Social and Political Philosopher To Speak at Manhattan College’s Aquinas Lecture

Charles W. Mills, Ph.D., an award-winning author and John Evans
Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern
University, will discuss Liberalizing Illiberal Liberalism at the annual Aquinas Lecture on April 10 at 4:30 p.m.

Mills specializes in social and political philosophy with a focus on
gender, class and race. He is the author of numerous book chapters,
articles and five books. His first book, The Racial Contract (1997), won the Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of bigotry and human rights in North America.

The Aquinas Lecture is named after Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic
philosopher and theologian, and the event covers a wide variety of
liberal arts topics, including philosophy and religious studies.

The Aquinas Lecture is free and open to the public and will be held
in the Hayden Hall, Room 100. The Philosophy and Religious Studies
departments, and the School of Arts sponsor the annual lecture.

For more information, please contact Mitchell Aboulafia, professor of philosophy, at (718) 862-7124 or at mitchell.aboulafia@manhattan.edu.