What relation is there between philosophy and the ideals or realities of liberal education, as practiced at Wesleyan? What role does or did philosophy play in whatever the Enlightenment might be?  These are the main questions that frame this conversation, between a philosopher and a scholar of the Enlightenment.  Robert Stalnaker, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of the most well-known figures in recent philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind of the analytic tradition.  He is also a member of the Class of 1962 at Wesleyan.  Joanna Stalnaker, a leading scholar of the Enlightenment and Professor of French at Columbia University, has recently published The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death.  Please come and join in the conversation!  A reception follows at 6pm.