WHAT: Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and New York Times Columnist, will be speaking at Wayne State University as part of the 36th Annual Gail C. Stine Memorial Lecture.  Stanley will discuss propaganda, with the example of the propaganda concerning racially motivated mass incarceration in the United States.

WHEN: 4 p.m. on Friday, April 11, 2014

WHERE:  Bernath Auditorium located in Wayne State University's Undergraduate Library at 5150 Anthony Wayne, Detroit, Mich. 48202. 

WHO: Jason Stanley is a Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.  He works in Epistemology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language and History of 20th Century Philosophy. He has published two books for Oxford University Press. The first was Knowledge and Practical Interests, which was the winner of the 2007 American Philosophical Association book prize (awarded for the best book published in the field of philosophy in 2005 or 2006 by a scholar 40 years of age or under, or within ten years of the PhD). Professor Stanley's second book, Know How, was published in 2011.

MORE INFO: Propaganda is often thought to be a hallmark of totalitarian societies. In this lecture, Stanley will argue that propaganda should be regarded as a central issue in democratic political theory, as it threatens the project of Public Reason.