Jerry Gaus
April 10, 2009Jerry Gaus, the James E. Rogers Professor of
Philosophy, has been awarded the Gregory Kavka Prize in Political
Philosophy by the American Philosophical Association.
The Kavka award is among the highest distinctions within the important
area of Political Philosophy. The award memorializes the late Professor
Gregory Kavka and is co-sponsored by the University of California -
Irvine, where Professor Kavka was a distinguished member of the Department
of Philosophy.
Jerry's selection as the Kavka Prize recipient especially honors the
signficance of his "On Justifying the Moral Rights of the Moderns: a Case
of Old Wine in New Bottles" (Social Philosophy and Policy, Volume 24,
Issue 01, Jan 2007, pp 84-119.)