Michael Williams, a Krieger-Eisenhower professor and chair of the philosophy department at Johns Hopkins University, launches the spring term’s Philosophy Speaker Series Thursday, April 17.
His talk, “The Structure of Epistemic Justification,” begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Schaffer Library Phi Beta Kappa Room. It is free and open to the public.
Williams received his bachelor’s from Oxford University and his doctorate from Princeton. His main areas of interest are epistemology, philosophy of language and the history of modern philosophy.
Here is a schedule of the remaining lectures in the series, which is sponsored by the Philosophy Department. All talks will be held in the Schaffer Library Phi Beta Kappa Room at 4:30 p.m.
May 1: Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame, “Kant’s First Historical Thesis”
May 15: Ernest Sosa, Brown University, “Epistemology Unified”
May 29: Michael Morreau, University of Maryland “The Straw and the Camel’s Back: Contextual Solutions to the Paradox of the Heap”
Funding for the series is provided by the Ichabod Spencer Foundation. For more information, contact Department Chair Raymond Martin at (518) 388-6376 or at martinr@union.edu