John Lachs

  • Vanderbilt University

    Videos: Great ideas of the 19th century

    Watch videos of John Lachs, Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, leading classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The 19th century was an unusually fertile period of thought. The ideas of evolution, progress, liberty, radical encounter with God, the struggle for existence, human control over human destiny,… Read More

    Oct 15, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    Older adults gear up for fall classes with Vanderbilt’s Osher Lifelong Learning

    Media regulation in an ultra-wired society, the neurology of sleep, the Vietnam War, and great singers and their songs are among the diverse topics included in the fall term of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt. All older adults with an interest in lifelong learning can sign up… Read More

    Aug 4, 2010

  • Listen: Read the Bills!

    Listen: Read the Bills!

    Vanderbilt Centennial Professor of Philosophy John Lachs has proposed that legislators be tested on their specific knowledge of bills under consideration in Congress. Lachs is dismayed that several national lawmakers have admitted recently to not reading the material on which they are voting. Read More

    Jan 4, 2010

  • Video : “Fundamentals of Morality”

    Video : “Fundamentals of Morality”

    Watch video of an April 14 class on "Fundamentals of Morality" taught by John Lachs, Centennial Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University. Read More

    Apr 16, 2009