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SUMMARY:Mitchell Berman // Retributivism in the philosophy of punishment
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In the Anglophone tradition\, at least\, there are two main proposed justifications for the infliction of state punishment: because the offender deserves it (retributivism)\, and because the infliction is expected to yield net good consequences (consequentialism)\, especially but not exclusively through the mechanisms of general and specific deterrence. I believe that many factors contribute to the justifiability of punishment. That makes me a pluralist about punishment’s justification. I also believe that an offender’s desert counts among the factors that contribute to the justifiability of punishment. That makes me a retributivist. I’m a pluralist retributivist. Or a retributivist pluralist. Although I lean retributivist\, I’m not confident or complacent about it. Many or most contemporary philosophers who work in normative ethics or political philosophy believe that retributivism is barbaric and indefensible. And I’m not sure they’re wrong. In my remarks\, I’ll identify what I believe are the greatest challenges facing retributivists and will sketch how I’m disposed to meet them in working out the view I call ‘prospect retributivism’. The seminar will be based on the chapter ‘Retribuitivism’ from the recently published The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment (DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197750506.013.3) on punishment theory. Additional published articles and book chapters on retribuitivism by pfor. Berman are available here: https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/mitchber#publications \nBio: Mitchell Berman\, Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute of Law and Philosophy at the Penn Carey Law\, university of Pennsylvania\, writes and teaches in American constitutional law and theory\, philosophy of criminal law\, general jurisprudence\, and philosophy of sport. His contributions to these diverse fields include a novel nonoriginalist theory of American constitutional interpretation\, a new positivist account of legal content\, and an original retributivist justification for criminal punishment. He also claims to have solved the paradox of blackmail\, the mystery of unconstitutional conditions\, and the age-old puzzle of whether referees should “swallow the whistle” in crunch time. Berman’s many articles and book chapters on these and other topics have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in the leading peer-reviewed journals in his fields\, including Ethics\, Noûs\, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research\, Legal Theory\, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies\, Law & Philosophy\, Criminal Law & Philosophy\, and Journal of Philosophy of Sport; in prominent student-edited law reviews including University of Pennsylvania Law Review\, University of Chicago Law Review\, Michigan Law Review\, California Law Review\, Texas Law Review\, Notre Dame Law Review\, Virginia Law Review\, NYU Law Review\, Duke Law Journal\, and Georgetown Law Journal; and in edited volumes published by Oxford\, Cambridge\, and Routledge.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/mitchell-berman-retributivism-in-the-philosophy-of-punishment/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260528T150000
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SUMMARY:Victor Tadros // Democracy by agreement
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this paper I defend a view of democracy based on consent and affirmation. Democracy is valuable when\, and because\, it secures the consent and affirmation of people for just government – both for the implementation of just substantive policies\, and for the government who implement them. Those seeking to govern are required to seek\, and preferably secure agreement. Democratic justice occurs when they achieve this through democratic elections\, as long as the government is substantively just. Because consent and affirmation are morally important without making a difference to substantive justice\, democracy can make a society more just. However\, because consent and affirmation make substantively unjust policies worse\, democratic injustice is worse than democratic justice. Nevertheless\, I argue that democracy based on consent can sometimes justify suboptimal government. \nBio: Victor Tadros is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick. He was educated at Oxford University (BA Hons) and at King’s College\, London (PhD). Prior to joining Warwick in 2006\, he held lectureships at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh\, and in the fall of 2015 he was Carter Visiting Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School. From 2010-13 he held an AHRC Research Grant\, with Antony Duff\, Lindsay Farmer\, Sandra Marshall and Massimo Renzo\, to work on criminalization. He held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2014-2018\, and was elected as Fellow of the British Academy in 2018. Victor has written extensively on the philosophy of criminal law\, just war theory\, and on a range of issues in moral\, legal and political philosophy. He is the author of Criminal Responsibility (Oxford University Press\, 2005)\, The Ends of Harm: The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press\, 2011)\, Wrongs and Crimes (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, To Do\, To Die\, To Reason Why (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, and Consent and the Sexual Revolution (Oxford University Press\, forthcoming).
