Title: “Belonging to the Future by Changing the Past” Abstract: This talk was sparked by my recently reading Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus for the first time since high school. I’d never forgotten the first two sentences: “There is but one truly serious … Read more
Pizza will be available after the talk, so stick around! This event satisfies a CLE credit. *The venue for this event has a max capacity of 91; once the room has filled, no one else will be allowed entry, so … Read more
There will be pizza after the event q&a, so stick around! This is event is free and open to the public. Abstract: The Politics of Self-Destruction explores Rousseau’s idea that people in commercial societies are on an endless quest … Read more
This event is an open, public lecture in collaboration with Public Policy, to be followed by Q&A. This event satisfies a CLE credit. Pizza is available after the talk, so stick around! Abstract: Years of life lost (YLL) is … Read more
Title: Transparency, Self-Knowledge, and the Sociality of Belief Abstract: Several prominent accounts of our knowledge of our own beliefs appeal to the transparency of the question "Do you believe that p?" to the question "Is p true?": we typically answer the former … Read more
This is a free lecture, open to the public, with Q&A to follow! Pizza will be provided after the event, so stick around! Abstract: What did it mean to be a traitor in seventeenth-century England? Over the course of … Read more
Title: The Background Virtues Abstract: When you read this sentence, you're looking at black letters that make up the words. But you're also looking at a white background that is both necessary for and implied by those black letters. Taking this … Read more
Christian Miller, Wake Forest University January 31, 2024 | 5:30PM | James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in Graham Memorial, 039 This event was rescheduled from a cancelation in September 2023. “What is Honesty, Are Most People Honest, … Read more
Abstract: Since 2016, there has been a dramatic erosion of support for establishment candidates and parties in favor of populist and even anti-system ones in many countries. Why? Ian Shapiro will answer that question, explain why many proposed remedies … Read more
