Karsten harries biography

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    Karsten harries biography

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    • Karsten Harries

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

    HONORARY CONFERRING

    Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 2.30 p.m.


    TEXT OF THE INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR DERMOT MORAN on 2 September 2015, on the occasion of the conferring of the Degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa on KARSTEN HARRIES

     

    President, honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen,

    I am very pleased and honoured to introduce to you Professor Karsten Harries, Howard H.

    Newman Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Karsten Harries was born in Jena, Germany, in 1937, and witnessed at first hand the catastrophic end of the Second World War as a seven-year-old boy in Berlin. His father, a physicist, moved the family to the USA, where Karsten studied at Yale University, receiving his B.A.

    in 1958 and his Ph.D in 1962 with a thesis on the meaning of modern art, directed by George Schrader. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin (1963 -196