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Roger Scruton To Give Wheatley Lecture on Scientism and the Humanities

On Tuesday, May 7, the Wheatley Institution welcomes philosopher Roger Scruton, who will present the final lecture in the Wheatley Institution lecture series on Science, Scientism, and the Public Good. Scruton’s lecture, “Scientism and the Humanities,” will be held at 4 p.m. in the Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium. Members of the College of Fine Arts and Communications will be particularly interested in this lecture, as Scruton has written extensively about the arts and aesthetics, including his 1997 book, The Aesthetics of Music. Scruton is a†¨senior research fellow of†¨Blackfriars Hall, Oxford†¨and a visiting research†¨professor at St Andrews†¨University, Scotland. He†¨is well known on both†¨sides of the Atlantic as a†¨prolific writer and public†¨intellectual, author of over†¨thirty books, including†¨works of criticism, political†¨theory and aesthetics,†¨as well as novels and short stories. In addition to his authoritative compendia, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey (1994), and A Dictionary of Political Thought (3rd Edition, 2007), Scruton has written three important studies in applied philosophy: The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979), Sexual Desire (1986) and The Aesthetics of Music (1997). Scruton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy. He lives with his wife and two children in Malmesbury, England.