What is the Measure of Electricity?
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Electricity</a>
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 instruments; but what, exactly, did they measure? What properties of electricity are “measurable” at all? Faraday’s efforts to identify these properties raised a question which Meno would have recognized: how can we know the properties of electricity unless we first know what electricity actually is?”
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2024-02-23
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Ecology, Evolution, and Ontology of Elevational Ranges
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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 scientists, an interest that has burgeoned with expectations of upslope movement of species in response to climate warming. Yet tests of this hypothesis have produced conflicting results, perhaps due to varied approaches and assumptions. In this lecture I will explore the historical roots of the concept of the elevational range in ecology and evolutionary biology, highlighting how it has been treated as both a byproduct of other phenomena and an object of study in its own right. I will then argue that this divide has created ontological and statistical issues for the field, and suggest areas for improvement."
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2024-02-16
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Hair, Clothes, Brush: On Becoming Human in The Tale of Genji
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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 cultivated themselves and their relationships through deliberate attention to hair, clothes and the aesthetic realm dominated by arts of the brush: calligraphy, painting, and poetry. What can the material aspects of their highly refined lives tell us about becoming human? What is it to be members of a species immersed in our environment, yet able to affectively distance ourselves enough to create and sustain poetic meaning? Genji, the radiant and accomplished prince, paradoxically devoted himself to both amorous adventures and religious rituals. He caused heartache in his sometimes violent encounters, yet he suffused the world with beauty wherever he appeared. Through practices of reading and writing aligned with The Tale of Genji, we are invited to participate in becoming more attuned to loveliness and suffering, invited to become more fully human."
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2024-02-02
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Evils in Our Midst: A Close Reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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Audio recording of a lecture given by Jeffrey Stout on December 8, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "What is the movie about? Does the title contain an allusion? When is the story set? What film genres are at work and why? Why are there two Charlies? How did Uncle Charlie and his sister become so close? Why are there so many soldiers in town? What do the Freudian symbols and the biblical quotation mean? Was Hitchcock rejecting or affirming his Catholic upbringing and Jesuit schooling? Was he an amoralist or a moralist?"
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2023-12-08
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On Aristotle's Hypothetical Method in De Anima
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Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Jacques Duvoisin on December 1, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "To understand Aristotle’s remark that there is no thinking without an image, it is necessary to consider the mode of his argument in De Anima and elsewhere. If we suppose that he is exploring a hypothesis -- if we accept that, we must also accept this -- and inviting us to join him in it, we may find a result that is both unsettling and oddly compelling, but also one we cannot easily dispense with. It seems strange to say that all modes of thinking, including the thinking we might attribute to the gods must involve an image. This means we have to develop a keen sense of the context of the remark, and this will entail attending to its argumentative mode. This reflection will nudge us toward recognizing both a physiological and a political dimension to Aristotle’s theory of the soul."
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2023-12-01
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The Gorgias Nothings: Dickinson, Plato and the Philosophical Blues
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.</a>
Audio recording of a lecture given by Fred Moten on November 3, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lectura & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has proviced this description of the event: "We will conduct a paraphilological thought experiment in which we look for traces of Gorgias’ lost work, On Nature or the Non-Existent, in the folds of Emily Dickinson’s envelopes. Perhaps our findings will provide some occasion to celebrate and cultivate the mystical, poetical, and sophistical field that causes (so much trouble for) philosophy."
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2023-11-03
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The Oresteia and Attic Tragedy
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Greek drama (Tragedy)</a>
Audio recording of a lecture given by Joshua Billings on October 20, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The lecture will discuss the only surviving ancient tragic trilogy, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, as an example of the genre. It will discuss formal features of Attic tragedy and the genre’s historical development with an eye to understanding Aeschylus’ astonishing stagecraft and ambitious dramatic vision."
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2023-10-20
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Man, Woman, and the Wholeness of the Human: A Biblical and Platonic Account
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Plato. Symposium
</a>
Audio recording of a lecture given by Ronna Burger on October 6, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “And God created Adam in His own image . . . male and female created He them.” The primordial, androgynous human in Genesis 1 is subsequently divided into two partial beings, man and woman; their punishment for violating the first divine prohibition explains the reality of life as we know it. This biblical narrative has a remarkable resonance with a Platonic account—Aristophanes’ speech on eros in the Symposium: each of the original, whole humans who rebel against the gods is split by a divine punishment into two partial beings, always longing for their missing half. What can we learn, from these parallel texts, about the understanding of the human condition in the two roots of the West, Jerusalem and Athens?"
