[SydPhil] Anderson Fellow's Lecture: Love, death and the meaning of life 17 October @ Sydney Uni

[Kristie Miller]

Dear all,

October 17 at 5.00 Natalja Deng (with Sam Shpall and Luke Russel) will be presenting the Anderson Fellow’s Lecture on Love, Death and the Meaning of Life. 
 
Einstein tried to console the parents of a close friend who had passed away by pointing out that according to the view of time provided by physics, the distinction between past, present, and future is nothing but a stubbornly persistent illusion. Meanwhile, some philosophers have argued that meaningfulness depends on life’s temporal finitude.

Can the physics or philosophy of time help us make sense of our own and other people’s mortality? Can the ways we create meaning in life inform our experience of time in turn? What is meaningfulness, anyway? Loving relationships and friendships are often said to be essential to it. But love is also quite puzzling from a philosophical perspective. Is it an emotion, or something else?  Is it inherently irrational? And which kinds of things and entities are worthy of it in the first place?

Everyone is welcome, but registration is required.

Further details on the event and how to register are at the link below. 


https://soh-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/phil-oct-17-2023/



Best


Kristie


Professor Kristie Miller
Chair of Philosophy
Joint Director, the Centre for Time
School of Humanities
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room S213, A 14 Main Quad

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Professor Kristie Miller
Chair of Discipline,
Joint Director, the Centre for Time
School of Humanities,
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room S213, A 14 Main Quad

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