“Public Kindnesses and Valuing Persons as Persons” – Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University)
Friday, October 30, 2026 4:00 – 6:00 PM Dodd Hall 175 RSVP HERE Please join us for a colloquium with Cheshire Calhoun, Arizona State University. Public Kindnesses and Valuing Persons as Persons There’s an upsurge in cultural attention to kindnesses to strangers and mere acquaintances. Are there reasons other than, or in addition to, the reasons favoring general beneficence and personal relationship kindnesses, that face-to-face kindnesses to strangers and acquaintances matter? I explore their connection with valuing, treating, and attitudinally recognizing persons as persons. Rather than taking “valuing persons as persons” to be an exclusively moral notion,...