Baylor University's Honors College Hosts Philosopher for Formation Lecture Series

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WACO, Texas (Feb. 20, 2013) - Baylor University welcomes Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Ph.D., as the next guest scholar in the Honors College's Formation Lecture Series. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Reading Room of Alexander Residence Hall, 1413 S. Seventh St.
After graduating with a bachelor's and highest honors from the University of Michigan, Ebels-Duggan completed doctoral studies at Harvard University. While there, she wrote her dissertation on interpersonal relationships and the conditions of autonomy. She now works as an assistant professor of philosophy at Northwestern University.
Ebels-Duggan's lecture for the Honors College is titled "Autonomy as Intellectual Virtue." It will stem from her interests in the discussion and history of political and moral philosophy within a significantly Kantian tradition.
"What's most impressive is not that her essays have have appeared in top professional venues -- though that is indeed impressive -- but that her work addresses such a broad and fresh range issues, such as custody battles, and responsibility for past wrongs, and the nature of moral community," said Todd Buras, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, undergraduate program director and Faculty Master of Honors Residential College.

"She will be helping us think through the aims of education, and what it means to be formed as whole persons. Specifically, she will be addressing the relationship between autonomy and the intellectual virtues of humility and charity," Buras said. "She will argue that the cultivation of intellectual virtue is a better way to think about the aims of education than merely the promotion of autonomy."
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information about the Honors College and this event, click here.

by Brent Salter, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805

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