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SUMMARY:16th Braga Summer School: Workplace Democracy and the Future of Work
DESCRIPTION:16th BRAGA SUMMER SCHOOL: WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE OF WORK \nJuly 2 – July 3\, 2026 | Braga\, Portugal \nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS \nIÑIGO GONZÁLEZ RICOY /// University of Barcelona\nNICHOLAS VROUSALIS​ /// Erasmus University Roterdam \nLECTURES BY \nCATARINA NEVES /// Utrecht University\nHUGO RAJÃO​ /// Independent researcher \nContemporary scholarship increasingly examines transformations in labor and workplace governance within advanced capitalism\, with particular emphasis on technological change\, automation\, and artificial intelligence. Often justified in terms of efficiency—productivity\, cost reduction\, flexibility\, and competitiveness—these developments raise profound normative concerns about justice\, domination\, and inequality in the workplace.\nFrom industrial capitalism to contemporary platform economies governed by algorithmic management\, efficiency has evolved into a normative principle shaping labor relations\, institutional frameworks\, and political priorities. Today\, it manifests in precarious employment\, weakened labor protections\, intensified managerial oversight\, and technological displacement\, posing significant challenges for democratic societies. \nBuilding on the success of previous editions\, this Summer School focuses on workplace democracy and the future of work\, treating workplaces as primary sites of justice and injustice in contemporary societies. Efficiency-driven market structures may generate normatively objectionable forms of exploitation\, domination\, and exclusion\, raising fundamental questions about freedom\, equality\, and democratic legitimacy. \nKey questions include: To what extent is labor exploitation an unavoidable feature of efficiency-oriented markets? How does exploitation relate to republican freedom as non-domination and liberal ideals of fair cooperation? How do organizational hierarchies\, governance structures\, and algorithmic management shape workplace injustice and broader social inequalities? What institutional responses—from exit options such as Unconditional Basic Income to labor constitutionalism\, co-determination\, or alternative ownership models—are normatively justified? \nWe invite submissions on topics including (but not limited to): \n\nEfficiency as a normative ideal and its limits\nAutomation\, AI\, and the future of work\nWorkplace democracy and firm governance\nExploitation\, domination\, and commodification at work\nMarket efficiency and distributive injustice\nExit options (e.g.\, Unconditional Basic Income)\nLabor law\, regulation\, and labor constitutionalism\nPlatform work\, self-employment\, and precarity\nCollective rights\, unions\, and the right to strike\nProperty–labor relations and corporate power\nAlternative models of the firm (cooperatives\, co-determination\, wage-earner funds\, hybrid or non-capitalist enterprises)\nSocialist\, republican\, and hybrid institutional responses to contemporary capitalism\n\nSubmit your abstract here. \nCONTACT\nFor any questions concerning the submissions and details not specified do not hesitate to contact us at 16thbragasummerschool@gmail.com. \n.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/7013/
LOCATION:University of Minho | Auditorium ELACH\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, 4710-057\, Portugal
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SUMMARY:16th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:16th BRAGA MEETINGS ON ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY \nJune 29 – July 1\, 2026 | Braga\, Portugal \nINVITED SPEAKERS \nCHIARA CORDELLI /// University of Chicago\nROBIN CELIKATES​ /// Freie Universität Berlin\nSALLY HASLANGER /// Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nThe Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy is an annual event organised by the Centre for Ethics\, Politics and Society (CEPS) at the University of Minho (Braga\, Portugal). The Meetings have established in the last years a reputation for providing scholars with an excellent opportunity to present both advanced and exploratory work to a welcoming audience. \nYou can find the program here and the book of abstracts here. \nCONTACT\nFor any questions concerning the submissions and details not specified do not hesitate to contact us at 16thbragameetings@gmail.com. \n.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/16th-braga-meetings-on-ethics-and-political-philosophy/
LOCATION:University of Minho | Braga Campus\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, 4710-057\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:Braga Colloquium
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260527T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260527T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260527T130000
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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:Sara Cruz // Moral Injury\, Coercion and Previous Wrongdoing: a Non-Retributivist Case for Conscripting Convicted Murderers
