Author Archives: David Reidy

Workshop on Social Norms, April 27-28

The 2013 Spring Philosophy Symposium at the University of Tennessee will take place April 27-28. Organized this year by Prof. Adam Cureton, the symposium will address philosophical issues raised by social norms and will feature presentations by Barbara Herman, Brad … Continue reading

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“TVA” Conference: Themes on the Moral Philosophy of Kant and Rawls

The Program for the Tennessee Value and Agency (“TVA”) 2012 Conference is now available here: http://web.utk.edu/~acureto1/tva/files/2012/08/2012-TVA-Program.pdf Those interested in attending may consult Adam Cureton, adamcureton@utk.edu, with questions, should there be any. The meeting is open to the public and we … Continue reading

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Call for Abstracts: TVA Conference: Rawls and Kant

Final Call for Abstracts Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Rawls and Kant Tennessee Value and Agency (TVA) Annual Conference University of Tennessee November 16-18, 2012 Keynote speakers: Thomas M. Scanlon, Harvard University Pamela Hieronymi, UCLA Abstracts (of 2-3 double-spaced … Continue reading

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Call for Abstracts: Tennessee Value and Agency Conference: Themes from Rawls and Kant

The inaugural Tennessee Value and Agency Conference will take place in November 2012. Tim Scanlon (Harvard) and Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) will keynote. The meeting will focus on themes in the moral philosophy of Rawls and Kant. Conference information and the … Continue reading

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Tennessee Value and Agency Conference 2012 – CFA

The inaugural Tennessee Value and Agency Conference will take place in November 2012.  Tim Scanlon (Harvard) and Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) will keynote.  The meeting will focus on themes in the moral philosophy of Rawls and Kant.  Conference information and the … Continue reading

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Animals, Ethics and the Law Symposium

A two day symposium that may be of interest to some:  http://philosophy.utk.edu/ael/main.html March 2-3, 2012 Howard Baker Center for Public Policy Animals, Ethics and Law Symposium Speakers and Titles: Colin Allen Indiana Philosophy, Cognitive Science Ethics, Law and the Science … Continue reading

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Symposium Announcement

“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 … Continue reading

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Human Rights and Liberal Toleration

An updated (thanks for the comments!) working draft (now with citations/footnotes) of my ”Human Rights and Liberal Toleration” has been posted to SSRN.com.  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1436125 I would be most grateful for additional comments and suggestions (to this site or to me directly).  An earlier and much shorter version was … Continue reading

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2009 Berger Prize

Public Reason member David Reidy, with co-author Jeppe von Platz, has been awarded the 2009 Berger Prize by the APA Committee on Law and Philosophy for “The Structural Variety of Historical Injustices,” Journal of Social Philosophy, v. 37.3, pgs. 360-376, … Continue reading

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Nickel on Rawls, Human Rights and Toleration

I have a conference length paper on Jim Nickel’s criticisms (from the second edition of “Making Sense of Human Rights”) of Rawls’s “ultraminimalist” conception of human rights in LoP. I seek readers’ comments both because I’d like to get a … Continue reading

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Intellectual Biography of Rawls — Request

As a few readers of Public Reason may know, I am in the very early stages of an intellectual biography of John Rawls. A good deal of Rawls’s correspondence is archived at Harvard, but not all. And so I am … Continue reading

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Encyclopedia Entry on Rawls

I have the unenviable task of drafting an encyclopedia article on Rawls for the IVR’s online encyclopedia. I’ve posted the most recent version, titled John Rawls, to my SSRN page — http://ssrn.com/author=382674. As with all online encyclopedias, the entry is … Continue reading

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