Practical Philosophy Workshop

This week we are delighted to welcome Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “What is Practical Knowledge?”. The meeting will take place on Friday May 18th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 408.

In accordance with our usual practice, Professor Brewer will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To dowload the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

This week we are delighted to welcome Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin Madison) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “How Does the Origin of Our Moral Beliefs Affect Their Credibility?”. The meeting will take place on Friday May 4th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 408.

In accordance with our usual practice, Professor Shafer-Landau will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To dowload the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

This week we are delighted to welcome Benjamin McKean (University of Chicago Society of Fellows) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Justice and Social Order in the Political Realisms of Raymond Geuss and Bernard Williams”. The meeting will take place on Friday April 20th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 408.

In accordance with our usual practice, Ben will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To dowload the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

This week we are delighted to welcome David Holiday (Chicago, graduate student) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Unthinkable, Unconscionable, Impossible: The Morality of Incapacity”. The meeting will take place on Friday April 6th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 408.

In accordance with our usual practice, Dave will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To dowload the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

Our schedule for the spring quarter will be as follows:

4/6 – David Holiday (Chicago, graduate student) - ”Unthinkable, Unconscionable, Impossible: The Morality of Incapacity”

4/20 – Benjamin McKean (Chicago) -  ”Justice and Social Order in the Political Realisms of Raymond Geuss and Bernard Williams”

5/4 – Russ Shafer-Landau (Wisconsin-Madison) - ”How Do the Origins of Our Moral Beliefs Affect their Credibility?”

5/18 – Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia) – title tbc

6/1 – Julie Cooper (University of Chicago, Dept of Political Science) – “A Diasporic Critique of Diasporism”

This week we are delighted to welcome Anton Ford (Chicago) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “The Province of Human Agency”. The meeting will take place on Friday March 9th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 111.

In accordance with our usual practice, Anton will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To dowload the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, donuts and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

This week our speaker at the Practical Philosophy Workshop will be Mark Hopwood (Chicago, graduate student). Mark will be presenting a paper entitled “Love as an Ideal: Ascent and Irony in Iris Murdoch”. The meeting will take place in Wieboldt 111, from 10.30am – 12.20pm on Friday February 24th.

In accordance with our usual practice, Mark will give a 10-15 minute presentation on the main points of the paper at the workshop. To download the full paper, visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, coffee and bagels will be available at the start of the meeting.

This week we are delighted to welcome Joe Lubenow (Chicago, graduate student) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Raz and the Interest Theory of Rights”. The meeting will take place on Friday February 10th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 111.

In accordance with our usual practice, Joe will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To dowload the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, donuts and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

This week we are delighted to welcome Will Small (Chicago, grad student) to the Practical Philosophy Workshop.

Will’s paper will be entitled “Success and Failure in Action”. The paper will be read in the workshop, and will not be available in advance.

The meeting will take place on Friday, January 27th from 10.30am – 12.20pm, and will be held in Wieboldt 111.

As usual, coffee and bagels will be available before the meeting.

This week we are delighted to welcome David Estlund, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy and Lombardo Family Professor of Humanities at Brown University, to the Practical Philosophy Workshop.

Professor Estlund will be presenting a paper entitled “What Good is It? Unrealistic Political Theory and the Value of Intellectual Work”. The meeting will take place on Friday, January 20th from 10.30am – 12.20pm, and will be held in Wieboldt 111 (please note the change from our usual room).

In accordance with our usual practice, Professor Estlund will be making a brief 10-15 minute presentation on the main points of the paper in the workshop. To download the full paper, visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, coffee and bagels will be served before the start of the meeting.