Rhode Island Philosophical Society
Spring Meeting
CCRI
April 6, 2002

We are extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Bernard Reginster, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, will be our featured speaker. Professor Reginster completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Louvain in 1984. He was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He has taught at Brown University since 1994 and was appointed Associate Professor in 2001. His research interests are ethics, moral psychology, and 19^th and 20^th-century continental philosophy. Dr. Reginster’s current work includes themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy; conceptions of the self in 20^th century French philosophy; and virtue in 19^th century German philosophy.

His published works include articles on ethics and Nietzsche’s philosophy, as well as two books: Nietzsche. L’Oeil et l’Abîme (Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 1986) and forthcoming from Harvard University Press, The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism. Professor Reginster’s paper, Nihilism and the Affirmation of Life, presents an overview of Nietzsche’s philosophical project. It touches upon, directly or indirectly, several interrelated themes that together constitute a problem-set (French, problématique) of broad philosophical interest: a prominent and controversial motif (nihilism) in 19^th and 20^th-century continental philosophy; fundamental issues in ethics; existential and psychological dimensions of meaning and value; and the contemporary cultural and ethical significance of Nietzsche’s general philosophical project. Given its thematic complexity and philosophical implications, Professor Reginster’s paper promises to evoke a lively and stimulating philosophical discussion.

RSVP (Lunch)

Please RSVP by March 30 to:

Paul Leclerc
Department of Social Sciences
Community College of Rhode Island
Tel.: (401) 886-4107
E-mail: logos53@juno.com

DIRECTIONS

CCRI
Knight Campus
400 East Avenue
Warwick, Rhode Island 02886-1807

If traveling North on Route 95: Take Exit 11 (295). Then take Exit 1 onto Route 113 west; continue straight to campus entrance.

   If traveling South on Route 95: Take Exit 12B. Bear left at fork to Route 113 west; continue straight to Campus entrance.

   Please Note: Utilizing the main entrance to the college, go to the top of the hill and park in the Faculty/Staff parking lot on your left. Enter the school by means of the
   ramp and look for signs pointing to Room 1130.

REMINDER
Plan now to attend the Fall RIPS meeting in October. Details will be forthcoming.