07. Amy Gutman

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Former provost of Princeton University. She is a professor of politics by training, and the author of important books on human values, identity problems, and especially democratic theory, including democratic education. She has been the president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Following upon her great success as provost at Princeton, she has been elected president of the University of Pennsylvania. In a commencement talk (Closing Lecture) context, she might be expected to bring a new critical, discursive consciousness to bear on the totality and the intersections of such concepts as democracy, universities, human rights, identity questions, and current politics.