A discussion of why we spend time thinking about the lives and stories of fictional people, and what this means about human cognition, with Blakey Vermeule, Stanford Professor of English and author of The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain, and Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? She is currently writing a book about what mind science has discovered about the unconscious.

20 adult guest spots available

Date: Friday, October 21, 2016 Time: 7:00 pm

Donor: Blakey Vermeule