic year. Recently he gave a very interest-

ing departmental presentation concerning

ontological commitments.

This year the Hemlock Award very deservedly

went to first-place winner, Michael Garatoni

‘13 (Philosophy), and second-place winner,

Mellissa Delcont ‘12 (Neuroscience). Con-

gratulations to you both! And speaking of

Michael Garatoni, he was awarded a Murchi-

son Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow-

ship and is doing research on Trinity campus

this summer. Congratulations again, Michael!

This is the program’s second year and also the

second year for a philosophy student to be

awarded the fellowship.

It was a mild, relatively cool spring, and I’ve

enjoyed several waves of flowers. First the

flowering quince and anemones, then daffo-

dils, species tulips, and irises, then cherry

blossoms, mock orange, desert willow, and

crabapple flowers. Right now I am looking at

lilies, crinums, amaryllises, and althea flowers.

My latest addition is gloriosa, a very strange

and beautiful vine from Africa, whose flowers

are the reverse of regular flowers. They re-

mind me of colorful hot air balloons. I’m

hoping to harvest some plums and peaches

before the critters get them.

In June I made a trip to Slovenia again, where

I gave a paper concerning whether posthu-

mous events can harm or wrong those who

die. I am now concentrating on writing an

essay on the meaning of life, which will be my

contribution to the forthcoming Cambridge

Companion to Life and Death.

July 2012 Volume 8

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Trinity University

Philosophy Faculty

Curtis Brown, Professor

Ph.D., Princeton University

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

cbrown@trinity.edu

Damian Caluori, Assistant Professor

DPhil., University of Oxford

Classical Greek Philosophy, Hellenistic

Philosophy, Late Ancient Philosophy

(in particular Plotinus)

dcaluori@trinity.edu

Andrew Kania, Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Maryland

Aesthetics, Philosophy of Music, Literature, Film

akania@trinity.edu

Lawrence Kimmel, Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Philosophy of Culture, Existentialism, Ethics

lkimmel@trinity.edu

Steven Luper, Professor and Chair

Ph.D., Harvard University

Epistemology, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

sluper@trinity.edu

Judith Norman, Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison

19th Century Philosophy, Existentialism, Aesthetics

jnorman2@trinity.edu

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Please help us in our assessment of the Department

by taking the online Alumni Survey

linked to our home page:

www.trinity.edu/departments/philosophy/.

Thank you!

Has another year

gone by already? It’s

been a good one

overall. I got to teach lots of logic

classes: two sections of Symbolic Logic

I, and also Symbolic Logic II in the fall

and Non-Classical Logic in the spring. I

love teaching these classes, and was

delighted that the advanced classes had

healthy enrollments. They draw an

interesting mix of students, including

philosophy majors, computer science

majors, and the occasional math major. I

also taught Philosophy of Mind and, for

the first time in several years, a section

of Introduction to Philosophy.

I find starting new research projects

more fun (and much easier) than

finishing existing ones, so my projects-in

-progress tend to keep multiplying.

However, this year I completed two

projects. One is an essay called

“Combinatorial-State Automata and

Models of Computation.” It will appear

in a special issue of the Journal of Cognitive

Science devoted to the important work of

David Chalmers, who will reply to the

essays. I also finished “Friendships:

Epistemically Dangerous Liaisons?” for

Damian Caluori’s collection of essays on

various aspects of friendship, to be

published by Palgrave Macmillan. This was

a bit outside my usual comfort zone, but I

have been interested in philosophical issues

about friendship ever since Steve Luper

and I included a chapter on the topic in our

ethics text, The Moral Life, so it was great to

have a reason to write an essay in this area.

In May 2011 I visited Switzerland with my

wife Karen, our two children, my sister,

and one of Karen’s sisters. (There are some

photos on my web site, www.trinity.edu/

cbrown/, if anyone’s interested.) What a

beautiful place! We flew into Zurich, but

spent most of our time in Lauterbrunnen.

We have no plans that ambitious for this

coming summer, just trips to visit family in

Michigan and Montana.

One of the most important figures in

twentieth-century philosophy is Saul

Kripke. He published his first ground-

breaking papers in modal logic while he

was still in high school, and since then has

done hugely important work in metaphysics,

the philosophy of language, and the study of

Wittgenstein’s philosophy, among other

topics. He plays a starring role in Scott

Soames’s two-volume work Philosophical

Analysis in the Twentieth Century. In 2011,

Kripke published his first book in a quarter

of a century, a collection of essays entitled

Philosophical Troubles (Oxford University

Press). Some of the essays have been

published previously, but many have not,

making this an exciting event. I am looking

forward to reading it this summer, along

with a new collection of essays about

Kripke’s work: Alan Berger, ed., Saul Kripke

(Cambridge University Press, 2011). In

lighter reading, I recently finished Hilary

Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall, featuring Henry

VIII, Thomas Cromwell, and Thomas More.

