June 22, 2013 – June 23, 2013
A free conference, open to all, to mark the 50th anniversary ofThe New York Review of Books and to honour the lives, work, and legacy of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams.
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Registration (Required)Sponsored by The New York Review Of Books Foundation; Fritt Ord; All Souls College, Oxford; The Europaeum, Oxford; Wadham College, Oxford; Wolfson College, Oxford.
Photo: Steve Daniels,via Wikimedia Commons
Program
All events located at Wadham College, Oxford, England, in The Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street.
Saturday, June 22
2:30–4:00: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams and Their World
Robert Silvers (Chair); Avishai Margalit, Alan Ryan, Mary Warnock
4:30–6:00: Hedgehogs and Foxes; The Philosopher as Public Intellectual
John Vickers (Chair); John Gray, Helena Kennedy QC, Mark Lilla.
Sunday, June 23
10:00–11:30: Plural Values and The History of Ethics
Hermione Lee (Chair); Naomi Eilan, Alan Ryan, Edward Skidelsky
12:00–1:30: Is Political Philosophy More Than a Branch of Ethics?
Ken Macdonald, QC (Chair); Jerome Bruner, Samuel Scheffler, Jeremy Waldron.
2:30–4:00: Ethics and Power: The Long Shadow of Machiavelli
Robert Silvers (Chair); Avishai Margalit, Timothy Garton Ash, Marc Stears
Category: NYR and NYRB and Readings and Talks