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.
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