Spring 2009 Political Philosophy Podcast Symposium
The deadline for submission of abstracts for the Spring 2009 Political Philosophy Podcast Symposium is 1 December 2008. Please submit a 300-500 word abstract in a pdf file to admin [at] publicreason.net. Please make sure that the abstract is prepared for blind review. A committee of four members of the website will select a number of papers from those submitted during December. Those who submit abstracts commit themselves to having a full draft of the paper ready by 1 January 2009. Graduate students are also welcome to submit abstracts. All presenters will become members of the site, whether or not they have completed their Ph.D. studies.
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Fall 2008 Political Philosophy Podcast Symposium
The schedule for the Fall 2008 Political Philosophy Podcast Symposium is as follows:
19 September: Alexander Sager (Calgary), “What Immigrants Owe Society: Obligations of Integration?”
Comments by Matthew Lister (Pennsylvania).
26 September: Kevin Vallier and Gerald Gaus (Arizona), “The Role of Religion in a Publicly Justified Polity: The Implications of Convergence, Asymmetry, and Political Institution.”
Comments by Jon Quong (Manchester).
3 October: Jessica Wolfendale (Melbourne), “Torture Lite and the Normalisation of Torture.”
Comments by David Sussman (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
10 October: Laurie Shrage (Florida International University), “Does the Government Need to Know Your Sex?”
Comments by Lori Gruen (Wesleyan).
17 October: Justin Weinberg (South Carolina), “Is Government Supererogation Possible?”
Comments by Helena de Bres (Wellesley).
24 October: Scott Anderson (British Columbia) “Coercion as Enforcement.”
Comments by William Edmundson (Georgia State).
31 October: Thomas Porter (Oxford), “Distributive Subjectivism, Liberal Neutrality and the Expensive Tastes Intuition.”
Comments by Zofia Stemplowska (Manchester).
7 November: David Wiens (Michigan), “Towards a Realistic Moral Theory of State Sovereignty.”
Comments by Simon Caney (Oxford).
14 November: Xavier Marquez (Victoria University, Wellington), “Unhappy Families: Three Ways of Thinking about Imperfect Political Regimes.”
Comments Thom Brooks (Newcastle).
21 November: Paul Gowder (Stanford), “Democratic Authorship as Political Autonomy.”
Comments by Ben Saunders (Oxford).