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New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. Eminent scholars and leading young thinkers provide fifteen conversations about lively current issues in our social world, such as AI and democracy, political obligation, praise and blame, justice, and intersectionality.
About the author
Ruth Chang is the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. She holds a JD in law from Harvard and a DPhil. in philosophy from Oxford. Her research focusses on values, normativity, conflict, rationality, choice, and agency. She has given lectures or been a consultant at Google, the World Bank, CIA, US Navy, Big Pharma, TellTale Games and many other institutions. Her TED talk about decision-making has over 9 million views. She has written guest essays for popular publications and has been interviewed about her work by newspapers, magazines, and radio and television programmes from around the world. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Amia Srinivasan is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. She holds a BA from Yale and a BPhil and DPhil from Oxford. Her research spans epistemology, political philosophy, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy. She is the author of The Right to Sex (2021), and is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. Her essays on sex, animals, death, the university, technology, anger, politics, and other topics have also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere.
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New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. Eminent scholars and leading young thinkers provide fifteen conversations about lively current issues in our social world, such as AI and democracy, political obligation, praise and blame, justice, and intersectionality.
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Busy practitioners are unlikely to have time to ponder such abstract issues, let alone wade through almost 600 pages of academic writing. But for those missing their days studying jurisprudence, or who are attracted to considering or writing more theoretically on legal issues, this book will be of interest.
