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- Collection: St. John's College Lecture Transcripts—Santa Fe
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Kant's grounding of a dual metaphysics
Transcript of a lecture given on February 8, 2017 by James Carey as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
"We shall be monsters" : Frankenstein and the ugliness of enlightenment
Transcript of a lecture given on March 2, 2018 by Jeff J.S. Black as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
On teachers and students : Heidegger in America
Transcript of a lecture given on September 21, 2018 by Michael Gillespie as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Truths about quantum mechanics
Transcript of a lecture given on November 30, 2018 by Bernhardt Trout as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concern Series.
Recognizing Odysseus
Transcript of a lecture given on February 1, 2019 by Margaret Kirby as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Returning to Lucretius
Transcript of a lecture given on April 5, 2019 by Thomas Nail as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Reconciling subjectivity and substance : Hegel's critique of pure personhood
Transcript of a lecture given on September 6, 2019 by Jonathan Hand as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Meet your new best friend : the square root of negative one
Transcript of a lecture given on September 11, 2019 by Grant Franks as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Trigonometric interpretation of complex numbers
Transcript of a lecture given on September 17, 2019 by Grant Franks.
Constructible numbers
Transcript of a lecture given on September 24, 2019 by Grant Franks.
The pentagon and the heptagon
Transcript of a lecture given on October 1, 2019 by Grant Franks.
The heptadecagon
Transcript of a lecture given on October 8, 2019 by Grant Franks.
The phenomenology of blackness
Transcript of a lecture given on November 22, 2019 by Michael Sawyer as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Maxwell reads Faraday
Transcript of a lecture given on April 24, 2020 by Howard Fisher as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Incommensurability : Meno and the diagonal
Transcript of a lecture given on October 21, 2020 by Cary Stickney as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Can beautiful speeches give rise to beautiful deeds? Please join the SJC…
The magnificent pendulums
Transcript of a lecture given on November 18, 2020 by Howard Fisher as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "With Galileo, we learn to understand the two natural motions by reducing…
Learning to love Lincoln : Frederick Douglass's journey from grievance to gratitude
Transcript of a lecture given on December 4, 2020 by Diana Schaub as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Having originally been a severe critic of Abraham Lincoln, the radical…
The Qur'an : an introduction for Johnnies
Transcript of a lecture given on June 16, 2021 by Ken Wolfe as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Wolfe provided this description of the event: "In this introduction to the Qur'an, I will explore the context of its composition…
What would Kepler say to Einstein?
Transcript of a lecture given on November 5, 2021 by William Donahue as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Einstein once wrote that there is little value, other than the…
Faraday's Galvanometer
Transcript of a lecture given on February 22, 2023 by Howard Fisher as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Today we think of the galvanometer as a device that measures electric…