Social and Political Thought Workshop Series
The Social and Political Thought Workshop Series is a series of bi-weekly lunchtime workshops that are held over the entire academic year. Each workshop features a guest speaker who addresses a topic in the wide range of multi-disciplinary areas that deal with social and political life. Papers are distributed and read in advance of the workshop meeting, allowing plenty of time for group discussion. Guest speakers have come from such fields as philosophy, political science, law, economics, sociology, and divinity studies. Past topics have included global justice, identity politics, religion and public reason, democratic theory, privacy, due process, domestic violence, legal positivism, and genetic engineering. All members and friends of the Vanderbilt community are invited to attend. For further information, please contact: Larry May, Marilyn Friedman or Robert Talisse.
Fall 2012
Note that all sessions are in the Bass Barry Sims Room of the Law School at 12:15-1:45
August 24:
Andrew Forcehimes (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
Normativity in International Law
Commentator – Emily McGill (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
September 7:
Paul
Morrow (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
Fidelity
to Law as Social Norm
Commentator
– Joshua Houston (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
David Estlund (Brown, Philosophy)
Bad Facts
Commentator – Luke Semrau (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
October 12:
Ruth Abbey (Notre Dame, Political Science)
Liberalism’s Feminist Critics
Commentator – Elizabeth Edenberg (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
October 19:
Diana Meyers (Loyola-Chicago, Philosophy)
Rethinking Coercion for a World of Poverty and Exploitation
Commentator – Sandra Skene (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)
Erin Kelly (Tufts, Philosophy)
Justice, Desert, and Responsibility
Commentator: Larry May (Vanderbilt, Philosophy, Law, and Pol. Sci.)
November 16:
Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt, Philosophy and Pol. Sci.)
Deliberative Democracy for the Real World
Commentator: TBA
November 30:
Marc Fleuerbaey (Princeton, Economics)
Climate
Policy Deserves a Negative Discount Rate
Commentator: Thomas Holaday (Vanderbilt, Philosophy)