VII Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

VII Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, 24-25 September 2009.

Sponsored by HDCP/IRC- Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre at IUSS-Institute for Advanced Study (Pavia) under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy.

24/09/2009

9-9.30 Registration

9.30-11 Plenary Session
Chair: Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Michael Otsuka (University College London), Risking Life and Limb

11-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13 1. Theories of democracy
Chair: Harry Adamson (Cambridge University)
Charles Girard (Université Paris 1), Conversation vs. Oratory. Which Paradigm for Deliberative Democracy?
James K L Wong (London School of Economics), Cognitive Dissonance and Democratic Justification by Condorcet’s Jury Theorem.

2. Power and harm
Chair: Irene Ottonello (University of Genova)
Pamela Pansardi (Univesity of Pavia), On the Ambiguities of the Concept of ‘Power to’ in the Contemporary Theory of Power
Paul Curry (University of Ottawa), Narrowing Towards Harm: A Reflection on the Harm Principle’s Ascendancy in the Courts

13-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-16 3. Rationality and strategic action
Chair: Francesca Pasquali (University of Milano)
Paul Gowder (Stanford University), Strategic Morality and Para-ideal Theory
Rossella Pisconti (University of Bari), Problems of defection in political and healthcare activities

4. Distributive justice and legitimacy of state power
Chair: Ben Colburn (Cambridge University)
Gabriel Wollner (University College London), On what counts: Priority, aggregation and the separateness of persons
Jeremy Farris (Oxford University), A Jointly-Held Right to Punish

16-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30-18.30 5. Liberalism and constructivism
Chair: Michele Bocchiola (LUISS, Roma)
Enrico Zoffoli (University of Darmstadt), Kantian Constructivism and Priority Rules
François Hudon (Université catholique de Louvain), Can a Preference-Based Conception of Freedom Make Sense?

6. Toleration and Pluralism
Chair: Emanuela Ceva (IUSS, University of Pavia)
Gabriele Badano (University of Genova), Must the Good Citizen Respect Human Life?
Devrim Kabasakal (Luiss University, Rome), Reasons for Toleration as an International Issue

20.30 Conference Dinner

25/09/2009

9:30-11 7. Solidarity
Chair: Nicola Riva (University of Milano)
Milica Trifunovic (Aachen University), Solidarity in law, politics and philosophy
Ray Critch (University of Edinburgh), Three Types of Solidarity

8. Socialism and Marx
Chair: Giulia Bistagnino (San Raffaele, Milano)
Lorna Finlayson (Cambridge University), Death Camp and Designer Dresses: Brian Barry and the liberal exclusion of socialism
Martin Eichler (University of Leipzig), A Condition of True Politics

11-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13 9. Egalitarianism
Chair: Michele Loi (San Raffaele, Milano)
Angela Cummine (Oxford University), A Citizen’s Stake in Sovereign Wealth
Joanna Firth (University of Manchester), What’s so Shameful about Shameful Revelations?’

10. Rhetoric and public discourse
Chair: Pia Campeggiani (University of Bologna)
Ioannis Markos Polakis (Panteion University, Athens), Is Aristotle’s Rhetoric Political?
Sara Amighetti (Oxford University), Human Rights and Public Discussion: some Procedural Considerations

13-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30-16 Plenary Session
Chair: Ian Carter (University of Pavia)
Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University, NY), Unpolitical Democracy

16.00 Conference ends