Waide Center Speaker: Elizabeth Anderson "“The Work Ethic and the Post-Work Ethic"

Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series

On Wednesday, September 25^th from 4:00-5:30 p.m. the Waide Center for Applied Ethics will be hosting Elizabeth Anderson, who will be speaking about “The Work Ethic and the Post-Work Ethic.” The event will be held remotely, via Zoom, and is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members. 

Date: Wednesday, September 25^th 

Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Zoom link: https://fairfield.zoom.us/j/95715227851

About the Speaker: Elizabeth Anderson is Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. 

She specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences. She is particularly interested in exploring the interactions of social science with moral and political theory, how we learn to improve our value judgments, the epistemic functions of emotions and democratic deliberation, and issues of race, gender, and equality. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics, The Imperative of Integration, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It), and, most recently, Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back. 

She has written numerous articles on value theory, the ethical limitations of markets, facts and values in social scientific research, feminist and social epistemology, racial integration and affirmative action, rational choice and social norms, democratic theory, egalitarianism, and the history of ethics. Professor Anderson is currently working on the history of egalitarianism.

Professor Anderson is a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy.  She designed and was the first Director of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at UM.

About the series: The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series is a forum for building community and advancing research in Applied Ethics. It encourages jargon-free and supportive discussions that will be accessible to participants with serious interest in applied ethics and who come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Invited speakers in the series present a work-in-progress or recently published paper on topics relevant to applied ethics. The seminars aim to provide speakers with feedback on their current research projects. At least half of each meeting is devoted to Q&A and general discussion. Please contact the Director of the Waide Center for Applied Ethics, Gregg D. Caruso, for more information.