PROFESSOR DONELSON INVITED TO PRESENT AT THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION EASTERN DIVISION CONFERENCE
June 2021 — Professor Raff Donelson was invited to serve as a critic an author-meets-critics event at the American Philosophical Association’s 2022 Eastern Division Conference.
Professor Donelson, an expert on theories of punishment, will be commenting on Gregg Caruso’s new book, Rejecting Retributivism. The discussion will take place at the Society for Philosophy of Agency Book Symposium as part of the American Philosophical Association’s 2022 Eastern Division Conference. The conference will be held in Montreal, Quebec in January 2022.
Professor Raff Donelson is an Associate Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law who earned his J.D. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University. Professor Donelson’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, constitutional law, and criminal law. His more theoretical research interests include metaethics and general jurisprudence, while his doctrinal work focuses on constitutional protections for criminals and the accused. His scholarship includes contributions to books published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, as well as articles in U.S. and foreign law reviews and in philosophy journals such as Metaphilosophy. He has been an invited speaker at numerous legal and philosophy conferences and has addressed both U.S. and foreign academic audiences. His work is featured in Legal-Phi, which is an online venue that profiles the work of rising stars in the field of legal philosophy.