Faculty Seminars
The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs FACULTY SEMINAR is a bimontly event in which Tulane faculty, the Center’s Faculty Fellows and distinguished visitors present works in progress. 
The seminar is open to the Center Faculty Committee, Faculty Fellows, Graduate Fellows, and invited faculty and graduate students.
Papers are available to seminar participants approximately one week before each session. Papers are posted here as password-protected PDF’s.
Past Faculty Seminars
Anne Margaret Baxley
“Kant’s Conception of Virtue and the Autocracy of Pure Practical Reason”
Stephen M. Griffin
War Powers and Constitutional Change
Alan Thomas
“The Neo-Marxist Critique of Rawlsian Liberalism”
Michael Moehler
“The (Stabilized) Nash Bargaining Solution as a Principle of Distributive Justice”
Peg Birmingham
“On Political-Theological Violence: Before the Law”
Fred Dallmayr
“The Concept of the Political: Politics between War and Peace”
Jerry Gaus
“The Demands of Impartiality and the Evolution of Morality”
Henry E. Allison
“Kant’s Metaethical Grounding of his Metaphysics of Morals and the Derivation of the Categorical Imperative”
Jennifer Culbert
“Law as a Work of Art:A Philosophy of Law in the Political Theory of Hannah Arendt”
Brad Hooker
“Fairness and Promises”
Rick Teichgraeber
“What Does ‘Tenure’ Do?”
Aaron James
“Global Economic Fairness: Internal Principles”
Oliver Sensen
“Kant’s Conception of Inner Value”
Douglas Portmore
“Imperfect Reasons and Rational Options”
Ruth Abbey
“The Return of Feminist Liberalism”
Eric Mack
“The Natural Right of Property”
Gary Watson
“The Trouble with Psychopaths”
Cheshire Calhoun
“What Good is Commitment?”
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
“On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language”
Rex Martin
The Social Recognition Thesis: Constitutional Rights and Human Rights”
Edward McClennen
“Rational Bargaining”
Michael E. Zimmerman
“The Singularity: A Crucial Phase in Divine Self-Actualization?
Richard Arneson
“Luck Egalitarianism: A Primer”
Michael Rosen
“‘The Shibboleth of All Empty-Headed Moralists’:The Place of Dignity in Ethics and Politics”
Thomas Hill
“Torture and Kantian Values”
David Shoemaker
Responsibility Without Identity
Steven Wall
Democracy and Respect
Elizabeth Brake
An Argument for ‘Minimal Marriage’
Oliver Sensen
Why We Should Respect Others: Kant’s Formula of Humanity”
David Weinstein
Exile, Historicism and the Autonomy of Texts
Stuart White
What (if Anything) is Wrong with Inheritance Tax
Gary Gutting
What Did Rawls Achieve? Intuitions, Convictions, and Reflective Equilibrium in A Theory of Justice
Susanne Sreedhar
The Hobbesian Right of Rebellion
Lawrie Balfour
“W.E.B. Du Bois and Critical Race Autobiography”
Peter Vanderschraaf
“The Circumstances of Justice”
Roderick T. Long
“Free Minds and Future Contingents”
Jill Locke
“Between Therapy and Tragedy: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Shame”
Karl Widerqust
“Effective Control Self Ownership: Freedom as the Power to Say No”
Eric Mack
“Hayek on Justice and the Order of Actions”
Paul L. Harris
Trust in Testimony: How Children Learn about Science and Religion
Samuel R. Freeman
The Burdens of Public Justification
Alison Denham
Psychopathy, Empathy, and Moral Agency
Fred Miller
Aristotelian Statecraft and Modern Politics
George Klosko
Fairness Obligations and Moral Principles
James E. Mahon
Kant on Reticence and Deception
Lad Sessions
“The Concept of Personal Honor”
Eric Mack
Hayek on Justice and the Order of Actions
Jonathan Quong
“Contractarianism, Reciprocity, and Egalitarian Justice”
Richard Dagger
“Neorepublicanism and the Civic Economy”
Cheryl Misak
“How to be an Empiricist in Bioethics: Some Empirical Lessons in the Ethics of Critical Care”
David Estlund
“Political Authority and the Tyranny of Non-Consent”
Robert Talisse
“Social Epistemic Liberalism: Comprehensive not Political”
Marcia Baron
“Excuses, Excuses”
Eric Cavallero
“Immigration Pressure Equilibrium”
Jonathan Riley
“Mill’s Liberalism and Pluralism”
Eric Mack
“The Instability of Contractualism: Scanlon as Natural Rights Theorist”
Martyn Thompson
“Intimations of Poetry in Practical Life: On the Relationship between Philosophy, Practice and Liberal Education in Michael Oakeshott’s Thought”
Mathias Risse
“Fairness in Trade”