I found it interesting in part for giving a very

different picture of More than I remembered

from the movie A Man for All Seasons. In

even lighter reading, I have recently been

reading (rereading, in some cases) Dorothy

Sayers’ mysteries.

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There are plenty of people and institutions devoted to changing the world, but philosophers are

among the few who are devoted to understanding it.

– Harry Frankfurt

I’ve had a busy but

productive year,

focusing on teaching

students and raising children and struggling

to achieve that impossible thing (mockingly)

called a work-life ‘balance’. Academically,

I’ve continued to participate in the humani-

ties program, team-teaching a Great

Books/Great Ideas class that focuses on

classical antiquity from Homer through

Apuleius.

This past semester I’ve had the great

pleasure of participating in the development

and teaching of a new humanities class that

focuses on post-classical texts, beginning

with Dante and ending with the classic

movie Blade Runner. It was a peak experience

in my teaching career, and I certainly

learned at least as much as any of the

students. We read works like Paradise Lost

and Origin of Species, and apart from the

inherent interest and excitement of these

texts, I was able to broaden considerably my

understanding of the cultural context in

which many of the philosophical texts that I

teach emerged.

This has already helped my research: The

ideas I was discussing in the humanities

class have spilled over into a (short) essay I

have been writing on the concept of eternity

in German romanticism. I have been part

of an “eternity” project, a group of scholars

who are discussing the concept of eternity

as it developed in historical and contempo-

rary texts. We met in (Bochum) Germany

this past December to present and discuss

some of our ideas, and the papers will be

compiled into a book. One achievement of

the conference was to exhaust (hopefully)

the bad puns that can be made about

eternity (“this conference is taking forever”,

etc.). The classical philosophers at the

conference were concerned to pin down the

precise historical moment when the notion

of eternity stopped meaning everlasting (i.e.,

enduring through all time) and started to

mean something outside of time. We

nineteenth century scholars focused more

on the secularization of the notion of

eternity – how and when it stopped being

primarily a religious term and started to

describe aspects of the temporal experience

(or lack of it) in the life of an individual.

The contemporary scholars began discuss-

ing the resurgence of the idea of eternity in

the philosophy of religion before (yes)

running out of time.

When I’m not occupied with these impon-

derables, I’ve been busy with much more

practical matters. I’ve been working with

the national organization A Jewish Voice

for Peace, and most recently I spoke at the

state conference of Pax Christi (the

Catholic peace movement) about the way

in which accounts of the Holocaust are

used to justify the Israeli occupation. I’ve

been reading the work of Marc Ellis, who

develops a Jewish liberation theology in

which he stresses the need for Jews to

speak out against abuses of state power –

and specifically those done in their name, by

the state of Israel. It’s fascinating stuff, and

personally very inspiring.

Finally, I’ve been spending a lot of my time

hanging out with my kids, going to soccer,

piano, chess, etc. Before the summer is over

we’ll have tackled pottery, robotics and

Wiffle ball too. It’s all new to me, and, like

with my humanities class, I’m sure I’ll be

learning as much as they will!

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article is the title this argument allows me:

“All Play and No Work”. (I swear I didn’t

come up with the title first, and then forge

some arguments to suit it!) Before the piece

even came out, it was the target of a critical

discussion in the British Journal of Aesthetics

by Lee B. Brown, who’s forgotten more

about jazz than I will ever know.

Nonetheless, I defended my methodology

in a reply in the same journal.

I also collaborated with Harvard composer

Richard Beaudoin on an essay about the

score of one of his recent works.

Employing a technique called

‘microtiming’, in which the minutest details

of a musical recording are extracted

(originally for close analysis), Beaudoin

‘recomposes’ famous recordings of classic

musical works into new works for

independent performance. We argued that

the score of one of these works constitutes

a kind of musical photograph of the recording

that was its basis.

As students in my Philosophy of Music

course in the spring well know, it’s easy to

let philosophy run away with your

thoughts, and to forget that it’s only good

philosophy of music if it’s really still about the

music. I try to remind myself of that by

staying active in connection with music. I

was recently honored to sing on the stage of

the Majestic Theatre downtown with other

Trinity students and faculty in a special all-

Berlioz concert with the San Antonio

Symphony honoring historian Jacques

Barzun, who at the age of 104 was still able

to talk eloquently (and to know when to let

the music speak for itself!). And having

just sat the final exam of Music Theory

IV, I’ve now completed the four-

semester theory sequence required of

music majors, allowing me to engage

more easily with musicologists and

their work, not to mention reminding

me how different a classroom looks

when your back’s to the wall rather

than to the board.

