C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien Reading Group

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This Fall, join PRÉCIS Visiting Research Scholar Prof. Brian Ballard for a reading group on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. We will read The Weight of Glory, Transposition, and The Inner Ring by C.S. Lewis and Mythopoeia by J.R.R. Tolkien. All readings will be done during the session, and no prior familiarity with Lewis or Tolkien is expected.

We will meet Monday, October 21, November 4, November 18, and December 2, from 6:00pm-7:20pm in Wooten Hall 301. Dinner will be served, and reading materials will be provided.

You may sign up here.

This reading group is designed for undergraduates, but all Princeton students are warmly invited.

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Prof. Brian Ballard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University Irvine. His research focuses on the epistemic value and representational content of emotional experience, the grounding of human rights, whether the existence of God would or would not make our lives better, and the moral status of AI. His book God, World & Value: On the Axiology of Theism and the Rationality of Faith is forthcoming from Routledge Press. Prof. Ballard earned an M.A. at NYU and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

PRÉCIS, which stands for “Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitments in Society,” is an initiative of the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR), in collaboration with the Philosophy Department. The popular Spring ’24 course “PHI 211: Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitments,” which will be offered again in Spring ’25, was also an initiative of PRÉCIS. 

Please email Sebastian Hayden (sahayden@princeton.edu) for more details.