Workshop on the Philosophy of Literature

The Department of Philosophy at the University of York is pleased to announce that a workshop on the Philosophy of Literature will be held at King’s Manor (York City Centre) on the afternoon of Wednesday 8 June.

Speakers:

1.30 pm: Peter Lamarque (Philosophy, University of York): “Beauty and Time in Shakespeare's Sonnets”

3.00 pm: Eileen John (Philosophy, University of Warwick): “Emily Dickinson and the Work of Human Reasoning”

4.30 pm: Joshua Landy (French, Comparative Literature & Co-Director, Philosophy and Literature Program, Stanford University): “To Thine Own Selves be True-ish: Shakespeare’s Hamlet as Formal Model”