{"id":4349,"date":"2025-07-15T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/?page_id=4349"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:47:26","slug":"eunice-belgum-memorial-lectures-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/eunice-belgum-memorial-lectures-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgum Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection>\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__image_overlay panel panel-image_overlay site-section__bg--default\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"image-overlay\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner site-section__inner--no-padding\">\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div role=\"img\" aria-label=\"aurora-208-CR3_PR2-HDR\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2025\/04\/aurora-208-CR3_PR2-HDR-1600x1068.jpg');\" loading=\"lazy\"  class=\"site-section__bg-img site-section__bg-img--m-stack\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t@media all and ( min-width: 960px ) {\n\t\t\t#site-panel__image-overlay-69e64b65383df {\n\t\t\t\theight: 500px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n    \n\t<div id=\"site-panel__image-overlay-69e64b65383df\" class=\"site-panel__img-overlay-wrap site-panel__img-overlay--no-ribbon horz-center vert-middle\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__img-overlay-content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"t-content t-content--light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__desc\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-name=\"content\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-autop\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-livetext\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Every year since 1979 the department has sponsored the Belgum Lectures, which honor the memory of Eunice Belgum, who graduated from St. Olaf College in 1967.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lecture series was established in the hope that Eunice\u2019s tragic death in 1977 would not end her impact on the profession, teaching, and scholarship she loved so much.\u00a0 While the lectures may be on any topic, the philosophy department makes a special effort to choose topics in areas of special interest to Eunice, namely ethics, philosophy of mind, and feminism.\u00a0 These lectures are supported by a fund established by Eunice\u2019s family and friends.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__wysiwyg panel panel-wysiwyg site-section__bg--white\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner l-wrapper site-section__bg--white\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<header class=\"site-section__header\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"site-section__title site-section__title--center site-section__title--sm\" id=\"2025-2026-academic-year\" data-name=\"title\" data-livetext data-depth=\"0\" data-index=\"0\">2025-2026 Academic Year<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t<\/header>\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-section__content \">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__wrapper site-grid__wrapper-stagger\"\n\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t data-name=\"columns\"\n\t\t\t data-livetext>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__wysiwyg-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"t-content c-tile\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-index=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-autop=\"true\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-name=\"column_content\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:heading {\"align\":\"left\"} --><\/p>\n<p>The 46th Annual Eunice Belgum Lectures will take place on November 3rd &amp; 4th , 2025.<\/p>\n<p><b>Belgum Lecturer: Regina Rini<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinking together in troubling times<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Which ideas are worth sharing? Can we disagree without being hateful? And does anyone have the authority to say that a question is settled? These issues press especially hard in times of doubt and disorder. We can learn from earlier thinker\u2019s reflections on their own troubling times.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid__col -->\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid, .site-grid__wrapper -->\n\t<\/div> <!-- site-section__content -->\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__imagetext panel panel-imagetext site-section__bg--light\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"imagetext\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner site-section__inner--no-padding\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__no-gutters site-section__bg--gray site-panel__imgtxt-img-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<figure  class=\"c-image c-image--rect\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"Holland Hall\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2019\/10\/Holland-Hall-820x600.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1260px) 1260px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2019\/10\/Holland-Hall-520x300.jpg 520w, \nhttps:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2019\/10\/Holland-Hall-820x600.jpg 820w, \nhttps:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2019\/10\/Holland-Hall-1120x900.jpg 1120w\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col site-grid__col-safari-fix\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__imgtxt-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"c-text\">\n\n\t<h2 class=\"site-section__title h3\" id=\"lecture-1-hobbes-and-the-egalitarian-tragedy-of-science\" data-name=\"title\" data-livetext data-depth=\"0\" data-index=\"0\">Lecture 1: Hobbes and the egalitarian tragedy of science<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"c-text__desc t-content\" data-depth=\"0\" data-name=\"content\" data-autop=\"true\" data-livetext>\n\t\t\t<p>From vaccines to climate change, many people are done listening to experts. They ask: why does some intellectual elite get to tell us what to think? But expertise is unavoidable; modern science is so specialized that no single person can understand it all. This lecture argues that we can best understand the frustrating dilemma of scientific authority by looking back to a time when modern science emerged alongside modern views on political authority. Science, it turns out, is surprisingly like the \u201cLeviathan\u201d of Thomas Hobbes\u2019 political philosophy, a central authority empowered to coordinate individual choices. Coping with modern science denial requires acknowledging people\u2019s reasonable resentment of that authority and offering tools for thoughtfully deciding which authorities to trust.