Ethicist and philosopher Robert Audi will speak
on “Religion, Politics and International Justice” on
Wednesday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Old Chapel.
His talk is the Spencer-Leavitt Lecture sponsored by
the Philosophy Department.
Audi, the Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, is
internationally known for his contributions to ethics, epistemology
and philosophy of mind and action. He is also co-director of
the University of Nebraska's Center for the Teaching and Study
of Applied Ethics.
His books include Political Reasoning (1989),
The Structure of Justification (1993),
Action, Intention and Reason (1993), Moral Knowledge and
Ethical Character (1997), and The Cambridge Dictionary
of Philosophy (1999), Religious Commitment and Secular
Reason (2000) and The Architecture of Reason
(2001).
He is past president of the American Philosophical
Association and has served as editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Philosophical Research and
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. He has
directed many National Endowment for the Humanities seminars
and institutes, and serves as consulting editor for a number
of journals and scholarly presses.
Also, on Thursday, April 18, at 4 p.m. in Reamer
Campus Center Auditorium, two bioethicists – Dan Brock
and Bernard Gert – will join Audi for a discussion titled “What
Ethics and Bioethics Can Teach Each Other,” on the new
eugenics (stem cells, cloning, sex selection). Additionally, Brock
(of the National Institutes of Health and Brown University) and
Gert (Dartmouth College) will speak on “From Chance to
Choice: Ethics and the New Eugenics” on Friday, April 19, at 1:30 p.m.
in Old Chapel.
Audi and the others will also be visiting a number of
classes during the week.
For more information, call ext. 6376.