Programme for Warwick Graduate Conference in
Political and Legal Theory 2014
09:00-09:40
Coffee and registration, Social Sciences building
09:40-09.45
Introduction and welcome, S0.13
09.45-11:00
Avia Pasternak ‘Fair Play and Wrongful Benefits’, S0.13
11:00-12:10
Panel sessions 1
12:10-12:30
Coffee
12:30-1:40
Panel sessions 2
1:40-2:20
Lunch
2:20-3:30
Panel sessions 3
3:30-3:50
Coffee
3:50-5:00
Panel sessions 4
5:00-6:15
John Tomasi ‘Free Market Fairness’, S0.13
6:15
Drinks at The Dirty Duck.
Panel Sessions
Session 1
A) Libertarianism, S0.11
Matej Cibik (Charles/LSE), “Why Should We Abandon Self Ownership”
Kasper Ossenblok (Ghent/Warwick), “The (Un)Attractiveness of
Libertarianism”
B) Authority, S0.13
Adam Arnold (Warwick), “Two Questions for Authority”
Joseph Carlsmith (Oxford), “In Search of the Concept of Authority”
C) Citizenship and Responsibility, S0.17
Christine Hobden (Oxford), “Filling the State-Citizen Responsibility Gap”
Fay Niker (Warwick), “Clarifying the Relationship between ‘Nudge’ and
‘Choice-Manipulation’”
D) Property-owning Democracy, S0.18
Michael Bennett (York), “Economic Equality and Structural Constraints
on Democracy”
John Wilesmith (UCL), “Property-Owning Democracy and Welfare-State
Capitalism”
Session 2
E) Liberalism, S0.11
Mats Volberg (York), “The Core Idea of Liberalism”
John Halstead (Oxford), “The Unacceptable Moral Costs of Political
Liberalism”
F) Political Theory and Power, S0.13
Puneet Dhaliwal (Oxford), “The Coloniality of Compensatory Justice”
Guy Aitcheson (UCL), “Rights, Power and Social Movements”
G) Equality and Luck, S0.17
Nicola Mulkeen (Manchester), “Socially Constructed Luck and
Exploitation”
Alex Volacu (SNSPA), “Rationality, Responsibility and Option Luck”
H) Preferences and Abilities, S0.18
Jessica Begon (York), “Which Preferences Count? Adaption, Capabilities
and Disability”
Udit Bhatia (Cambridge), “Deliberative Democracy and Literacy”
Session 3
I) Public Justification, S0.11
Paul Billingham (Oxford), “The Place of Comprehensive Doctrines in the
Rawlsian Architecture”
Carlo Argenton (LSE), “Religion, Public Justification and the State
J) Morality and Intentions, S0.13
Lars Christie (Oslo/Oxford), “Collective Liability to Defensive Harm in
War”
Sara van Goozen (Manchester), “Intentions, Motivations and Morality”
K) Legitimacy, S0.17
Ilias Trispiotis (UCL), “Religion Through the Lens of Equality?”
Tom Theuns (Sciences Po), “Bounded Demoi, Legitimacy and External
Relations”
L) Intergenerational Justice, S0.18
Christopher Bennett (Warwick), “Global Climate Change and the Limits
of the Just Savings Principle”
David Schroeren (Oxford), “Existential Risk Reduction – A Rawlsian Duty
of Justice to Future Generations”
Session 4
M)
Bioethics, S0.11
Areti Theofilopoulou (LSE), “On the Legalization of Kidney Sales”
Norbert Paulo (Salzburg), “Moral Bioenhancement and Democracy”
N) Nonideal theory, S0.13
Wen-Chin Lung (Manchester), “The Humanitarian Dilemma: Savings
Lives by Letting Die and Allowing More Harm”
Patrick Kaczmarek (Glasgow), “Beneficence and the Overly-Demanding
Problem”
O) Learning from History, S0.17
Jakob Huber (LSE), “Legitimacy as Public Willing: Kant on Law and
Coercion”
Nathan Pinkoski (Oxford), “Myth Telling as an Introduction to Political
Theory: Interpreting the Enigma of Francis Bacon’s Political Thought
Through On the Wisdom of the Ancients”
P) Personhood, S0.18
Sem de Maagt (Rotterdam/Manchester), “Conceptions of the Persons in
Theories of Justice”
Florian Dahl (Oxford), “Dealing with Prospects”