Olivia DrakeTwo Wesleyan faculty received National Endowment for the Humanities grants on Aug. 9. Katherine Kuenzli, associate professor of art history, received a $250,000 Scholarly Editions and Translations grant. She and project co-directors Michael André and Kathleen James-Chakraborty will use the funds to prepare a critical edition and translation of a selection of writings by the Belgian artist and essayist Henry van de Velde titled Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889–1914. Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Typically,…
Steven Horst, professor of philosophy, attended several conferences on Cognitive Science of Religion during the 2010-11 academic year. In July, he attended a summer workshop on "Cognition, Religion, and Theology" at Oxford University. In August, he attended the International Association for Cognitive Science of Religion, meeting in Toronto. At both conferences, he presented his paper titled, "Whose Intuitions? Which Dualism?" Horst also presented a paper titled, “What is Unity of Knowledge, and Are We Really Missing Anything Without It?” at the Ian Ramsey Conference held at St. Anne's College, Oxford, in July.
Steven Horst, professor of philosophy, is the author of Laws, Mind and Free Will, published by MIT Press in March 2011. This is his third book. In Laws, Mind, and Free Will, Horst addresses the apparent dissonance between the picture of the natural world that arises from the sciences and our understanding of ourselves as agents who think and act. If the mind and the world are entirely governed by natural laws, there seems to be no room left for free will to operate. Moreover, although the laws of physical science are clear and verifiable, the sciences of the mind seem to…
Stephen Horst, professor of philosophy, received a grant for $17,476 from the University of Oxford on Sept. 9. Horst will use the funds for a study titled "Whose Institutions, Whose Dualism."
Steven Horst, professor of philosophy, received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation on July 9. The award, worth $55,000, will be applied over five years for his research on "Cognitive Psychology of Religion: Philosophical Implications." Horst's areas of expertise are philosophy of mind, cognitive science, philosophy of psychology and moral psychology.