Ann Blair Lecture

“The Limits of Reason as a Natural Theological Argument in Early Modern Europe”

Ann Blair, Harvard College Professor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University, specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, with an emphasis on France. Her interests include the history of the book and of education, the history of the disciplines and of scholarship, and early modern natural philosophy and its interactions with religion. Prof. Blair’s most recent book is Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (Yale University Press, 2010).

Sponsored by the History and Philosophy of Science program. For details, contact Prof. Katherine Brading.