UW Department of Philosophy

The University of Waterloo
Distinguished Speaker in Philosophy
2004

DR RUSSELL HARDIN
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
STANFORD UNIVERSITY

IF IT RAINED KNOWLEDGE: STREET-LEVEL EPISTEMOLOGY

Monday, April 5 Why Know? 1:30 p.m. HH 373

Tuesday, April 6 Political Participation and Extremism 1:30 p.m. HH 373

Tuesday, April 6 Religious Belief 7:00 p.m. HH 373

Wednesday, April 7 Popular Knowledge of Science 1:30 p.m. HH 373

Thursday, April 8 The Epistemology of Culture & Liberalism 1:30 p.m. HH 373

If you would like to combine these lectures with a Spring Reading course please register for

PHIL 498 (RDG 002) or PHIL 672 (RDG 003)

Professor Hardin held the Mellon Foundation Professorship, 1987 - 1992, chaired the Committee on Public Policy Studies, 1983 - 1987, Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Northwestern University School of law, 1991, and the John M. Olin Distinguished visiting Professor at University of Virginia School of Law, 1998. His numerous publications include Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy, and Indeterminacy and Society (2003)

For additional information, see: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/hardin/

There are related pieces that are on this website (address below) that anyone can download. They include "If It Rained Knowledge" (on popular knowledge of science), "The Economics of Religious Belief," "The Street-Level Epistemology of Democratic Participation," "The Crippled Epistemology of Extremism," and "The Economics of Knowledge and Utilitarian Morality."