Louise Antony, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will speak Thursday, April 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the Schaffer Library’s Phi Beta Kappa Room.
Antony will discuss “Intelligible Causes: A Naturalistic Approach to the Given,” as part of the Philosophy Speaker Series.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Antony works primarily in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language, mind and feminist theory. The author of dozens of journal articles, she also served as co-editor for the following anthologies: Philosophers without Gods: Mediations on Atheism and the Secular Life (Oxford University Press, 2007), Chomsky and His Critics (Blackwell, 2003) and A Mind of One’s Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, 2e (Westview, 2003).
The next lecture in the series will take place April 26 with David Velleman of New York University presenting “Artificial Agency.”
Funding for the series is provided by the Spencer-Leavitt Foundation.
For further information, please contact Raymond Martin, department chair at (518) 388-6376 or martinr@union.edu.