Newcastle seminar series
Thom Brooks
NEWCASTLE ETHICS, LEGAL, AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY GROUP
Autumn Seminar Series 2008
Newcastle University
19th November
Richard Mullender (Law, Newcastle)
"Truth, Bullshit, and Blame Culture"
26th November
John Broome (Philosophy, Oxford)
"Motivation"
1st December
Helga Varden (Philosophy, UIUC)
"Right and Virtue: Kant on External and Internal Freedom"
3rd December
Thom Brooks (Politics, Newcastle)
"Why Save the Planet?"
All meetings will take place in the Politics Building (room G6) at
Newcastle University. Attendance is free and open to all. Please direct
any questions to Dr Thom Brooks (t.br...@newcastle.ac.uk). Our website
can be found here: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/NELPP/index.htm
Our spring programme will be announced soon. Speakers will include Neil
MacCormick and Albert Weale. We will also host two conferences. The
first conference is "Pettit and His Critics" and will take place on 14th
March. Speakers will include Thom Brooks, Cecile Laborde, Michael Ridge,
and Philip Pettit.
The second conference is "Nussbaum's Liberty of Conscience: Author Meets
Critics" and will take place on 12th June. Speakers will include Peter
Jones, Chandran Kukathas, Sue Mendus, Anne Phillips, and Martha
Nussbaum.
Best wishes,
Thom
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Dr Thom Brooks
Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy
Department of Politics
School of Geography, Politics & Sociology
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
Phone: +44(0)191 2225288 / Fax: +44(0)191 2225069
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