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Sarah Conly, Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism
Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries, and Ingrid Robeyns, eds., Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: A Gender Perspective (US) (UK) (CA)
Catherine Audard, John Rawls (US) (UK) (CA)
Maria Baghramian & Attracta Ingram, eds., Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity (US) (UK) (CA)
Bat-Ami Bar On, The Subject of Violence (US) (UK) (CA)
Christian Barry and Thomas Pogge, eds., Global Institutions and Responsibilities (US) (UK) (CA)
Sonu Bedi, Rejecting Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Richard Bellamy, Political Constitutionalism (US) (UK) (CA)
Charles Blattberg, From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics (US) (UK) (CA)
Chiara Bottici, A Philosophy of Political Myth (US) (UK) (CA)
Laurent Bouvet, Le communautarisme: Mythes et réalités (US) (UK) (FR)
Corey Brettschneider, Democratic Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Harry Brighouse, On Education (US) (UK) (CA)
Harry Brighouse and Gillian Brock, eds., The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (US) (UK) (CA)
Gillian Brock, Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (US) (UK) (CA)
Thom Brooks, Hegel's Political Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Thom Brooks, ed., The Global Justice Reader (US) (UK) (CA)
Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination (US) (UK) (CA)
Mark Button, Contract, Culture, and Citizenship: Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls (US) (UK) (CA)
Gideon Calder, Rorty's Politics of Redescription (US) (UK) (CA)
Eamonn Callan, Creating Citizens (US) (UK) (CA)
Simon Caney, Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory (US) (UK) (CA)
Thomas Christiano, The Constitution of Equality (US) (UK) (CA)
Claudio Corradetti, Relativism and Human Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
M. Victoria Costa, Rawls, Citizenship, and Education (US) (UK) (CA)
Derrick Darby, Rights, Race, and Recognition (US) (UK) (CA)
Monique Deveaux, Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States (US) (UK) (CA)
Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere, and Stuart White, eds., The Ethics of Stakeholding (US) (UK) (CA)
William Edmundson, Three Anarchical Fallacies (US) (UK) (CA)
David Estlund, Democratic Authority (US) (UK) (CA)
Colin Farrelly, Justice, Democracy and Reasonable Agreement (US) (UK) (CA)
Alessandro Ferrara, The Force of the Example (US) (UK) (CA)
Christopher Finlay, Hume's Social Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Gordon Finlayson, Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (US) (UK) (CA)
James Fleming, Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy (US) (UK) (CA)
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Toleration as Recognition (US) (UK) (CA)
Graeme Garrard, Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment (US) (UK) (CA)
Carol Gould, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Benjamin Gregg, Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms (US) (UK) (CA)
Lori Gruen, Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (US) (UK) (CA)
Jospeh Heath, Following the Rules (US) (UK) (CA)
Jason Hill, Becoming a Cosmopolitan (US) (UK) (CA)
Nils Holtug and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, eds., Egalitarianism (US) (UK) (CA)
Iseult Honohan, Civic Republicanism (US) (UK) (CA)
Dustin Ells Howes, Toward a Credible Pacifism (US) (UK) (CA)
Michael Huemer, Ethical Intuitionism (US) (UK) (CA)
Thomas Hurka, Perfectionism (US) (UK) (CA)
Alison Jaggar, ed., Just Methods: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader (US) (UK) (CA)
Simon Keller, The Limits of Loyalty (US) (UK) (CA)
Mark Kingwell and Patrick Turmel, eds., Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space (US) (UK) (CA)
Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols, eds., Experimental Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Ari Kohen, In Defense of Human Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Anthony Langlois, The Politics of Justice and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory (US) (UK) (CA)
Steven Lecce, Against Perfectionism: Defending Liberal Neutrality (US) (UK) (CA)
Jacob T. Levy, The Multiculturalism of Fear (US) (UK) (CA)
Roderick T. Long, Reason and Value: Aristotle versus Rand (US) (UK) (CA)
Colin Macleod, Liberalism, Justice, and Markets: A Critique of Liberal Equality (US) (UK) (CA)
Rex Martin and David Reidy, eds., Rawls's Law of Peoples (US) (UK) (CA)
Matt Matravers, Responsibility and Justice (US) (UK) (CA)
