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...Scanlon says he is working up to a book--on the nature of morality--which would be his first. He is one of the few tenured faculty members at Harvard not to have published a book, though he has written numerous articles...
...Philosophy Department apparently agrees; Scanlon was the end-product of a multi-year search for a specialist in political and moral philosophy, the core of the department...
...least two other scholars in this field have turned down Harvard tenure offers in the past several years, and Scanlon says his decision to accept was difficult. "Princeton has a very good Philosophy Department, but this one is also very good," Scanlon says, adding that what finally swayed him was the change of scene from New Jersey: "I've been talking and arguing with this group of people for 18 years...
...When Scanlon joined the Princeton department in 1966, after earning his B.A. at Princeton and his Ph.D. at Harvard, he was a young mathematical philosopher with a background in logic. Sometime after 1974, when he co-authored a paper with Goldfarb, Scanlon switched to the field of moral philosophy. Already, though, Scanlon had expressed an interest in such questions of ethics as freedom of expression...
...article led to what appears to be a running intellectual feud with Nozick, who in his 1974 book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" called Scanlon's theory "mistaken...