I was lucky enough to get to travel to

Tampa, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and

Adelaide (Australia) this past year, to present

my work to various audiences. Though, as a

member of the American Society for

Aesthetics (ASA) board of trustees, I will be

travelling to St. Louis for the annual ASA

meeting, I hope otherwise to confine my

travels in the coming year to locations close

to the coast in Australia and New Zealand.

Let me know if by any chance you’ll be

down under, yourself ….

Greetings everyone!

As I write this, I am

on the cusp of my

first-ever sabbatical. I’m looking forward

to spending most of next year in New

Zealand, back in my home town of

Auckland. Though I won’t have an

official appointment there, I do plan on

hanging around the Philosophy

Department at the University of

Auckland a fair bit, discussing

profound musical matters with my

former MA supervisor, Stephen

Davies, and his grad students. The

main project I intend to work on is a

detailed defense of the definition of

music I’ve recently sketched in a

chapter in the Routledge Companion to

Philosophy and Music and an essay on

silent music in the Journal of Aesthetics

and Art Criticism. Davies has already

objected to my definition in a

forthcoming essay, so we should have

plenty to talk about! Of course, I might

make it to the beach once or twice, too.

Some thoughts about music that saw

their way into print over the past 12

months include an essay on the ontology

of jazz that is in a sense the last part of

my doctorial dissertation to be published.

I argue that, in part because of the

centrality of improvisation to jazz,

performances in that tradition are

properly compared directly with one

another, and not (as in classical music, for

instance) as performances of a distinct

work. Probably the best feature of the

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Our student-led

philosophy club

was very active in

2011-2012. During both the Fall and the

Spring semesters, students met every

other week to discuss topics such as

philosophy as a way of life, the

philosophy of film, environmental ethics

and the philosophy of love and sex. The

meetings were very well attended and all

students were strongly engaged, which

led to good and lively discussions.

I offered two new courses this year:

Hellenistic Philosophy and Philosophy of

Religion. I very much enjoyed teaching

both courses. I like Hellenistic

philosophy because it allows me to show

students that ancient philosophy has

more to offer than Plato and Aristotle. It

is particularly interesting in the areas of

ethics and epistemology. I like

philosophy of religion because of the

richness and variety of questions it raises.

One book we read was Mark Johnston’s

recent Saving God. Religion after Idolatry,

which offers a view that challenges both

(traditional) theists and atheists.

When I organized the Lennox Lecture

Series on the philosophy of friendship in

early 2011, I thought it would be very nice to

also edit a book on this topic. So I asked the

speakers for the papers they had given at

Trinity and invited further famous and up-

and-coming philosophers to contribute to a

volume called Thinking about Friendship.

Historical and Contemporary Philosophical

Perspectives. Everything worked out well, and

the book will be published later this year by

Palgrave Macmillan. The papers in this

volume will be devoted to questions such as:

What precisely makes friendship so valuable?

What is friendship at all? What unites friends

and distinguishes them from others? Is the

preference we give to friends rationally and

morally justifiable? It offers new

interpretations of the

answers given by

famous classic

philosophers such as

Plato, Aristotle, and

Kant and provides

fresh answers by

leading contemporary philosophers.

Last Fall I was invited to give a paper on

Plotinus at Cornell University, and in

Spring I gave a talk about Plato at the

New School for Social Research in New

York City. This summer I will attend the

international Plotinus colloquium in

Paris. Moreover, I will spend a month at

the Plato Centre in Dublin. I am looking

forward to it, not only because the Plato

Centre possesses an excellent library

specialized in ancient philosophy. My

stay there will also give me the

opportunity to discuss my work with

some first-rate philosophers and scholars

affiliated with this wonderful research

institution. Finally, it will allow me to

make ample use of my umbrella, which I

feel I have somewhat neglected in the last

three years.

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‘Intuition’ plays a major role in contemporary analytic philosophy’s self-understanding. Yet there is no agreed or even popular account of how intuition works, no accepted explanation of the hoped-for correla-tion between our having an intuition that P and its being true that P. Since analytic philosophy prides itself

on its rigor, this blank space in its foundations looks like a methodological scandal. Why should intuitions have any authority over the philosophical domain?

