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We’ll be starting this semester’s podcast symposium this Friday. We have five papers this semester. The first paper is available for download for people who are interested in reading it prior to this Friday’s presentation:
- 27 February: Jonathan Phillips (UNC), “Freedom: Morality and Folk Intuitions.” Comments by Matt Zwolinski (USD).
“Positive and negative theories of liberty hold drastically different accounts of the role for value judgments in regard to freedom. This paper discusses the implications of one special type: moral judgments, and considers how moral judgments may affect ordinary intuitions about freedom in particular. This ‘ordinary’ concept of freedom contrasts both positive and negative theories of liberty and has some interesting implications of its own.”
The remaining papers are:
- 13 March: Jordan Dodd (Syracuse), “On Gutmann and Thompson’s Arguments that Deliberative Democrats Shouldn’t be Pure Proceduralists.” Comments by Simon May (Virginia Tech).
- 27 March: Emanuela Ceva (Pavia), “Just Procedures with Controversial Outcomes.” Comments by David Lefkowitz (UNC Greensboro).
- 10 April: Wally Siewert (UCSB), “Margins of Appreciation.” Comments by Basak Cali (UCL).
- 24 April: Jake Blair (UCSB), “Why a Defensive War Against Mitigated Aggression Can be Proportionate.” Comments by Colleen Murphy (Texas A&M).
Everyone is welcome to participate. We are hoping to make the symposium a regular feature, so the more participation we get, the more we will be able to figure out how best to use the website to present papers in a conference or colloquium-like manner.
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