Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.

This lecture, and the reception to follow, is free and open to the public. 

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Japa Pallikkathayil is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Pittsburgh. Professor Pallikkathayil's primary research interests lie at the intersection of moral and political philosophy and include such topics as coercion, deception, and exploitation. Her scholarly articles have appeared in leading philosophy journals, including Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Philosophy and Public Affairs. Professor Pallikkathayil received her PhD from Harvard University in 2008.

Bart Wilson is the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law and Director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University. Professor Wilson's research uses experimental economics to explore the foundations of exchange and specialization and the origins of property. Another of his research programs compares decision making in humans, apes, and monkeys.

Elizabeth Barnes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Her work focuses on the intersection of feminist philosophy, metaphysics, social philosophy, and ethics.

Hélène Landemore is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Professor Landemore's primary areas of research include democratic theory, political epistemology, and theories of justice.

Roy Baumeister is the Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University and Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland. He is a social psychologist whose work focuses on the subjects of willpower, self-control, and self-esteem, and how they relate to human morality and success.

Hanna Pickard is Professor of Philosophy of Psychiatry at University of Birmingham. For 2017-2019, she is a Visiting Research Scholar to the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University. Professor Pickard specializes in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology, and clinical ethics. Her research explores interdisciplinary questions that arise out of clinical practice and related science, often in connection with law and public policy.

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