Dates: 16th – 17th June 2014
Contact: Jeremy Williams (j.s.williams@bham.ac.uk)
Location: Edgbaston Room, Lucas House, University of Birmingham (G16 on this campus map)
Homepage: www.birmingham.ac.uk/newdirections
Participants: Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
Gerald Gaus (Arizona)
Andrew Lister (Queen’s)
Stephen Macedo (Princeton)
Fabienne Peter (Warwick)
Thomas Sinclair (Oxford)
Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green)
Steven Wall (Arizona)
Recent years have seen a flourishing of the philosophical literature on public reason, with a number of new models of public reason being developed, novel arguments in favour of existing models being advanced, and exploration taking place into the implications of the use of public reason for a range of pressing political controversies. At the same time, critics of public reason liberalism have been deploying new objections, and refining familiar ones.
This two-day conference, hosted by Birmingham’s Department of Philosophy, aims to address new and emerging themes in the political philosophy of public reason, and features contributions from proponents of a range of key perspectives from the contemporary debate.
Programme
10.30 – 12.00: Macedo (‘The Practical Uses of Public Reason in a Diverse Democracy’)
12.00 – 13.00: Lunch
13.00 – 14.30: Vallier (‘Public Reason and Public Choice: A Synthesis’)
14.30 – 14.45: Coffee
14.45 – 16.15: Peter (‘From Objective Reason to Public Reason’)
16.15 – 16.30: Coffee
16.30 – 18.00: Wall (‘Razian Authority and Public Reason’)
18.00: Drinks
19.30: Conference dinner
Tuesday 17 June:
10.30 – 12.00: Lister (‘Toleration, Public Reason, and Community’)
12.00 – 13.00: Lunch
13.00 – 14.30: Sinclair (‘International Public Reason’)
14.30 – 14.45: Coffee
14.45 – 16.15: Chambers (‘Political Liberal Neutrality, Public Reason, and State-Recognised Marriage’)
16.15 – 16.30: Coffee
16.30 – 18.00: Gaus (‘Is Public Reason a Normalization Project?: Deep Diversity and the Open Society’)
18.00 End of conference
This event is generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the Mind Association, the College of Arts and Law at Birmingham, and the Birmingham University Academic Collaboration Fund (North America).
Registration:
All are welcome, but space is limited, and registration is required. Registration fees have been kept to a minimum, and are £10 for a single day, or £20 for the whole event, including lunch and coffee. To register, please email j.s.williams@bham.ac.uk
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