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On April 13-15, 2007, the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt hosted The 2nd Annual Vanderbilt Conference on Politics, Criticism, and the Arts. The conference has been established as a yearly event that will permit historians, philosophers and critics of the arts to gather to discuss central issues in politics and the arts. Keynote address this year will be made by Caroline Jones (MIT).
The Philosophy Department, the Vanderbilt Center for Ethics, and the Vanderbilt Law School are proud to have sponsored a lecture series in connection with a class taught this spring by Professor Rob Talisse. Speakers will include Steven Macedo (Princeton), Michael Perry (Emory Law), Seyla Benhabib (Yale), and Roger Scruton (Princeton). For more information, see the calendar for the Democracy and Moral Conviction.

Recent faculty books:

David Wood, Time After Time (Indiana University Press, 2007)
Rob Talisse, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy (Routledge, 2007)
Jeffrey Tlumak, Classical Modern Philosophy (Routledge, 2006)
José Medina, Speaking From Elsewhere: A New Contextualist Perspective on Meaning, Identity, and Discursive Agency (SUNY, 2006)
Lucius Outlaw, In Search of Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folk (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
William James Booth (Political Science and Philosophy), Communities of Memory (Cornell University Press, 2006)
Brooke Ackerly (Political Science and Philosophy) has edited a special issue of Perspectives on Politics devoted to the topic of "John Rawls and the Study of Politcs"

The following Prizes for 2006 have been awarded: