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PPE Talk: Michael Zuckert

Caldwell 105 Caldwell 105 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill

"Launching Liberalism: Philosophic Anthropology and the Leviathan State" Michael Zuckert, the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, works in  Political Theory and Constitutional Studies.  He is the author ofNatural Rights and the New Republicanism, theNatural Rights … Read more

Talk: Holly Smith

Caldwell 213

"The Moral Duty to Inform Oneself Before Acting." Professor Smith is in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. She specializes in moral theory. Abstract: We commonly assume there is a strong moral duty to inform oneself before making a morally … Read more

PPE Talk: Matthew Adler

Caldwell 213

“Morality and Cost Benefit Analysis” on "Morality and Cost Benefit Analysis."Professor Adler has recently joined Duke as the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy.

Talk: Virginia Held

Caldwell 213

Professor Held is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the City University of New York. She specializes in Social and political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy.  Details about her talk are below. Title: Distributive Justice and the Ethics … Read more

PPE Talk: Jessica Flanigan

Hamilton 100

All Liberty is Basic: Why Trivial Rights Merit Legal Recognition. Jessica Flanigan, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, at the University of Richmond, has research interests in the ethics of business and medicine, law, and … Read more

PPE Talk: James Otteson

Caldwell 213

"Adam Smith on Justice and Social Justice" James Otteson, Executive Director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism at Wake Forest, specializes in Adam Smith. Before moving to Wake Forest this Fall, he was a joint professor of … Read more

Seminar: Patricia Kitcher

Caldwell 213

Prof. Kitcher will be meeting with the "Locke and Kant Seminar." Patricia Kitcher is the Roberta and William Campbell Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. She works on the philosophy of psychology and on Kant.

Talk: Elizabeth Camp

Caldwell 213

Professor Camp is currently in the Philosophy Department at the University of Pennsylvania but is moving to Rutgers University.  She works on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.

PPE Talk: Michael Moehler

Caldwell 213

"The Rawls-Harsanyi Dispute: A Moral Point of View" Michael Moehler is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Virigina Tech.  He works primarily on political philosophy. Before moving there he was a visiting professor in UNC's PPE Program.

Seminar: Béatrice Longuenesse

Prof. Longuenesse will be meeting with the "Locke and Kant Seminar." Béatrice Longuenesse is the Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University.  She works on the history of modern philosophy.