Fall 2009 Schedule of Presenters
September 3
János Kis, Central European University and New York University
Constitutional Precommitment Revisited
September 10
Richard Epstein, New York University
Property Rights and the Rule of Law:
Classical Liberalism Confronts the Modern Administrative States
September 17
Ronald Dworkin, New York University
September 24
Peter Singer, Princeton University
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Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, University of Lodz, Poland
Secrecy in Consequentialism: A Defence of Esoteric Moralilty
October 1
Michael Smith, Princeton University
Do We Have Reason To Do What We Should Do Morally Speaking?
October 8
David Enoch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The University of Texas
A Note to Colloquium Participants
October 15
Liam Murphy, New York University
The Nature of Law
October 22
Benjamin Zipursky, Fordham University
Wrongs, not Accidents: Civil Recourse and Civil Wrongs in the Law of Torts
October 29
Lily Batchelder, New York University
Optimal Tax Theory as a Theory of Distributive Justice
November 5
Thomas Nagel, New York University
Cognition and Value
Note to the Colloquium: These two chapters are from a draft about the consequences of antireductionism for the natural order. Discussion in the colloquium should focus on Chapter V: Value, but I am distributing Chapter IV: Cognition as well, because Chapter V depends on it at various points. T.N.
November 12
Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr., Harvard University
Note to Participants in the NYU Colloquium: My paper for the colloquium on November 12 is the second of the John Locke Lectures that I gave in Oxford last spring. I enclose also a summary of the main points of those lectures, so that you can see where this lectuire fits in. The whole thing is very much a work in progress at this point, and I look forward to learning from your comments. Tim Scanlon
Summary of the 2009 Locke Lectures
Lecture 2: Metaphysical Objections
November 19
A. J. Julius, UCLA
December 3
Jeremy Waldron, NYU