About the Event
Monday, November 11, 2024
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Kittredge Central, N114 Multipurpose C & D | 2480 Kittredge Loop Dr. Boulder, CO 80309
Moderated by Patrick Deneen, Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy
About the Lecture
The technological mindset seems to have at its core an anxiety about how we can know the world. This was a preoccupation of philosophers in the early modern period. It was resolved by positing that "we know only what we make." If I am the cause of something, I can know it all the way down. Otherwise it is opaque, and a threat to my mastery.
About the Speaker
Matthew B. Crawford received a degree in physics as an undergraduate, then turned to the history of political thought, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work (2009), The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (2015) and Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road (2020). His shorter writings have appeared at Unherd, The New Atlantis, The Hedgehog Review and many other outlets. He currently writes the Substack Archedelia ("toward a political philosophy of the present.")
Registration
The event is free, though registration is required (in-person registration and livestream registration are available). Short term pay parking is available in lots 415, 406, or 306. Please direct parking questions to Parking Services.
