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Understanding Anscombe’s Absolutism: or a Strategy for Recovering a Sense that Some Acts are Always and Everywhere Wrong

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A lecture by Prof. Marshall Bierson (The Catholic University of America)

Thursday, October 2

6:00 PM

Location TBD

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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About the speaker:

Marshall Bierson is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America. His research centers on the intersection of ethics and philosophical anthropology. He is particularly focused on the work of Elizabeth Anscombe and in exploring how her Thomisticly inflected philosophical psychology clarifies moral absolutes.

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