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Human rights topic of May 14 Norton Lecture 3:07 p.m., May 4, 2004--Judith Thomson, professor of philosophy at MIT, will give the 2004 spring David Norton Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m., Friday, May 14, in the Clayton Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Thomsons lecture, On Some Human Rights, will deal with the question of what one is entitled to do by virtue of having a right to defend ones life against threats to it. Working in the areas of ethics and metaphysics, Thomson is the author of several books including Acts and Other Events, Rights, Restitution and Risk, On Being & Saying, The Realm of Rights, Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity and, most recently Goodness and Advice, published by Princeton University Press in 2001. Thomson also has published articles in leading journals. Among her widely known papers are How Not to Derive Ought from Is, Grue, More Grue, The Time of a Killing, A Defense of Abortion, Rights and Deaths and others. The lecture is supported by the David Norton Memorial Fund, honoring the late professor of philosophy who joined the UD faculty in 1966 and died in 1995. Cosponsors include the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, the Department of Philosophy, the Class of 1955 Ethics Endowment Fund, the Delaware Interdisciplinary Ethics Program and the Makaguchi Foundation. Article by Sue Moncure To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |