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Conference: Creating Capabilities: Sources and Consequences for Law and Social Policy

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Date: 
04.23.2010 - 04.24.2010
Location: 
The University of Chicago Law School

This conference, organized by James Heckman, Martha Nussbaum and Robert Pollak, seeks to link the "Human Development Approach" to the recent literature on the economics, neuroscience, and psychology of human development in order to enrich both fields.

Dewey Lecture in Law & Philosophy: Michael Walzer, "Trying Political Leaders"

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01.20.2010
Location: 
Courtroom

The subject of this year's Dewey Lecture is the political morality and wisdom of putting political leaders on trial after we have endured their leadership (and other nations, perhaps, have endured their crimes). Political trials have a long history-and the judgments we make of their judgments are highly contested.

Michael Forster

Glenn A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy and the College

Adam Hosein

Law and Philosophy Fellow

Adam Hosein received his PhD in philosophy from MIT in 2009. Mr. Hosein works mainly in ethics and political philosophy, with a special interest in issues of global justice. He also has interests in feminist philosophy and its implications for moral and political theory.

Robert Goodin: "An Epistemic Case for Legal Moralism"

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Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and of Social & Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. This talk was recorded January 16, 2008 as the 2007-2008 John Dewey Lecture on Jurisprudence. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, or so we are told. But why on earth not? The statute books run to hundreds of volumes.


74:15 minutes (67.98 MB)
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2008

Richard Rorty: "Dewey and Posner on Pragmatism and Moral Progress"

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Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Stanford University. This talk was recorded April 10, 2006 as the annual Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy. © 2006 The University of Chicago


82:20 minutes (75.39 MB)
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2006

Peter Singer: "America's Responsibilities as A Global Citizen"

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Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. This talk was the 2004 Dewey Lecture. Prof. Singer was introduced by Martha Nussbaum.


86:29 minutes (9.9 MB)
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2004
Guest speaker: 
Peter Singer

Peter Singer: Q & A

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Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. This talk was the 2004 Dewey Lecture.


75:30 minutes (8.64 MB)
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2004
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Peter Singer
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