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Bruce Brower
  • Chair And Associate Professor Of Philosophy
  • CEPA Speaker Series Chair
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  • bbrower@tulane.edu
  • Phone: (504) 862-3383
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  • 105 Newcomb Hall
    Tulane University
    New Orleans, LA 70118

Biography

Bruce Brower (PhD, University of Pittsburgh) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy. His interests include ethics, social and political philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

As Chair of the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs Event Committee, Professor Brower runs the Center’s Faculty Seminar and organizes the Center’s public lectures.

Selected Articles

  • “The Limits of Public Reason,” The Journal of Philosophy 91 (1994), 5-26.
  • “Dispositional Ethical Realism,” Ethics 103 (1993), 221-49.
  • “Virtue Concepts and Ethical Realism,” The Journal of Philosophy 85 (1988), 675-693.

The Murphy Institute

Established in memory of Charles H. Murphy, Sr. (1870-1954), and inspired by the vision of Charles H. Murphy, Jr. (1920-2002), the Murphy Institute exists to help Tulane faculty and students understand economic, moral, and political problems we all face and think about. More important, it exists to help us understand how these problems have come to be so closely interconnected.