Executive Freedom in Descartes

Sir Anthony Kenny

We are delighted to announce that the inaugural Cottingham lecture will take place on 28th October 2021, 18:00-19:30. The speaker will be Sir Anthony Kenny, with a talk titled “Executive Freedom in Descartes”. The talk will be hosted online on Microsoft Teams. Attendance is free but booking is essential. To book your place, please follow this link: https://bit.ly/3jCJJ45

The Inaugural Cottingham Lecture is the first in an annual lecture series hosted by the philosophy department at the University of Reading in honour of John Cottingham, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Reading. Professor Cottingham was for many years Head of Department and then Director of Research and Graduate Studies in the Department. He has published over thirty books on early-modern philosophy, moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion. From 1993-2012 he was editor of the journal Ratio. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford.

Sir Anthony Kenny was born in Liverpool in 1931 and was educated at Upholland College and the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained priest in 1955 but returned to the lay state in 1963. Since then he has lived in Oxford. From 1963 to 1989 he was at Balliol College, Oxford, first as Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, and then as Master of the College. Subsequently he became Warden of Rhodes House, President of the British Academy, and Chair of the Board of the British Library. He is the author of some forty books on philosophy and history, including the four volume New History of Western Philosophy published by Oxford University Press.

Event poster: https://tinyurl.com/ff53n873 

If you have any questions about the talk, please get in touch with Michela Bariselli at [email protected].