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- Collection: St. John's College Formal Lecture Series—Annapolis
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Old and New Testament in American Grand Strategy
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 7, 2018, by Karl Walling as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On Becoming Free
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on February 10, 1995, by Annapolis tutor Steven Crockett as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On Complex Numbers
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December, 09, 1983 by Samuel S. Kutler as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On Copernicus
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December 6, 1967, by Jacob Klein as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On knowing how and knowing what
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on September 17, 1976 by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On knowing how and knowing what
Typescript of a lecture delivered on September 17, 1976 by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On Motion
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 24, 2023, by Leah Lasell as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Lasell describes her lecture: "The new science of motion presented in the last two days of The Two New Sciences is Galileo's last word in…
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…
On Scepticism and the Unhappy Consciousness in Hegel
Audio recording of a lecture delivered by John Russon on September 21, 2018 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On the Discovery of Deductive Science
Typescript of a lecture given on September 14, 1973, by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. The lecture was also published in The College, volume XXXI, number 2 (January 1980), pages 21-31.
On the discovery of deductive science
Audio recording of a lecture given on September 14, 1973 by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On the Imagination
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on November 18, 1977, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
The first few sentences of Brann's lecture are cut off by recording problems, just after the word, "Tonight." In Brann's lecture…
The first few sentences of Brann's lecture are cut off by recording problems, just after the word, "Tonight." In Brann's lecture…
On the Originals of Fictive Mental Images
Video recording of a lecture delivered by Annapolis tutor Eva Brann on September 3, 2021 as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Ms. Brann describes her lecture: "Most people have 'mental images,' pictures and voices that don't occur through the…
Ms. Brann describes her lecture: "Most people have 'mental images,' pictures and voices that don't occur through the…
On the origins of celestial dynamics: Kepler and Newton
Typescript of a lecture given on May 07, 1971 by Curtis Wilson as part of the Formal Lecture Series. (A revised version, originally entitled "Kepler, Newton and Planetary Motion”.)
On the relation between philosophy and religion
Revised version of a lecture delivered on October 28, 1988 by Laurence Berns as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On Thomas More's Utopia
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on May 5, 1972, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On Thomas More's Utopia
Typescript of a lecture delivered on May 5, 1972, by Eva Brann as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
On Thucydides
Audio recording of a lecture delivered on January 15, 2016, by Santa Fe tutor Caleb Thompson as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Thompson says of his lecture: "Thucydides writes that during the horrors of the civil war in Corcyra, 'Words had to…
Thompson says of his lecture: "Thucydides writes that during the horrors of the civil war in Corcyra, 'Words had to…
On Written Speech
Typescript of a lecture delivered on February 7, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Mary Elizabeth Halper as part of the Formal Lecture Series. Ms. Halper offers this description: "There are two kinds of speech: the speech we speak and the speech we read. This…
Our Polity
Video recording of a lecture delivered on August 28, 2020 by Joseph Macfarland as part of the Formal Lecture Series. First formal lecture of the academic year, previously referred to as the "Dean's Lecture", but now called the "Christopher B. Nelson…