Dear Prof Marenbon, This sounds absolutely wonderful !! I am abroad right now and will be back in Cambridge by the end of the week: I will not miss your sessions from next week on.
Thank you for taking this great initiative. Best Wishes, Claudia Sent from my iPhone On 13 Jan 2014, at 05:00, [email protected] wrote: > Send phil-events mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/phil-events > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of phil-events digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Invitation to a banquet (John Marenbon) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:48:35 -0000 > From: "John Marenbon" <[email protected]> > Subject: [CamPhilEvents] Invitation to a banquet > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > A banquet, moreover, where there is no risk of putting on weight, and no > cost except perhaps many of your preconceptions about the history of > philosophy. > > > > This year a new paper has been introduced into the Philosophy Tripos, > 'Philosophy in the Long Middle Ages'. A wonderful group of texts has been > set, on two themes, and I shall run a seminar on each of them every week > (Tuesdays, 2.00 - 3.30: Universals; Thursdays, 2.00 - 3.30 Mind and Body), > starting this Thursday, 16 January. But, though the tables are laid, and the > waiter (myself) is at the ready, no one has turned up, and there is every > danger that the delicacies will be left to rot: that is to say, no > undergraduates, at least so far, have signed up to do the exam this year. > That is why I am sending out this Invitation, to a broader range of > graduates and more senior scholars, in and out of the faculty. I would > hesitate to advertise my own teaching, but these are seminars, based around > texts, and the value of the occasions depends, not on me, but on the texts > themselves and those who come. So please consider doing so. Each series of > seminars is independent of the other, and although there will be a > continuity between seminars in each series, I shall try and arrange them so > that someone who can only attend some will still be able to understand them > and profit from coming. The absence of students taking an examination means > that the seminars can be more flexible than otherwise in taking account of > the particular interests of those who come along. > > > > You can see the details of the set texts, around which, in principle, the > course will be structured at > http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/curr-students/II/II-outlines-reading-lists/paper5- > longmiddleages/view (download PDF). But please remember that (a) you will > not be expected to have read anything at the first seminar in each series; > (b) we have some room for variation in the course; (c) some of the set texts > are too long for us to study in detail, and I shall be proposing shorter > sections of them on which to concentrate. > > > > John Marenbon ([email protected]) > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/attachments/20140112/2130a52a/attachment.html > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________________ > Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or > change your membership options, please visit the list > information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents > > Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive > > End of phil-events Digest, Vol 28, Issue 4 > ****************************************** _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
