with papers by Doug MacKay (UNC-Chapel Hill), Vida Panitch (Carleton University) and L. Chad Horne (University of Toronto), Patrick Turmel (Université Laval), Sandra Raponi (Merrimack College), Jonathan Peterson (Loyola University), Sari Kisilevsky (CUNY Queens). Please click here for a complete … Read more
"North Carolina's Greatest Challenge" Gene Nichol is Boyd Tinsley distinguished professor of law and Director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina. From 2005-2008, he was president of the College of William and … Read more
Matthew Adler will present, “Fairness, Claims and Prioritarianism: Accounting for Responsibility and Desert” Abstract: The literature on “luck egalitarianism” seeks to refine criteria of distributive justice so as to take account of differential individual responsibility and/or desert. Intuitively, as between … Read more
At a time when so many people feel unsafe, questions about gun control are especially important. For example, does gun ownership decrease violent crime by deterring potential criminals, or does it increase violent crime by allowing more people access to … Read more
Laurie Shrage's work evaluates public policies on markets in sexual services and expressive materials, reproductive health care, legal gender identity, and marriage. She is more interested in the active application of philosophical theory to inform public debate - in what she terms … Read more
