6th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
16th – 17th September 2008
HDCP IRC (Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre)
Programme
16/09/2008
9.30-11.00
Plenary Session
Chair: Ian Carter (Università di Pavia)
David Miller (University of Oxford), Democracy’s Scope
11.30-13.00
Session 1
Chair: Sara Amighetti (Università di Pavia)
Gabriel Wollner (University of Oxford), Do Obligations of Egalitarian Justice Only Arise Between and Solely in Virtue of Individuals Sharing a Common Institution?
Katy Dineen (London School of Economics), Analysing Cosmopolitanism’s Concept of Connectedness
Session 2
Chair: Laura Lo Coco (Università di Pavia)
Diego Vernazza (EHESS, Paris), Montesquieu’s Political Theory: A Local and Conflictual Notion of Order
Simonetta Freschi (Università di Trieste), Raymond Aron: Political and Existential Liberalism
14.30-16.00
Session 3
Chair: Enrico Biale (Università di Genova)
Herbert Preiss (University of Wien), The Significance of Ideology and Fear in Divided Societies: Towards a Revision of Liberal Political Philosophy
Charles Girard (Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne), Deliberative Democracy and Mass Media: Towards a Normative Theory of Mediated Public Debate
Session 4
Chair: Laura Valentini (The Queen’s College, Oxford)
Dario Cecchi (Università di Bologna), A Right to Imagine Our World. Arendt between Judgment and Thinking
Mauro Piras (Università di Vercelli), Remarks on the Moral Basis of Political Liberalism
16.30-18.30
Session 5
Chair: Michele Bocchiola (LUISS, Roma)
Robert Jubb (University of Oxford), Logical and Epistemic Foundationalism about Grounding: The Triviality of Facts and Principles
Laurens Van Apeldoorn (University of Oxford), Hypothetical Consent and Political Obligations in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Session 6
Chair: Maria Ciccone (Università di Pavia)
Francesca Pongiglione (Università di Bologna), What is Determinative in the Making of a Political Theory? A Comparison between Hobbes’s Absolutism and Mandeville’s Liberalism
Mark Hanin (University of Cambridge), Misrepresentations of God’s Role in Pufendorf’s Theory of Natural Law
17/09/2008
9.30-11.00
Plenary Session
Chair: Ian Carter (Università di Pavia)
Alessandro Ferrara (Università di Roma 2, Tor Vergata), Another Universalism: The Force of the Example
11.30-13.00
Session 7
Chair: Nicola Riva (Università di Milano)
Fiona Ennis (University College Cork), A Right to Bodily Integrity and Libertarian Theory
Yael Peled (University of Oxford), The Blessing of Babel: Linguistic Diversity and Human Development
Session 8
Chair: Francesca Pasquali (Università di Milano)
Sezgi Durgun (Marmara University of Istanbul), Nietzsche’s Reception: Politics of Philosophy
Gavin Rae (University of Warwick), Hegel, Freedom & the State
14.30-16.00
Graduate Plenary Session
Chair: Emanuela Ceva (IUSS, Pavia)
James Gledhill (London School of Economics), The Idealism of Ideal Theory
Dimitris Efthimiou (European University Institute, Florence), How Much Stability is Too Much? The Case of Contextualist Theories of Distributive Justice