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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-19-2023 to 01-19-2023Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassAround Cambridge University early in the 20th century, a group of intellectuals met regularly to talk, to think, and to express their inherent superiority to the rest of humanity...in an understated British fashion. Including writers Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, economist John Maynard Keynes, and philosopher Bertrand Russell, norms were violated, puns... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 02-16-2023 to 02-16-2023Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassA combination of Europeans and American ex-pats between the World Wars found themselves pushing the boundaries of literature, art, and ideas. Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker, and Coco Channel gathered regularly to contemplate a world without boundaries. (For more "World of Ideas"... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-23-2023 to 03-23-2023Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassBetween the World Wars as the Austro-Hungarian empire declined, the intellectual life of Vienna blossomed. Figures like Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernst Mach, Arnold Schoenberg, and Karl Krauss thought about a new world order. at a time when the old ways seemed doomed to destruction, it was an open question what was to come next. (For more... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-27-2023 to 04-27-2023Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeTerm: 2023-1Location: Online Class(At the instructor's request, the date of this class has been changed from April 20 to April 27.) The start of the 20th century saw the fundamental concepts by which we understood the universe challenged. Einstein's theory of relativity and the emergence of quantum mechanics threatened to undermine everything we thought we knew about nature. A group of... read more
