Political Philosophy
Contemporary Political Thought Research Seminar
POLIS & Faculty of Philosophy
Lent term convenors: Duncan Bell (POLIS) & Dr Lorna Finlayson (Philosophy)
The seminars will take place on Fridays between 1.00-2.30pm in the Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College (unless stated otherwise). All are welcome.
Lent Term 2013
21st January
[Note that this is a MONDAY]
Raymond Geuss
University of Cambridge
Must Criticism be Constructive?
1st February
Seth Lazar
Australian National University
Legitimate Authority in the Morality of War
15th February
Nina Power
Roehampton University
E. P. Thompson and the On-going Struggle over "Class Struggle"
1st March
Anna Alexandrova
University of Cambridge
Well-Being Policy and Paternalism
Political Philosophy Workshop
Convenor: Dr Chris Thompson and Dr Nicholas Vrousalis
The Political Philosophy Workshop is a forum for discussing work in progress by Cambridge political philosophers at the doctoral level and above.
Papers are pre-circulated on the Workshop mailing list and must be read in advance: there will be no presentation of the paper at the Workshop.
The Workshop is open to senior members and graduate students in Political Philosophy and is not limited to members of the Faculty of Philosophy.
To join the Political Philosophy Workshop mailing list, email Nicholas Vrousalis at nvrousalis<at>gmail.com
Workshop in Political Philosophy
Board Room, Faculty of Philosophy
12.00-13.30
Michaelmas Term 2012
| Friday 5th October (week 1) | Andrea Sangiovanni - On the relation between moral and distributive equality |
| Friday 19th October (week 3) | Claire Grant - Resentment and the moral emotions |
| Friday 2nd November (week 5) | Nicholas Vrousalis - Why Marxists should be interested in exploitation |
| Friday 16th November (week 7) | Paul Sagar - From scepticism to liberalism |
Lent Term 2013
| Friday 25th January (week 2) | Christophe Salvat - The possibility of paternalism |
| Friday 8th February (week 4) | Neal Carrier - Cullity on non-voluntary benefits and the principle of fairness |
| Friday 22nd February (week 6) | Chris Thompson - An epistemic defence of deliberative democracy |
| Friday 8th March (week 8) | David Blunt - Is global poverty a crime against humanity? |
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