Law in the First Person: Analytical Approaches
7 September 2012
Workshop hosted by the Research Group in Legal Philosophy at Tilburg University on the
occasion of the retirement of Prof. Bert van Roermund
The theory of law and of legal rules has a great deal to gain from contemporary accounts
of joint action and obligation, which seek to explain social rules in terms of the first-person
plural perspective of a group, the members of which act together. Taking its cue from
Margaret Gilbert’s pioneering account of joint action in terms of ‘plural subjectivity’, the
workshop investigates both the value and the implications of the first-person perspective
in law.
Keynote speaker: Prof. Margaret Gilbert, Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy at
the University of California, Irvine
Venue: Ruth First Room, Cobbenhagen Building
Campus map available at: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/contact/campus-map/
Program:
Morning session
09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Prof. Margaret Gilbert (Irvine)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Dr. Joel Anderson (Utrecht)
12:15
Lunch
Afternoon session
13:30 Dr. Frank Hindriks (Groningen)
14:45 Dr. Titus Stahl (Frankfurt)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:15 Prof. Bert van Roermund (Tilburg)
Abstracts will be circulated to discussants in advance of the workshop, and there will be at
least 30 minutes for discussion after each of the presentations.
To register for the workshop and receive the workshop abstracts, please contact the
secretariat of the department of Philosophy: TSH.DFI@UvT.nl