The
Chapel Hill Philosophy Department regularly hosts Distinguished
Visitors who come for visits ranging from a few days
to a semester. Typically they they present papers to
the Department, run a seminar, and meet with students
in our program for extended discussions of work in progress.
Fall
2006
Richard
Kraut, from Northwestern University is
a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Chapel Hill
Philosophy Department during the 2006 Fall semester,
during which time he is co-teaching (with Susan Wolf)
a graduate seminar on human well-being.
Spring
2005
David
Velleman, from New York University was
a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Chapel Hill
Philosophy Department during the 2005 Spring semester,
during which time he co-taught, with Susan Wolf, a graduate
seminar on the Unruly Self.
Kenan
Distinguished Visitors*
Fall
2006
Michael
Strevens, (New York University), Carl
Hoefer (Barcelona), Alan
Hajek (Australian National University),
and Barry
Loewer (Rutgers University), are all Kenan
Visitors in the 2006 Fall semester, each coming for
a couple of days to participate in a graduate seminar
on the philosophy of science co-taught by Marc Lange
and John Roberts.
Spring
2006
Charles
Kahn (University of Pennsylvania), Richard
Kraut (Northwestern University), Jonathan
Lear (University of Chicago), Mary
Margaret McCabe (King's College London),
Christopher
Rowe (University of Durham), and
David
Sedley (Cambridge University) were all
Kenan Visitors in the 2006 Spring semester, each coming
for a couple of days to participate in a graduate seminar
on Plato's Republic, co-taught by C.D.C. Reeve and Michael
Ferejohn.
Fall 2005
Paul
Boghossian (New York University), Hartry
Field (New York University), Graham
Priest (Melbourne/St. Andrews), and
Wolfgang
Künne (University of Hamburg) were
all Kenan Visitors in the 2005 Fall semester, each coming
for a couple of days to participate in a graduate seminar
on Logic and Truth, co-taught by Keith Simmons and Thomas
Hofweber.
Spring
2005
Ernest
Sosa (Rutgers University), Peter
Klein (Rutgers University), Mark
Kaplan (University of Indiana),
Stewart
Cohen (Arizona State University), and Laurence
BonJour (University of Washington) were
all Kenan Visitors in the 2005 Spring semester, each
coming for a couple of days to participate in a graduate
seminar on Epistemology taught by Ram Neta.
Paul
Russell, from the University of British
Columbia, was a Kenan Visiting Professor in the Chapel
Hill Philosophy Department during the 2005 spring semester.
Fall
2004
Robert
Adams (Yale University, emeritus), Christine
Korsgaard (Harvard University), Peter
Railton (University of Michigan), Joseph
Raz (Oxford University), and David
Wiggins (Oxford University emeritus) were all
Kenan Visitors in the 2004 Fall semester, each coming
for a couple of days to participate in a graduate seminar
on Moral Theory co-taught by Geoff Sayre-McCord and
Susan Wolf.
Alan
Nelson, from the University of California
at Irvine, was a Kenan Visiting Professor in the Chapel
Hill Philosophy Department during the 2004 fall semester.
Elliott
Sober, Hans Reichenbach Professor and William
F. Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, was a Kenan Distinguished Visitor, for a week,
in the Fall of 2004.
Sheps Visiting Scholar in Social
Justice
Fall
2003
Jeremy
J. Waldron, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor
of Law and Director of the Center for Law and Philosophy,
Columbia University. He has written on a wide range
of topics in social, legal, and political philosophy.
His books include The Right to Private Property
(1988), Nonsense Upon Stilts (ed., 1988),
Liberal Rights (1993), The Dignity
of Legislation (1999), Law and Disagreement
(1999), and God, Locke and Equality
(2002). He is also the author of numerous articles
in law journals and is a member of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
Winston Distinguished Visitors*
2003-2004
Samuel Scheffler, Professor
and Class of 1941 World War II Memorial Chair, Department
of Philosophy and School of Law, University of California
at Berkeley. He works mainly in the areas of moral
and political philosophy and his honors include a Guggenheim
Fellowship. He has written three books, The
Rejection of Consequentialism, Human Morality,
and Boundaries and Allegiances, as well
as many articles. He is an Associate Editor of Philosophy
and Public Affairs.
2002-2003
Robert
J. Fogelin, Professor
Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College.
He has worked extensively in the history of philosophy
and many of his books reflect this interest, including
Wittgenstein (1976, 2nd edition 1987),
Hume’s Skepticism (1985), and, most
recently, Berkeley’s Idealism (2001).
He has also written in the areas of informal logic and
the philosophy of language, as shown by his books and
numerous articles.
Thomas
Pogge, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
Columbia University. He specializes in global
justice, social and political philosophy, ethics, and
moral philosophy. His most recent book is World
Poverty and Human Rights (2002) and he has published
many articles on related topics. He is a member
of the Norwegian Academy of Science and has received
numerous honors, among them a MacArthur Fellowship.
Hollan Distinguished Visitors**
2001-2002
Robert Stalnaker,
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He
specializes in philosophical logic, the philosophy of
mind, and the philosophy of language. Stalnaker
is the author of Inquiry, and Context
and Content, and many papers on logic, semantics,
intentionality and the relation between language and
thought.
Stephen Schiffer,
Professor, Department of Philosophy, New York Univeristy.
He works in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind,
and metaphysics. Schiffer is the author of Meaning
and Remnants of Meaning , as well as a
broad range of articles.
2000-2001
Tim Maudlin,
Professor of Philosophy,
Rutgers University.
He specializes in philosophy of physics, philosophy
of science, metaphysics. He is the
author of Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical
Intimations of Modern Physics, as well as of numerous
articles conerning the philosophy of science.
Jonathan Bennett, Professor
Emeritus, Syracuse University. His philosophical publications
include Rationality; Kant's Analytic;
Locke,
Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes; Kant's Dialectic;
Linguistic Behaviour; the co-editing and
translation of Leibniz's Nouveaux Essais;
A Study of Spinoza's Ethics; Events
and Their Names; and The Act Itself;
There are over ninety journal articles (many anthologized)
and numerous reviews.
Jonathan Dancy,
Professor, University of Reading. Professor Dancy
is the author of An Introduction to Contemporary
Epistemology, Moral Reasons, Berkeley:
An Introduction, and Practical Reality,
as well as articles on many philosophical subjects.
He is the editor of Perceptual Knowledge
and Reading Parfit, and co-editor of A
Companion to Epistemology. He is currently working
on practical reasons.
Michael Smith, Professor,
The Australian National University. Smith's primary
research interests include ethics, moral psychology,
philosophy of mind, political philosophy and philosophy
of law. He is the author of The Moral Problem,
and editor of Meta-Ethics. His Selected
Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
is forthcoming.
*The
Kenan Visitors are made possible by a generous gift
from the Spray-Randleigh Foundation.
*The
BB&T Visitor are made possible by a generous gift
from the BB&T Foundation.
*This Series exists thanks to the generous support of
Mr. Charles M. Winston, Sr.
*This Series exists thanks to the generous support of
Mr. William Edwin Hollan, Jr.
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