2017-2018 Beck Lecture

Dr. David O'Hara
Tuesday, April 3 | 4:00 p.m. | Wroten Hall

Mountains Swimming Home: Why Alaskan Salmon And Guatemalan Vines Matter In Kansas

Dr. David O'Hara, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Augustana University, teaches a variety of courses, including ancient philosophy, American philosophy, environmental ethics, Asian philosophy, and philosophy of religion. He regularly teaches a course on classics in Greece, and a course on tropical rainforest and reef ecology in Belize and Guatemala. His most recent book is Downstream (Cascade Press, 2014), which is about brook trout and the ecology of the Appalachians. He is also the author of Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis (University Press of Kentucky, 2008) and From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy (Brazos Press, 2006). Currently, he is preparing an edited volume of the religious writings of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. Dr. O'Hara is a graduate of Middlebury College (B.A., Spanish), St John's College (M.A., Liberal Arts), and The Pennsylvania State University (M.A., Ph.D., Philosophy).