Workshop on
Free Market Fairness
Tilburg, April 12, 2013
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Synopsis
A one day workshop at Tilburg University on the themes arising from John Tomasi’s book,
Free Market Fairness, Princeton University Press, 2012. Professor Tomasi will give the
keynote address after a discussion of the main theses of his book by political philosophers
from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA and Switzerland.
Organizer: Alan Thomas (Tilburg University)
Speakers
Alan Thomas (Tilburg University), Waheed Hussain (Wharton School, Pennsylvania), Ryan
Muldoon (University of Pennsylvania), Ingrid Robeyns (Erasmus University, Rotterdam),
Martin O'Neill (University of York), Lisa Herzog (Goethe University, Frankfurt), Thad
Williamson (Jepson School of Leadership Studies)
Keynote speaker: John Tomasi (Brown University, Providence)
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Program
Friday, April 12 - The Ruth First Room
09:30 – 10:00
Alan Thomas (Tilburg) ‘Rawls and Tomasi on Robust Economic
Liberty’.
10:00 – 10:15
Discussion of paper 1
10:15 – 10:45
Waheed Hussain (Wharton School, U Penn) ‘Self-Authorship and
Recognition in a Market Democracy’.
10:45 – 11:00
Discussion of paper 2
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45
Ryan Muldoon (U. Penn) tbc.
11:45 – 12:00
Discussion of paper 3
12:00 – 12:30
Ingrid Robeyns, (Rotterdam) tbc.
12:30 – 12:45
Discussion of paper 3
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch at Tilbury Restaurant (on campus)
14:00 – 14:30
Martin O’Neill (York) ‘Justification, Reciprocity and Maximin: Saving
Justice from Neoclassical Liberalism’.
14:30 – 14:45
Discussion of paper 4
14:45 – 15:15
Lisa Herzog, (Goethe University, Frankfurt) ‘Preaching to the Lockean
Choir? Human Motivation and the Feasibility of Economic Utopias’.
15:15 – 15:30
Discussion of paper 5
15:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:15
Thad Williamson (Jepson School of Leadership Studies) ‘Exploitation of
labor, positional goods, and political economy: three challenges to/for
Free Market Fairness’
16:15 – 16:30
Discussion of paper 6
16:30 – 17:30
Keynote Lecture, John Tomasi (Brown University)
17:30 – 18:00
Round Table Discussion: The Market Democratic Research Programme
19:00
Conference Dinner, Meesters Restaurant
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