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Come hear Jay Elliott, a fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, tell us how virtue works. His talk is this Thursday, 4 p.m., in Main 203. All are welcome!

Students may have seen that I will be teaching a PHIL 4900 Special Topics Seminar this spring (MWF 1:30-2:20).  The course will be geared to philosophy majors and will be run as a seminar.  Our topic will be Aristotle.  I am still sorting out the specific readings, but I expect we will read selections from Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Physics, Ethics, and Politics.

* Modification:  I have ordered the Metaphysics, Physics, Nicomachean Ethics, and De Anima (On the Soul). *

We determined last night that, YES, beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder, and, YES, humans do have souls. I’m not entirely sure about this, but it looks like Aristotle is so far the only philosopher consistent with our results!

In a cheerful voice, turned out in a magenta tie and a blue boating blazer with broad white stripes, Tallis informs 60 people gathered in a Kent lecture hall that his talk will demolish two “pillars of unwisdom.” The first, “neuromania,” is the notion that to understand people you must peer into the “intracranial darkness” of their skulls with brain-scanning technology. The second, “Darwinitis,” is the idea that Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory can explain not just the origin of the human species—a claim Tallis enthusiastically accepts—but also the nature of human behavior and institutions.

The rest of the article here.

Just a reminder: we return to the oracle of Logan Lanes on this Monday, October 17th, at 7 p.m.