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, November 3rd, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.<br \/>\nViking Theater, Buntrock Commons<br \/>\n*light refreshment reception to follow<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__imagetext panel panel-imagetext site-section__bg--light\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"imagetext\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner site-section__inner--no-padding\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__no-gutters site-section__bg--gray site-panel__imgtxt-img-right\">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<figure  class=\"c-image c-image--rect\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"Socraties\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2019\/10\/Socraties.png\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1260px) 1260px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2019\/10\/Socraties-520x300.png 520w\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col site-grid__col-safari-fix\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__imgtxt-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"c-text\">\n\n\t<h2 class=\"site-section__title h3\" id=\"lecture-2-debate-the-all-consuming-crucible\" data-name=\"title\" data-livetext data-depth=\"0\" data-index=\"0\">Lecture 2: Debate: The all-consuming crucible<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"c-text__desc t-content\" data-depth=\"0\" data-name=\"content\" data-autop=\"true\" data-livetext>\n\t\t\t<p>We shouldn\u2019t always take what others say at face value. When we disagree, we should try to work out the truth. For that we have debate. But the meaning of debate is also debatable, and this lecture arranges just such a clash of minds across time and space, between the 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill and the classical Buddhist scholar N\u0101g\u0101rjuna. Mill thought of debate as unconstrained intellectual competition, from which only the truth might emerge unscathed. But N\u0101g\u0101rjuna shows the dangers of this position: the weapons of debate are sharp enough to tear down all ideas, even the true ones. Without good faith \u2013 a goal of shared discovery rather than intellectual victory \u2013 debate leads only to nihilistic skepticism. Much of the shallowness and divisiveness of modern debate, conducted largely on social media, reflects our failure to find good faith in each other.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><strong>Tuesday, November 4th, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.<br \/>\nViking Theater, Buntrock Commons<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__wysiwyg panel panel-wysiwyg site-section__bg--normal\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner l-wrapper \">\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<header class=\"site-section__header\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"site-section__title site-section__title--center site-section__title--sm\" id=\"previous-years-speakers\" data-name=\"title\" data-livetext data-depth=\"0\" data-index=\"0\">Previous Years&#8217; Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t<\/header>\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-section__content \">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__wrapper site-grid__wrapper-stagger\"\n\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t data-name=\"columns\"\n\t\t\t data-livetext>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__wysiwyg-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"t-content \"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-index=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-autop=\"true\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-name=\"column_content\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>2024\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lewis Gordon, <em>Humanity Matters, The Jazz of Freedom<\/em><br \/>\n2023 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Simon Critchley, <em>Mysticism<\/em>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=4613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is Mysticism?<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=4614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seven Adverbs God Loveth<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>2022 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Jay Garfield,<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=4296\">M\u0101y\u0101 and Mok\u1e63a: KC Bhattacharyya\u2019s Ved\u0101ntin Response to Kant<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=4297\">Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity: KC Bhattacharyya on the Problem of Other Minds<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>2021 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Costic\u0103 Br\u0103d\u0103\u0163an,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=3889\">Going against the Grain<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=3890\">The Art of Failure. From the Gnostics to Cioran<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n2020\u00a0 \u00a0 Meghan Sullivan, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=3373\">Directing