U-M Philosophy Alumna Krista Lawlor discusses her new book with The New Yorker Magazine
Dr. Krista Lawlor, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Memorial Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Stanford Department of Philosophy, was recently interviewed in The New Yorker magazine about her new book Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue.
Nikhil Krishnan, the author of the New Yorker article, writes that Lawlor’s book “is that attractive and unusual thing, a small book on a big subject...[Lawlor] writes wisely and imaginatively about what separates the virtue of reasonableness from the vices it can be confused with. The distinction is more than an academic nicety. At a time when political life tempts us to treat compromise as capitulation, her argument amounts to a defense of the habits that make common life possible.”
Lawlor, who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1999, has spent the majority of her career at Stanford. She is also the author of Assurance: An Austinian View of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims and New Thoughts about Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts.
