Parr Center Presents: Linda Radzik (Texas A&M)
February 18, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Linda Radzik, Texas A&M University
February 18, 2025 | 5-6:30 PM | Murphey 116
topic: the ethics of social punishment
UNC alum Linda Radzik is Professor of Philosophy and Thamann Professor in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University. She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Philosophy Department and has been awarded the Betty M. Unterberger Award for Outstanding Service to Honors Education. She works on moral, political, and legal issues that arise in the aftermath of wrongdoing. She has published on topics including forgiveness, reconciliation, apology, reparations, punishment, tort law, and collective moral responsibility. She is the author of Making Amends: Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics (Oxford, 2009) and The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life (Cambridge, 2020). She is currently interested in the role of reputation in moral communities and the ways in which reputations may be wronged and repaired. Related issues include defamation, privacy, and the ethics of gossip.
Light refreshments will be served at 6:30.
