Gilbert Harman of Princeton University will speak on “Skepticism and Foundations” in “Philosophical Fridays @ Union College” on Friday, Sept. 21, at 4:30 p.m. in Humanities 213.
His talk is the second in the Union College philosophy colloquia, a four-part series of talks by noted philosophers, all of which are Fridays at 4:30 p.m. in Humanities 213. The talks are free and open to the public.
Harman, professor of philosophy at Princeton University, is interested in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, learning theory, cognitive science, and theoretical and practical rationality. He is the author of Thought, of The Nature of Morality, of Change in View, of Reasoning, Meaning and Mind, Explaining Value, and (with Judith Jarvis Thomson) of Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity. He is editor of On Noam Chomsky and Conceptions of the Human Mind, and is co-editor with Donald Davidson of Semantics of Natural Language and of The Logic of Grammar.
Others in the series are:
– Oct. 19, Georges Dreyfus, Williams College, “The Sounds of Two Hands Clapping: Philosophical Debate in the Tibetan Scholastic Education;” and
– Oct. 26, Delia Graff, Cornell University, “Ascriptions of Desires, and Descriptions of Desires.”
For more information, call the Department of Philosophy at ext. 6376.