ETHICS, PHILOSOPHY, and PUBLIC AFFAIRSJohn Haldane, FRSA, FRSE, Ph.D.
Ph.D., University of London (UK)
LL.D., Hon. St. Anselm, NH
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday for 3 Weeks
July 29- August 14
9:00am – 12:00pm
The purpose of this course is to explore the relation between ethics, philosophy and public affairs both from the point of view of understanding the possibilities and limitations of practical philosophy, and from that of considering how and to what extent public policy can be shaped by ethical and other philosophical considerations. The aims of this course are twofold - (i) to enable students to arrive at a sophisticated philosophical understanding of the relationship between ethics, philosophy and public affairs, and especially such concepts as individual, social and common goods, and (ii) to be able to engage critically with a range of contemporary social and policy issues.
COST: $1,412 for credit, $700 for audit.
John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy in the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs there. He is widely published in several areas of philosophy; in particular: history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of value. He is the co-author (with J.J.C. Smart) of Atheism and Theism (2nd edition from Blackwell, 2003); An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion (Duckworth); and Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical (Routledge, 2004). His next book is a companion volume from Routledge, entitled Reasonable Faith.
He also writes as an academic in the fields of art history and criticism, education, and theology. In addition, he is a frequent contributor to newspapers, radio and television in the UK and the US. In 2001-02 he was Royden Davis Professor of Humanities at Georgetown; and in recent years has delivered the Stanton Lectures at Cambridge University, the Gifford Lectures at Aberdeen University and the Joseph Lectures at the Gregorian University, Rome. In 2005 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture.
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