Our Inner Lives<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=3355\">Love as a Moral Reason\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> (Held Virtually)<\/em><br \/>\n2019 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Canceled<br \/>\n2018\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Louise Anthony, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=2603\">The Constructive Role of Bias in our Epistemic Lives,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=2604\">The Constructive Role of Bias in our Affective Lives<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charles Mills, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2018\/03\/RACIAL-JUSTICE.docx\">Racial Justice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2018\/03\/BLACK-RADICAL-KANTIANISM.docx\">Black Radical Kantianism<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n2016 \u00a0\u00a0 Edward Langerak, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=1731\"><em>Meanings of Life<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=1732\"><em>Meanings of Death<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Cooper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=1515\"><em>Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life: Socrates<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=1516\"><em>Platonist Philosophy as a Way of Life<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n2014 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eleonore Stump, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=1252\">The Nature of the Atonement<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=1253\">Atonement and Shame<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Daniel Robinson, <em>Consciousness<\/em><br \/>\n2012 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lynne Rudder Baker, <em>The Place of Persons in Nature, How Persons Persist in Time<\/em><br \/>\n2011 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rachel Cohon, <em>David Hume: Virtuous Action and Character in a Sentiment-Based Moral Philosophy<\/em><br \/>\n2010 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thomas Carson, <em>Lincoln\u2019s Ethics: A Philosophical Assessment<\/em><br \/>\n2009\u00a0 \u00a0 Elliott Sober, <em>Philosophical Reflections on Darwin<\/em><br \/>\n2008\u00a0 \u00a0 Barbara Herman, <em>Making Morals Matter<\/em><br \/>\n2007\u00a0 \u00a0 Julia Annas,<em> Virtue and Happiness<\/em><br \/>\n2006 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Galen Strawson, <em>Episodic Ethics<\/em><br \/>\n2005 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jonathan Lear, <em>Ethics and the Collapse of Civilization<\/em><br \/>\n2004 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bas van Fraassen, <em>Seeing and Measuring: Connecting Science to Experience<\/em><br \/>\n2003 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Margaret Urban Walker, <em>Forgiveness and Moral Repair<\/em><br \/>\n2002 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frederick Stoutland, <em>How To Believe in Free Will<\/em><br \/>\n2001 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lydia Goehr,<em> Listening, Laughing, and Learning<\/em><br \/>\n2000 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stephen Darwall, <em>Two Dogmas of Empiricism in Ethics<\/em><br \/>\n1999 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James Harris, <em>After Relativism<\/em><br \/>\n1998 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jean Bethke Elshtain, <em>How Far Have We Fallen?<\/em><br \/>\n1997 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hilary Putnam, <em>Mind, Matter, and Making Sense<\/em><br \/>\n1996 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gary Iseminger, <em>Aestheticism: Defined and Defended<\/em><br \/>\n1995 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georges Rey, <em>Superficialism about Mind and Meaning<\/em><br \/>\n1994 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Helen Longino, <em>Scientific Knowledge and Feminist Theoretical Virtues<\/em><br \/>\n1993 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amelie Rorty, <em>The Many Faces of Morality<\/em><br \/>\n1992 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arthur Caplan,<em> Ethics and the Genetic Revolution<\/em><br \/>\n1991 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nancy Sherman, <em>Virtue and Ethics<\/em><br \/>\n1990\u00a0 \u00a0 Allan Gibbard, <em>Moral Meanings<\/em><br \/>\n1989\u00a0 \u00a0 Keith Gunderson, <em>The Aesthetic Robot<\/em><br \/>\n1988\u00a0 \u00a0 Laurence Thomas, <em>Living Morally: A Psychology of Moral Character<\/em><br \/>\n1987\u00a0 \u00a0 Rosemarie Tong, <em>Feminist Social Philosophy<\/em><br \/>\n1986\u00a0 \u00a0 Kenneth Sayre, <em>Myths for Our Technological Future<\/em><br \/>\n1985\u00a0 \u00a0 Merold Westphal, <em>The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism<\/em><br \/>\n1984\u00a0 \u00a0 Naomi Scheman, <em>Authority and Paranoia: The Social Construction of Gender and the Philosophical Self<\/em><br \/>\n1983\u00a0 \u00a0 Georg Henrik Von Wright, <em>Truth, Knowledge, and Freedom<\/em><br \/>\n1982\u00a0 \u00a0 Martha Nussbaum, <em>The Fragility of Goodness<\/em><br \/>\n1981\u00a0 \u00a0 Gareth B. Matthews, <em>Conceiving Childhood<\/em><br \/>\n1980\u00a0 \u00a0 Dagfinn F\u00f8llesdal, <em>Understanding and Rationality<\/em><br \/>\n1979\u00a0 \u00a0 Kathryn Pyne Parsons,<em> Not Judge, Not Victim, Nor Savior<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid__col -->\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid, .site-grid__wrapper -->\n\t<\/div> <!