University Times

Pitt's Department of Philosophy will hold the first Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture April 24 at 3:30 p.m. in the William Pitt Union Ballroom. Horowitz, who died in January, was the first woman to chair Pitt's philosophy department.

Alexander Nehamas, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Princeton University, will speak on "The Place of Beauty and the Role of Value in the World of Art."

Horowitz first came to Pitt as an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow in 1977-78. In 1985, she returned as a visiting assistant professor of philosophy and joined the faculty as assistant professor the following year. She was named associate professor, associate director of Pitt's Center for Philosophy of Science and associate professor of women's studies in 1993.