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Michael Garatoni is entering his senior year

with a major in Philosophy. Michael has had

great success at Trinity; he is on the Dean’s

list and is the winner of the 2012 Philosophy

Department Hemlock Award for the best

essay in philosophy. Most recently and per-

haps most excitingly, Michael was awarded a

2012 Murchison Summer Undergraduate

Research Fellowship. This is the second time

(in the two years that the award has been in

existence) that a student in the philosophy

department has won this prestigious award.

The fellowship has enabled Michael to de-

vote the summer to a research project he is

pursuing with Dr. Steven Luper. Dr. Luper

has been working on an article on life’s

meaning, to be published in a volume he is

editing, entitled The Cambridge Guide to Life

and Death (Cambridge University Press). The

article involves questions concerning the

meaning of life and how meaningfulness

contributes to welfare, as well as its relative

importance with respect to other elements in

welfare, such as happiness. Michael is work-

ing in tandem with Dr. Luper, discussing

these issues with him and developing his

own original thesis concerning the role of

meaningfulness in assessing welfare. Philoso-

phy is not generally considered a collabora-

tive activity, but conversations between re-

searchers pursuing closely related topics can

be extraordinarily fruitful for both.

Michael has a particular interest in this topic,

as he wishes to begin thinking about some

of the ethical questions involved in legal and

public policy issues. He hopes to continue

this vein of inquiry in the future by attending

graduate school and pursuing a JD/Ph.D. In

the meantime, he will be submitting his Mur-

chison essay for publication in an undergrad-

uate research journal, and presenting some

of his ideas at the Summer Undergraduate

Research Conference. We wish him great

luck!

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student spotlight . . . Michael Garatoni

2012 Hemlock Award Winners

for Outstanding Philosophical Essay

1st Place

"Coherentism"

Michael Garatoni ’13

2nd Place

"Respect for Those Outside the Moral Community"

Mellissa Delcont ‘12

The Hemlock Outstanding Philosophical Essay student awards were made possible through a

generous donation from Kathy L. Schnare and William Reid.

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We are honored to recognize a group of students

for their achievements in Philosophy and/or for

their individual contributions to departmental

events and philosophy student activities during the

2011-2012 school year. We note that a number of

these students will return as graduating seniors in

2012-2013, and we are fortunate to have them at

Trinity for another year.

student appreciation . . .

The department was proud to offer the Philosophy Honors Program

for the first time in 2011-2012. To qualify for the program, students

must be philosophy majors and meet stringent GPA requirements by

the Fall semester of their junior year. The philosophy faculty must

approve all honors program applicants before they are accepted into

the program.

Aleksey Balotskiy ’12 was the first student to complete the require-

ments and was graduated in May 2012 with departmental honors. He

is now participating in a doctoral program at the University of British

Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Not pictured here are students Aaron Gruber ‘12 (PSYC), Dama Dhummakupt ‘13 (PHIL Film), Michael

Garatoni ‘13 (PHIL) (Hemlock Award, SURF), and Alex Balotskiy ‘12 (PHIL Film) (Departmental Honors).

Photo on left: (L-R) Jack Newman ‘13 (PHIL/COMM), Sam Elder ‘13 (PHIL) (Philosophy Club Liaison), Mellissa Delcont ‘12 (NEUR) (Hemlock Award). Photo on right: (L-R) Lawrence

Kimmel reception volunteers, Alexandra Empie ’13 (ENG) and Spenser Stevens ‘13 (ENG).

A special thanks to each of you!

departmental Honors Program . . .

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guest speakers 2011-2012 . . .

In 2011-2012, the department hosted five

public philosophical speaking events. The-

se events were all free and open to the

public and were made possible by a combi-

nation of generous contributions from

various academic departments, the Trinity

University Lecturers and Visiting Scholars

Committee, and the Arthur T. and Jane J.

Stieren Foundation.

As part of Alumni Weekend in October

2011, Dr. Damian Caluori hosted Cinzia

Arruzza, Department of Philosophy at the

New School for Social Research, New

York, for a talk entitled, "Cleaning the City:

Popper and Plato on Political Change".

The talk presented a philosophical ap-

proach to political change based on the

works of classical philosopher Plato and

twentieth-century philosopher Sir Karl

Popper, a former professor at the London

School of Economics who wrote exten-

sively on social and political philosophy

and is regarded as one of that century's

greatest philosophers of science.

Afterwards, Bain & Co.’s Robert Curtis

'89 led a spirited discussion based on his

professional experiences regarding the

benefits of the Trinity philosophy degree

towards a successful career in business

finance and business law.

In January, as part of the Stieren Lecture

Series, Dr. Judith Norman hosted Dr.

