TRANSHUMANISM AND DEATH Led by Dr. Charles Rubin This event is a part of the Witherspoon Forum, a program which provides a space for high school students who are serious about their studies to discuss foundational questions of human existence and contemporary cultural issues in dialogue with their peers and Witherspoon’s seminar leaders. To attend, […]

Graduate Seminar on Pragmatism Led by Brandon Van Dyck This seminar will explore the most important philosophical tradition of American origin: pragmatism. We will discuss how our perceptions and language relate to objective reality, how ignorant we are of objective reality, and how we should reason and behave in light of our ignorance. We will […]

Enchantment and Fairy-Stories Led by R.J. Snell Among some, there is a mood and call for re-enchantment of world and imagination, largely as a response to the loss of the sense of the sacred and radical immanentizing of our lives. This may or may not be a good idea: the classic 1947 Tolkien essay, “On […]

Natural Law Theory Seminar Led by Matthew X. Wilson, R.J. Snell, and Robert P. George What is “New Natural Law Theory,” and are there “old” natural law theories that came before it? Does “natural law” merely consist of assigning moral weight to empirically-observable laws of nature? What is natural law’s place in the relationship between […]

Aristotelian Reading Group Led by Sebastian Hayden A line-by-line reading of selected sections of the Nicomachean Ethics. No previous study of Aristotle needed, and reading prior to the seminar is not required. A light breakfast will be provided. All Princeton undergraduate or graduate students are warmly invited.

TRANSHUMANISM AND DEATH Led by Dr. Charles Rubin This event is a part of the Witherspoon Forum, a program which provides a space for high school students who are serious about their studies to discuss foundational questions of human existence and contemporary cultural issues in dialogue with their peers and Witherspoon’s seminar leaders. To attend, […]