Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs

Annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory

Saturday 2nd July 2011

Maths (Zeeman) Building

Programme

9.40 – 10.00Welcome Coffee

10.00 – 11.15Plenary Session. Room: MS.05

Andrew Williams

ICREA Pompeu Fabra University/University of Warwick

‘Eqaulity: Ex Post or Ex Ante?’

Chair: Andrew Reeve

11.20 – 12.30Graduate Papers: Session 1

12.30 – 1.10Lunch

1.10 – 2:20Graduate Papers: Session 2

2:25 – 3:35Graduate Papers: Session 3

3.35 – 3.50Tea

3.50 – 5.00Graduate Papers: Session 4

5.00 – 6.15Plenary Session. Room: MS.05

Katrin Flikschuh, LSE

‘On the Cogency of Human Rights’

Chair: Ed Page

6.15 – Drink in The Dirty Duck

GRADUATE PANELS

Presenters are requested to keep their presentations to a maximum of 20 minutes.

Session One: 11.20-12.30

1ARm: MS.03Chair: Zofia Stemplowska

EXPLOITATION, STEINER, RESPONSIBILITY / DIGNITY, DISABILITY

  • Benjamin Ferguson (LSE) Who’s Responsible for Exploitation?
  • Amneris Chaparro (Essex), Human Dignity: Contemporary Answers to (Old) Kantian Problems
1BRm: MS.01Chair: Tim Fowler

LEGITIMACY, DEMOCRACY

  • Esha Senchaudhuri (LSE), A Critique of Procedural Legitimacy
  • Linda Ludwig (LMU München), Reconstructing Deliberation as a Collective Decision Process: The Problem of Defining Presuppositions in a Procedural Account

1CRm: MS.04Chair: Ed Page

NATURE OF JUSTICE

  • James Christensen (Oxford), Practice-Dependence and the Subject of Justice
  • Ashley Taylor (Edinburgh), The Circumstances of Justice: A Reformulation

1DRm: MS.05Chair: Matthew Clayton

SELF-REALIZATION, AUTONOMY

  • Liam Shields (Warwick) Rawls, Arneson and Sufficient Opportunity
  • Christopher Mills (Manchester) Autonomy as Self-Authorship – A Critique of the Razian Ideal

Session Two: 1:10-2:20

2ARm: MS.03Chair:Zofia Stemplowska

ARBITRARINESS, RESPONSIBILITY

  • Kostaz Bizas (Exeter) Contingency, Luck, and Arbitrariness in Ronald Dworkin
  • Emily McTernan (Cambridge), Taking Pride in the Egalitarian Society: Talents, Moral Arbitrariness and Responsibility
2BRm:MS.01Chair: Tim Fowler

LEGITIMACY, DEMOCRACY

  • Angela White (Western Ontario),Trust and Political Legitimacy
  • Jeffrey Howard (Oxford), Imperfect Rule: Political Legitimacy, Judicial Review, and Moral Failure

2CRm: MS.04Chair: Andrew Williams

GLOBAL JUSTICE

  • Katarzyna Gajewska (UCL), The Coercion View of Global Distributive Justice and Why it Fails
  • Verena Risse (GU Frankfurt), Bridging the Gap: On the Reconcilability of Statist and Cosmopolitan Accounts of Coercion

2DRm:MS.05Chair: Ed Page

NATURE & METHOD OF POLITICAL THEORY

  • Katrina Forrester (Cambridge) Michael Walzer and the Limits of Political Theory
  • Yi Wang (Essex) Comparing Rawls’ and Spinoza’s Epistemic Methods in Their Political Philosophies

Session Three: 2.25-3.35

3ARm: MS.03Chair: Matthew Clayton

EQULIATY& SOCIAL STATUS

  • Sotiria Skarveli (Warwick), Equality of Resources and Social Status
  • Samantha Godwin (UCL), Egalitarianism, Social Hierarchy and Interpersonal Power
3BRm: MS.01Chair: Fabienne Peter

LEGITIMACY, DEMOCRACY

  • Marius Ostrowski (Oxford) Legitimacy, Subjectivity and Persuasiveness
  • Zoë May Sullivan (Oxford), Critical Deliberative Democracy, Power, and Disembodied Political Subjects

3CRm: MS.04Chair: Andrew Reeve

JUSTICE, DISABILITY

  • Gabriele Badano (UCL), A Political Approach to the Inclusion of Persons with Severe Impairments
  • Diana Popescu (Leiden),Temporal Justice, the Disabled, and Relative Measures of Necessary Time

3DRm: MS.05Chair: Tim Fowler

JUSTICE, STABILITY, CO-OPERATION

  • Baldwin Wong (LSE), Reexamining Liberal Individual: Why the Idea of Liberal Individual is Necessary in Moral by Agreement?
  • Stephen Hood (Manchester), Justice and the Problem of Exit

Session Four: 3.50-5.00

4ARm: MS.03Chair:Matthew Clayton

EQUALITY, FRATERNITY

  • Doug Bamford (Warwick), Does Equal Capabilities or Equal Resources Provide a Better Metric to Guide Tax Policy?
  • Chris Nathan (Exeter), Fraternity as a Non-personal Good
4BRm:MS.01Chair: Andrew Reeve

JUSTICE, GIVING / GLOBAL JUSTICE, UNIVERSALISM

  • Stacia Beiniks (Limerick), The Necessity of Universalism for the Idea of Normative Power Europe
  • Chiara Cordelli (UCL), Charitable Giving and Social Justice

4CRm: MS.04Chair: Zofia Stemplowska

JUST WAR

  • Philipp von dem Knesebeck (HU Berlin), A Contractual Reconstruction of Ius in Bello
  • Alasia Nuti (LSE) The Helpless Goes to War. A Feminist Criticism of Just War Theory

4DRm: MS.05Chair: Fabienne Peter

JUSTICE / ROUSSEAU

  • Daniel Thévenon (Oxford), Virtue and the Passions in the Political Theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Patricio Espinoza Lucero (UCL), Property, Justice and Rights: Reconciling Distributive Justice with Social Rights
  • Matthew Jones (Canterbury Christ Church University), Rorty and the Denial of Politics