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Lectures focus on 'Surviving Death,' May 9-11
Posted April 25, 2006; 02:35 p.m.
"Surviving Death" is the theme of three lectures by Princeton philosopher Mark Johnston scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, May 9-11, in 101 McCormick Hall.
Johnston's
lecture topics are: "The Uses and Abuses of Heaven," May 9; "The Self
as Dreamt by the Objects," May 10; and "A New Refutation of Death," May
11.
Johnston is the Walter Cerf *41 Professor of Philosophy. His
areas of interest include ethics, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and
philosophical logic.
The talks are designated as the philosophy
department's Hempel Lectures, in honor of the renowned philosopher of
science and longtime Princeton faculty member Carl Hempel, who died in
1997.