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2023-10-06
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Wallace Stevens and Our Redemption Through Poetry
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Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Lin Atnip on September 29, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “After one has abandoned a belief in god, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.” — So writes Wallace Stevens, a giant of American modernist poetry, in one of his aphoristic “adagia.” In this lecture we will attempt to understand what he meant, or might have meant, in this odd and perhaps disturbing formulation. What is the role of poetry in our contemporary world, at turns banal and catastrophe-ridden? We will seek our answer through consideration of some of Stevens’ other prose writings and, of course, his poetry -- and maybe, if successful, find a little redemption."
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2023-09-29
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Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence
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Audio recording of a panel given by tutor David McDonald, Curtis Johnson, Patrick Anderson, and Benjamin Scott on September 22, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: The public availability of chat-enabled AI tools has stirred apprehension, excitement, and speculation. Our four panelists, David McDonald (SF93, Tutor), Curtis Johnson (SF89, Sandia National Laboratories), Patrick Anderson (SF MALA20 and MAEC22, Substack author on technology) and Benjamin Scott (SF25, current student) will provide starting points for a conversation about machine intelligence, what it is, what it is not, and the ramifications of its use. Among the interests of the panelists are: the limits of AI human-language interfaces for high-stakes applications; the possibilities for AIassistance in creativity; the relation of generative AI to the original human works from which it derives; and the significance of ‘low-tech’ education in an era of increasing automation.
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Johnson, Curtis
Anderson, Patrick
Scott, Benjamin</a>
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2023-09-22
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Play and Playfulness in Plato
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Play.</a>
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Richard McCombs on September 1, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: Plato thinks the serious person has need of much playfulness, and his dialogues describe many things as play that we might deem to be serious matters, for example, education, religious rites, philosophical inquiry, and books. The Athenian Stranger in the Laws even says that “we should live playing.” Despite his judgment that play has great worth, Plato did not publish an inquiry into its essence. This lecture attempts to explain Plato’s thought on what play is, its value, and how it can serve or be part of seriousness.
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2023-09-01
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A Timely Untimely Education
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Audio recording of a lecture given by Dean Sarah Davis on August 25, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: “I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.” Nietzsche opens “The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life” with this quote from Goethe. It appropriately frames Nietzsche’s own meditation, which does not just walk us through different ways to relate to the past, giving us a schema for making sense of history, but invigorates and leads to a quickening within us. But how? This lecture investigates Nietzsche’s claim that the “excess of history” in modern times compromises the health and vitality of human life. It then considers “The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life” itself as presenting an alternative way to relate to history. Finally, it asks how, if at all, this alternative informs a St. John’s education.
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2023-08-25
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Second Thoughts about Shakespeare's As You Like It
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Audio recording of a lecture given by Grant Franks on June 14, 2023, as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. The Graduate Institute provided this description of the event: "As You Like It is a much-loved fixture in the Shakespearean canon, generally staged as a joyous woodland rom-com. However, if one dares to look a little more closely, – as the sophomore seminar that I co-lead did recently – doubts begin to surface. The seeming frivolity of action is dogged by questions. Why does a light comedy include patches of morose darkness like those in Jaques’s much-acclaimed “Seven Ages of Man” speech? Is Touchstone really a “touchstone” in any genuine sense, or is his suggestive name just meaningless fluff? In the romantic Forest of Arden, populated by shepherds speaking blank verse, why do Rosalind and Orlando conduct their offbeat courtship entirely in prose? Most importantly, why is the major plot tension of Act I – namely, the murderous sibling rivalries of Orlando and Olivier and of the two dukes – virtually ignored during the middle of the play and then casually, almost carelessly, disappeared in Act V?
This lecture will not explain everything, but it aims to outline some interesting ways to puzzle over As You Like It.
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2023-06-14
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On the Biblical, Geometrical, Political Mind: A Panel in Honor of Bob Sacks
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Audio recording of a tutor panel given by tutors Seth Appelbaum, Phil LeCuyer, April Olsen and Ken Wolfe on March 10, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Robert Sacks, a long-time tutor and one of the College’s most original and esteemed thinkers, was mentored by and became a colleague of Jacob Klein and Leo Strauss—two of the intellectual giants who helped establish the College’s stature and the Program of study we all share. Please join us for a panel discussion to mark both Mr. Sacks’s recent ninety-first birthday and the publication of his book Three Wells: Essays and Lectures on the Biblical, Political, Geometrical Mind. Panelists Seth Applebaum, April Olsen, Phil LeCuyer and Ken Wolfe will discuss essays from this book, as well as other topics in Mr. Sacks’ thinking over many years."
