“Disorderly Pluralism and the Function of Legal Rights”

James Sherman
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
and Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Bio: James Sherman received his A.B. in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. In May 2011 he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, where his dissertation, “Toward an Aristotelian Liberalism,” was nominated for the University’s Outstanding Dissertation Award. His work has been published in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. In the fall of 2011, he joined the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow.