Schedule of Speakers

2009-2010

Friday, October 9: Isaiah O'Rear, Institute of Higher Education, The University of Georgia. "Desert-Based Theories are Fair and Feasible: An Exercise in Non-Ideal Theory." 3:30-5:00, 302 Baldwin Hall.

Friday, November 13: Brandon Turner, Department of Political Science, Clemson University. "Liberalism and Antagonism." 3:30-5:00, 302 Baldwin Hall. (Note: to view Professor Turner's biographical information, click here and scroll down to his name.)

Friday, January 8, 2010: Ted H. Miller, Associate Professor Political Science. University of Alabama. "Hobbes, Humanism, and Mathematics." 3:30-5:00, 302 Baldwin Hall.

Friday, February 5, 2010: Cary Nederman, Professor of Political Science, Texas A & M University. "Toleration in Historical and Comparative Perspective." 3:30-5:00, 302 Baldwin Hall. Lecture supported by Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

Friday, April 9, 2010. Richard Boyd, Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University. 3:30-5:00. Title and location TBA.

2008-2009

Friday, September 12: Meeting to discuss C.D.C. Reeve paper. 3:30-5:00, 202 Baldwin Hall. "Epistemology and Metaphysics" chapter from C.D.C. Reeve, Philosopher-Kings: The Argument of Plato's Republic. Hackett. 1998.

Friday, September 19: C.D.C. Reeve, Department of Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill. "Blindness and Reorientation: Education and the Acquisition of Knowledge in the Republic." 3:30, 115 Peabody Hall.

Friday, October 17: Larry Bloom, Department of Philosophy, The University of Georgia. "The Rule of Reason and the Unity of the Soul in Plato's Republic." 3:30-5:00, 202 Baldwin Hall.

Friday, November 7: Meeting to discuss Patrick Riley Paper. 3:30-5:00, 202 Baldwin Hall. "Justice as Love and Benevolence." Chapter from Patrick Riley, Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as the Charity of the Wise. Harvard University Press. 1996.

Friday, November 14: Patrick Riley, Department of Government, Harvard University. "Leibniz's Theory of Justice as the Charity of the Wise." 3:30-5:00. 326 Baldwin Hall.

Friday, December 12: Alexander Kaufman, Department of Political Science, The Univeristy of Georgia. "Stability, Fit, and Consensus".  3:30-5:00. 302 Baldwin Hall.

Friday, January 30: Brandon Turner, Visisting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University. " Adam Ferguson and the Nature of Liberal Virtues." 3:30-5:00. 302 Baldwin Hall.

Friday, February 27: Samuel Freeman, Avalon Professor in the Humanities and Steven F. Goldstone Term Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Pennsylvania. "The Social Bases of Distributive Justice." 3:30-5:00. 302 Baldwin Hall.

Friday, March 27: David Lay Williams, Department of Philosophy and Department of Political Science, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. "Plato's Noble Lie." 3:30-5:00. Location TBA.

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