Comparative Moral Reasoning
August 14-19, 2006
Dr. Michael Pakaluk

Dr. Pakaluk, associate professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, MA, received his B.A. and later Ph. D. from Harvard University, studying under W.V. Quine and John Rawls. He is the author of several books and many scholarly articles in various areas of philosophy, including Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, the Clarendon Aristotle volume on Nicomachean Ethics, and, most recently, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction, published by Cambridge University Press.

EICEE has invited Dr. Pakaluk for a second year at the Neuwaldegg Summer Seminar 2006. His background in ethical theory admirably qualifies him to introduce graduate students from a variety of academic disciplines to the main approaches to the question of ethics and morals in contemporary society. This intensive course intends to point the way to coherent consensus on matters of ethics in a contemporary multi-cultural context.

Dr. Pakaluk’s work has played a major role in the recently renewed philosophical attention to the notion of friendship in ethics and political theory. He is the Director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy and a Founding Member of the American Public Philosophy Institute. Dr. Pakaluk has been a visiting professor or scholar at Brown, St. Andrews, Cambridge and Harvard. He is currently working on a new translation of the Nicomachean Ethics, as well as a treatise on philosophical issues concerning the family.