March 23, 2001

Author

Ted Cohen to lecture on jokes on April 5

MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—At 4:30 p.m. on

Thursday, April 5, author and University of Chicago Professor of

Philosophy Ted Cohen will deliver a lecture titled “Jokes:

Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters”—the subject he pursued

in his book by the same name published in 1999 by the University of

Chicago Press. The event is the College’s annual Phi Beta Kappa

lecture. It will take place in the College’s Twilight Hall

Auditorium on College Street (Route 125), and is free and open to the

public.

Ted Cohen is former chairman of the

department of philosophy, and former director of undergraduate

studies in philosophy at the University of Chicago. The focus of his

research and teaching is the philosophy of art, the history of the

philosophy of art—especially that of the 18th

century—and the philosophy of language. Cohen is a recipient of

the University of Chicago’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in

Undergraduate Teaching.

He is the co-editor of “Essays in

Kant’s Aesthetics and Pursuits of Reason” and the author of a

number of articles, which have appeared in publications ranging from

The Yale Review to the Journal of Philosophy. Past president of the

American Society for Aesthetics, Cohen has received many grants from

such organizations as the American Council of Learned Societies and

has directed National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars.

He has also served as a visiting scholar at a variety of

institutions, including the College of William and Mary and the

University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities.

For more information about the

lecture, contact Stanley

Bates, Middlebury College

chair of the department of philosophy, at 802-443-5013.

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