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THE BELGUM LECTURES 2006 - 2007

 

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Episodic Ethics
by Galen Strawson

Lecture I: remorse, contrition, regret, guilt, conscience, responsibility
October 11, 2006, 7:00–9:00 p.m.

Lecture II: loyalty, vengefulness, resentment, hatred, friendship, gratitude
October 12, 2006, 3:45–5:45 p.m.

Both lectures will be held in Holland Hall 501.

About Galen Strawson

Galen Strawson is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Prior to that he was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and held visiting positions at New York University, Rutgers University, and the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. Strawson received his degrees from Cambridge University and Oxford University and studied at the Sorbonne.

Strawson’s primary research interests include metaphysics, philosophy of mind, Kant, the British empiricists, and ethics. He introduced original ideas and arguments in three important books: Mental Reality (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995), The Secret Connexion: Realism, Causation, and David Hume (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), and Freedom and Belief (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).

Strawson’s newest book, published very recently (Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academics, 2006), is Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Why physicalism entails panpsychism.
For information on the book visit: www.imprint.co.uk/books/strawson.html

Strawson has published numerous scholarly articles that have appeared in philosophy journals and collections. He has also published essays and reviews for larger audiences in periodicals such as the Financial Times, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, and the Times Literary Supplement, where he has served as editor for many years. Strawson has appeared in film, and on television and radio.

His forthcoming books on the self include: Life in Time and Hume on Personal Identity.