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GILSON WILL DELIVER TWELVE PUBLIC TALKS

William James Lecturer to Discuss Philosophical Experience Unity in Emerson

Etienne Gilson, William James Lecturer on Philosophy at Harvard University this year, will give a series of twelve free public lectures on "The Unity of Philosophical Experience," beginning tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard.

The subject of tomorrow's lecture is "Logicism and Philosophy." The remaining lectures, which will be given every Friday afternoon until December 18, will be divided into three parts: "The Medieval Experience"; "The Cartesian Experience"; and "The Modern Experience."

Dr. Gilson, who was one of the participants in the Harvard Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences, is professor of Philosophy at the College de France, Paris, and Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto. He was professor at Harvard in 1926-29.

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