DESCRIPTION:Sara Cruz will be presenting her paper titled “Moral Injury\, Coercion and Previous Wrongdoing: a Non-Retributivist Case for Conscripting Convicted Murderers”.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/sara-cruz-moral-injury-coercion-and-previous-wrongdoing-a-non-retributivist-case-for-conscripting-convicted-murderers/
LOCATION:CEPS Room – ELACH\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS WIPS
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260415T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260415T190000
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260414T190000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260321
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SUMMARY:Beneath the Surface of the Life Sciences: How Epistemic Uncertainty\, Metaphysical Assumptions\, and Value Judgments Shape Ethical and Political Reasoning
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Today\, the life sciences (evolutionary biology\, genetics\, the medical sciences\, and ecology) are generally presented as being rigorously grounded both empirically and methodologically as well as being value-neutral. Yet\, their conceptual frameworks frequently rely on ambiguous epistemic claims\, idealized models\, metaphors and analogies\, pragmatic shortcuts\, unexamined assumptions and arguably even value judgments.\nNevertheless\, in our society science has assumed an increasingly important role in supporting political and ethical decisions. The significant reliance on scientific opinion and modelling during the COVID-19 pandemic\, or the use of empirical evidence of sentience as the key driver in the articulation of animal welfare legislation\, illustrate how science increasingly influences policymakers and becomes embedded in ethical and political reasoning.\nThe epistemological and metaphysical foundations of the life sciences are thus no longer confined to academic circles: beneath the surface\, they subtly shape how citizens perceive the world. Much like in The Devil Wears Prada\, where Andrea’s blue sweater\, unbeknownst to her\, originated on haute couture runways\, filtered through designer collections\, and eventually ended up in a clearance bin where she picked it up\, ingenuously believing her choice was free from the fashion industry’s influence\, policymakers and citizens are constantly influenced by frameworks that are neither scientifically coherent nor politically independent.\nThis workshop brings together scholars from diverse areas of philosophy to critically examine the metaphysical and epistemological foundations of the life sciences\, and to explore their growing but often-invisible impact on society.\nIn the end\, we may still choose to wear the same sweater\, but with a clearer understanding of why we do\, and where it truly comes from. \nSchedule \nThursday\, March 19th \n09:00-09:15: Welcome and Introduction of module I: “Inferring Minds: Epistemic Challenges in Sentience and Neuroscience”\n09:15-10:15: Lorenzo Baravalle (Universitat de Valencia): “Avoiding the Wrong Mistake: Type I and Type II Errors as Hidden Constraints in Sentience Research”\n10:15-10:45: Break\n10:45-11:45: Davide Vecchi (UNED\, Madrid): “Sentience research between naturalism\, scientism and pseudoscience”\n11:45-12:45: Gil Santos (Universidade de Lisboa): “Brain\, Mind\, and Society: Unjustified inferences in/from neuroscience and their ethical implications.”\n12:45-14:00: Lunch break\n14:00-14:15: Introduction of Module II: “Classifying and Measuring the Living World ”\n14:15-15:15: Beatriz Martín (UNED\, Madrid): “Health\, Resilience\, or Services: Normativity in Ecological Evaluation”\n15:15-15:45: Break\n15:45-16:45: Jaime Soler Parra (Universitat de Valencia): “Classification is not a neutral activity”\n16:45-17:45: Victor Luque (Universitat de Valencia): “Prediction in evolutionary systems and the problem of quantification” \nFriday\, March 20th \n09:00-09:15: Introduction of Module III module III: “Engineering Life: Biology\, Technology\, and the Future of the Human”\n09:15-10:15: Maurizio Esposito (Università Statale degli Studi\, Milano): “Biology in the Age of Engineers”\n10:15-10:45: Break\n10:45-11:45: Vanessa Triviño (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos\, Madrid): “Reductionism\, Emergence\, and Grounding in the Ontology of Biological Individuals”\n11:45-12:45: Spyridon A. Koutroufinis (Technical University of Berlin): “Seeing Watchmakers? A Skeptical Encounter with Transhumanism” \nAttendance is open both in person and online. If you plan to attend online\, please register by sending an email to gairoldi@elach.uminho.pt to receive the zoom link.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/beneath-the-surface-of-the-life-sciences-how-epistemic-uncertainty-metaphysical-assumptions-and-value-judgments-shape-ethical-and-political-reasoning/
LOCATION:University of Minho | Auditorium ELACH + Online
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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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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
ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt
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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:20260115T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260115T170000
