Keynote Speaker
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Conference title:
The Epistemology of Political Compromise |
Prof. Simon Cabulea May
(Florida State University) (go to Prof. May's page >>) Associate Professor of Philosophy at FSU. PhD, Stanford University , 2004. Author of several papers on moral compromise in politics. Simon Cabulea May is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University where he teaches courses in political philosophy and jurisprudence. His present research concerns conflicts of moral convictions in politics, particularly as they bear on the legitimacy and authority of democratic law, the justifiability of public policies, and norms of public deliberation and political engagement. He holds an M.A. from Rhodes University, South Africa, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He also created the international political philosophy group blog Public Reason in 2007. |
FORMERLY ANNOUNCED KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Unfortunately Professor Avishai Margalit will not be able to come due to health concerns.
Unfortunately Professor Avishai Margalit will not be able to come due to health concerns.
Prof. Avishai Margalit
(The Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (go to Prof. Margalit's page >>) Visiting Scholar: Harvard Univ., 1974-75; Oxford Univ., 1979-80, 1990; Free Univ., Berlin, 1984-85; Max Planck Inst., Berlin, 1984-85; Rockefeller Fellow, Center for Human Values, Princeton Univ., 1995-96; George F. Kennan Prof., Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton, since 2006. Awards: E.M.E.T. Prize, 2007; Israel Prize in Philosopy, 2010. Member, Israel Acad. of Sci. & Humanities, since 2011. |