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/victor-tadros-democracy-by-agreement/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260527T150000
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SUMMARY:Rhetoric for a Democracy in Crisis: A Study of Political Theory
DESCRIPTION:The seminar will feature a talk by Víctor Alonso-Rocafort (Complutense University of Madrid)\, based on his recent book Rhetoric for a Democracy in Crisis: A Study of Political Theory (2025\, Palgrave). The presentation will be followed by comments from four discussants\, a response by Prof. Alonso-Rocart\, and a final Q&A session open to all participants. \nThe discussants will be:\nGiovanni Damele (NOVA University Lisbon)\nGiuseppe Ballacci (CEPS\, UMinho)\nPedro Magalhães (UMinho)\nRob Goodman (Toronto Metropolitan University) \nAbstract: This book offers a response to the contemporary crisis of democracy. Drawing on the rich rhetorical tradition\, it recovers a distinct Mediterranean current—shaped by figures such as Isocrates\, Quintilian\, and Giambattista Vico—that provides compelling theoretical alternatives. The book argues that contemporary democracy can be significantly enriched by this legacy. It explores its connections to strands of political theory that challenged positivist political science\, its resistance to forms of propaganda typical of tyrannical regimes\, and its inclusive ethos grounded in a reverence for difference—resonating with Hannah Arendt’s notion of freedom of movement\, both in the world and in thought.nThe rhetorical perspective developed here contributes to rethinking “the political” as envisioned by Arendt and Sheldon Wolin\, in opposition to the Schmittian conception recently revived in contemporary populism. In doing so\, the book highlights the potential of rhetorical thought to renew the principles of radical democracy in the face of current challenges. \nBio: Víctor Alonso-Rocafort is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)\, Spain. His research focuses on rhetoric\, radical democracy\, and environmental political theory.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/rhetoric-for-a-democracy-in-crisis-a-study-of-political-theory/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
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SUMMARY:Elvio Baccarini // What Can We Learn about Theories of Justice and Present-Day Populism from Triumph of the Will?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk examines present-day radical right-wing populism and its implications for theories of justice and democratic policymaking. It adopts a dynamic conception of justice\, according to which theories and policies are continually revised through engagement with real social problems. Understanding contemporary right-wing populism is therefore important not only for effective political responses\, but also for refining liberal egalitarian conceptions of justice themselves. \nThe talk argues that artworks can contribute to this understanding. In particular\, Triumph of the Will reveals important emotional and psychological dynamics underlying mass support for authoritarian movements. While artistic analysis cannot replace empirical or historical research\, the film helps illuminate aspects of early totalitarianism that remain relevant to contemporary right-wing populism. \nA central claim is that many interpretations of right-wing populism are inadequate because they explain its appeal solely in terms of ignorance\, irrationality\, or moral deficiency. Such explanations fail to account for the scale of the phenomenon and often alienate its adherents. By contrast\, Triumph of the Will shows how Nazism appealed manipulatively to widely shared needs for safety\, belonging\, recognition\, and empowerment. The film portrays Hitler as a protective and approachable saviour\, while scenes of collective work\, celebration\, and togetherness create an image of strength\, unity\, and social meaning. \nClearly\, the film is not a reliable representation of reality\, but rather a manipulative act of propaganda. Yet precisely because of this\, it represents valuable evidence of one of the reasons Nazism was massively attractive in its early stages and can serve as a valuable interpretive lens for understanding contemporary right-wing populisms. The film also suggests that adherence to authoritarian movements is not simply an “escape from freedom\,” but often a search for empowerment and participation in something experienced as meaningful and energizing. Although this empowerment is manipulative and illusory\, its emotional force helps explain the attraction of such movements\, both historically and today. \nThe broader lesson is that democratic and egalitarian political movements cannot respond effectively to right-wing populism if they ignore the social and emotional needs that these movements exploit. A defensible conception of justice must therefore protect basic rights and liberties while also addressing needs for well-being\, recognition\, community\, safety\, and social belonging. These concerns are already present in the work of thinkers such as John Stuart Mill\, John Rawls\, and Martha Nussbaum\, but they may require stronger emphasis today. \nBio: Elvio Baccarini is  Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Rijeka (Croatia). He has published books on public reason and biotechnologies\, the political philosophy of J.S. Mill\, moral epistemology\, practical ethics and philosophy of literature. