Speaker
Mar 11, 2026: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Hillel 101
The planet Earth is a sphere. (Technically, it's an 'oblate spheroid'.) So why, since 2016, do an increasing number of people believe that it is flat - something known to be false for over two thousand years? The answer is that they are led to this conclusion by a specific theory of knowledge - an extreme version of a view held by 17th and 18th century philosophers, such as John Locke and David Hume. This presentation lays out these theories; explains where they go wrong and shows what they reveal about our own knowledge of the world.
Come to Hillel 101 on Wednesday, March 11 at 5:00 pm for this dynamic lecture. Dr. Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, and the Philosophy Pre-Law Concentration Advisor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is also the founder and director of the UNCG Prison Education Program, which provides academic programming for people incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution: Butner Medium II.