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...steep climb up three floors to the bare office of newly arrived Professor of Philosophy Thomas N. Scanlon, a climb perhaps symbolic of the distance many philosophers feet from the mundanities of the "real world...
...News, which for the first time has hired an outside public relations consultant, John Scanlon, to defend it, countered with a barrage of letters and rebuttals from Wallace, Crile and others, charging that Kowet had engaged in "pure invention" and "grotesque distortions." Among CBS's accusations: Kowet had reported as quotations more than 100 conversations without Actually talking to any of the CBS employees involved; he had fabricated an alleged telephone call in which Wallace was said to have enlisted the help of A.M. Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times, in downplaying critical coverage of the documentary...
...Scanlon said, "I've always been very interested and influenced by what Raw is has done...
...Scanlon explained that while Rawls had used the concept of original contract to understand the "legitimacy of social institutions," he himself uses it "to examine the question of what are the requirements of individual morality...
...Scanlon said that at Princeton he has been teaching a large introductory course on moral philosophy, as well as a seminar on free will