Philosophy of Popular Culture: Skepticism, Care, and Ordinary Life – A Lecture by Sandra Laugier

Join us for a lecture by Sandra Laugier, Professor of Philosophy, Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Scientific deputy director at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS, Institut des sciences humaines et sociales) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Laugier has written extensively on J. L. Austin and L. Wittgenstein and several aspects of American philosophy to French readers (Emerson, Thoreau, Quine, ordinary language philosophy, above all Stanley Cavell). She writes a column for Libération (http://www.liberation.fr/auteur/6377-sandra-laugier). Her recent work focuses on moral philosophy, the ethics of care and everyday life, feminism and aesthetics, especially the themes of scepticism, popular culture, and ordinary life in and out of cinema and in social media.

This lecture is presented as part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar at Boston University, 2017-2018, "Humanities and Technology at the Crossroads: Where Do We Go From Here?" It is co-sponsored by the French Consulate of Boston and the Center for the Study of Europe. More info:http://mellon.philemerge.com/october-23-24-2017/