2012 Knox Lecture
Monday 16 April
The Utilitarian Discovery about Liberty:
What was it and Who made it?
Professor Quentin Skinner FBA
Quentin Skinner is Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London and was previously the Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. His work has won him Fellowships of several Academies, including the British Academy, The American Academy and the Academia Europaea, and he has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, including degrees from St Andrews Chicago, Harvard and Oxford.
The author or co-author of more than 20 books, his works have been very widely translated, and his two-volume study, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, was named by the Times Literary Supplement in 1996 as one of the hundred most influential books published since the second world war. His scholarship has won him many prizes, including the Isaiah Berlin Prize of the Political Studies Association, the Lippincott and David Easton Awards of the American Political Science Association, in addition to the Wolfson Prize for History in 1979 and a Balzan Prize in 2006.
Schedule of Presentations:
Monday 16th April
11am-1pm. Prof. Skinner 'A genealogy of the State'
Room 104, Departments of Philosophy, Edgecliffe, The Scores
5.15pm. Knox Memorial Lecture. Chaired by Principal
Prof. Skinner, The Utilitarian Discovery about Liberty: What was it and Who made it?
School III, St Salvator's Quad, North Street.
Followed by reception in Lower College Hall.
Tuesday 17th April
11am Prof. Skinner, Seminar on subject of Knox lecture
(opportunity for some of those who have attended lecture to raise points and questions)
Room 104, Departments of Philosophy, Edgecliffe, The Scores