3 December 2014, 18.00
(drinks and nibbles from 17.30)
Ashmolean Museum, Education Centre
(nearest entrance from St. Giles).
Free – All welcome – no booking required.
Events get busy so please arrive early to secure a seat.
Organised by the Oxford Brookes University branch of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, in Association with Bloomsbury Philosophy.
Abstract
Poetry and philosophy have an ancient quarrel. This is something of a luxury now, when mention of either would disperse a crowd quicker than a fire-hose. The truth is that each has a great deal to offer the other, even where the antipathies are greatest (with analytic philosophy), or so this talk invites you to consider. There will be no higher theory, just some close attention to a handful of poems—by Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Geoffrey Hill.
Bio
Maximilian de Gaynesford, formerly Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College Oxford, is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He has published books on the philosophy of mind and language (I: The Meaning of the First Person Term 2006) and on contemporary Anglo-American philosophy (John McDowell 2004; Hilary Putnam 2006). His work has focused for some time on improving the ways poetry and (analytic) philosophy relate.