UC Berkeley Howison Lecture with Susan Wolf on Character and Agency

Join Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a Howison Lecture on Character and Agency.

We often think of a person’s character as comprising what is deepest and most important about her, or indeed as comprising her core identity or ‘self’. But what is included in a person’s character, as distinct from the rest of her psychology? This lecture rejects a philosophically prominent account that identifies a person’s character with the set of dispositions and traits that reflect and express the individual’s values as being both too narrow and too vague.

This in-person event is co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Philosophy and will be held at Alumni House, Toll Room on the UC Berkeley Campus. This event will follow evolving public health guidelines. This event will also be recorded and posted on the Berkeley Graduate Lectures website for later viewing.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Alumni House, Alumni House, Berkeley, United States