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SUMMARY:Ricardo Matos // Legitimacy in the European Union: A Neo-republican Political Theological Approach
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This paper analyses the problem of political legitimacy in the European Union from a neo-republican and political-theological perspective. It argues that sovereignty cannot be understood as an empirically unified or directly observable popular will. Instead\, the sovereign emerges in an interstitial space between the theological-symbolic and the institutional-real\, where political authority is mediated through representative institutions. Legitimacy thus derives from an interiority of the people that can only be imperfectly expressed in constitutional and institutional forms. Applied to the European Union\, this framework exposes a fundamental difficulty: how to ground legitimate authority in a political order that lacks a unified demos and does not conform to the model of a classical parliamentary democracy. \nThe European project originated as a functional and anti-hegemonic arrangement rather than as a democratic polity\, privileging technocratic governance and executive federalism. This institutional design has generated a persistent tension between democracy and technocracy\, particularly as supranational institutions justify their authority through expertise\, neutrality\, and independence rather than direct electoral mandate. While technocracy may contribute to policy efficiency\, it raises serious concerns regarding democratic legitimacy and political accountability. Drawing on neo-republican theory\, the paper contends that legitimacy must be founded on freedom as non-domination and on conditions of political equality among both member states and European citizens. Asymmetric power relations between states undermine this republican ideal and foster relations of domination that obstruct the emergence of a European demos. The analysis further engages with Pierre Rosanvallon’s concept of the “crisis of equality\,” showing how growing socio-economic inequalities erode democracy as a social form and weaken the solidaristic foundations necessary for collective political agency. \nFinally\, the paper identifies concrete legitimacy deficits in the European Union\, including unequal electoral representation\, nationally framed European elections\, asymmetrical referenda\, and limited citizen influence over executive decision-making. It concludes that European legitimacy requires a reconfiguration of democracy that reconciles popular sovereignty with institutional expertise\, grounded in political equality\, non-domination\, and a shared civic belonging at the supranational level. \nBio:  Ricardo Matos is a Medical doctor\, ENT specialist\, with a master’s degree in Political Philosophy completed in 2024\, he joined the doctoral program in Political Philosophy about a year ago in order to deepen his research work on the possibility of a true European identity based on the republican principle of freedom as non-domination.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/ricardo-matos-legitimacy-in-the-european-union-a-neo-republican-political-theological-approach/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS PhD Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20251217T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20251217T170000
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SUMMARY:Leonardo Menezes // On Not Being at Home in the World: Refugees\, State (Failure) and Home-Making
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Forcibly displaced persons are defined\, most starkly\, by the loss of home. All refugees have been compelled to leave their home and to construct another\, whether provisionally or permanently. This fact suggests that the concept of home ought to occupy a central place in normative theorizing about migration and refuge. Yet existing discussions engage the notion of home in ways that are less comprehensive than one might expect. Contemporary normative debates on refugee protection—concerning who qualifies as a refugee\, whether affluent states have obligations to admit refugees\, under what conditions\, and in what numbers—presume a largely state-centric conception of home as the primary locus of ethical life and the main conceptual bridge between justice and human flourishing. Political theorists have therefore focused on refining arguments for and against refugee admission into wealthy liberal-democratic nation-states\, typically (though not always explicitly) assumed to be North American or Western European ones (Carens 2013; Fine and Ypi 2016; Miller 2016). Even theorists who defend open borders or contest the state’s right to restrict immigration (Abizadeh 2008; Gerver 2021; Kukathas 2012; 2021; Longo 2018) retain the state as the privileged interlocutor.