8th Pavia Graduate Conference in
Political Philosophy
16-17 September 2010
Sponsored by Tolleranza come eguale rispetto (PRIN 2008)
Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre,
Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia
Under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy
and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy
Programme
16/09/2010
9.30-11.00
Plenary Session
Chair: Emanuela Ceva (University of Pavia – IUSS, Pavia)
Valeria Ottonelli (University of Genova), Equal Respect, Democracy and Political Agency
11.30-13.00
1. Equality and Sufficiency
Chair: Michele Loi (University San Raffaele, Milano)
Emily McTernan (King’s College, Cambridge), Cohen’s Inegalitarian Ethos: Equal Respect, Self-Respect and Carers
Liam Shields (University of Warwick), What is Sufficientarianism?
2. Humiliation and Corruption
Chair: Nicola Riva (University of Milano)
Leonard Mazzone (University of Firenze), Taking Humiliation Seriously
Pia Campeggiani (University of Pisa), Politics and Corruption. Pleonexia, Inequality, Injustice between Solon and Aristotle
14.30-16.00
3. Respect and the Basis of Equality
Chair: Enrico Biale (University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli)
Christopher Nathan (University of Exeter), Respect as Explicating the Basis of Equality
Baldwin Bon Wah Wong (London School of Economics), Justification of Equal Respect in Contractualism: A Critique and a Suggestion
4. Feminism
Chair: Pia Campeggiani (University of Pisa)
Coromoto Power Febres (University College London), Restricting Pornography from an Anti-Pornography Radical Feminist Stance – A Critique on Freedom of Speech
Alasia Nuti (University of Genova), The Helpless Goes To War. A Feminist Criticism Of Just War Theory
16.30-18.00
5. International Toleration and Respect
Chair: Federico Zuolo (University of Pavia – IUSS, Pavia)
Dorothea Gädeke (Goethe University, Frankfurt), International Toleration, Respect and Self-Governance – Some Critical Remarks on Rawls’ Law of Peoples
Isabella Hermann (Goethe University, Frankfurt), How Much Respect is Justifiable Towards Non-Liberal States?
17/09/2010
9.30-11.00
6. Minority Rights and Multiculturalism
Chair: Laura Lo Coco (London School of Economics)
Omid Hejazi (Queen’s University, Canada), Two Liberal Theories of Minority Rights: Universal or Particular?
Leonardo Marchettoni (University of Firenze), Scorekeeping Semantics as a New Paradigm in Multiculturalist Political Theory
7. Federalism and Global Democracy
Chair: Sara Amighetti (University College, London)
José André (University of Lisbon), Federalism and Political Philosophy
Jonathan Kuyper (Australian National University), The Potential Implications of Ideal Democratic Theory
11.30-13.00
8. Democratic Peace and Democratic Justice
Chair: Giulia Bistagnino (University of Milano)
Elisa Piras (European University Institute), Considering the ‘Democratic Peace’ Assumption in Rawls’ Law of Peoples
Sara Amighetti (University College, London), Thinking about Justice and Democracy Together
9. Issues in Continental Political Philosophy
Chair: Francesca Pasquali (University of Milano)
Andreas Braune (University of Jena), “Zwang” and Coercion: One Word, Two Concepts?
Christine Unrau (University of Köln), The Grand Inquisitor’s Lesson: Conflict, Religion and Human Diversity as Key Issues of Toleration
14.30-16.00
Plenary Session
Chair: Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Adam Swift (Balliol College, Oxford), Parents’ Rights, Children’s Schools: Shaping Values, Conferring Advantage