Some Philosophical Reflections on Our Political Ideals
Professor Akeel Bilgrami
February 22, 2018 · 12-1PM
Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411
The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues of global importance.
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About the Speaker
Akeel Bilgrami is a Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy. He is a founding member of the Committee on Global Thought. He earned his philosophy degree from Bombay University before attending Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. There, he earned another Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (1974). He has a PhD from the University of Chicago (1983), and joined the Philosophy Department in 1985 after spending two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
His book of selected essays on the moral psychology of politics entitled Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment was published by Harvard University Press in March 2014. He is also contracted to publish two small books in the very near future, one called What is a Muslim? (Princeton University Press) and another on Gandhi’s philosophy, situating Gandhi’s thought in seventeenth century dissent in England and Europe and more broadly within the Radical Enlightenment and the radical strand in the Romantic tradition (Columbia University Press).
He teaches courses and seminars regularly in the department on Philosophy of Mind and Language and also in the Committee on Global Thought and Political Science on issues in Politics and Rationality as well as Religion and Politics in a Global Context.
Background Reading
Akeel Bilgrami provided recommended reading in advance of the Lunchtime Seminar. Download the PDF.
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- Attendees discuss the topic and enjoy their lunch
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- Students taking notes on the discussion
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- Professor Bilgrami illustrating his thoughts
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