Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2015, 15:00 - 17:00 iCal

Prof. Dr. Arthur APPLBAUM, Harvard Kennedy School

LEGITIMACY WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED

Hörsaal 3A des Instituts für Philosophie (NIG, 3. Stock)
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien

Vortrag


Zur Person: Arthur Isak Applbaum is Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University. His work on political legitimacy, civil and official disobedience, and role morality has appeared in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association, Harvard Law Review, Ethics, and Legal Theory. He is the author of Ethics for Adversaries, a book about the morality of roles in public and professional life. Applbaum has written about the ethics of executioners and of butlers, and he has consulted to the government about the ethics of spies. He has been a member of Harvard’s Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and chairs the ethics advisory board of a stem cell research foundation. Applbaum holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Jerusalem, a Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard, and a Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values.

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Veranstalter

ERC Advanced Grant Project „Distortions of Normativity" unter der Leitung von Frau Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. MA Herlinde Pauer-Studer


Kontakt

Gertrud Wachter
Florian Kolowrat
Institut für Philosophie
4277-46461
florian.kolowrat@univie.ac.at