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Buddhist Metaphysics? Making the Case for Enlarging Metaphysics with Mādhyamika Philosophy, or, How Emptiness is Relevant to What There is
Audio recording of a lecture given by Pierre-Julien Harter on April 12, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “Buddhist metaphysics, especially in the Madhyamika version…
Being a Book
Video recording of a lecture delivered on February 23, 2024, by Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was…
Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was…
"A Monument Without a Tomb:" St. John's Celebrates Major Scenes from Shakespeare's First Folio
Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Alison Chapman, Charlie Barrett, Krishnan Venkatesh, & Jay Smith as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “In his preface to the…
Modernity for Fools and Knaves: Machiavelli’s Mandragola and Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Frank Pagano on March 29, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “In chapter 15 of The Prince Machiavelli famously recommends…
“The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates:" Kierkegaard on the Infinity of Socratic Irony
Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 23, 2022, by Mary Townsend as part of the Formal Lecture Series.Ms. Townsend is an assistant professor of philosophy at St. John’s University in New York. She is the author of The Woman Question in…
History and the Liberal Arts
Typescript of a lecture delivered June 5, 1953, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The typescript was printed by the St. John's College Press and sold in the college's book store around 1965.
Aristotle (An Introduction)
Typescript of a lecture delivered April 20, 1962, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The typescript is an enlarged version of the lecture that was delivered.
About Plato's Philebus
Typescript of a lecture delivered May 20, 1971, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Plato's Ion
Typescript of a lecture delivered October 1, 1972, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Speech: Its Strength and Its Weaknesses
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 23, 1973, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On Parts and Wholes in Living Things: Harvey, Descartes, and the Heartbeat
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 25, 2023, by Suzy Paalman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously disagreed in their accounts of what the heart is doing…
Ms. Paalman describes her lecture: "William Harvey and René Descartes famously disagreed in their accounts of what the heart is doing…
Frederick Douglass on Force and Persuasion
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 21, 1997, by Steven Crockett as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Finding Perspective and Staying in One’s Room: Thoughts on Several of Pascal’s Pensées and Latour’s Repentant Magdalene
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 9, 2005, by Thomas May as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
What is the Measure of Electricity?
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Howard Fisher on February 23, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “Faraday made use of numerous electrical measuring…
Being a Book
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 23, 2024, by Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was to…
Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "When the so-called New Program was established at St. John’s College in 1937, conversation was to…
What is the Measure of Electricity?
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Howard Fisher on February 23, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Faraday made use of numerous electrical measuring instruments;…
The Discovery of Entropy, 1824-1865
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on August 31, 2001, by Adam Schulman as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Ecology, Evolution, and Ontology of Elevational Ranges
Audio recording of a lecture given by Ethan Linck on February 16, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The elevational distributions of organisms have long fascinated…
Hair, Clothes, Brush: On Becoming Human in The Tale of Genji
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Patricia Locke on February 2, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "In the hothouse of courtly life in Heian Japan, people…
Cells and Genes are Parts of Animals: Aristotle in the Late 20th Century
Typescript of a lecture delivered on September 16, 1994, by James N. Jarvis as part of the Formal Lecture Series.