St Joan of Arc Chapel

The Marquette University

The Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

is pleased to host visiting

Prof. Sean D. Kirkland

DePaul University

presenting

“The Ontological Weariness of Natural Beings in Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics”

3:30 pm Thursday 12 April 2018

Raynor Library 320a

Video recording, click HERE.

Associated handout, click HERE.

Biographical information

     Sean D. Kirkland is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University. His areas of specialization are Ancient Greek Philosophy and 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy. He has published on the Pre-Socratics, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as on Greek tragedy and such thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. His first book was The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato’s Early Dialogues, and he is currently at work on a book-length manuscript tentatively titled ‘Tragic Temporality in Aristotle.’