Christopher S. Hill to Give Department of Philosophy 2018 Kraemer Lecture

The Department of Philosophy in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is proud to present the 2018 Kraemer Lecturer, Christopher S. Hill, the William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, who will give this year's lecture titled "The Perceiving Mind and the Objective World" at 7 p.m. Friday, April 20, in GRAD 166.

Christopher S. Hill received his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard in 1973. Hill was University Professor at the University of Arkansas and has also taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Michigan, and MIT. His main fields of specialization are philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. Hill is the author of numerous papers and four books: Sensations (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Thought and World (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Meaning, Mind, and Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2014) is a collection of papers, half previously published and half new.

He has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center and has held a variety of fellowships from the NEH. He is a past editor of the journal Philosophical Topics and is currently an associate editor of Nous. He has co-edited two free-standing volumes: New Perspectives on Type Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2012), with Simone Gozzano, and Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness (MIT Press, 2014), with David Bennett.

The Kraemer Lectures commemorate William S. Kraemer, who was chair of the Department of Philosophy from 1953-1976. The annual Kraemer lecture is a public lecture that presents cutting-edge research by a major philosopher to a wide audience. This year we are fortunate to have professor Chris Hill of Brown University, formerly of the University of Arkansas.