Murphy-Philosophy Seminar: Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)
Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program and Professor of Philosophy
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Jennifer Lackey is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law (courtesy) at Northwestern University, and Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg.
Most of her research is in social epistemology with a current focus on issues involving credibility assessments within the American criminal legal system and epistemic reparations.
She is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (2008, Oxford: Oxford University Press) and has co-edited (with Ernest Sosa) The Epistemology of Testimony (2006, Oxford University Press) and (with David Christensen) The Epistemology of Disagreement (2013, Oxford University Press).
Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution and she has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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.
