Boston University Institute for Philosophy & Religion

Fellow philosophers, if you're in the Boston area we hope you'll join us next Wednesday (Nov. 13) for our lecture with Agnes Callard, on "Is the Mind a Tool?"

Philosophers and Friends, we hope you'll come join us for the third lecture of our series on "Wisdom and Transformation," with Professor L.A. Paul of Yale.

Hey Philosophers, we hope you'll all come out next week for the second lecture in our series on "Wisdom and Transformation," with Richard Eldridge. It promises to be a fascinating talk!

Hi Friends,

We're very excited that the first lecture in our new series on "Wisdom and Transformation" is tomorrow at 6 pm, at the BU School of Theology. It promises to be an interesting talk, and to set up a wonderful framework for our entire exploration of this theme, starting in the Greek tradition with Aristotle.

We hope you'll all come join us!

Hey folks, please join us next Friday, April 12, for our last lecture of the season. Aaron Preston is going to talk about "The Demise of Personalism, the Disappearance of Moral Knowledge, and the Prospects for Turning the Tide: a Plea for Analytic Personalism." It promises to be a very interesting way to wrap up our series on Persons!

Hi philosophers, scholars, seekers. We hope you'll all come join us on Nov. 14 for the 5th talk of our season, with Prof. Margarita Mooney of Princeton Theological Seminary, discussing the topic of "Person and Community in the Age of Anxiety." Free and open to the public, as always!

Hey philosophers, our 4th lecture of the season is next Wednesday, with Prof. Sarah Jacoby discussing the topic of "Interdependent Personhood and Relational Ethics: A Tibetan Perspective." If you're around, please come by and see it with us!

Friends, we're excited for our 3rd lecture of the season next week, with Shaun Gallagher discussing the topic of "Personhood and Interpretations of Embodied Cognition." As always, it's free and open to the public, so please come and check it out with us!

Hey friends, we're back in action next week, with the second lecture in our series on "Persons." Marya Schechtman, from the University of Illinois at Chicago, will be talking to us about "Why We Matter and Why We Are: The Value and Ontology of Persons." We hope many of you can join us!

Hey friends, we hope you will all join us next week, for our first lecture of the 2018-19 series on the topic of "Persons." David Lamberth is coming to talk to us about "James's Barking Crab: Becoming a Person in a Mechanistic Universe."

Hey friends, scholars, thinkers, and seekers. We are gearing up for our 2018-2019 lecture series on the topic of "Persons," and have just printed up our brochure for the series, which you can see here! If it's a bit hard to read, the program is available on our website: http://www.bu.edu/ipr/program/

Flyers for each lecture will appear as they approach. We hope to see many of you this fall as we explore this topic together!

Hey everyone, we're excited to announce our next lecture, and hope you'll come out and see it! We're hosting Paul Bloom of Yale University, who will be discussing empathy and why our uncritical notions of it can lead our moral decision making astray.

This talk is scheduled for Friday, April 6, at 4:00 pm, in room 325 of the BU School of Theology. Hope to see you all there!