Maguire Public Scholar Lecture: Alida Liberman

The Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility is a university-wide center that supports student and faculty ethics-related education and activities, as well as outreach to community, private and public institutions.

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Dr. Alida Liberman of the SMU Philosophy Department delivers the 2021 Public Scholar Lecture.

<h3>Are Vaccine Mandates A Matter of Conscience?</h3><p>We are proud to announce SMU <strong>Associate Professor Alida Liberman</strong>, Ph.D., will give the 2021 Maguire Public Scholar Lecture. Her lecture will address whether exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates (e.g., from an employer or university) should be accommodated as conscientious objections, understood as penalty-free exemptions to a law or policy based on moral or religious disagreement with the policy. </p><p>Liberman develops a framework for assessing the legitimacy of conscientious objection claims by determining whether they violate the basic competencies needed to be a minimally decent member of a profession or community. In the case of vaccine mandates, these include epistemic competencies (such as avoiding relying on factual misunderstandings when making community-impacting decisions), relational competencies (such as avoiding free-riding and refraining from harming others in the exercise of your liberties), and normative competencies (which require having an accurate understanding of what you are responsible for and how your actions affect others). Liberman will argue many vaccine refusals violate one or more of these competencies, and accordingly should not be permitted as a matter of conscientious objection.</p><p><em>This lecture will be hosted virtually. A Zoom meeting link will be sent to all registrants in advance of the event.</em></p><h3>About the Maguire Public Scholar Lecture</h3><p>From the center&#x27;s earliest years, we have showcased the university&#x27;s most exciting scholars in our Public Scholar lecture series. Many of the Public Scholar lectures have been published (in slightly revised form) as Occasional Papers of the Center. For more information and to view previous Public Scholar lectures, <a href="https://www.smu.edu/Provost/Ethics/TeachingandResearch/Scholars" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">please click here</a>.</p>

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