Internationally renowned philosopher Richard Rorty will speak as part of the Truax Lecture Series in Philosophy on Monday, March 1. His lecture, "Moral Absolutism and Torture" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.
Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, of Philosophy, at Stanford University. Rorty received his BA from the University of Chicago, and continued his education at Yale, where he earned his Ph.D. He has instructed courses at Yale University, Army, Wellesley College, University of Virginia, and Stanford University, and has lectured at Berkeley, University College London, and Harvard, to name a few. His most important works are Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, and Philosophy and Social Hope. Rorty has made great contributions to postmodern philosophy as a defender for post-modernist thought, and, over the last 25 years, has been vital to the renaissance of American Pragmatist thought.
The Truax Lecture Series was established in the mid-1950's by R. Hawley Truax, class of 1909, in memory of his father, Chauncey S. Truax, who was a member of the class of 1875 and also served on the Hamilton College Board of Trustees from 1899 to 1906. The Truax lecture series recognizes distinguished guest philosophers or lecturers in the field of philosophy.
