The Women Are Up to Something

3401 Spruce Street,Philadelphia PA 19104

04 November, 2021

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Join Collegium Institute for a conversation with Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb about his group biography of four women who revolutionized ethics. Join Collegium Institute for a conversation with Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb, a philosophy professor at Houghton College specializing in ethical theory, the history of ethics, biomedical ethics, agrarianism, and legal interpretation. He is principally concerned with character formation. While he has contributed to a collection on Immanuel Kant, his current project is a group biography on Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. These four women converged at Oxford to change the course of intellectual history in the 20th century. In their studies they argued about the “good life” and the values that make it up—courage, discernment, justice, and love. Lipscomb’s new book will engage with these women’s works on ethics for the first time since new avenues for research, like the Collegium Institute’s Anscombe Papers Project, have been opened. Date and Time: Thursday, November 4, 2021, at 12:00pm Location: Cafe 58, Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 The Collegium Institute is a scholarly foundation devoted to fostering the Catholic intellectual tradition within the secular university and across the broader region.