\n \nThis paper develops an alternative approach by articulating a relational\, African philosophical account of home(-making) in contexts of forced displacement. I proceed in two steps. First\, I argue that the near-seamless inference from the claim that states ought to secure the well-being of their citizens to the assumption that all states are capable\, in principle\, of doing so reflects a failure to acknowledge the heterogeneity of post-colonial state forms. Diagnosing this normative assumption requires a philosophical\, rather than merely empirical\, account of state failure and fragility (Wiredu 1999; Menkiti 2017; Okeja 2022). Second\, I sketch a non-statist conception of justice grounded in African communalist philosophies of relationality. On these views\, persons are not independent moral atoms but nodes within an expansive web of interdependence; the self is constituted through relations rather than standing prior to them. I argue that this relational ontology reframes the duties that individuals and communities bear toward forcibly displaced people. It also yields a revised moral baseline for refugee protection—one that reconfigures the relevant rights\, duties\, values\, and needs through the lens of relational home-making rather than state-centric membership. \nBio: Leonardo Barros da Silva Menezes is a Brazilian researcher with a solid international academic background in political philosophy/political theory. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Minho (Centre for Ethics\, Politics and Society)\, in Portugal\, where his research focuses on the intersection between the political philosophy of refuge and African political philosophy. His work investigates the moral\, political\, and epistemic dimensions of forced migration in the Global South\, examining how the ideas and practices of actors in this context (refugees\, migrants\, citizens\, and policymakers) can reshape the normative frameworks and conceptual repertoires used by political theorists when addressing issues of justice and (forced) migration. Before beginning his doctoral studies\, Leonardo completed two master’s degrees: a Master’s in Political Theory at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)\, in France\, supported by the Émile Boutmy scholarship; and a Master’s in Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP)\, in Brazil\, where he was a CAPES scholarship holder.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/leonardo-menezes-on-not-being-at-home-in-the-world-refugees-state-failure-and-home-making/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS PhD Seminars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251217
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SUMMARY:Lisbon Conference on Intergenerational Justice
DESCRIPTION:KEYNOTE SPEAKERS \nAxel Gosseries (UCLouvain)\nAnca Gheaus (Central European University) \nIntergenerational justice examines what is owed between different generations\, addressing some of the most important political issues that we face today. One set of problems concerns what is owed between generations that do not coexist. What do we owe to future people\, for example\, in terms of the resources\, climate\, and social order they will inherit? In what way should we address responsibility for historical injustices? In addition\, intergenerational justice concerns what is owed between members of different coexisting generations\, or age groups. What do we owe children\, for example\, in terms of how they are treated and the resources they are allocated? What does a fair pension system involve\, especially in the context of population ageing (the fact that the size and proportion of citizens is increasing)? The Lisbon Conference on International Justice\, First Edition\, will bring together leading international scholars to work on these topics and more. \n\nProgramme\nDAY 1 — 15 DECEMBER \n9h45 Welcome!\n10h–10h40 Sebastian Engler (Central European University)\nDon’t “let them be children!” in unjust circumstances \n10h40–11h20 Ben Sachs-Cobbe (St Andrews) and Alex Douglas (St Andrews)\nIs a Fair Pension a Funded Pension? Not Necessarily! \n11h20–11h50 Break \n11h50–12h30 Sanjar Akayev (Central European University)\nDo States Have a Duty to Prevent Population Decline? \n12h30–14h Lunch \n14h00–14h40 Aida Martínez Suárez (University of Oviedo)\nOn the permissibility of human extinction: the problem of the Loss of Value \n14h40–15h20 Sibylle Léonard (Sciences Po Paris)\nConstitutions and Guarantees of Non-Repetition: Intergenerational Justice following Atrocity \n15h20–15h50 Break \n15h50–16h30 Santiago Truccone (University of Graz)\nThe Need for Punishment in Global Climate Justice \n16h30–16h50 Break \n16h50–18h00 KEYNOTE 1 | Axel Gosseries (UCLouvain) \n\nDAY 2 — 16 DECEMBER \n10h–10h40 Sule Sahin Ceylan (Marmara University)\nThe Right to An Open Future as the Basis for Intergenerational Rights \n10h40–11h20 Adelin Dimitru (National University of Science & Technology Bucharest)\nDemocratic resilience as a duty to future generations \n11h20–11h50 Break \n11h50–12h30 Jon Rueda (Spanish National Research Council)\nPhenotypic justice between generations \n12h30–14h00 Lunch \n14h00–14h40 Pablo Magaña (Trinity College Dublin)\nMoral Progress Across Generations \n14h40–15h30 Manuel Sá Valente (UMinho) and Tim Meijers (Leiden University)\nThe Living\, the Dead\, and Past Injustice Today \n15h30–15h50 Break \n15h50–17h00 KEYNOTE 2 | Anca Gheaus (Central European University) \n\nFunding\nEvent supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science under the projects UID/00183/2025 and 2023.07731.CEECIND.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/lisbon-conference-on-intergenerational-justice/
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Kristina Vasic // Representation as a Structure of Domination
