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Stanford
Department of Philosophy
School of Humanities and Sciences

Wesson Discussion Seminar with Laura Kipnis

Wesson Discussion Seminar with Laura Kipnis
Date
Wed October 23rd 2019, 9:30 - 11:30am
Event Sponsor
McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society
Location
Hartley Conference Center, Mitchell Earth Sciences Building

 

Speaker

Laura Kipnis

 

The Wesson Discussion Seminar is intended to be a response to the Wesson Lecture delivered by Laura Kipnis on Tuesday, October 22.

Discussion Seminar Commentators

Eamonn Callan is the Pigott Family School of Education Professor, Emeritus. He is a philosopher of education whose work draws heavily on contemporary moral and political theory. His principal interests are in civic and moral education, and in the application of theories of justice and democracy to problems in educational policy and practice.

Barbara Fried is the William W. and Gertrude S. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of law, philosophy and economics.  Her most recent book, "Facing Up to Scarcity: The Logic and Limits of Nonconsequentialism," is forthcoming from Oxford University Press (winter 2020). She regularly teaches courses on feminist theory and the law at the law school.