34th Eunice Belgum Memorial Lectures 2012-2013
Persons: What We Are and How We Persist in Time
Lynne Rudder Baker
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Baker, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Massachusetts Amherst, wants philosophy - especially metaphysics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion - to address reflective concerns of ordinary life.
Lecture One: The Place of Persons in Nature
Thursday, April 11, 2013
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Viking Theater
View Lecture One online at: http://www.stolaf.edu/multimedia/play/?e=848
Lecture Two: How Persons Persist in Time
Friday, April 12, 2013
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Viking Theater
View Lecture Two online at: http://www.stolaf.edu/multimedia/play/?e=849
Booksigning will take place after each lecture • Books are available in the St. Olaf Bookstore • Parking is available for visitors, faculty, and staff in the Buntrock Commons parking lot.
Map and directions to campus
The Belgum Lectures, now in their 34th year, honor the memory of Eunice Belgum, who graduated from St. Olaf College in 1967. The lecture series was established in the hope that Eunice's tragic death in 1977 would not end her impact on the profession, teaching, and scholarship she loved so much. While the lectures may be on any topic, the philosophy department makes a special effort to choose topics in areas of special interest to Eunice, namely ethics, philosophy of mind, and feminism.
Eunice received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University. Her dissertation, "Knowing Better: An Account of Akrasia," was published posthumously by Garland Publishers. Upon leaving Harvard, Eunice began an exceptionally promising career in philosophy, teaching at Trinity College and the College of William and Mary. She was one of the original members of the Society for Women in Philosophy.
The lectures are supported by a fund established by Eunice's family and friends.
Eunice Belgum with her disertation director, Hilary Putnam, and colleague Georges Rey
Belgum Lectures through the Years
2012-Rachel Cohon
"David Hume: Virtuous Action and Character in a Sentiment-Based Moral Philosophy"
2011-Thomas Carson
"Lincoln's Ethics: A Philosophical Assessment"
2010 - Elliott Sober
"Philosophical Reflections on Darwin"
2009 - Barbara Herman
"Making Morals Matter"
2008 – Julia Annas
"Virtue and Happiness"
2006 - Galen Strawson
"Episodic Ethics"
2005 - Jonathan Lear
"The Collapse of Civilization"
2004 - Bas C. van Fraassen
"Seeing and Measuring: Connecting Science to Experience"
2003 - Margaret Urban Walker
"Forgiveness and Moral Repair"
2002 - Frederick Stoutland
"How To Believe in Free Will"
2001 - Lydia Goehr
"Listening, Laughing and Learning"
2000 - Stephan Darwall
"Two Dogmas of Empiricism in Ethics"
1999 - James Harris
"After Relativism"
1998 - Jean Bethke Elshtain
"How Far Have We Fallen?"
1997 - Hillary Putnam
"Mind, Matter, and Making Sense"
1996 - Gary Iseminger
"Aestheticism: Defined and Defended"
1995 - Georges Rey
"Superficialism about Mind and Meaning"
1994 - Helen Longino
"Scientific Knowledge and Feminist Theoretical Virtues"
1993 - Amelie Rorty
"The Many Faces of Morality"
1992 - Arthur Caplan
"Ethics and the Genetic Revolution"
1991 - Nancy Sherman
"Virtue and Ethics"
1990 - Allan Gibbard
"Moral Meanings"
1989 - Keith Gunderson
"The Aesthetic Robot"
1988 - Laurence Thomas
"Living Morally: A Psychology of Moral Character"
1987 - Rosemarie Tong
"Feminist Social Psychology"
1986 - Kenneth Sayre
"Myths for Our Technological Future"
1985 - Merold Westphal
"The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism"
1984 - Naomi Scheman
"Authority and Paranoia: The Social Construction of Gender and the Philosophical Self"
1983 - Georg Henrik Von Wright
"Truth, Knowledge, and Freedom"
1982 - Martha Nussbaum
"The Fragility of Goodness"
1981 - Gareth B. Matthews
"Conceiving Childhood"
1980 - Dagfinn Follesdal
"Understanding and Rationality"
1979 - Kathryn Pyne Parsons
"Not Judge, Not Victim, Nor Savior"
