Visiting Speakers - Spring 2007
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TBA
Sean McKeever, Davidson College
Date: Friday, March 23, 2007
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Sean McKeever is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is interested contemporary moral theory, the history of ethics, and political philosophy. He is co-author, with Michael Ridge, of Principled Ethics: generalism as a regulative ideal (Oxford University Press, 2006), which critiques moral particularism while developing and defending a generalist alternative.
"Autonomy and Choice"
James Stacey Taylor, The College of New Jersey
Date: Friday, March 30
Time:
3:30 p.m.
Bio: James Stacey Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He received MA (Hons.) and MLitt degrees from St Andrews University, and his MA and PhD degrees from Bowling Green State University. Before moving to The College of New Jersey he taught at St. Norbert College and Louisiana State University. He is the author of Stakes and Kidneys (Ashgate Press, 2005), and the editor of Personal Autonomy: New essays (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He has published numerous articles on autonomy, ethics, and applied ethics (especially medical ethics). He currently serves as the Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Value Inquiry.