EGSA Digest 11.16.12

EGSA,

It goes without saying that Pumpecanfest will be such a consequential event that few other activities will be required to supplement tomorrow night’s affair, and yet I find myself needing to apologize for the length of the Digest this week. I’m sure we can expect a bit more plumpness after the holidays.

Announcements

Thanksgiving

• This shrewd holiday convinces you that you don’t really need to get serious about your seminar papers because you have three entire days off to dedicate to research. Then the break arrives and you realize it would dishonor Pilgrims, Indians, turkeys, and probably May flowers everywhere to do any work at all from 5:00pm on Tuesday to 8:00am on Monday, and you find yourself with one week to start and finish your papers.
• But anyway, Happy Thanksgiving.

Puhmp-uh-kin-fest?
Pum-pik-awn-fest?
Pum-pi-kahn-fest?
No matter how you pronounce it, experience it.

Lecture: Philosopher Charles Taylor, Tues., 27 Nov., 7:30-8:30pm, ABL Meditation Room (with a title like that, where else?)

• Somebody who really likes Charles Taylor supplied us with the following information.
• The eminent philosopher Charles Taylor will be giving the 2012 Phi Beta Kappa Albaugh Lecture on Tuesday, November 27, at 7:30 p.m. Charles Taylor, a professor of philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, has made notable contributions to the fields of political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, and the history of philosophy. A recipient of the prestigious Kyoto Prize and Templeton Prize, Taylor is the author of numerous articles and books, including: The Explanation of Behavior (1964), Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (1989), The Ethics of Authenticity (1992), Multiculturalism (1994), A Secular Age (2007), Dilemmas and Connections (2011), and the forthcoming Retrieving Realism, with Hubert Dreyfus. Taylor enjoys widespread esteem among fellow philosophers and has been called the greatest philosopher alive today.
• I’ve been called the greatest English scholar, basketball player, and EGSA secretary alive today.
• And then my wife usually walks into the bathroom and asks why I’m talking to myself in front of the mirror again.

The end. Give thanks.

Jeremy Leatham EGSA Secretary