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Letter from the Chair
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June 15, 2018 Dear Alumni and Friends of the Department of Philosophy: In our third issue of Colloquy, we continue with the format begun in our inaugural issue by featuring interviews with our alumni, faculty, and students. They talk about the varied paths that led them to philosophy and how philosophical study has influenced their lives. We are particularly pleased in this issue to present interviews with undergraduate alumni who have gone on to careers as lawyers. As we approach Commencement, it seems fitting to highlight the accomplishments of our former undergraduates at the same time as our current seniors...
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Gavin Lawrence
Jenna Donohue
Gavin Lawrence is Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. His research focuses on ethics and ancient philosophy. His article “The Deep and the Shallow” will appear in a forthcoming edited volume entitled Phillippa Foot on Goodness and Virture. He was interviewed by Jenna Donohue and Professor Seana Shiffrin. Jenna is a fifth-year student in the Department of Philosophy. She is interested in topics in ethics, meta-ethics, and their intersection.
JD: What initially brought you to philosophy?
GL: Desperation. No, I was set a task of writing on history, about Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War and began to be interested in philosophy of history. I went and I talked to a friend of my parents, Jane Degras, who had played chess with Stalin’s son; a leftist of the 30s, a chain-smoker. She was really interested in history and got me going and got me to read E. H. Carr’s What is History? I was intrigued.
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