The work of Michael Walzer, one of America's foremost political thinkers, was recognized at a three-day conference on the Institute campus. Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, Walzer was celebrated for his contributions to the ethical and political philosophy of the twentieth century at the "Justice, Culture, and Tradition" conference.
The conference was made possible with generous support from Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, the Institute for Advanced Study, Shalom Hartman Institute, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Session 1: Distributive Justice, Welcome by Peter Goddard, Institute Director, and Yitzhak Benbaji, Conference Organizer
Joan Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, Chair
Michael J. Sandel
Thomas Scanlon
Amy Gutmann, Commentator
Session 2: The Interpretive View of Ethics
Harry Frankfurt, Chair
Georgia Warnke
Susan Neiman, Commentator
Session 3: The Practice of Social Criticism
Ian Shapiro, Chair
Mitchell Cohen
Menachem Lorberbaum
Martin Peretz
Session 4: Multiculturalism, Civil Society, and the Politics of Recognition
Daniel Statman, Chair
Jacob T. Levy
Charles Taylor, Commentator
Session 5: The Just War Theory –– Moral and Legal Perspectives
Joel Rosenthal, Carnegie Council, Chair
Haim Shapira
Yitzhak Benbaji
Michael Doyle
Jeff McMahan
Brian Orend
Noam J. Zohar, Commentator
Session 6: Tradition, Radicalism, and Solidarity
Yaffa Zilbershats, Chair
Avishai Margalit
George Kateb
Moshe Halbertal, Commentator
Session 7: The Moral Standing of States
Jacob T. Levy, Chair
Ruth Gavison
Charles R. Beitz
Nancy L. Rosenblum, Commentator
Session 8: The Jewish Political Tradition
Noam Zohar
Pierre Birnbaum
David Novak
Leon Wieseltier
