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Cecil G. Sheps Visiting Scholar in Social Justice -- Fall 2003

Jeremy J. Waldron, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law and Philosophy, Columbia University. He has written on a wide range of topics in social, legal, and political philosophy.  His books include The Right to Private Property (1988), Nonsense Upon Stilts (ed., 1988), Liberal Rights (1993), The Dignity of Legislation (1999), Law and Disagreement (1999), and God, Locke and Equality (2002).  He is also the author of numerous articles in law journals and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Winston Distinguished Visitors*

2003-2004

Samuel Scheffler, Professor and Class of 1941 World War II Memorial Chair, Department of Philosophy and School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.  He works mainly in the areas of moral and political philosophy and his honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship.  He has written three books, The Rejection of Consequentialism, Human Morality, and Boundaries and Allegiances, as well as many articles. He is an Associate Editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs.

Winston Distinguished Visitors*

2002-2003

Robert J. Fogelin, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College.  He has worked extensively in the history of philosophy and many of his books reflect this interest, including Wittgenstein (1976, 2nd edition 1987), Hume’s Skepticism (1985), and, most recently, Berkeley’s Idealism (2001).  He has also written in the areas of informal logic and the philosophy of language, as shown by his books and numerous articles.

Thomas Pogge, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University.  He specializes in global justice, social and political philosophy, ethics, and moral philosophy.  His most recent book is World Poverty and Human Rights (2002) and he has published many articles on related topics.  He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and has received numerous honors, among them a MacArthur Fellowship.
 

Hollan Distinguished Visitors**

2001-2002

Robert Stalnaker, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He specializes in philosophical logic, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.  Stalnaker is the author of Inquiry, and Context and Content, and many papers on logic, semantics, intentionality and the relation between language and thought.

Stephen Schiffer, Professor, Department of Philosophy, New York Univeristy. He works in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.  Schiffer is the author of Meaning and Remnants of Meaning , as well as a broad range of articles.

Hollan Distinguished Visitors**

2000-2001


Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy,  Rutgers University. He specializes in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics.    He is the author of Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics, as well as of numerous articles conerning the philosophy of science.

Jonathan Bennett, Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University. His philosophical publications include Rationality; Kant's Analytic; Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes; Kant's Dialectic; Linguistic Behaviour; the co-editing and translation of Leibniz's Nouveaux Essais; A Study of Spinoza's Ethics; Events and Their Names; and The Act Itself;  There are over ninety journal articles (many anthologized) and numerous reviews.

Jonathan Dancy, Professor, University of Reading.  Professor Dancy is the author of An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Moral Reasons, Berkeley: An Introduction, and Practical Reality, as well as articles on many philosophical subjects. He is the editor of Perceptual Knowledge and Reading Parfit, and co-editor of A Companion to Epistemology. He is currently working on practical reasons.

Michael Smith, Professor, The Australian National University. Smith's primary research interests include ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, political philosophy and philosophy of law. He is the author of The Moral Problem, and editor of Meta-Ethics. His Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics  is forthcoming. 

*This Series exists thanks to the generous support of 
Mr. Charles M. Winston, Sr. 

**This Series exists thanks to the generous support of 
Mr. William Edwin Hollan, Jr.