Philosophers dress up party in honor of Tom Rockmore

Tonight we are going to attend a dinner at our downstairs neighbors’ house held in honor of the AUC Philosophy Department’s Distinguished Visiting Professor Tom Rockmore. “It’s a phil-oso-phers’ party” William said, with an important tone of voice, “where are our phil-oso-pher’s clothes?!” (I usually put clothes out for them ahead of time for special events) As he explained himself further, I came to understand that because of the guest of honor, everybody was expected to dress up to look like philosophers, including the children. When I asked him what a philosopher looks like, he motioned to Courtney who was about to leave for work, wearing his lecturing outfit; a tie, shirt and dress pants, adding a casual “nice! We need to look nice.” Now there’s a step in the right direction for yo’all!