5th Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
6-7 September 2007
Programme
06/09/2007
9.30-11.00
Plenary session
Andrew Williams (University of Warwick), Poverty and Resistance
11.30-13.00
1. Global Justice
Eszter Kollár (LUISS, Rome), The Basic Structure as Boundary
Clara Brandi (European University Institute, Florence), The World Trade Organization as a Subject of Distributive Justice
2. Non-Domination and State Legitimacy
Massimo Renzo (University of Milan), Fairness and Self-Defense: A Multi-Principle Theory of State Legitimacy
Jan-Willem van der Rijt (University of Groningen), Dignity and Domination
14.30-16.00
3. Humanitarian Intervention
Cettina Marcellino, Biagio Spoto (University of Catania), Humanitarian Intervention: Theory and Practice
William Feldman (University of Oxford), Soldiers, Intervention and Emergency Due Care
4. Justified Law-breaking
Piero Moraro (University of Stirling), Irreversibility and the Defense of Necessity: An Argument in Favor of Direct Action
Claire Moulin-Doos (University of Bremen, Germany), The Appeal of Civil Disobedience – Or Should We Say “Civic Disobedience”?
16.30-18:00
5. Citizenship, Civic Virtue and Sociability
Dara Salam (Birkbeck College, London), The Roles of Participation and Recognition in Forming a Conception of Citizenship
Simon Hope (University of Cambridge), One Bad Argument for Civic Virtue and One Good One
Francesca Pongiglione (University of Bologna), Sociability and Human Nature: Rousseau’s Criticism of Mandeville in “The Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men”
07/09/2007
9.30-11.00
6. Collective Harm and Human Flourishing
Elizabeth Cripps (University College London), Collective Harm and Environmental Duties
Michele Loi (LUISS, Rome), Saving Human Flourishing from Scanlon
7. Constructivism and Moral Justification
Julia Hermann (European University Institute, Florence), Moral Justificatory Arguments Reconsidered
Michele Bocchiola (LUISS, Rome), Constructivism and the Claim of Objectivity
11.30-13.00
8. Egalitarianism and Justice
Enrico Biale (University of Genoa), The Personal is Political
Gabriel Wollner (University of Oxford), Talent, Property and Equality – Some Problems for Left-Libertarianism
9. Contractualist and Deliberative Approaches to Justification
Robert Jubb (University of Oxford), Contractualism and Reasons: Agency, Normativity and the Back-to-Front Objection
Matteo Bonotti (University of Edinburgh), Deliberative Perfectionism: Why Should We Talk About the Good?
14.30-16.00
Plenary session
Giovanni Giorgini (Università di Bologna), ‘And After All We’re Only Ordinary Men’. Some Reflections on the Ordinary Human Being