Larry May, War Crimes and Just War (US) (UK) (CA)
John Maynor, Republicanism in the Modern World (US) (UK) (CA)
Steven Mazie, Israel's Higher Law: Religion and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish State (US) (UK) (CA)
Noëlle McAfee, Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (US) (UK) (CA)
Christopher McMahon, Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning (US) (UK) (CA)
Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Cali, eds., The Legalization of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Approaches (US) (UK) (CA)
Peter Meyers, Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen (US) (UK) (CA)
Darrel Moellendorf, Global Inequality Matters (US) (UK) (CA)
Diane Morgan and Gary Banham, eds., Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of the Future (US) (UK) (CA)
Colleen Murphy, A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (US) (UK) (CA)
Jan Narveson, You and the State: A Short Introduction to Political Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Nahshon Perez, Freedom from Past Injustices (US) (UK) (CA)
Jonathan Quong, Liberalism without Perfection (US) (UK) (CA)
George Rainbolt, The Concept of Rights (US) (UK) (CA)
Andrew Rehfeld, The Concept of Constituency (US) (UK) (CA)
Rob Reich, Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education (US) (UK) (CA)
David Reidy and Walter Riker, Coercion and the State (US) (UK) (CA)
Melvin Rogers, The Undiscovered Dewey (US) (UK) (CA)
Andrew Sabl, Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics (US) (UK) (CA)
Debra Satz, Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale (US) (UK) (CA)
Debra Satz and Rob Reich, eds., Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin (US) (UK) (CA)
David Schmidtz and Jason Brennan, A Brief History of Liberty (US) (UK) (CA)
Sibyl Schwarzenbach, On Civic Friendship (US) (UK) (CA)
Tamsin Shaw, Nietzsche's Political Skepticism (US) (UK) (CA)
Tommie Shelby, We Who Are Dark (US) (UK) (CA)
Laurie Shrage, Abortion and Social Responsibility: Depolarizing the Debate (US) (UK) (CA)
A. John Simmons, Justification and Legitimacy (US) (UK) (CA)
Christine T. Sistare, ed., Civility and Its Discontents (US) (UK) (CA)
Sarah Song, Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism (US) (UK) (CA)
Jean-Fabien Spitz, John Locke et les fondements de la liberté moderne (US) (FR) (CA)
Uwe Steinhoff, The Philosophy of Jurgen Habermas (US) (UK) (CA)
Peter Stone, The Luck of the Draw (US) (UK) (CA)
Robert Talisse, Democracy after Liberalism (US) (UK) (CA)
Kok-Chor Tan, Justice without Borders (US) (UK) (CA)
Robert Taylor, Reconstructing Rawls (US) (UK) (CA)
C.L. Ten, ed., The Nineteenth Century (US) (UK) (CA)
Mathias Thaler, Moralische Politik oder politische Moral? (US) (UK)
Peter Vallentyne and Hillel Steiner, eds., Left-Libertarianism and its Critics (US) (UK)
Steve Vanderheiden, Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change (US) (UK) (CA)
Steven Wall and George Klosko, eds., Perfectionism and Neutrality (US) (UK) (CA)
Eric Thomas Weber, Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy (US) (UK) (CA)
Daniel Weinstock and Christian Nadeau, eds., Republicanism: History, Theory and Practice (US) (UK) (CA)
Cynthia Willett, The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris (US) (UK) (CA)
Melissa Williams, Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (US) (UK) (CA)
Jessica Wolfendale, Torture and the Military Profession (US) (UK) (CA)
Christopher Woodard, Reasons, Patterns, and Cooperation (US) (UK) (CA)
Christopher Zurn, Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (US) (UK) (CA)
Matt Zwolinski, ed., Arguing about Political Philosophy (US) (UK) (CA)
Category Archives: Conferences
Liberalism Without Perfection, Luiss University of Rome, 23 May 2013
by Jonathan Quong and Live Streaming on Philosophy and Public Issues Journal Website One day launch workshop of the new series of *Philosophy and Public Issues*, an international journal of moral, political, legal and social philosophy edited by Sebastiano Maffettone … Continue reading
Punishment book launch in Westminster
Punishment book launch The Houses of Parliament Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013 Time: 17:00-19:00 Place: Committee Room 3, the Houses of Parliament, London Punishment is a topic of increasing importance for citizens and policymakers. Why should we punish criminals? What … Continue reading
CfP: MANCEPT Workshop: ‘The Politics of Agonism’, 4th-6th September 2013
The agonist tradition has introduced to political thought an account of politics that focuses on the integral role of power and conflict in the relations between participants in society. But the tradition seems to be insufficiently aware of its conceptual … Continue reading