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Medical Ethics\, Grazer Philosophische Studien\, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science\, Acta Analytica\, and other academic journals. He has delivered guest lectures at the University of Oxford\, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona\, Freie Universität Berlin\, University of Iceland in Reykjavik\, University of Amsterdam\, University of Bologna\, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan\, and several other institutions. He has taught as a guest professor at Ruhr University Bochum\, the State University of Milan and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. Additionally\, he has been an Erasmus guest lecturer at the universities of Eastern Piedmont Vercelli\, Hannover\, Potsdam\, Pavia\, Vita-Salute San Raffaele\, and Antwerp.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/elvio-baccarini-what-can-we-learn-about-theories-of-justice-and-present-day-populism-from-triumph-of-the-will/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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SUMMARY:Axel Gosseries // Do lawyers have duties of distributive justice?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk\, I will look at one issue\, central to role morality\, but also to a proper understanding of the scope of justice: do professionals such as lawyers or physicians have duties of distributive justice in the context of their profession? I will focus here on lawyers. I will start with the default position that they do have distributive duties. And I will then explore reasons to reject this position. \nBio: Axel Gosseries is FNRS Research Professor at UCLouvain and a member of the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics. Trained in law and philosophy\, his research focuses on the institutional distribution of duties\, as well as climate and intergenerational justice. He is a leading contributor to the field\, notably as co-editor of Intergenerational Justice (with Lukas H. Meyer\, 2009) and Institutions for Future Generations (with Iñigo González-Ricoy\, 2016)\, two influential volumes shaping contemporary debates on justice across generations.At UCLouvain\, he currently serves as President of the Institute of Philosophy (ISP) and has previously directed the PPE programme. He has taught and conducted research extensively across Europe and beyond\, holding visiting positions at numerous international institutions.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/axel-gosseries-do-lawyers-have-duties-of-distributive-justice/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260414T150000
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SUMMARY:Derrida\, Deconstruction and Political Theory
DESCRIPTION:The seminar will feature a talk by Lasse Thomassen (School of Society and Environment\, Queen Mary University of London)\, based on his recent book Derrida\, Deconstruction and Political Theory (Oxford University Press\, 2026). The presentation will be followed by comments from four discussants\, a response by Prof. Thomassen\, and a final Q&A session open to all participants. \nThe discussants will be:\nAntónio Baião (CEPS\, University of Minho)\nInes Zampaglione (CEPS\, University of Minho)\nThomás Zicman de Barros (CEVIPOF\, Sciences Po)\nGiuseppe Ballacci (CEPS\, University of Minho) \nAbstract: Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida and other post-structuralists\, this seminar explores deconstruction as a distinctive way to practice political theory. Lasse Thomassen shows familiar critiques of deconstruction as relativist and apolitical to be misconceived and argues for deconstruction as a critical approach to contemporary politics and society. We contrast deconstruction with other approaches to political theory\, including analytic philosophy\, critical theory\, liberalism\, deliberative democracy and biopolitical approaches. Developing the argument around political concepts such as rights\, justice\, sovereignty\, democracy and populism\, the seminar examines how one may combine the deconstructive readings of these political concepts with engagements with contemporary political phenomena such as 9-11\, Covid-19\, Donald Trump and post-truth. \nBio: Lasse Thomassen is Professor of Politics in the School of Society and Environment\, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of\, among others\, Deconstructing Habermas (2007) and Derrida\, Deconstruction and Political Theory (2026). He is currently working on poststructuralist discourse theory as method\, on deconstruction as a method for conceptual analysis\, and on the concept of political representation.