Worcester, MA--The d'Alzon Visiting Professor of Political Science at Assumption College, Dr. David Lowenthal, will be giving the annual d'Alzon lecture on Thursday, November 16 at 7:00 PM. The lecture entitled "Lost in the Cosmos? Mind and Purpose in a World of Chance," will take place in La Maison Francaise's Salon.

Dr. Lowenthal received his Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. He has taught political philosophy and allied subjects at Boston College for the past thirty-five years. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Good Life: Ethics and Politics in Dramatic Form and No Liberty for License: the Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment. In addition, he has also been president of the New England Political Science Association, a member of the National Council for the Humanities, and a trustee at Assumption College.

The endowed Chair of the d'Alzon Professorship is awarded to an outstanding scholar and teacher whose work continues in the educational tradition of Father Emmanuel d'Alzon, and of the great thinker who inspired him, Saint Augustine.