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Suppose that P dominates Q in society (on a neo-republican account\, where to dominate is to have the capacity to arbitrarily interfere with another’s choices). Suppose further that this society is organized along the principles of representative democracy\, where representatives are chosen in elections. Now\, only P but not Q tend to get elected\, which puts them in a position of passing laws which benefit the class they belong to. But they can also just leave things as they are and not do anything to actively undermine the dominating relationship between P and Q. By doing or failing to do anything on the front of structural domination\, they assume a role of regulators\, of agents who non-contingently enable or sustain the domination dyad between P and Q. There can be many regulators in structural domination\, but the representatives are unique in that they have greater power in comparison to the represented citizen\, and this greater power provides them with more leeway within a structure of domination. The normative upshot of their greater power as regulators is\, I propose\, that they bear greater responsibility for structuring domination\, compared to other\, ordinary\, citizens. Responsibility for structuring domination\, in other words\, is proportionate to the power one has to undermine the structure. Whether representatives actively contribute to keeping P in dominating position or they fail to effect any change in this regard – they are responsible for structuring domination. The same conclusion can be reached when Q\, from the dominated part of the population\, assumes the role of a representative but does not strive to dismantle structural domination. The existing accounts of justifying power inequality in representation have so far failed to take account of this possibility\, that representatives can structure domination. I believe that an adequate justification of power inequality in representation ought to account for this scenario by construing a further necessary condition of justification\, namely\, that representation does not structure domination. \nBio: Kristina Vasic is a PhD student in Political Theory at Central European University\, Vienna and a visiting student at CEPS\, University of Minho. Previously\, she was a visiting student at the Center for Political Philosophy at Leiden University. The overall title of her paper-based thesis is Political Equality and Representative Democracy. She works on social equality\, representation and structural domination.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/kristina-vasic-representation-as-a-structure-of-domination/
CATEGORIES:CEPS PhD Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20251029T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20251029T170000
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SUMMARY:Joana Pinto // What Does Public Reason Demand of Political Parties? A Brief Comparative Theoretical Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Theories of public reason play a central role in liberal democracies\, offering standards for the legitimacy of laws amid deep moral and political pluralism. At their core\, these theories claim that laws are legitimate only if justifiable in some sense to all citizens. Yet\, little attention has been paid to how these theories apply to political parties—the main actors in legislative decision-making. This paper addresses that gap by exploring what different theories of public reason imply for the role and functioning of political parties. It focuses on three prominent models: (1) Political Liberal Public Reason (e.g.\, Rawls in Political Liberalism)\, (2) Classical Liberal Public Reason (e.g.\, Gerald Gaus)\, and (3) Deliberative Public Reason (e.g.\, Jürgen Habermas). For each\, it asks three guiding questions: How does the theory define public reason? What implications does the theory have for the deliberative and aggregative roles of political parties? And what philosophical or practical objections arise when these principles are applied to partisan politics? This comparison reveals that applying public reason to partisan politics is not straightforward: each theory offers both guidance and limitations. Still\, by clarifying what different models demand of political parties\, we can better assess how ideals of legitimacy\, justification\, and deliberation might shape democratic practice. \nBio: Joana Pinto is a PhD candidate in Political Philosophy at the Centre for Ethics\, Politics and Society. Her doctoral research focuses on the application of public reason to the functioning of political parties\, arguing that public reason must be reconciled with the deliberative and aggregative functions that political parties perform in democratic systems. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Philosophy (2023) from the University of Minho\, where she completed her dissertation on how political parties can advance or undermine the theory of public reason proposed by John Rawls and\, more broadly\, the project of political liberalism. She also holds a Law degree (2021) from the same institution\, having pursued an interdisciplinary academic path that connects normative political theory with legal and institutional analysis. 
