Murphy-Philosophy Seminar: Remy Debes

Organized by the Tulane Philosophy Department, the Murphy-Philosophy Seminars are a series of workshops where CE Faculty Fellows and distinguished guest speakers present works in progress on ethics, political philosophy, political theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of law, and intellectual history. Papers are distributed one week beforehand to the participants who read the paper and prepare discussion questions for the presenter.

Remy Debes is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is also Editor-in-Chief of The Southern Journal of Philosophy. He works in Ethics and the History of Ethics, primarily on human dignity, respect, empathy, metaethics, and French and British enlightenment moral theory, especially David Hume and Adam Smith.

Professor Debes' new book The Possibility of Respect: Human Dignity and The Ethics of Difference (forthcoming) explores the ideas of understanding, empathy, respect, and human dignity, and the connections between these subjects and questions of social difference, oppression, power, and justice. He is currently co-editing with Michelle Schwarze (U Wisconsin, Madison) and Nir Ben-Moshe (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) a new anthology, The Smithian Mind, which will appear as part of the Routledge Philosophical Minds series.