Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
August 28-29, 2008
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In conjunction with the American Political Science Association Hynes Convention Center/ Boston Marriott Copley Place/ Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA
Evolution and Morality
Conference co-chairs: Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair of Law and Professor of Government, University of Texas, and James Fleming, The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Boston University
Thursday, August 28
4:15 PM: Panel 1
Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy and James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University: "Naturalistic Ethics without Fallacies"–Commentators: Jonathan Beckwith, American Cancer Society Professor of Microbiology
and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Robin B. Kar, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Chair: James Fleming
7:30 PM: Evening Reception
Friday, August 29
7:00 AM: Breakfast reception
7:50 AM: Annual business meeting
8:00 AM: Panel 2
Nita Farahany, Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University: "Law and Behavioral Morality"–Commentators: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Professor of Philosophy and Hardy Professor of Legal Studies, Dartmouth University, Jennifer Culbert, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, Chair: Jacob T. Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, McGill University
10:15 AM: Panel 3
Larry Arnhart, Professor of Political Science, Northern Illinois University: "Deep History in Biopolitical Science"–Commentators: Daniel Lord Smail, Professor of History, Harvard University, Richard Richards, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Chair: Donald Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University