Hi friends,
I hope this memo finds y'all well! Just writing to promote an upcoming talk in the library gallery!
Basic Information:
April 11th, 4-6pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Event Description:
Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture
The Proper Dignity of Human Being: Later Heidegger and the Philosophical Tradition
Sean D. Kelly, Harvard University
In
1947, Martin Heidegger wrote what is now known as his “Letter on
Humanism,” which is rich and revealing. At the center of the Letter
stands a singular, pointed claim: that all previous “humanisms,” have
failed to recognize the “proper dignity of human being.” Drawn from a
book in progress, this talk will explore questions of our proper
dignity, and the threat to it posed by the technological age.
Biography:
Sean Kelly earned an Sc.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science and an
M.S. in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences from Brown University in 1989.
After several years as a graduate student in Logic and Methodology of
Science, he finally received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University
of California at Berkeley in 1998. He taught in Philosophy and the
Humanities at Stanford and in Philosophy and Neuroscience at Princeton
before joining the Harvard Faculty in 2006. His work focuses on various
aspects of the philosophical, phenomenological, and cognitive
neuroscientific nature of human experience. Kelly is the co-author, with
Hubert Dreyfus, of The New York Times bestselling book All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age (2011), and he is currently working on a book for Harvard University Press entitled, “The Proper Dignity of Human Being.”
This lecture is organized by the Department of Philosophy.
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Chloe <3