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/joana-pinto-what-does-public-reason/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS PhD Seminars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250717
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SUMMARY:15th Summer School​ in Political Philosophy ​and Public Policy
DESCRIPTION:CEPS — the Centre for Ethics\, Politics and Society — is organising the 15th edition of the Braga Summer School in Political Philosophy and Public Policy — on Migration and Forced Displacement—which will take place in 15 and 16 July 2025. This event has proved to be an opportunity for hundreds of researchers to gather annually and discuss their work. The Summer School will take place at the University of Minho\, Braga\, Portugal. \nWe are happy to announce that the keynote speakers of this year will be David Miller (Oxford)\, Eszter Kollar (KU Leuven)\, and Phil Cole (UWE Bristol).  We are also planning other panels where young scholars (PhD students and Postdocs) will have the opportunity to present their work\, receive comments and feedback from professors and colleagues\, and exchange ideas. \nIf you want to apply\, please fill in the form and submit the abstract form. Please provide your name\, contact information\, affiliation and a short bio (no more than 200 words). Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words and suitable for blind-review. The deadline for abstract submissions is May 1st\, 2025.\n​\nAny inquiries should be sent to 15thbragasummerschool@gmail.com
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/15th-summer-school-in-political-philosophy-and-public-policy/
LOCATION:University of Minho | Braga Campus\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, 4710-057\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:Events,SummerSchool
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250628
DTSTAMP:20250622T200012Z
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SUMMARY:15th BRAGA MEETINGS ON ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
DESCRIPTION:15th BRAGA MEETINGS ON ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY \nJune 25-27\, 2025 | Braga\, Portugal \nINVITED SPEAKERS \nCÉCILE FABRE  /// University of Oxford\nJULIANA BIDADANURE /// New York University\nSHANNON SULLIVAN /// UNC Charlotte \nThe Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy is an annual event organised by the Centre for Ethics\, Politics and Society (CEPS) at the University of Minho (Braga\, Portugal). The Meetings have established in the last years a reputation for providing scholars with an excellent opportunity to present both advanced and exploratory work to a welcoming audience. \nWe are pleased to announce that the full program and Book of Abstracts for the 15th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy are now available online. \nCONTACT\nFor any questions concerning the submissions and details not specified do not hesitate to contact us at 15thbragameetings@gmail.com. \n.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/15th-braga-meetings-on-ethics-and-political-philosophy/
LOCATION:University of Minho | Braga Campus\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, 4710-057\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:Braga Colloquium
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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:20250514T180000
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SUMMARY:Elections and Representation: Fragile Affinity?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Throughout history\, political thinkers have doubted the alliance between representation and democracy.  Even today\, the idea that democracy is going through a crisis is often tied to the belief that a crisis of representation is underway. Protest movements emerging in the past decades have given credence to these doubts\, expressing their discontent with the performance of elected representatives and growing disenchantment with representative institutions. With the now-famous slogan “We have a vote\, but we don’t have a voice!”\, citizens directly pointed out the failure of elections to represent them. In light of these developments\, this paper examines the affinity of elections and representation in representative democracy. It unfolds by pondering the fading lustre of elections related to the perceived loss of representative function. The paper proceeds by elaborating on the representative turn and the subsequent constructivist turn in political representation and considers their implications for the representative function of elections. Both turns have contributed to the rehabilitation of representation and renewed interest in the concept of representation. However\, the constructivist turn\, in particular\, has further exposed the fragile nature of the relationship between elections and representation since it conceptualised representation primarily as a process of mutual construction of the representative and the represented\, making the institutional electoral framework secondary or even disposable. Finally\, the paper thus outlines a way of conceiving the representative function of elections after the constructivist turn. \nBio: Kristina Broučková is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science\, Faculty of Arts\, Charles University. She focuses on political and democratic theory\, particularly theories of political representation. In her dissertation\, entitled “Elections and Democracy: (Un)easy Alliance\,” she examines the role of elections in representative democracy.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/elections-and-representation-fragile-affinity/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS PhD Seminars
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250430T180000
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SUMMARY:The Concept of Sovereignity as a Neo-Repubican Source of Legitimacy in the European Union
