Department of Philosophy

 

Conference on Virtue & Social Diversity

March 3-4, 2007

Program

Saturday, March 3rd

Morning Session: Chair: Lois Shepherd (D'Alemberte Professor of Law, Florida State University)

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Speaker: Lawrence Blum, "Race and Identity-Relevant Civic Virtues" (Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Respondent: Bernard Boxill (Pardue Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Speaker: Shelley Burtt, "Is Inclusion a Civic Virtue? Adoption, Disability and the Liberal State" (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Respondent: Sophia Wong (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Long Island University)

Afternoon Session: Chair: Anthony Rudd (Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College)

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Julia Driver, "Cosmopolitan and Civic Virtue" (Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College)

Respondent: Simon Keller (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Boston University

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Speaker: William Galston, "Pluralism and Civic Virtue" (Saul I Stern Professor of Civic Engagement, Director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland)

Respondent: James Murphy (Professor of Government, Dartmouth College)

Sunday, March 4th

Morning Session: Chair: David McNaughton (Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University)

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Speaker: Jeanine Grenberg, "The Social Dimensions of Courageous Humility in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park" (Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College)

Respondent: Robert Louden (Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine)

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Speaker: Andrew Mason, "Public Justification and Civic Virtue" (Professor of Political Theory, University of Southampton)

Respondent: Corey Brettschneider (Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University)