10/13/2025
HPRS is proud to be hosting tomorrow night's lecture on artificial intelligence! Come check it out:
Ron Messerich Lecture in Philosophy & Religion
7:00-8:30 (includes time for Q and A)
Tuesday October 14, 2025
O’Donnell Auditorium, Whitlock Building
TITLE | "Still Human: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
DESCRIPTION | Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful tool humans have ever created — but what happens when our tools begin to shape us? Drawing on philosophy, history, and contemporary debates, J. Aaron Simmons (Furman University) and Micah Voraritskul (author of Human Is the New Vinyl) explore how AI challenges our understanding of creativity, wisdom, and the very meaning of being human. This lecture invites us to think critically, and hopefully, about our human future in an age of machines.
TEASER | What makes us human in the age of AI? Philosopher Aaron Simmons and creative entrepreneur Micah Voraritskul team up to explore how technology is reshaping identity, wisdom, and imagination.
BIOS |
J. Aaron Simmons is Professor of Philosophy at Furman University and the author of numerous books, including Camping with Kierkegaard: Faithfulness as a Way of Life. He lectures widely on philosophy, religion, and contemporary culture, and is a former president of the Søren Kierkegaard Society of North America.
Micah Voraritskul is the author of Human Is the New Vinyl: Why Human Creativity Still Wins in the AI Revolution and founder of VerifiedHumanâ„¢, a movement championing human-made work in an AI-saturated world. He writes and speaks at the intersection of creativity, technology, and human identity.
