3rd Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
15-16 September 2005
Programme
15/09/2005
9.30-11.00
Plenary session
Chair: Ian Carter (Università di Pavia)
Michele Nicoletti (Università di Trento), Towards a European Civil Society: Religions, Politics and Public Ethics
11.30-13.00
Session 1
Chair: Emanuela Ceva (Università di Pavia)
Michael Georgieva (University of Manchester), Constructivism-Realism Re-examined: Objectivity and Truth in a Political Conception of Justice
Miriam Ronzoni (University of Oxford), Constructivisms: Between Abstraction and Idealization
Session 2
Chair: Jonathan Wolff (University College London)
Anthony Amatrudo (LSE), The Classical Theorists of the Utilitarian Account of Punishment
Maria Bohn (Stockholm Environment Institute), The Concepts of Responsibility and Accountability in the Notion of Corporate Social Responsibility
14.30-16.00
Session 3
Chair: Corrado Del Bò (Università di Pavia)
Alexandra Couto (University of Oxford), Paternalism and Social Justice
Ronald Nashi (Cornell University), Nozick’s Principles
Session 4
Chair: Miriam Ronzoni (University of Oxford)
Enzo Rossi (University of St. Andrews), Liberal Legitimacy and its Dicontents
Julia Skorupska (University of Oxford), Rhetoric and Reason: A Comparison of Rawls’ and Mill’s Conception of the Role of Reason in the Public Sphere
16.30-18.30
Session 5
Elena Alessiato (Università di Torino), Karl Jaspers and Politics: The First World War and the Politische Stimmungen
Simon Griffiths (LSE), Socialism at the End of the Century
Matthew Johnson (University of Newcastle), A Marxian Consequentialist Defence of US ‘Imperialism’
Session 6
Claudio Corradetti (Luiss Guido Carli – Roma), Cultural Relativism and Cosmopolitanism of Human Rights
James Pattison (University of Newcastle), Representativeness, Legitimacy and Those Undertaking Humanitarian Intervention
16/09/2005
9.00-11.00
Session 7
Shi Li (Luiss – Roma), Causal Explanation, Freedom, and Davidson
Federico Zuolo (Università di Pavia), Self-Efficacy of Normative Political Philosophy
Session 8
Chair: Tiziana Torresi (University of Oxford)
Francesco Orsi (Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa), Strangers and Special Obligations
Volker Kaul (Luiss – Roma), On a Social Ontology of Beneficence
11.30-13.00
Session 9
Zeynep Ozgen (Bogaziçi University, Istanbul), Rethinking the Social Philosophy of Multiculturalism: The Case of Antioch
Peter Balint (University of Oxford), Respect Relationships in Diverse Societies
Session 10
Tiziana Torresi (University of Oxford), What if we Harm the Poor? A Need-Based Argument for Migration
Barton Egerton (LSE), The Concept of Territory
14.30-16.00
Plenary session
Chair: Ian Carter (Università di Pavia)
Jonathan Wolff (University College London), Disadvantage and Respect