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Michael Sandel
July 17, 2008
One of Chautauqua's most popular
lecturers, Michael Sandel has been a longtime advisor to the
Institution during weeks focused on applied ethics. This morning
lecture is an addition to Sandel's participation in the CLSC
program at 3:30 p.m. when he will present his most recent book,
The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering.
Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert
M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where
he has taught political philosophy since 1980. His books include
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice; Democracy's Discontent:
America in Search of a Public Philosophy; and Public Philosophy:
Essays on Morality in Politics. His writings also appear in The
Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times.
Sandel teaches graduate and
undergraduate courses in contemporary political philosophy, including
"Ethics and Biotechnology," "Markets, Morals,
and Law," and "Globalization and Its Discontents."
His undergraduate course, "Justice," has enrolled over
12,000 students. In 1985, he was awarded the Harvard-Radcliffe
Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, and in 1999 was named a Harvard
College Professor in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate
teaching.
The recipient of three honorary
degrees, he has received fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation,
the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation,
and the American Council of Learned Societies. From 2002 to 2005,
he served on the President's Council on Bioethics, a national
body appointed by the President to examine the ethical implications
of new biomedical technologies. |
