Humility & Conviction in Public Life

"Safe Spaces, Scepticism, and Intellectual Humility in the Popular Press"

Nathan and Hanna presented on a collaborative project investigating safe spaces, scepticism, and intellectual humility in the popular press. Nathan and Hanna are research assistants for the Humility and Conviction project and graduate students of philosophy at UConn. 

"Living with Difference"

Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University and Research Associate at its Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs. He is Director of CEDAR – Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion, which leads workshops every year on contested aspects of religion, difference and the public square in different parts of the world. A book on CEDAR, Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World was published in January 2016 with University of California Press.

"The Politics of Mourning"

Micki presented the first chapter of her forthcoming book, The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, to be published by Harvard in August 2016.

"Deliberative Negotiation"

"Public Discourse in America: Then and Now"

"Political Violence, Radicalism and Campus Climate"

Daniel presented on political violence, radicalism and campus climate in preparation for the workshop on political violence which took place on December 4-6, 2015. 

See here for more details on the workshop.

"Reasons, Advice, and Slut Shaming"

Topics of discussion included the ways in which advice can add new reasons for the advisee, and when those reasons constitute or contribute to oppression.

"How Do Principles Guide"

Nathan is interested in using what the social sciences can tell us about beliefs, brains, and behavior to guide a project in regulative epistemology.