International Advisory Board
John M. Doris, Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis
Gerald Dworkin, Philosophy, University of California, Davis
John Gardner, Law, University of Oxford
Leslie J. Green, Law, University of Oxford
Nicola Lacey, Law, London School of Economics
Larry Laudan, Philosophy, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jesse J. Prinz, Philosophy, City University of New York Graduate Center
Denise Réaume, Law, University of Toronto
Michael Rosen, Government, Harvard University
Stephen P. Stich, Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Jonathan Wolff, Philosophy, University College London

Mission of the Center
The Center sponsors speakers and conferences to support and encourage the reflective, critical and philosophical study of human values, with a particular emphasis on the conceptual, historical, and empirical foundations of the normative systems—moral, political, and legal—in which human being live. The Center’s mission encompasses not only the traditional concerns of moral, political, and legal theory--in Anglophone, European and non-Western traditions--but also the history of thought about ethical, political, and legal questions as these bear on contemporary questions. Traditional problems of conceptual analysis and normative justification are supplemented by attention to empirical results in the human sciences as these bear on the nature and viability of various forms of normative ordering.

Events for 2008-2009
Speakers at the Law School sponsored in whole or in part by the Center will include Simon Blackburn (Cambridge University), Leslie Green (Oxford University), Larry Laudan (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Susan Mendus (University of York), and Joseph Raz (Oxford University & Columbia University), among others. In May 2009, the Center will sponsor a major international conference on “Rethinking the Genealogy of Morals,” featuring philosophers, social scientists, and legal scholars examining what we know about the origin(s) of our moral and political values and what bearing those origins have or should have on how we understand our values.

More information?
If you have questions, please contact Professor Leiter at bleiter-at-uchicago-dot-edu.