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Colloquium with Bernard Reginster, April 9

ReginsterThe Philosophy Department Colloquium on April 9 will be a talk by Professor Bernard Reginster, Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.

Professor Reginster’s research focuses on issues in ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, as well as on philosophical issues arising from psychoanalytic psychiatry. He has written many articles on Nietzsche’s ethical thought, and a book, The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism (Harvard Press, 2006). He has also written on 19th century ethics, on the thought of Schopenhauer, Freud, and Sartre, as well as on themes in contemporary psychoanalytic psychiatry. He is currently working on two books, The Will to Nothingness: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality and The Elusiveness of Fulfillment: The Ethical Thought of Arthur Schopenhauer.

Professor Reginster studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and Münster (Germany), as well as music at the Académies of Uccle and Bouillon (Belgium). He earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He is the recipient of a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship, Princeton University Center for Human Values (1997), a National Humanities Center Fellowship (2000), a Faculty Fellowship from the Brown Cogut Center for the Humanities (2007), and an Erikson Scholarship from the Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center (2010). He also received a John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities from Brown University, and a Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Research Fellowship from the Brown’s Pembroke Center (2007), where he directed the Pembroke Seminar in 2007-08. He is currently Chair of the Brown Philosophy Department, Director of the Brown program for Ethical Inquiry, and a member of the Council of Scholars for the Erikson Institute.

Wednesday, April 9
5:00 PM
Knight Library Browsing Room

Everyone is welcome.

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