Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf

The Moral Challenge of Robust Cultural Pluralism


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Contributor(s): Professor Richard A Shweder, Dr Bradley Franks, Professor Anne Phillips | Are there limits to liberal moral concepts for judging others? What does a highly developed social intelligence look like? Can there be cultural difference without economic inequality? Richard A Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and cultural psychologist and the Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Bradley Franks is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Social Psychology at LSE. He has interests in the intersections between culture, evolution and cognition, and has researched a variety of topics within this field, including the self, agency, varieties of knowledge representation and categorisation. His books include The Social Psychology of Communication (with D Hook & M Bauer, Palgrave MacMillan, 201), and Cognition and Culture: Evolutionary Perspectives (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). Anne Phillips is the Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science in the Government Department at LSE. She is a political theorist, who has written extensively on issues of democracy and representation, equality and difference, feminism and multiculturalism, bodies and property. Her books include Multiculturalism without Culture (Princeton University Press, 2007), Our Bodies, Whose Property? (Princeton University Press, 2013) and The Politics of the Human (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Alex Gillespie is Associate Professor in Social Psychology at LSE. The Department of Social Psychology (@PsychologyLSE) is a leading international centre dedicated to consolidating and expanding the contribution of social psychology to the understanding and knowledge of key social, economic, political and cultural issues. Credits: Tom Sturdy (Audio Post-Production), LSE AV Services (Audio Recording).
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