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LeCuyer, Phillip
Olsen, April D.
Wolfe, Kenneth</a>
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2023-05-10
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A Clearing in the Forest: Heidegger’s Thinking
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. The Question Concerning Technology.</a>
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Frank Hunt on May 3, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The lecture uses Heidegger’s 1966 “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking” in an attempt to elucidate his assertion in the final section of “The Question Concerning Technology” that the essence of technology 'harbors in itself the saving power.'"
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2023-05-03
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“‘Justice,’ or ‘Just’ Speech?: How Philosophy Conceives its Limit, from Plato through Kant, Hegel, and Arendt
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Plato. Republic</a>
Audio recording of a lecture given by Claudia Brodsky on April 28, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, of all the abstract ideas that actively orient, ground (or upend) the practical lives and histories of human beings, the inherently relational notion of “justice” is perhaps the most difficult to define. “Justice” names a relation of equivalence between two otherwise unrelated actions or things. Necessarily comparing -- “weighing” or “taking the measure” – of one “side” of a relation it has itself to invent, the identity of “justice” remains two-sided or equivocal in more than one literal sense. As first demonstrated in Plato’s Republic, any attempt to define the identity of “justice” – most important of all “Ideas” according to the inventor of these, and with them, philosophy itself -- must engage not only separate identities but distinct semantic fields: the ideational or theoretical and the concrete or practical. The thesis of this paper is that, in posing the question of the definition of “justice,” Socrates not only opens up the semantic division within language between the abstract and the concrete, but transforms a dialectical dialogue that might have instead come to be entitled Δικαίoσύνη into the hypothetical account of a mechanically synched (or “ad-justed”) state. There will also be brief related discussions of Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Arendt and J. L. Austin."
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2023-04-28
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Alternating Current
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Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879</a>
Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Howard Fisher on April 26, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The technology of alternating current was developed almost entirely in response to the emerging demands of large-scale power generation and transmission. Perhaps for that reason, educational institutions tend to treat it as a subject of practical rather than theoretical interest: alternating current is studied extensively in engineering schools, more perfunctorily in physics departments. But alternating current reveals a number of perplexing electrical phenomena that carry deep theoretical significance. Maxwell understood these phenomena through several remarkable analogies, couched in a highly metaphorical terminology that later generations viewed with suspicion and disdain. Maxwell, though, understood that analogy and metaphor are the most intellectually responsible forms of expression when we are reaching towards theories that lie, as yet, beyond our grasp."
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2023-04-26
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Draupadī on the Walls of Troy: Reabduction Narratives in Two Indo-European Epics, the Iliad and the Mahābhārata
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Homer. Iliad.</a>
Audio recording of a lecture given by Stephanie Jamison on April 21, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "A curious episode in Iliad, the Teikhoskopia (viewing from the wall), in which Helen is asked by her father-in-law Priam to identify the Greek warriors massed below the wall, is compared with another reabduction narrative in Indo-European epic, involving Draupadī, the wife of the five heroes of the Mahābhārata. The two episodes contain a remarkably similar network of incidents, which, furthermore, make sense within the larger Indic cultural paradigm. These close similarities shed light on the corresponding scene in the Iliad, which has long posed a problem in Homeric studies."
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2023-04-21
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The Concept of Truth in the Book of Genesis
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Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor Phil LeCuyer on April 14, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Join tutor Phil LeCuyer for a lecture on the Book of Genesis with a focus on Chapter 24."
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2023-04-14
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Duns Scotus’s Modal Argument for the Existence of God - An Introduction
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Audio recording of a lecture given by tutor James Carey on April 12, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 –1308) was a Franciscan friar and theologian so renowned for his logical acumen and ingenuity that he early on acquired the appellation “the subtle doctor.” His argument for the existence of God is not nearly as well-known as are the arguments of Anselm (c. 1033–1109) and Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), though it is held by some to be the most powerful of them all. Scotus’s argument is “modal” in that it turns on the concepts of possibility, actuality, and necessity. It does not rely on the claims of revelation; and it does not rely on an Aristotelian theory of motion either. Scotus’ argument is complex. And it is long too, occupying in one version, On the First Principle (De Primo Principio), some 70 pages of tight reasoning and concentrated, technical prose. My lecture is only an introduction, and it presupposes no prior familiarity with Scotus. I presented an earlier version of this lecture here in 2015. Some faculty heard it, though few, if any, current students. Sophomores, in particular, might find it of interest."
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2023-04-12
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