Articles by Mircea Tobosaru

We are pleased to announce that Public Reason 3 (1) is now available online at http://www.publicreason.ro/cuprins/6

ARTICLES

- The Mutual Dependence of Institutions and Citizens’ Dispositions in Liberal Democracies

Jeremy Neil (Houston Baptist University)

- Legalizing Selective Conscientious Objection

George Clifford

- The Extension and Limits of the Duty to Rescue

Per Bauhn (Linnaeus University)

- Moral Judgments, Emotions, and some Expectations from Moral Motivation

Mar Cabezas (University of Salamanca)

- Ontology and the Paradox of Future Generations

Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina University)

- Darwall Versus Raz on Practical Authority

Mark McBride (National University of Singapore)

- David Friedman’s Model of Privatized Justice

Ionu? Sterpan (University of Bucharest)

- Rawlsian Compromises in Peacebuilding: A Rejoinder to Begby

Alejandro Agafonow (ESSCA School of Management, LUNAM Université)

- MacIntyre on Personal Identity

Lia Mela (University of Patras)

BOOK REVIEWS

- Gillian Brock, Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account

Reviewed by Dara Salam

Public Reason is an open access peer-reviewed journal of political and moral philosophy. Public Reason publishes articles, book reviews, as well as discussion notes from all the fields of political philosophy and ethics, including political theory, applied ethics, and legal philosophy. The Journal encourages the debate around rationality in politics and ethics in the larger context of the discussion concerning rationality as a philosophical problem.

Public Reason is committed to a pluralistic approach, promoting interdisciplinary and original perspectives as long as the ideal of critical arguing and clarity is respected. The journal is intended for the international philosophical community, as well as for a broader public interested in political and moral philosophy. It aims to promote philosophical exchanges with a special emphasis on issues in, and discussions on the Eastern European space. Public Reason publishes two issues per year, in June and December.

Happy New Year!

Mircea Tobosaru

Assistant Editor (Public Reason)

Global Justice: Norms and Limits
Bucharest, 10 - 12 May, 2012
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest 

Keynote and guest speakers include: Thomas Pogge (Yale), David Miller
(Oxford), Hillel Steiner (Manchester), Véronique Zanetti (Bilefield),
Sebastiano Maffettone (Roma), Paula Casal (Barcelona), Andreas Føllesdal
(Oslo), and Lea Ypi (Oxford).

Worldwide suffering caused by large-scale famine as well as poverty, human
rights violations, military interventions or environmental degradation have
a global dimension, because those responsible are not only individuals, but
also states and international institutions. Recently, what some have
perceived as global injustices related to military interventions and
economic exploitation seem to motivate terrorist and piracy attacks that
cause indiscriminate suffering. Having gained an unprecedented urgency, the
topic of global justice has received increasingly public and academic
attention, and has lately become a central issue in moral and political
philosophy. Our conference seeks to be a forum for discussing the most
important theories of global justice, their central concepts and
constraints.

The conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of
Bucharest and is organized by The Center for the Study of
Rationality and Beliefs.

Submission of papers
Contributions are expected from researchers from different academic fields
who are interested in the outlined topic or in closely related ones.
Abstracts should be sent by e-mail as attachment at globaljustice@ub-
filosofie.ro until the 30th of January 2012. The deadline for submitting
the full version of your paper is the 1st of March 2012. Along with the
abstract, please send us your contact details: current affiliation, address
and telephone number.

The organizers cannot support any travel or accommodation costs.

Follow-up:
The organizers intend to publish a volume including papers from the
conference. Acceptance of the paper for the conference does not guarantee
the inclusion in the proceedings. We kindly remind you that by submitting
the paper you implicitly agree to allow its publication in the conference
proceedings. For easier post-conference editorial work, it would be best if
you would format your paper using Chicago style of reference, but this is
not a formal condition for the publication.

Location
The Conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of
Bucharest. Address: Splaiul Independentei 204, Sector 6, postcode
060024, Bucharest, Romania. Google Maps: http://goo.gl/DI3K3.

Contact
globaljustice@ub-filosofie.ro

Programme
The conference programme will be available soon at the following address:

http://www.csrc.ro/EN/global-justice

We are pleased to announce the online publication of Public Reason Vol. 2, No 2. Public Reason is an open access peer-reviewed journal of political and moral philosophy, but it is also available in print.

