LAST SUMMER Professor of Philosophy Patrick A. Wilson spent a month at the National Humanities Institute engaged in an investigation of the ethical implications of recent work in genetics and evolution. The duPont-Teagle seminar on human nature that he attended includes a follow-up meeting in February, as well as interactive work through the Web in the interim. Wilson applied his summer work to an Honors reading seminar in the fall semester and, in the spring, will utilize the work in a philosophy junior/senior seminar, both of which focus on the ethical theory of Immanuel Kant.

Wilson received his B.A. from the University of Dallas, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He began teaching at the College in 1990 and was promoted to the rank of professor in 2003.

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Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
A report by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty