Helena de Bres on the Philosophy of Memoir

Helena de Bres is an associate Philosophy professor at Wellesley College visiting Stanford University. She researches which moral principles should we use to assess the distribution of benefits and burdens across the members of distinct states or nations, writing on such issues as the duties of the affluent toward the global poor, the fairness of the international trading regime and the moral justification for the state system, and whether or not we are morally obliged to purchase local food. She is also interested in moral philosophy, especially the question of what makes a life meaningful, and in philosophy of art. 

Helena will workshop a paper on the metaphysical, epistemic and ethical issues in writing a literary work about one’s life. The paper is avaliable at gdowling [at] stanford.edu (gdowling[at]stanford[dot]edu). A light dinner will be provided.