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The BU Institute for Philosophy & Religion (IPR) is a unique interdisciplinary forum for the exploration of issues at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and public life.

11/07/2019

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?"

10/13/2019

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.

09/26/2019

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!

09/17/2019

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!

04/05/2019

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!

11/08/2018

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!

11/02/2018

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!

10/19/2018

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!

09/27/2018

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!

09/13/2018

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."

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