Welsh Professor to Spread Love at Lecture

David Cockburn, professor of philosophy at University of Wales, Lampeter, will be giving a free lecture next week at Westmont. The colloquium, “Love, Particularity, and the Body,” will be Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 3:30 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge.

He has written several book including, “Human Beings: The Proceedings of the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference,” “Hume” and “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind: Souls, Science and Human Beings.” Cockburn was awarded a Research Readership in 1994 by the British Academy.

Cockburn earned his master’s degree at the University of St Andrews and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He has taught at Swansea University, the Open University and has been teaching at Wales since 1985.

His areas of interest include philosophy of mind, metaphysics, time, causation and ethics.
Westmont's philosophy department and provost’s office are presenting the lecture.