Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Student Center Speakers Auditorium
Cost: Free & open to the public
On Monday, Professor Michael Ruse will deliver a free lecture, open to the university community, "Celebratin Darwin," connected to a Fall lecture series sponsored by the University Honors Program and the college Center for Collaborative Scholarship in the Humanities.
Ruse is the Lucyle Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, and internationally acclaimed for his research as a philosopher of science and for the quality of his work on Charles Darwin and evolutionary theory in particular. Within the last three years, Prof. Ruse has written an acclaimed biography of Darwin (Blackwell, 2007), co-edited the Cambridge Companion volume on Darwin (2008), co-edited "Reflections on the Origin of Species" (Princeton, 2008), and written "Defining Darwin: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology" (Prometheus, 2009).
The final lecture in the Fall Darwin series will occur the following Monday (November 16) by Prof. Matthew Grober, from the GSU biology department on "The Evolution and Development of Vertebrate Sexuality."
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