-- site-section__content -->\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__wysiwyg panel panel-wysiwyg site-section__bg--light\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner l-wrapper site-section__inner--top-padding-minimal site-section__inner--bottom-padding-minimal site-section__bg--gray\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-section__content \">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__wrapper site-grid__wrapper-stagger\"\n\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t data-name=\"columns\"\n\t\t\t data-livetext>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__wysiwyg-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"t-content \"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-index=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-autop=\"true\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-name=\"column_content\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Related News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Thomas Carson &#8217;72, who was the Belgum Lecture speaker in 2010, has written a book entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107030145\"><em>Lincoln&#8217;s Ethics<\/em><\/a>, published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/\">Cambridge University Press<\/a>. He graciously mentions the St. Olaf Philosophy department, and the Belgum Lecture series, in his acknowledgements. \u00a0Thomas is a Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Martha Nussbaum, in the acknowledgements of\u00a0<em><a title=\"The Fragility of Goodness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Fragility-Goodness-Tragedy-Philosophy\/dp\/0521794722\">The Fragility of Goodness<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>indicates that her 1983 Belgum Lectures of the same title inspired several chapters of the book. \u00a0She dedicates the relevant chapters to Belgum&#8217;s parents, Joe and Esther Belgum. \u00a0Martha Nussbaum is the\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid__col -->\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid, .site-grid__wrapper -->\n\t<\/div> <!-- site-section__content -->\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Memories From A Fellow St. Olaf Student<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The vivid impression I retain of&nbsp;Eunice&nbsp;Belgum was generated in a short period time, most of it over fifty years ago.&nbsp; My most salient memories arise from our joint participation in an intensive January term advanced philosophy seminar on The Idea of Freedom directed by Professor Fred Stoutland.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eunice&nbsp;quickly became a respected presence in that seminar, notwithstanding a certain Nordic reticence, perhaps amplified to some degree because she was a sophomore woman (though not the only woman) among primarily senior men.&nbsp; She came to be admired for her sparkling intelligence, for a maturity of judgment beyond her years, for her tenacity in trying to get at what was fundamental, and for being unwilling to be satisfied by what she pointed out were weak or unfinished arguments passing themselves off as \u201csolutions\u201d that would merely end discussion prematurely.&nbsp; This made her a formidable but, in the end, characteristically helpful interlocutor, as I discovered when she drew the straw to be a respondent to my presentation, as the seminar format required.&nbsp; In the end, several sections of my senior thesis were much improved because of her criticism.&nbsp; Regrettably, I talked with her only twice after St. Olaf, in the early 1970s, when she chanced to visit mutual acquaintances in New York and we chatted briefly about each other\u2019s doctoral work.&nbsp; She was writing a Harvard doctoral thesis, a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion of the notoriously complicated concept of akrasia in moral philosophy.&nbsp; Her account apparently proved to be of considerable interest, though transmitted largely by word of mouth, among a number of her scholarly contemporaries.&nbsp; It did not see the light of day as a published work until 1990, over a decade after her death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual&nbsp;Eunice&nbsp;Belgum Memorial lectures have been a particularly fitting tribute to the brilliance and relentless spirit of inquiry of her work as a scholar and teacher, and a meaningful way of partially assuaging the deep sadness that arises from contemplating her untimely death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014<strong>Professor Warren Funk<\/strong>, Class of 1965<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__micronavbutton panel panel-micronavbutton site-section__bg--normal\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"micronavbutton\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t    <div class=\"site-section__inner site-section__inner--top-padding-none site-section__inner--bottom-padding-none micronavbutton\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__no-gutters\"\n\t     data-depth=\"0\"\n\t     data-name=\"buttons\"\n\t     data-livetext\n\t>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"site-panel__micronavbtn-btn u-bc-cranberry\"\n\t\t\t\t   \thref=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/retreat\/\"\n\t\t\t\t   \ttarget=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"site-panel__micronavbtn-btn-label\">Annual Faculty Retreat<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"site-panel__micronavbtn-btn-desc\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid__col -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"site-panel__micronavbtn-btn u-bc-purple\"\n\t\t\t\t   \thref=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/philosophy\/student-activities-and-organizations\/\"\n\t\t\t\t   \ttarget=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"site-panel__micronavbtn-btn-label\">Student Activities and Organizations<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"site-panel__micronavbtn-btn-desc\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid__col -->\n\t\t\n\t<\/div> <!-- .site-grid -->\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memories From A Fellow St. Olaf Student The vivid impression I retain of&nbsp;Eunice&nbsp;Belgum was generated in a short period time, most of it over fifty years ago.&nbsp; 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