| Professor David Schweickart Loyola University Chicago Keynote Address Website |
Professor Schweickart is currently Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago where he has taught since 1975 and was named Faculty Member of the Year in 1999. Professor Schweickart received a BS in Mathematics from University of Dayton, a PhD in Mathematics from University of Virginia, and a PhD in Philosophy from Ohio State University. His areas of specialization include Marxism, social and political philosophy, global justice, and economic justice.
Professor Schweickart is author of After Capitalism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists coauthored with Bertell Ollman, Hillel Ticktin and James Lawler (Routledge, 1998); Against Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Capitalism or Worker Control? An Ethical and Economic Appraisal (Praeger, 1980). In addition, he has published articles in top philosophical journals, including the Journal of Social Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, and Ethics. He is also an editor and contributing writer to SolidarityEconomy.net, an online journal dedicated to Economic Democracy. |
| Professor James Nickel Arizona State University Website |
James Nickel is Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy. Nickel teaches and writes in jurisprudence, constitutional law, political philosophy, and human rights law and theory. From 1982-2003 Nickel was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. At Colorado Nickel served as Director of the Center for Values and Social Policy (1982-88) and as Chair of the Philosophy Department (1992-1996). Nickel has been a visiting professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and at the University of Utah.
Nickel has received many fellowships including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship, and a National Humanities Center Fellowship. In fall 2004 he was a Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Nickel received the Philosophical Quarterly's 2004 essay prize for his paper, "Poverty and Rights." In December 2006 Blackwell Publishing brought out a heavily-revised second edition of his 1987 book, Making Sense of Human Rights. Recent publications include "Who Needs Freedom of Religion?", "Are Human Rights Mainly Implemented by Intervention?" and "Due Process Rights and Terrorist Emergencies." |
| Professor Brooke Ackerly Vanderbilt University Website |
Professor Ackerly received her Ph.D from Stanford University in 1997 and currently holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include democratic theory, cross-cultural human rights theory, feminist theory, social criticism, and feminist methodologies and methods. Professor Ackerly’s work reflects the benefits of bringing empirical research on democratization, human rights, credit programs, and women’s activism to bear in her theoretical reflections on gender, global justice, and human rights. She is the author of Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming), and “Women’s Human Rights Activists as Cross-Cultural Theorists” in International Journal of Feminist Politics (2001). |
| Professor Bernard Boxill University of North Carolina Website |
Professor Boxill received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1971 and is currently the Pardue professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina. His areas of specialization include social and political philosophy, critical race theory, and African American philosophy. Professor Boxill is especially well known for his essential contributions to philosophical discussions of race and racism.
He is the author of Blacks and Social Justice, Second Edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 1992), editor of Race and Racism (Oxford, 2001), and is currently finishing A History of African American Political Thought: From Martin Delany to the Present, and Boundaries and Justice, on international ethics and distributive justice. In addition, Professor Boxill has published a number of articles, the most recent of which include “A Lockean Argument for Black Reparations,” The Journal of Ethics Volume 7, (2003); “Why We Should Not Think of Ourselves as Divided by Race,” Racism in Mind, ed. by Levine and Pataki, (2003); “Rousseau, Natural Man, and Race,” Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy ed. by Valls (2005); “Lockean Arguments for Affirmative Action,” Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy, ed. by Thomas (forthcoming); “The Counterfactual and Inheritance Arguments for Black Reparations,” Reparations for African Americans, ed. by McGary (forthcoming). |