UCA Philosophy professor Dr. Jesse Butler received a National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions grant for the development of a new cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural course on the perennial human pursuit of self-knowledge.
Stemming from the enduring question “Who Am I?”, the course will explore diverse conceptions of self-knowledge and identity across ancient texts from Eastern and Western culture, classic and contemporary works in American literature, and cutting-edge developments in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
The course will be taught for the first time in the upcoming Spring 2015 semester as a PHIL 3395 “Topics” course and is open to all interested students regardless of major.
Dr. Butler’s article “Knowledge and NOW: What Is the Epistemic Standing of the Present Moment?” was published in the online Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.