This is the interview I gave Cherita Brown of Mississippi Public Broadcasting, MS’s NPR affiliate, and Professor Richard Gershon of the University of Mississippi School of Law on the relationship between the law and morality. Cherita also interviewed me about my forthcoming book, Uniting Mississippi: Democracy and Leadership in the South. I hope to joint them…
Presentation: “A Culture of Support and Merit: Promoting Independence without Stigmatizing Dependency” Abstract: In A Culture of Justice, I argue that a society has a shared, public obligation to foster self-respect and a sense of positive power in all people. Libertarians like Robert Nozick deny that there is a shared obligation to provide people the means to…
Invited to give a talk in The Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science series.
Heading to the University of Southern Mississippi to talk about Uniting Mississippi for their Mississippi Humanities Council-supported “Philosophical Fridays” program.
Looking forward to visiting folks at the Clinton School for Public Service at the University of Arkansas, in Little Rock, where I’ll be talking about Uniting Mississippi: Democracy and Leadership in the South.
Excited to be talking with folks in Oxford about leadership in Mississippi and the South.
I will be talking about John Lachs’s stoic pragmatism. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Photo of John Lachs, to whom the Berlin conference is dedicated.”] [/featured-image]