CFP: Hannah Arendt’s “On Revolution” after 50 years
September 25–26, 2013 Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile Keynote speakers: Jean Cohen (Columbia University) Robert Fine (University of Warwick) In March 1963, The Viking Press published Hannah Arendt’s book “On Revolution”. Since then, the book has provoked a significant … Continue reading
CFP: Power and Freedom, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, 4th – 6th September 2013 Convenors: Peter Morriss (National University of Ireland – Galway) Pamela Pansardi (University of Pavia) Co-sponsored with IPSA Research Committee on Political Power (RC36). The workshop aims at … Continue reading
Oxford Political Thought Conference 2014: competition for graduate students
The UK and Ireland Association for Political Thought invites graduate students registered at any UK or Irish university, engaged in research in the field of political thought, to submit papers for presentation at the Political Thought Conference 2014, to be … Continue reading
2013 Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop with Alex Gourevitch
The program for the manuscript workshop on “Something of Slavery Still Remains: Labor and the Cooperative Commonwealth,” by Alex Gourevitch, the winner of the 2013 GRIPP Manuscript Workshop Award, is now available here: http://profs-polisci.mcgill.ca/abizadeh/GRIPP-2013-Workshop.htm The workshop will be held at … Continue reading
C4P: “Incentives in Health Promotion: The Ethics and Politics of Healthy Choices”
A MANCEPT Workshop in Political Theory, convened by Richard Ashcroft (Queen Mary, University of London) and Jurgen De Wispelaere (McGill University) 4-6 September 2013, University of Manchester Behaviour shaping through incentives plays a major role in health and health promotion, … Continue reading
Idealism & Pragmatism: Convergence or Contestation?
We are pleased to announce a Leverhulme funded network project on the relation between idealism and pragmatism. The project will last three years, and will involve a series of workshops and a final conference. For further details see here: http://idealismandpragmatism.org/ … Continue reading
Call for Abstracts – Conference on Intergenerational Justice at the University of York, 19-20 Sept 2013
INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE: OBLIGATIONS, PROMISES, FAILURES Thursday 19 – Friday 20 September 2013: University of York The School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of York and the Intergenerational Foundation are delighted to launch a call for papers aimed … Continue reading
CFP: Cosmopolitanism and Conflict, Rome, October 11-13 2013
Call for Papers Cosmopolitanism and Conflict John Cabot University, Rome, October 11-13 2013 Confirmed speakers: Daniele Archibugi (Birkbeck and CNR, Rome) Robert Bernasconi (Penn State) James Bohman (St. Louis) Hauke Brunkhorst (Flensburg) Fred Dallmayr (Notre Dame) Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck) Patrick … Continue reading
Conference Announcement: Liberalism and Republicanism: Public Policy Implications
School of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University College London 13 February, 2013 Keynote speaker Dr Stuart White (Oxford) ‘The Liberal Contribution to Republican Political Theory’ In recent years there has been a growing interest among political theorists and … Continue reading
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory: 2nd Call for Convenors
Tenth Annual Conference: 4th - 6th September 2013 Once again, the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) in Politics at the University of Manchester will be organizing the annual Political Theory Workshops. Over the last nine years, participants from over twenty five … Continue reading
New volume: Public Reason 4 (1-2) [open access peer-reviewed journal]
We are pleased to announce that Public Reason 4 (1-2) is now available online at http://publicreason.ro/cuprins/8 Public Reason is an open-access peer-reviewed journal of political and moral philosophy and all articles are available for download as .pdf, .mobi, and .epub. … Continue reading
CfP: Kant on Citizenship and Exclusion
CfP on “Kant on Citizenship and Exclusion” for a Panel at ECPR General Conference in Bordeaux in September 2013. Proposals are welcome and can be sent until 1st of February 2013. ECPR General Conference Bordeaux 04-07 September 2013 Section: Justification … Continue reading
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 2013, Call for Convenors
The MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 2013 is an annual conference in political theory, organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester. This year’s conference will be the tenth event in the series and … Continue reading
CFP: Brave New World
BRAVE NEW WORLD CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submission of abstract: 22nd March 2013 Brave New World 2013, the Seventeenth Annual Postgraduate Conference organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), will take place on Thursday … Continue reading
Call for Papers: IV Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, University of Minho (Braga), May 20-21 2013
After three successful meetings on previous years, we now welcome paper proposals for the fourth Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, which will be held at University of Minho, Braga (Portugal), on May 20-21 2013. We invite contributions in both moral philosophy and normative … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Northwestern University, Society for Ethical Theory & Political Philosophy, 7th Annual Conference. 16-18th May, 2013
Call for Papers From Faculty and Graduate Students Keynote Addresses: Talbot Brewer and Sarah Buss SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The deadline is February 15, 2013. We welcome submissions from faculty and graduate students, as some sessions will be reserved for student presentations. … Continue reading
CONF: The Republican Model and Diversity, University of Copenhagen, November 8th
The Republican Model and Diversity November 8th 2012 Room 27.0.09, University of Copenhagen in Amager, metro Islands Brygge Workshop organized by the Centre for the Study of Equality of Multiculturalism (CESEM) in collaboration with the Institut Français and the French … Continue reading
The idea of evil: secular approaches, 22 – 23 November 2012
MANCEPT/MANCEV CONFERENCE Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester Thursday 22 November Registration 9:30 – 10:00 10:00 – 11:30 Luke Russell (The University of Sydney) Evil and the Qualitative Difference Revisited Commentator: Richard Child (University of Manchester) 11:30 – 11.45 Break … Continue reading
Pittsburgh Philosophy Workshop: Law & Morality
December 1st, 2012 – Pitt University Club: The Philosophy Department at the University of Pittsburgh presents a workshop on Law & Morality Speakers: Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern) - “Does Respect Require Antiperfectionism?” Henry Richardson (Georgetown) - “Democratic Autonomy and Democratic Authority” Paul Weithman … Continue reading
Responsibility and the Criminal Law
The University of Milan, Italy Department “Cesare Beccaria” 9 and 10 october 2012 Responsibility and the Criminal Law 9 october, 15.30 John Stanton-Ife (King’s College, London – The Law Commission) Mental Disorder and Sexual Consent: Williams and After Discussant: Filippo … Continue reading
Call for papers
Workshop: “Sovereignty of the Market, or Sovereignty over the Market?” 23-25 January 2013 in Leiden (The Netherlands) Deadline abstracts (300 words): October 1st, 2012. This interdisciplinary workshop explores the hypothesis that the financial breakdown and the Euro-crisis raise a question of political … Continue reading
The Lottery as a Democratic Institution
As you may know, I am organizing a workshop at Trinity College Dublin on “The Lottery as a Democratic Institution.” This workshop will be co-organized by Gil Delannoi (Sciences Po) and Oliver Dowlen. The workshop will be held on October … Continue reading
The idea of evil: secular approaches
MANCEPT/MANCEV conference Thursday 22 November – Friday 23 November 2012 Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester Conference organisers Stephen de Wijze, (MANCEPT/Politics), dewijze@manchester.ac.uk Catherine Abell, (MANCEV/Philosophy), catharine.abell@manchester.ac.uk Eve Garrard, (MANCEPT/Philosophy), eve.garrard@manchester.ac.uk Speakers Adam Morton, (University of British Columbia) Luke Russell, … Continue reading
Harvard University: Graduate Conference in Political Theory – October 26–27, 2012
The Department of Government (FAS) at Harvard University will host its annual conference for graduate students in political theory and political philosophy on October 26–27, 2012. Papers on any theme or topic within political theory — from the history of … Continue reading
One-day conference on “Liberalism without Perfection”: March 30, 2013, Cambridge, UK
Churchill College, Cambridge Saturday, March 30th, 2013 Quite a few political philosophers in recent years have favoured a view called liberal perfectionism. According to this view, liberal political morality is characterized by a commitment to helping individuals lead autonomous lives … Continue reading