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/derrida-deconstruction-and-political-theory/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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SUMMARY:Zoltan Miklosi // Perversity\, futility\, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists\, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters. Autocratic elections allow meaningful multiparty competition but are systematically unfair and partly unfree\, and therefore\, arguably\, normatively illegitimate. The paper considers three objections to participation in autocratic elections. These objections hold\, respectively\, that participation has bad consequences for democratization\, that it is normatively futile\, and that it is morally wrong in itself. The paper argues that the objections are not deci sive\, and that participation is usually morally permissible and even preferable over alternative forms of challenge. However\, the objections establish that the normative superiority of electoral challenge over the alternatives is only a matter of degree\, and that participants often dirty their hands. \nBio:  Zoltan Miklosi received his Ph.D. in philosophy at ELTE University\, Budapest. He has been teaching at the Central European University since 2009. His research interests range from foundational questions about the basis and nature of equality through democratic theory to (more recently) questions of political ethics in defective democracies and electoral autocracies. His works have been published\, among other venues\, in the American Journal of Political Science\, Politics\, Philosophy & Economics\, and the Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. He held visiting positions in Princeton (2014/15) and Warwick (Fall 2025).
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/zoltan-miklosi-perversity-futility-complicity-should-democrats-participate-in-autocratic-elections/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260305T150000
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SUMMARY:Tamara Caraus // Totality and Alienation in Marx’s Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Marx’s depiction of capital as a totality in the Grundrisse has often been overlooked\, largely due to poststructuralism\, which associated totality with a grand narrative of Western modernity. Social science similarly treated totality as theoretically trivial and irrelevant\, regarding it as a mere sum of all realities (a critique most famously formulated by Karl Popper in The Poverty of Historicism). This presentation\, however\, starts from the premise that an adequate theoretical understanding of contemporary social reality and global problems requires returning to Marx’s insight on the totality of capital. The first part defines the key features of totality in the Grundrisse: it is an organic whole constituted through contradictory moments\, an open totality\, historically formed\, and continuously transforming\, with a more focused examination on how totality emerges alongside a new form of social connection that simultaneously produce disconnection and alienation. The insight that totality is not a positive or harmonious entity but is constituted through discontinuities and alienation determines the appropriate method of approaching it: critique. The second part examines Marx’s method for grasping totality through the constitution of the critique of political economy\, ‘the method of rising from the abstract to the concrete’ and the method of inquiry by tracking the ‘inner connections’. The third part argues that Marx’s concept of totality should underlie a theoretical renewal in contemporary social science. The conclusion summarizes how totality as alienation\, as depicted in the Grundrisse\, allows us to understand and conceptualize the globalized world as a historically contingent and highly ambivalent product of capitalist society. \nBio:  Tamara Caraus is a Principal Investigator at the Centre of Philosophy\, University of Lisbon\, within the framework of the Stimulus of Scientific Employment – Individual Support Grant of the Portuguese Agency for Science\, Research and Technology (FCT). Previously\, Tamara Caraus conducted research projects in political philosophy at New Europe College\, Vienna Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen\, Polish Academy of Science\, University of Bucharest\, Oxford University\, University of Uppsala\, University of Olomouc\, University of Groningen\, University of Rijeka\, and other institutions. She contributed with articles to various academic journals and edited volumes\, published six books and co-edited five volumes. Her current area of research includes continental political philosophy\, Marx and Critical Theory.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/tamara-caraus-totality-and-alienation-in-marxs-grundrisse/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260224T173000
