Peter Baumann to Deliver Gillespie Lecture at The College of Wooster

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April 8, 2005

WOOSTER, Ohio - Peter Baumann, the Gillespie Visiting Professor of Philosophy at The College of Wooster, will present "Is Politics a Dirty Business? Moral Dilemmas and the Relation between Morality and Politics" on Tuesday, April 26, in Room 105 of Scovel Hall (944 College Mall). The free public lecture begins at 8 p.m. A dessert reception will precede the event at 7:30 p.m.

Baumann, who earned his Ph.D. from Goettingen University in Germany, specializes in epistemology and theories of practical rationality. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Philosophy of Science Association, the Aristotelian Society, the European Society for Analytic Philosophy, the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, the European Institute for International Affairs, and a variety of other organizations. He co-edited Practical Conflicts in 2002 and was a recipient of the Feodor Lynen Research Grant of the Alexander con Humboldt Stiftung from 1993-1995 and in the summer of 1997. He also received the Post-Doctoral grant at the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Hamburg from 1995-1996, and the School Research Funding Award from the University of Aberdeen in 2004. He has held several other visiting professorships in the United States, including one at Swarthmore between 2000-2002.

The Gillespie Visiting Professorship was endowed in 1958 by Miss Mabel Lindsay Gillespie of Pittsburgh, Pa., in memory of her parents, Anna Randolph Darlington Gillespie and David Lindsay Gillespie. This endowment brings to Wooster each academic year a professor from outside the United States, taking the place of some member of the faculty who is on a research or sabbatical leave. In recognition of the long tie with Scotland that The College of Wooster has had from its founding, the professorship will normally be held by a member of one of the Scottish universities.

For additional information about the lecture, please call 330-263-2380.