Collective Responsibility: Ethics, Law, and Public Policy for the Twenty-First Century (3-4 July 2012)
The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Advanced Studies, Justitia Amplificata, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, with funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Venue: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, Germany (near Frankfurt) To register, please email Ms Valérie Bignon at bignon@em.uni-frankfurt.de. Please indicate whether you … Continue reading
Symposium on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness
The Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog is hosting a symposium on John Tomasi’s newest book, Free Market Fairness. The symposium begins today, June 11th, and runs through next Monday, June 18th. The schedule for the symposium is below. Please see the … Continue reading
CFP: ‘Exploring the Green Framework’
Ninth Annual MANCEPT Political Theory Workshops (5th -7th September 2012) http://manceptworkshops2012.wordpress.com/ University of Manchester Call for Papers: Exploring the ‘Green Framework’ Environmental issues are fast becoming a central and pressing concern of the political landscape. The ‘Green Framework’, is comprised … Continue reading
Blog Symposium on Libertarianism and Land
Over at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, we’re running a symposium this week on the topic of “Libertarianism and Land,” featuring essays by Eric Mack, Hillel Steiner, Fred Foldvary, Kevin Carson, and David Schmidtz. The first essay went up this … Continue reading
CFP: Brave New World
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submission of abstract: 9th April 2012 Brave New World 2012, the Sixteenth Annual Postgraduate Conference organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), will take place on Wednesday 27th … Continue reading
2012 Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop with Daniel Viehoff
The program for the manuscript workshop on “The Authority of Democracy,” by Daniel Viehoff of the University of Sheffield, is now available here: http://profs-polisci.mcgill.ca/abizadeh/GRIPP-2012-Workshop.htm The workshop will be held at McGill University on 2012-05-29.
Upcoming Conference: ‘Measures of Subjective Well-being for Public Policy: Philosophical Perspectives’
Conference: ‘Measures of Subjective Well-being for Public Policy: Philosophical Perspectives’ Registration now open. Keynote Speakers: Richard Layard Peter Railton Valerie Tiberius Dan Haybron This post is to inform the ‘Public Reason’ blog community about an inter-disciplinary international conference on “Measures … Continue reading
Upcoming Conference: Global Poverty: What Do We Know? Where Do We Go From Here?
Yale University SML Lecture Hall April 12-13, 2012 April 12th, 9:30am–6pm: The Next Steps for Global Poverty Alleviation Panelists will discuss the next steps that should be taken towards the alleviation of global poverty. Discussion will focus on the question … Continue reading
Tennessee Value and Agency Conference 2012 – CFA
The inaugural Tennessee Value and Agency Conference will take place in November 2012. Tim Scanlon (Harvard) and Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) will keynote. The meeting will focus on themes in the moral philosophy of Rawls and Kant. Conference information and the … Continue reading
CFP (extended deadline): Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics (Northwestern)
CALL FOR PAPERS From faculty and graduate students SOCIETY FOR THE THEORY OF ETHICS AND POLITICS Northwestern University, 6th Annual Conference, May 17–19, 2012 Keynote speakers: Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton) T. M. Scanlon (Harvard) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We welcome submissions from … Continue reading
Henle Conference on Happiness and Well-Being
The Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University will be hosting the Henle Conference on Happiness and Well-Being on March 30-31, 2012. A tentative schedule appears below. SCHEDULE Friday, March 30 1:00 pm Welcoming Remarks 1:15 pm Valerie Tiberius (University … Continue reading
Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference
Registration is required and free of charge. To register, please send name, affiliation and contact information to: taylor.conference.2012 [at] gmail.com Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference March 29-31 2012, Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal Charles Taylor à 80 ans: un colloque international … Continue reading