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SUMMARY:Nikhil Venkatesh // Impartiality Without Alienation (and within limits)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The leading theories of modern moral philosophy are impartial: they hold that\, at a fundamental level of moral inquiry\, identity is irrelevant. What some agent ought to do or what some patient ought to have done to them at this level does not depend on which particular agent or patient is in question. One critique of such theories is that they are alienating: they separate morality from our particular points of view\, making difficult to see how moral reasons could or should motivate us. Drawing on the literature on solidarity\, I try to show how morality could be impartial whilst also giving us reasons that we can identify with\, rather than that confront us as alien demands. This has implications for the scope of morality: if we want to avoid alienation\, then non-human animals\, far future humans\, extra-terrestrials and artificial intelligences might fall outside of the limits of impartiality. \nBio:  Nikhil Venkatesh is a moral and political philosopher working at the University of Sheffield. He has published on population ethics\, Marxism\, the ethics of data and AI\, distributive justice\, and moral theory. His current project\, funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship\, is entitled ‘Towards a Left-Utilitarianism’.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/nikhil-venkatesh-impartiality-without-alienation-and-within-limits/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250515T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250515T180000
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SUMMARY:Between Ontology and Ethics: The Role of Race in Contemporary Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Ludovica Lorusso and Fabio Bacchini (University of Sassari\, Italy) will develop a critical discussion on the role of race in medicine. Exploring metaphysical debates and practical implications\, the talks examine how race—understood as a social construct with real biological effects—can help explain health disparities and whether it should remain part of medical discourse.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/between-ontology-and-ethics-the-role-of-race-in-contemporary-medicine/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250507T170000
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SUMMARY:The Projection of Personhood on 'Artificial Intelligence' (Conversational LLMs)
DESCRIPTION:The CEPS Seminars will host a session by Sean Enda Power (University College Cork) on The Projection of Personhood on ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (Converstional LLMs). It will take a place on the 7th of May at 3pm in CEPS’s room in the ELACH building of the Gualtar Campus. You can also access it online at: tinyurl.com/CEPSPower
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/the-projection-of-personhood-on-artificial-intelligence-conversational-llms/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250220T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250220T170000
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SUMMARY:Mark Reiff // Into the De-Enlightenment: Analytical Fascism
DESCRIPTION:On 20 February 2025 at 3pm\, the CEPS Seminars programme will host Mark Reiff (University of California at Davis) for a presentation on Into the De-Enlightenment: Analytical Fascism. \nWhile it is clear what those attracted to fascism today are against\, it is less clear what they are for. Not in the sense of how they want to remake society—this is usually clear enough. What is less clear is the fundamental values that are driving their desire to create a different kind of order. Compounding this difficulty\, too many liberals are stubbornly sticking to some conventional beliefs: that human nature is as liberals think it is\, not something that is fundamentally disputed; that facts are what liberals think they are\, even if some people choose to ignore them; and that everybody is pursuing basically the same conception of the good\, even if some of them are deluded as to where we are now and how to get where we want to go. \nBut this move to the right is not being driven simply by mistakes; it is a principled move\, backed by a coherent\, consistent\, and historically well-sourced value system\, even if this value system is perverse. Fascism has its own conception of the moral subject; of the need for a rigid social hierarchy of men; of the nature of individual rights; and of the importance of purity in blood\, soil\, and ideology. It believes in the unity of the people\, the leader\, and the state; it embraces very different and (to liberals) often disturbing moral ends; and it employs starkly different rules of social interaction. And it believes\, in the end\, that this all leads to the greatest expression of democracy ever invented. \nThe book that the paper will be drawn from is Analytical Fascism: What Stares Back When One Stares into the De-Enlightenment. \nThe book can be downloaded in full for free here.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/into-the-de-enlightenment-analytical-fascism/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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SUMMARY:Labour Migration and Fair Reciprocity
