Professor Eric Wiland gestures with his arm as he makes a point to the first-year master’s students in his graduate philosophy proseminar course last week while meeting outside in the Quad at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The topic of the course is self-knowledge, and Wiland said they were discussing an argument in a paper by philosopher Tyler Burge concerning how people can know what they’re thinking without having to gather any external evidence.
This photograph was taken by UMSL photographer August Jennewein and is the latest to be featured in Eye on UMSL.