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President Lee C. Bollinger and Provost Alan Brinkley host this semester's University Lecture by Professor Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities, entitled "Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment" on Wednesday, October 25, at 6:15 p.m. in Low Memorial Library Rotunda.
The lecture will explore the affinities between a dissenting intellectual tradition in the seventeenth century that lamented the desacralization of matter by the new science and Gandhi's views on the disenchanting effects of modernity on nature, culture and politics with a view to raising the following large philosophical question for our own times: how might we begin to think of secular forms of re-enchanting the world?
About Professor Akeel Bilgrami:
Akeel Bilgrami received his first degree in English literature from Bombay University. He attended Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where he studied philosophy, politics and economics. Professor Bilgrami earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago on the subject of the indeterminacy of translation. He was briefly on the junior faculty of the University of Michigan prior to joining Columbia University in 1985, where he is now the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and the director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
Professor Bilgrami has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, Yale University, Australian National University, and Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has given well over a hundred lectures in universities worldwide. In addition to writing over fifty essays on subjects ranging from philosophy of language and mind to issues on the relations between politics and culture, Professor Bilgrami is the author of three books, Self-Knowledge and Resentment, Belief and Meaning and the Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity (forthcoming).
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