Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Krasnow Building, Lecture Room, #229
Join us for the Thelma Z. Lavine Memorial Lecture with Professor John J. McDermott, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities and holder of the Melbern G. Glasscock Endowed Chair in the Humanities at at Texas A&M University.
Professor McDermott will present "Connected Emptiness: The Erosion of Face-to-Face Pedagogy."
The presentation will be held in the Krasnow Institute Building, Lecture Room, #229 from 5:00-6:00pm on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Reception and hors d'oeuvres will follow in the Great Room.
McDermott has been teaching for more than sixty years, concentrating on the philosophy of culture, of literature, of medicine and classical American philosophy. In addition to books and essays on matters philosophical, educational and aesthetic, McDermott was the General Editor of the Critical Edition of The Correspondence of William James. His most recent collection of essays The Drama of Possibility: Experience as Philosophy of Culture. McDermott has been the recipient of many teaching awards, notably the National Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching (1969), the Presidential Professor Award for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University (2004), and the Piper Professor award for outstanding scholarly and academic achievement (2005).
Thelma Z. Lavine (1915-2011) was a Clarence J. Robinson Professor Emerita of Philosophy and American Culture. She taught at Mason from 1985 to 1998, and before that at George Washington University. She was the author of “From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest,” which grew out of a series of lectures on that subject presented on Maryland Public Television. Lavine was a highly respected, widely published scholar in the field of philosophy and was president of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 1992–94. Her extremely popular classes were renowned for combining the disciplines of philosophy, economics, history, sociology and American culture.
Sponsored by Department of Philosophy and The Robinson Professors.
