Justice,
Rights and Institutions:
Themes
from the Political Philosophy of
T. M. Scanlon
Friday
22 - Saturday 23 May 2009
Time:
9am - 5.45pm each day
Venue: John Casken Lecture Theatre,
Martin Harris Centre,
University of Manchester [google
maps]
Speakers:
- T. M. Scanlon (Harvard University)
- Waheed Hussain (University of
Pennsylvania)
- Rahul Kumar (Queen's University,
Canada)
- A. J. Julius (University of
California at
Los Angeles)
- Véronique Munoz-Dardé
(University College London)
- Serena Olsaretti (University of
Cambridge)
- Martin O'Neill (University of
Manchester)
- Michael Otsuka (University College
London)
- Mathias Risse (Harvard University)
- Zofia Stemplowska (University of
Manchester)
- Leif Wenar (King's College, London)
- Andrew Williams (University of
Warwick)
- Jonathan Wolff (University College
London)
The
event is
co-sponsored by MANCEPT
(the Manchester Centre for
Political Theory)
and by the Philosophy
and Politics
Discipline Areas of the School of Social
Sciences,
and is financially supported by the Royal
Institute of Philosophy,
the Society
for Applied Philosophy, and the Analysis Trust.
Registration
Schedule
Conference
Venue
Conference Aims & Description
Contact
Links
Conference Venue:
John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin
Harris Centre,
University of Manchester M13 9PL
The
conference venue is no. 42 on
these maps:
University
of Manchester - Google Map
or
University
of Manchester - Campus Map
It's also available as a printable PDF here:
University
of Manchester - Campus Map [PDF]
Schedule:
Friday 22 May 2009
8.45 Registration and
Coffee/Tea
9.15 Session 1 Chair:
Alan Hamlin
9.20 Martin
O'Neill (University of Manchester), “Contractualism, Choice and
Inequality”
10.15 Jonathan
Wolff (UCL), “Scanlon on Social and Material Inequality”
11.10 Coffee/Tea
Session
2 Chair: Hillel Steiner
11.40 Michael
Otsuka (UCL), “How to Discount Harms by their Improbability”
12.35 Véronique Munoz-Dardé
(UCL), "Conversations with an Amish Farmer: Risk and Reasonable
Rejection"
1.30 Lunch
Session 3 Chair: Joel Smith
2.30 Rahul
Kumar (Queen's University,
Canada), “Risking Future Generations”
3.25 Mathias
Risse (Harvard University), “Common Ownership of the Earth and
a Scanlonian Approach to Wronging Future Generations”
4.20 Tea/Coffee
Session 4 Chair: Steve de Wijze
4.50 Andrew
Williams (University of Warwick), “Defence”
5.45 Finish
7.30 Conference
Dinner. Tai Pan, 81-97 Upper
Brooke Street M13 9TX
(For those who
have pre-booked for dinner - to book, e-mail Martin
O'Neill)
Tai
Pan website. Tai
Pan on Google Maps.
Saturday 23 May 2009
9.00 Tea and Coffee
Session
5 Chair: Julian Dodd
9.30 Leif
Wenar (King's College,
London), “Scanlon on Rights”
10.30 T.
M. Scanlon (Harvard University), “Moral Rights and
Constitutional
Rights”
11.30 Coffee/Tea
Session 6 Chair: Thomas Smith
12.00 A.
J. Julius (UCLA), “Political Wrongness”
1.00 Lunch
Session 7 Chair: Jonathan Quong
2.15 Serena
Olsaretti (University of
Cambridge), “Scanlon on Substantive Responsibility”
3.15 Zofia Stemplowska (University of
Manchester), “When Bad Options are Better than None:
Scanlon and
Voorhoeve on Substantive Responsibility”
4.15 Tea/Coffee
Session 8 Chair: Martin O'Neill
4.45 Waheed
Hussain (University of
Pennsylvania), "The Unromantic Rousseauian:
Scanlon on
Justice, Motivation and Freedom"
5.45 Finish
6.00- Drinks at Kro2
At the
close of each day’s
proceedings, we’ll be going for a drink at Kro2
on Oxford Road
(just the other side of the Mancunian Way overpass, next
door to the BBC Manchester Broadcasting House).
Kro2
website. Kro2
on google maps.
Please
note that food and drink
are restricted to Room G16 of the conference venue, so please don’t
take food
or drink out of this room.
Please also keep noise to a minimum in the foyer
area of the Martin Harris Centre, as the building is used for musical
recitals.
We are here are guests of the Centre for
Music and Drama, and we don’t want to upset our hosts!
A PDF
version of the Conference Timetable is available here.
Registration:
Registration is
now closed
Conference
Registration and Booking form
Conference
Aims and Description:
T. M. Scanlon, the Alford Professor of Natural Religion,
Moral
Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University, is one of the most
significant moral and political philosophers of the past thirty years.
His development of contractualism as a general view explaining the
content of "what we owe to each other" represents one of the great
systematic projects in recent moral and political philosophy
This conference will take advantage of Scanlon's presence
in the
UK to
give the 2009 Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford, in order to
bring him to Manchester for an intensive two-day exploration of themes
from his political philosophy.
Although Scanlon's contractualist moral philosophy has
received
a
significant degree of critical attention, there has perhaps not been
the same degree of attention given to the distinctively political
aspects or implications of Scanlon's project. The conference will aim
to remedy this gap through a detailed exploration both of Scanlon's
work in political philosophy, and of the implications for political
philosophy of other aspects of Scanlon's work on topics in moral
philosophy.
Papers at the conference will thus be of two broad types:
(a)
papers
relating to Scanlon's treatment of issues such as freedom of
expression,
human rights, equality, punishment, contract, and the idea of
tolerance, as collected in his book The
Difficulty of Tolerance (Cambridge: CUP, 2003); and (b) papers
that address the connections between issues in political philosophy and
Scanlon's treatment of topics such as choice, responsibility, blame,
intention, value, promising, and well-being in his books What We Owe to Each Other
(Cambridge, Mass.: HUP, 1998) and Moral
Dimensions (Cambridge, Mass.: HUP, 2008).
 Contact
For any queries about this conference, please contact the
conference organizer, Martin
O'Neill
e-mail: martin.oneill (AT) manchester.ac.uk
This conference has a Facebook 'Event' page, accessible if you click
here
The Conference Registration and Accommodation form is here
Links
Conference speakers' webpages:
Books by T. M. Scanlon:
  
What We Owe to
Each Other (1998)
The
Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy (2003)
Moral
Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning and Blame (2008)
Scanlon's Tanner
Lectures:
The
Significance of Choice (1986, published 1988)
The
Status of Well-Being (1996, published 1998)
Miscellaneous:
Alex
Voorhoeve
Interview (2001) with Scanlon, "Kant on the Cheap"
[from The Philosophers' Magazine]
Scanlon
interview with Harry Kriesler (2007),
part of UC Berkeley's "Conversations
with History" video interviews
Thomas
Nagel, "One-to-One"
(Review of What We Owe to Each Other),
London Review of Books,
1999
Scanlon's Berkeley
Howison Lecture (2007) on
"The Ethics of Blame" (video)
Elizabeth
Ashford and Tim Mulgan, "Contractualism"
(2007) in the Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy (focuses on Scanlon's views)
John
Locke Lectures, University of Oxford
School of Social
Sciences, University of Manchester
Philosophy
Discipline Area, University of Manchester
Politics Discipline Area,
University of Manchester
Manchester
Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)
Sponsors:
Royal
Institute of Philosophy
Society
for Applied Philosophy
Analysis Trust
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