Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University and one of the world’s leading moral philosophers. His research focuses primarily on issues in the philosophy of international law, bioethics, and social moral epistemology.
This lecture, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored with Tulane University School of Law.
Robin Einhorn is the Preston Hotchkis Professor in the History of the United States at University of California, Berkeley and the the author of American Taxation, American Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2006) as well as Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872 (University of Chicago Press, 1991). Her lecture is based on her current research on the history of federal taxation and geography.
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord is the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jesse Graham research focuses on understanding the role of ideology and morality in unconsciously shaping human behavior. A recent recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation, he is the author of over sixty papers, many of which have appeared in leading journals, including Science and Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.
Valerie Tiberius is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and specializes in ethics, moral psychology, and the philosophy of well-being.
Liam Murphy works in legal, moral, and political philosophy and the application of these inquiries to law, legal institutions, and legal theory.
ABSTRACT: Anger is the most destructive emotion. But we live in an orgy of anger in which anger is normalized. I discuss some of the cultural variation in norms for anger, the philosophical implications of this variation, and some implication of using cross-cultural resources for ethics.
Ann Cudd is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Professor Cudd’s philosophical interests include social and political philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science, decision theory, and feminist theory. Her research has long focused on themes of oppression, economic inequality, and gender.
