University of Wisconsin Philosopher Claudia Card will present the final lecture in the 2007 Philosophy Speaker Series Thursday, May 24 at 4:30 p.m. in the Schaffer Library’s Phi Beta Kappa Room.
Card’s lecture “Ticking Bombs and Interrogations,” is free and open to the public.
Card received her doctorate from Harvard University and is the Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy as well as an affiliate professor in Jewish Studies, LGBT Studies, Women’s Studies and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Her areas of research include ethics, social and political philosophy and feminist and environmental philosophy.
Card has authored several books including The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil (Oxford, 2002) and The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Cambridge, 2003). She is the former chair of the American Psychological Association Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession, (1997-2001) and a Senior-Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (2002-2007).
Funding for the 2007 Philosophy Speaker Series was provided by the Spencer-Leavitt Foundation.
For further information, please contact Raymond Martin, department chair at (518) 388-6376 or martinr@union.edu.