Owen G. Holmes Lectures | Loneliness, Scientific Authority, and Platonic Couches

Name: Owen G. Holmes Lectures | Loneliness, Scientific Authority, and Platonic Couches
Start: 2025-03-25T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-03-25T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge

Schedule

Tue Mar 25 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge | Lethbridge, AB

Owen G. Holmes Lectures presents "Loneliness, Scientific Authority, and Platonic Couches" with political science professor, Dr. John von Heyking.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
7-9 p.m. (MST)
Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge
Appetizers and a cash bar.
Everyone welcome. No registration required.
In this talk, von Heyking will discuss the 2023 United States Surgeon General Advisory on loneliness to examine broader questions regarding scientific authority, liberal democracy, political bonds, including friendship, and the role of the university in promoting them. The Advisory illustrates how overreliance on scientific authority to establish what is true about us leads to bizarre conclusions due to neglect of broader questions about personhood, friendship, and self-government. He will suggest ways fields beyond the physical sciences, including my field of political philosophy, can supplement and round out how we think about human flourishing and community.
Learn more: go.uleth.ca/owen-g-holmes-lectures