The Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding scholars interested in devoting a year in residence at Princeton writing about ethics and human values. These fellows are selected on the basis of the significance of their proposed research and its relevance to the purposes of the University Center; the quality of their previous research and their ability to benefit from the activities of the University Center; and the contribution they are likely to make to higher education in the future through teaching and writing about ethics and human values. For more information about the Fellowships and how to apply, please click HERE.
2009—2010 Visiting Fellows view previous Fellows
- David Benatar
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David Benatar is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Cape Town. His research interests are primarily in various areas of ethics and especially practical ethics. He is the author of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. While at Princeton he will be working on a book, The Second Sexism, which will expand on some of his previous work on this topic.
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- Selim Berker
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Selim Berker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His primary research interests lie in ethics and epistemology, which he sees as two aspects of the same inquiry – ethics being the study of what we ought to do, epistemology the study of what we ought to believe. While at Princeton, his research will focus on the ways in which various distinctively consequentialist assumptions in the ethical realm have analogues that pass unnoticed in the epistemic realm, and vice versa. He will also continue work on a project exploring whether any normative conclusions can be drawn from recent neuroscientific research into the physiological underpinnings of our moral intuitions.
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- Kyla Ebels Duggan
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Kyla Ebels Duggan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She specializes in moral and political philosophy and their history. She is primarily interested in the authority that one person’s ends or values might or might not have for another person. She has published articles on various aspects of this broad issue in Ethics, The Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophers’ Imprint. While at Princeton she will work on philosophical issues associated with moral education.
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- Nancy Hirschmann
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Nancy Hirschmann is the R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor of Political Science at Univeristy of Pennsylvania. She works in the history of political thought, analytical philosophy, and feminist theory. She is the author of The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom (Princeton University Press 2003); Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory (Cornell University Press, 1992), and several co-edited volumes, including Revisioning the Political: Feminist Interpretations of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory (with Christine Di Stefano, Westview Press, 1996), Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the U.S. and Europe (with Ulrike Liebert, Rutgers University Press 2001), Feminist Interpretations of John Locke (with Kirstie McClure, Penn State University Press 2007), and Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes (with Joanne Wright, Penn State University Press, forthcoming 2008). Her newest book, Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory (Princeton University Press, 2008) considers the concept of freedom as it developed in the canon of political thought from the 17th to 19th centuries and examines how issues of gender and class affected the dominant conceptions of freedom.
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- Andreas Kalyvas
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Andreas Kalyvas is an associate professor of politics at the New School for Social Research, where his research and teaching focuses on democratic politics, liberalism and republicanism, philosophy of law, and constitutional foundings and revolutionary breaks. He is the author of Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt and the coauthor of Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns. At Princeton, he will be working on a book, Legalizing Tyranny: Constitutional Dictatorship and the Enemy Within, which will trace the intertwinement of ancient Greek theories of tyranny with the Roman institution of dictatorship in the history of Western political and constitutional thought.
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- Christian List
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Christian List is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He works in social choice theory, political philosophy, formal epistemology and the philosophy of social science. Having worked extensively on the theory of judgment aggregation, he is now developing formal models of how deliberation and other forms of social interaction affect individual beliefs and preferences. Much of his time in Princeton will be devoted to this area of research. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he held research and visiting positions at Oxford, the Australian National University, MIT, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Konstanz. He was awarded a Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellowship, a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Philosophy, and the 5th Social Choice and Welfare Prize (jointly with Franz Dietrich). He is also an editor of Economics and Philosophy.
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