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"Rawlsian Liberalism in Context(s)"
Date: February 26-27, 2010
Place:Toyota Auditorium, Baker Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee
Over a period of fifty years, John Rawls developed and gave voice to the
most powerful and systematic moral theory of constitutional liberal
democracy since John Stuart Mill's work a century earlier. The recent
publication of Rawls's undergraduate thesis, "A Brief Inquiry into the
Meaning of Sin and Faith," has encouraged a profitable re-reading of his
political philosophy in the context and light of his personal and
scholarly engagement with theological ethics and political theology in
general and Christianity in particular. Building on this development,"Rawlsian Liberalism in Context(s)" aims to shed further light on
Rawls's work by situating it within multiple disciplinary contexts. Symposium speakers will address the relationships between Rawls's
thought and 20th century developments in economics and political
economy, in analytic philosophy, in American pragmatist thought, in
normative theorizing of American foreign policy and international
relations, and in theological ethics and political theology. Symposium
speakers, each an expert on Rawls's work, include:
- Jerry Gaus, James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona.
- Richard Miller, Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University.
- David Reidy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee.
- Robert Talisse, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Vanderbilt University.
- Paul Weithman, Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame University.
Sessions are free and open to the public. Schedule details will be
available late fall 2009. For further information, please
contact David Reidy, Philosophy, University of Tennessee, dreidy@utk.edu or 865.974.7210.
The symposium is sponsored by the Office of Research, the School of Law,
the Baker Center for Public Policy, the Center for the Study of Social
Justice, the departments of Philosophy and
Political Science, and the American
Studies progam, all at the University of Tennessee.
Thomas Pogge
Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs
Yale University
Date: April 9, 2010
Time: 3:30P
Place: Law School Auditorium
Professor Pogge's lecture is co-sponsored by the School of Law, Department of Political Science, Center for the Study of Social Justice and Global Studies Program.
Samuel Freeman
Avalon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Law
University of Pennsylvania
Date: April 16, 2010
Time: 3:30
Place: Law School Auditorium
Professor Freeman's lecture is co-sponsored by the School of Law and the Department of Political Science.
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