DESCRIPTION:On 4 December 2024 at 3pm\, the CEPS Seminars will host Eszter Kollar (KU Leuven) and she will present on “Labour Migration and Fair Reciprocity”.\n\n\nEszter Kollar is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Economics at the Center for Political Philosophy and Ethics in Leuven\, at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. \nHer current research focuses on the political philosophy of social and global justice\, the ethics of migration and refuge and the ethics of economic life. She is currently working on a book project theorizing Fairness in Labour Migration; co-authoring a research project reconciling global equality of opportunity and collective self-determination; and developing a research project on the normative implications of colonial legacies for migration justice.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/labour-migration-and-fair-reciprocity/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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SUMMARY:“The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem” by Niko Kolodny: A Book Symposium with the author
DESCRIPTION:The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem\n(2023) Harvard University Press \nNiko Kolodny argues that\, to a far greater extent than we recognize\, our political thinking is driven by a concern to avoid relations of inferiority. In order to make sense of the most familiar ideas in our political thought and discourse—the justification of the state\, democracy\, and rule of law\, as well as objections to paternalism and corruption—we cannot merely appeal to freedom\, as libertarians do\, or to distributive fairness\, as liberals do. We must instead appeal directly to claims against inferiority— to the conviction that no one should stand above or below. \nThe problem of justifying the state\, for example\, is often billed as the problem of reconciling the state with the freedom of the individual. Yet\, Kolodny argues\, once we press hard enough on worries about the state’s encroachment on the individual\, we end up in opposition not to unfreedom but to social hierarchy. To make his case\, Kolodny takes inspiration from two recent trends in philosophical thought: on the one hand\, the revival of the republican and Kantian traditions\, with their focus on domination and dependence; on the other\, relational egalitarianism\, with its focus on the effects of the distribution of income and wealth on our social relations. \nThe Pecking Order offers a detailed account of relations of inferiority in terms of objectionable asymmetries of power\, authority\, and regard. Breaking new ground\, Kolodny looks ahead to specific kinds of democratic institutions that could safeguard against such relations. \n9h30-10h15 Presentation of the book by the author – Niko KOLODNY (University of California\, Berkeley)\n10h15-11h00 Discussion #1: Relations of Inferiority and Structural Domination – Elena ICARDI (CEPS) \n11h00-11h15 coffee break\n11h15-12h00 Discussion #2: The Social Fabric of Individuals and Hierarchies: Anthropologies of Social Life and The Critique of Relations of Inferiority – Sofia ALEXANDRATOS (CEPS) 12h00-14h00 Lunch\n14h00-14h45 Discussion #3: Social Hierarchies\, Democracy\, and Political Participation: Examining Kolodny’s Perspective – Giulia BISTAGNINO (University of Milan)\n14h45-15h30 Discussion #4: Are The “Pathologies of Democracy” Social Pathologies? – Just SERRANO-ZAMORA (University of Barcelona)\n15h30-16h00 coffee break\n16h00-17h00 Roundtable: Sofia ALEXANDRATOS (CEPS)\, Devon CASS (Nova Institute of Philosophy)\, Elena ICARDI (CEPS)\, Manuel SÀ VALENTE (CEPS)\, Pedro SILVA (CEPS) & Hugo RAJÃO (CEPS)
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/the-pecking-order-social-hierarchy-as-a-philosophical-problem-by-niko-kolodny-a-book-symposium-with-the-author/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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SUMMARY:Jorge Coelho Pereira // US Elections: An Overview
DESCRIPTION:Jorge Coelho Pereira\, a scholar at the University of Minho\, will present at CEPS Seminars on “US Elections: An Overview” on 5 November 2024 at 3.30pm in CEPS’s room. This timely seminar will analyse different episodes in U.S. electoral history. It will include a treatment of the constitutional evolution of the U.S. electoral process\, among other issues.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/jorge-coelho-pereira-us-elections-an-overview/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS Seminars
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