ARTICLES

Anti-paternalism and Invalidation of Reasons
Kalle Grill (Uppsala University)

Modus Vivendi, Consensus, and (Realist) Liberal Legitimacy
Enzo Rossi (Social Ethics Research Group, University of Wales, Newport)

“Scales of Justice” and the Challenges of Global Governmentality
Ina Kerner (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Rawlsian Compromises in Peacebuilding? Response to Agafonow
Endre Begby (Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo)

The Basis of Universal Liberal Principles in Nussbaum’s Political Philosophy
Matthias Katzer (University of Siegen)

Religious Toleration and Public Funding for Abortions: a Problem with
Christopher Eberle’s Standard of “Conscientious Engagement”
Michael Harbour (Harvard Law School)

Dussel’s Critique of Discourse Ethics as Critique of Ideology
Asger Sørensen (University of Aarhus, School of Education)

BOOK REVIEWS

Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice
Reviewed by Stefan Bird-Pollan

Axel Gosseries and Lukas Meyer (edited by), Intergenerational Justice
Reviewed by Cédric Rio

Public Reason publishes articles, book reviews, as well as discussion notes
from all the fields of political philosophy and ethics, including political
theory, applied ethics, and legal philosophy. The Journal encourages the
debate around rationality in politics and ethics in the larger context of
the discussion concerning rationality as a philosophical problem.
Public Reason is committed to a pluralistic approach, promoting
interdisciplinary and original perspectives as long as the ideal of critical
arguing and clarity is respected. The journal is intended for the
international philosophical community, as well as for a broader public
interested in political and moral philosophy. It aims to promote
philosophical exchanges with a special emphasis on issues in, and
discussions on the Eastern European space. Starting from 2010 Public Reason
publishes two issues per year, in June and December.

Best regards,
Mircea Tobosaru
Assistant Editor (Public Reason)

Public Reason, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2010 is now available online.

Contents:
Lockean Theories of Property: Justifications for Unilateral Appropriation
Karl Widerquist (Georgetown University – Qatar)

Abortion and the Limits of Political Liberalism
Henrik Friberg-Fernros (University of Gothenburg)

On the Public Reason of the Society of Peoples
Alexander Brown (University of East Anglia)

Crooked Wood, Straight Timber – Kant, Development and Nature
Rafael Ziegler (Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald)

Human Security and Liberal Peace – Some Rawlsian Considerations
Alejandro Agafonow (The Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Compulsory Victim Restitution Is Punishment: A Reply to Boonin
Michael Cholbi (California State Polytechnic University)

Book Reviews:

Jonathan Israel, A Revolution of the Mind
Reviewed by Reidar Maliks

Alex Voorhoeve, Conversations on Ethics
Reviewed by Cristian Iftode

G. A. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality
Reviewed by Kevin William Gray

Public Reason is an open access journal of political and moral philosophy,
but it is also available in print (ISSN 2065-7285; EISSN 2065-8958).
Public Reason publishes articles, book
reviews, as well as discussion notes from all the fields of political
philosophy and ethics, including political theory, applied ethics, and
legal philosophy. The Journal encourages the debate around rationality in
politics and ethics in the larger context of the discussion concerning
rationality as a philosophical problem.

Public Reason is committed to a pluralistic approach, promoting
interdisciplinary and original perspectives as long as the ideal of
critical arguing and clarity is respected. The journal is intended for the
international philosophical community, as well as for a broader public
interested in political and moral philosophy. It aims to promote
philosophical exchanges with a special emphasis on issues in, and
discussions on the Eastern European space.

Starting from 2010 Public Reason publishes two issues per year, in June
and December. Public Reason is an open access e-journal, but it is also
available in print.

Global Justice. Concepts, Theories and Constraints: May 18-19, 2010 | CFP: 20 April 2010

Having gained an unprecedented urgency, the topic of global justice has received increasingly public and academic attention, and has lately become a central issue in moral and political philosophy. Our conference seeks to be a forum for discussing the most important theories of global justice, their central concepts and constraints.

Professor Thomas Pogge (Yale University) will deliver the conference keynote address.

The conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. The conference is organized by the The Center for the Study of Rationality and Beliefs as part of the research project Reason and Beliefs. Rationality, Public Reason and Education within a Multicultural Society financed by CNCSIS/UEFISCSU.

Submission of papers
We welcome papers concerning any topic related to global justice. Contributions are expected from researchers from different academic fields who are interested in the outlined topic or in closely related ones. Students are also invited to submit papers for the conference, as we intend to organize a student panel. Abstracts should be sent by e-mail as attachment at globaljustice@ub-filosofie.ro until the 20 April 2010. The deadline for submitting the full version of your paper is 10 May 2010. Along with the abstract, please send us your contact details: current affiliation, address and telephone number. The organizers cannot support any travel or accommodation costs.

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