Intellectual Life
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Peter Koellner, Harvard University
141 Law BuildingPeter Koellner is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He joined the department in 2003 after receiving his Ph.D. from MIT. His main areas of research are mathematical logic — […]
The Apostrophe in “The Master’s Tools”: LPE and Using the Law Differently
130 Law BuildingCome join Law and Political Economy (LPE) at Berkeley for a conversation about our role in social change as law students, and to learn about our plans for the semester! […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Edward J. Hall, Harvard University
141 Law BuildingEdward J. Hall, Harvard University I work on a range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology that overlap with philosophy of science. (Which is to say: the best topics in metaphysics and […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Lilliana Mason, Johns Hopkins University
141 Law BuildingLilliana Mason, Johns Hopkins University Lilliana Mason is an associate professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and the SNF Agora Institute. She is the author of Uncivil Agreement: How […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Peter Galison, Harvard University
141 Law BuildingGoverning Epistemology: Knowledge in Large-Scale Experiments Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. He wrote two dissertations, one in the history of science and one in […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: John MacFarlane, University of California, Berkeley
141 Law BuildingPaper Title and Abstract: Disagreement and Meaning Philosophers often argue from premises about disagreement to conclusions about meaning. For example, from the fact that a fan of brutalist architecture who […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Leif Nelson, University of California, Berkeley
141 Law BuildingTransparency, Replicability, and Integrity This workshop is based on a series of blog posts co-authored by Leif Nelson. About Leif Nelson: Leif Nelson is the Ewald T. Grether Professor in Business […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Michael Martin, University of California, Berkeley
141 Law BuildingHume, Sentiment and No-Fault Disagreement Hume’s celebrated essay, ‘On the Standard of Taste’ is often taken to uphold the common observation that people can disagree in matters of taste without there being any error on either side of the dispute. And Hume’s account of judgements of taste has often been taken as the basis of […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: David Enoch, Oxford University
141 Law Building & VirtualAgainst Public Reason I argue that public-reason (PR) political philosophy should be rejected. The reasons given in support of this conclusion address PR from a broader philosophical perspective than is common in this literature. In particular, I use here a general discussion of idealization in meta-normative theory (put forward in my "Why Idealize?") to shed light […]
Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory: Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University
141 Law BuildingStories That Wrong and Stories That Repair Stories are as important as they are ubiquitous, depicting everything from the origin of the universe to the driving force behind an isolated act by a single individual. But stories do not just depict what has actually occurred—they can also exert tremendous power over what does or even […]
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