You are invited to the next Colloquia in our Fall 2021 Series on November 5, 2021, with Professor Akeel Bilgrami.
About the Event:
The Cultural Commons: A Philosophical Analysis
Lecture by Akeel Bilgrami, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
November 5, 2021
3:00-5:00 p.m, University of British Columbia (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 182)
Abstract:
In this lecture, deploying some basic ideas in Wittgenstein and Grice, Akeel Bilgrami will explore the philosophical relations between the idea of commons, the nature and implementability of laws and norms, and our fundamental political ideas.
About Professor Bilgrami
Akeel Bilgrami received a B.A in English Literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay University and went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He has a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a Professor on the Committee on Global Thought. He has been the Director of the Heyman Centre for the Humanities as well as the South Asian Institute at Columbia. His publications include the books Belief and Meaning (1992), Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2006), and Secularism, Identity and Enchantment (2014). He also co-edited and contributed to Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom? (2015). He is due to publish two books in the near future: What is a Muslim? (Princeton University Press) and Gandhi’s Integrity (Columbia University Press), and is currently writing a book on the relations between agency, value, and practical reason.
Note: Due to Covid restrictions, please note that this event is closed to the public. Physical distancing and COVID-19 protocols will be in place.
