Please join us Thursday, October 27, at 5 p.m. in DB 004 (Brian Doyle Lecture Hall) for the annual Helen J. Schwarten Foundations of Freedom Lecture. This year our speaker is philosopher James R. Otteson who will deliver his talk: “Adam Smith on Justice and Social Justice.” Professor Otteson is the John T. Ryan Professor of Business Ethics and Rex and Alice A. Martin Faculty Director of the Notre Dame/Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business. He specializes in business ethics, political economy, the history of economic thought, and eighteenth-century moral philosophy. He has taught previously at Wake Forest University, New York University, Yeshiva University, Georgetown University, and the University of Alabama. His books include Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life (Cambridge, 2002), Actual Ethics (Cambridge, 2006), and Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society (Oxford, 2019), and Seven Deadly Economic Sins (Cambridge, 2021). His forthcoming book is Reexamining the Ethics of Wealth Redistribution (with Steven McMullen; Routledge, forthcoming in 2022). He received his BA from the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago. The Schwarten Lecture is hosted by the Political Science and Global Affairs Dept.; please contact Dr. Bill Curtis (curtisw@up.edu) with any questions.