FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 12, 2001 CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119 RENOWNED SCHOLAR TO SPEAK AT DRAKE OCT. 18, 19 Pieter A.M. Seuren, an internationally renowned Dutch scholar who specializes in the philosophy of language and logic, will give two lectures at Drake University next week. He will present a lecture titled "A Scholar's Journey from Plato to Now" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18. His second lecture, titled "Aristotelian Predicate Calculus Restored," will start at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19. Both lectures, which are free and open to the public, will take place in the Honors Lounge of Medbury Hall, 1317 28h St. Seuren is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for PsychoLinguistics: Language and Cognition Group in the Netherlands. He has published 15 books and more than 100 articles on linguistics, psychology, philosophy and computer science. He has had university appointments and visiting professorships at Amsterdam, Groningen, Sydney, Zurich, Berne, Oxford and Cambridge, among others. Seuren's lectures are sponsored by Drake's Honors Program and the Department of Philosophy and Religion. For more information, call (515) 271-3735.