Author Meets Critics
Saturday, March 30th, 2024
Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Location: RAWL 1011
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Since his arrival at Purdue in 2022, JP Messina has offered courses in the ethics of data science; moral and political philosophy; philosophy and the meaning of life; and transformative texts. Previously, he held research positions at the University of New Orleans and Wellesley College. His research covers free speech, distributive justice, and Kant's practical philosophy. |
GUEST SPEAKERS
Erin Miller, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Erin Miller is an Assistant Professor of Law & Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on theories of speech and free speech rights, and especially their application to mass media.
Linda Radzik, Texas A&M University
Linda Radzik works on moral issues that arise in the aftermath of wrongdoing, including the ethics of forgiveness, reconciliation, criminal punishment, tort law, collective moral responsibility, and the roles third parties play in enforcing and promulgating moral norms. She is the author of Making Amends: Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics (Oxford, 2009) and The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life (Cambridge, 2020). Radzik is currently interested in how privacy norms both limit and license the practices by which people hold one another accountable for wrongdoing.
David Schmidtz, West Virginia University
David Schmidtz is Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West Virginia University's Chambers College of Business and Economics. He is editor in chief of Social Philosophy & Policy and author of Living Together: Inventing Moral Science (Oxford Press, 2023).
SCHEDULE
1pm - 1:10pm Opening Remarks by Dr. JP Messina
1:15pm - 1:55pm "Private Censorship: A Reply" by Dr. Erin Miller
2:00pm - 2:40pm "The Law of Defamation and Its Discontent" by Dr. Linda Radzik
2:45pm - 3:00pm Break
3:00pm - 3:40pm "Taking a Stand" by Dr. David Schmidtz
3:45pm - 4:15pm Response by Dr. JP Messina
4:15pm - 4:30pm Break
4:30pm - 5:00pm Q&A