Below is the audio recording of Anita L. Allen’s presidential address, “The Philosophy of Privacy and Digital Life,” given at the 2019 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
Audio Player“The Philosophy of Privacy and Digital Life” by Anita L. Allen
Anita L. Allen is Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard University. Allen is internationally renowned as an expert on philosophical and social justice dimensions of privacy and data protection law; ethics; bioethics; legal philosophy; women’s reproductive rights; and faculty advancement. Her books include Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide (Oxford, 2011); Privacy Law and Society (Thomson/West, 2017); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (Miramax/Hyperion, 2004); Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); and Uneasy Access: Privacy of Women in a Free Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 1988). She served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2018–2019 and was awarded the APA’s Quinn Prize in 2021.
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the Presidential Addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The Blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
