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Samuel Scheffler (NYU)
Partiality, Deference, and Engagement

2021 | 2022

ISSUE NO. 3 | VOLUME CXXII

MONDAY, 20 June 2022

18.00 - 19.45

about

Samuel Scheffler

Samuel Scheffler is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at NYU.  He works primarily in the areas of moral and political philosophy and the theory of value.  His writings have addressed central questions in ethical theory, and he has also written on topics as diverse as equality, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, toleration, terrorism, immigration, tradition, death, and the future of humanity.  Scheffler received his A.B. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Princeton.  From 1977-2008 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is the author of six books: The Rejection of Consequentialism, Human Morality, Boundaries and Allegiances, Equality and Tradition, Death and the Afterlife (Niko Kolodny ed.), and Why Worry about Future Generations?  He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has been a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His first book was awarded the Matchette Prize of the American Philosophical Association.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.  He is currently at work on a book (tentatively) titled The Lives We Lead: Personal Attachment and the Passage of Time.

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Meeting Address

Woburn Suite, Senate House University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.

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Final Papers

For the past 141 years, the Proceedings has featured widely respected papers delivered by a range of prominent philosophers, such as Alfred North Whitehead, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, A.J. Ayer, P.F. Strawson, Karl Popper, Elizabeth Anscombe, Bernard Williams, Hubert Dreyfus, Alexander Nehamas, and Onora O’Neill. Final drafts of the papers – including discussion notes and exemplary graduate papers – are published in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.

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