Robert Wicks, Professor of Philosophy,

University of Auckland, to give a talk enti-

tled "Photographic Perception and the

Present Sense of the Past: Reflections on

Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida". Dr.

Wicks is the author of seven philosophical

texts and numerous scholarly articles.

In February, Dr. Norman also hosted

Robert Weick of Philadelphia’s Ironage

Theatre Company in a dramatic one-hour

monologue entitled, “Marx in Soho”, origi-

nally created by writer and activist the late

Howard Zinn.

Dr. Andrew Kania hosted Dr. Dabney

Townsend in April for a talk entitled

“Anti-Aesthetics”. Dr. Townsend is Secre-

tary-Treasurer of the American Society for

Aesthetics (ASA) and is a member of the

philosophy faculty at Armstrong Atlantic

University in Savannah, Georgia.

On December 8, 2011 the Philosophy Department

honored Dr. Lawrence Kimmel with a retirement

reception commemorating 45 years of distinguished

service at Trinity University. Speakers were colleagues

Steven Luper, Department of Philosophy Department

Chair, Michael Fischer, Vice President for Academic

Affairs, Willis Salomon, Department of English, and

Colleen Grissom, Department of English. The recep-

tion was attended by members of the Kimmel family

and numerous friends, students, and colleagues.

Dr. Kimmel now spends much of his time at his home

in the mountains of New Mexico and may be contacted

at this email address:

lkimmel@trinity.edu.

45 years of distinguished service at Trinity . . .

Robert Wicks University of Auckland,

New Zealand

Cinzia Arruzza New School for Social

Research, New York

Robert Curtis ‘89 Bain & Co.,

Dallas

Dabney Townsend American Society of Aesthetics

Armstrong Atlantic University Savannah, Georgia

Robert Weick Ironstage Theatre Company,

Philadelphia

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ALUMNI SURVEY

Please help us in our assessment of the Department of Philosophy

by taking our on-line Alumni Survey linked to the Department homepage at:

www.trinity.edu/departments/philosophy/.

Your responses will contribute greatly to the future direction of the department.

Thank you!

Rose Sanderson of Bristol, England,

is the featured artist in this issue of

Philosophy News. Below is the

artist’s profile from her web site:

“Inspired by the natural world, espe-

cially that which is generally unnoticed

or disregarded by others, current work

focuses predominantly on the fragility

of life and representations of freedom.

Seeing beauty in the seemingly ug-

ly, Rose's delicate, yet expressive paint-

ings of insects, birds and anatomy, aim

to provoke in an understated way; pro-

ducing pieces that are empathetic, fresh

and intriguing.

With backgrounds that give a feeling of

decay (peeling layers of wallpaper,

cracked surfaces; aged and ‘distressed’),

combined with fine attention to detail

in the subject matter, a vibrant mixture

of traditional and experimental tech-

niques are produced.

Her use of old book covers relates to

the cycles within nature. The subject

upon them is part of a narrative; again

exploring life,

death and exist-

ence.

Based in Bristol,

England, Rose

has exhibited in a

number of loca-

tions including Bath, Brighton, Plym-

outh, London, Glasgow, Amsterdam,

Brussels, New York, California, and

Singapore.”

Thank you, Rose, for the use of your

beautiful images in our newsletter.

Visit www.rosesanderson.com for

more information about the artist and

her work.

featured artist . . . Rose Sanderson

On Friday, November 9, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. in the Ruth Taylor Recital Hall,

Dicke Art Building, the philosophy department will host two Trinity philosophy

alumni in separate talks on the topic, “Beyond the Philosophy Degree: Careers in

Business and Law”. A reception will follow.

Our speakers will be Robert Curtis ‘89 from the Dallas office of management

consulting firm, Bain & Co., and criminal defense attorney, Michael Gross ‘84,

from the San Antonio-based firm, Gross & Esparza, P.L.L.C.

Robert Curtis ‘89 Bain & Co.,

Dallas

Michael Gross ‘84 Gross & Esparza,

San Antonio

Alumni Weekend . . . November 9-11, 2012

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– Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, p. 126

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Upcoming Events

Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 (Alumni Weekend)

1:00 p.m., Ruth Taylor Recital Hall

Robert Curtis ’89 & Michael Gross ‘84

“Beyond the Philosophy Degree:

Careers in Business and Law”

Reception to follow

Wednesday, April 16, 2013 (Stieren Lecture)

7:00 PM, Ruth Taylor Recital Hall

Dr. Emily Brady

University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Fellow, Princeton's Center for Human Value

“Aesthetic Value, Ethics, and Climate Change”

Reception to Follow

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