SESSION ONE - Phi Betta Kappa Hall Dodge Room

Friday, October 6, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

"Church-State Separation, Scientific Education, and Methodological Naturalism"

Speaker: Robert Audi

Professor of Philosophy and David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics at The University of Notre Dame, whose publications include Religious Commitment and Secular Reason, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Commentator: Nicholas Wolterstorff

Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology and Professor at Yale University and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, whose publications include John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

 

Chair: James Harris, Haserot Professor of Philosophy, College of William and Mary.

SESSION TWO - Phi Beta Kappa Hall Dodge Room

Friday, October 6, 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

"Religious Faith, Liberal Democracy, and Human Rights"

Speaker: Michael Perry

Robert W. Wooddruff Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, whose publications include Under God?: Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Commentator: Loren Lomasky

Loren Lomasky, Cory Professor of Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law, and Director of the Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law Program at the University of Virginia, whose publications include Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community, Oxford University Press, 1987.

 

Chair: Laura Ekstrom, Associate Professor of Philosophy, College of William and Mary.

 

SESSION THREE - Phi Beta Kappa Hall Dodge Room

Friday, October 6, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

"How Security Drives Religious Values: Issues and Evidence"

Speaker: Pippa Norris

Director of the Democratic Governance Group at the United Nations Development Program and the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, whose many books include The Rising Tide and Sacred and Secular, both with Cambridge University Press.

Commentator: Paul Davies

Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, author of The Norms of Nature, MIT Press, 2001.

 

 

Chair: Joanne Ciulla, Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics, University of Richmond, and former UNESCO Chair in Leadership Studies in the United Nations.

 

BANQUET AND SOCIAL HOUR

Friday, October 6, 6:30 p.m, Hospitality House

Bar & Banquet Menu **Banquet and Social by registration pass only

SESSION FOUR - Phi Beta Kappa Hall Dodge Room

Saturday, October 7, 9:00 am - 10:30 am

"Perfectionism and Democracy"

Speaker: George Sher

Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, whose publications include Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Commentator: Alan Goldman

Kenan Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, whose publications include Practical Rules, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

 

 

Chair: Alan Fuchs, Professor of Philosophy, College of William and Mary.

 

SESSION FIVE - Phi Beta Kappa Hall Dodge Room

Saturday, October 7, 10:45 am - 12:15 pm

"Reason in Politics"

Speaker: John Kekes

Research Professor at State University of New York at Albany, whose publications include, The Case for Conservatism, Cornell University Press, 2001.

Commentator: Dennis Thompson

Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy, Professor of Public Policy, and founding Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. His publications include (with Amy Guttman) Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press, 2004.

Chair: Justin Weinberg, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Univesity of South Carolina.

SESSION SIX - Phi Beta Kappa Hall Dodge Room

Saturday, October 7, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

"The Democratic Body Corporate"

Speaker: Philip Pettit

William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University, whose publications include Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government, Clarendon Press, 1997.

Commentator: William Galston

Senior Brookings Fellow and Saul Stern Professor of Public Policy and Director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, whose many books include, Liberal Pluralism, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

 

Chair: Joes Schwartz, Director of the Charles Center, College of William and Mary.

KEYNOTE - Saturday October 7, 5:00 p.m. Andrews 101 - Open to the public.

Sandra Day O’Connor

Former Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chancellor of the College of William and Mary.

 

 

Reception - 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Great Hall, Wren Building. **By registration pass only