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This article investigates the legitimacy of political authority within the European Union (EU) through the lens of neo-republican theory\, emphasizing the principle of non-domination as the normative foundation of democratic sovereignty. It confronts a central question regarding the source of legitimacy\, distinguishing legitimacy from justice and arguing that legitimacy arises not from pre-political legal frameworks\, but from political processes rooted in the sovereign will. The ideal of non-domination is presented as both a normative and political principle that aligns with the EU’s historical post-war project of peace and anti-hegemony. It also addresses the “democratic disconnect” highlighted by Peter Lindseth\, which reflects the growing distance between EU institutions and European citizens. The author argues for the reconnection of democratic legitimacy through a federal European union based on a unified demos and political identity. The concept of sovereignty is reinterpreted in a neo-republican framework\, integrating classical and modern political theory (e.g.\, Bodin\, Hobbes\, Schmitt). Sovereignty is not simply a legal concept\, but a political force rooted in the collective will\, characterized by perpetuity\, territoriality\, and autonomy. The article explores the tension between the sovereign as a mystical body and its tangible manifestation in political institutions\, emphasizing the interstitial nature of sovereignty. Finally\, the article criticizes technocratic and depersonalized governance in the EU and reasserts the need for a political-theological element that rehumanizes political authority. It cautions against concentrating sovereign power in a single organ without grounding it in the general will of the people. Instead\, it advocates for a dynamic\, deliberative process of democratic sovereignty\, grounded in historical identity and public discourse\, as the true foundation of legitimacy in the EU. \nBio: Medical doctor\, ENT specialist\, with a master’s degree in Political Philosophycompleted in 2024\, he joined the doctoral program in Political Philosophy about a year ago in order to deepen his research work on the possibility of a true European identity based on the republican principle of freedom as non-domination.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/the-concept-of-sovereignity-as-a-neo-repubican-source-of-legitimacy-in-the-european-union/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS PhD Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250416T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250416T180000
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SUMMARY:Distributive vs. Corrective Climate Justice
DESCRIPTION:On 16 April 2025\, the CEPS Seminars programme will host Axel Gosseries\, Professor of Philosophy at UC Louvain and President of the Institute of Philosophy. The Seminar will be on Distributive vs. Corrective Climate Justice. It will take place at 3pm in person at CEPS’s meeting room in the ELACH building. If it is not possible for you to attend in person\, you can participate online via the following Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/CEPSGosseries
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/distributive-vs-corrective-climate-justice/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
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ORGANIZER;CN="CEPS":MAILTO:ceps@elach.uminho.pt
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250326T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250326T170000
DTSTAMP:20250325T155028Z
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SUMMARY:A Doutrina do Duplo Efeito na Ética da Guerra de Elizabeth Anscombe
DESCRIPTION:BIO\nPedro Erik Arruda Carneiro holds a master’s degree in Economics and a doctorate in International Relations\, both from the University of Brasilia. \nABSTRACT\nElizabeth Anscombe is part of a quartet of contemporary Oxford philosophers\, with Philippa Foot\, Mary Midgley\, Iris Murdoch\, and Mary Warnock. She is known for her defence that there are moral absolutes that prevent the killing of innocents and for the recovery of virtue ethics in contemporary philosophy. Philosophers of mind and action see in Anscombe’s book Intention an alternative to the causal explanations of agency and perception that tend to dominate analytic philosophy\, an alternative based on Wittgenstein’s philosophy\, which she translated and commented on\, as his literary executor. My project centres on her research and reformulation of the traditional Doctrine of Double Effect\, in particular its application to just war and nuclear attack\, but Anscombe’s political philosophy\, ethical philosophy and analysis of intention are intertwined. Her major works on war raised political\, ethical and intentional questions\, since wars are imminent political and ethical issues and what has come to be called the Doctrine of Double Effect is a powerful analytical tool for assessing the intent of an action. In 1957\, Anscombe published her most renowned book\, Intention. The previous year\, Anscombe had written the pamphlet Mr Truman’s Degree\, about the award of an honorary doctorate by Oxford University to former US president Harry Truman. In 1958\, her influential article ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ was published. And in 1961 she published her well-known article on war\, ‘War and Murder’. All these articles\, the book Intention\, deal with the ethical difficulties related to the nuclear bombing of Japan during the Second World War. The thesis analyses Anscombe’s ethical-political thought\, starting from her influences (Wittgenstein\, Aquinas and Aristotle\, in particular) and analyses how Anscombe’s thought developed in terms of the Doctrine of Double Effect\, which underpinned all her writings on war.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/6602/
LOCATION:CEPS Room (ELACH) + Online\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:CEPS PhD Seminars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
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SUMMARY:Jeff Spinner-Halev // Workshop on Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization\, Moralization\, and the Undermining of Equality
DESCRIPTION:Respect is in trouble in the United States. Many Americans believe respecting others is a necessary virtue\, yet many struggle to respect opposing partisans. Surprisingly\, it is liberal citizens\, who hold respect as central to their view of democratic equality\, who often have difficulty granting respect to others. Drawing on evidence from national surveys\, focus groups\, survey experiments\, and the views of political theorists\, Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse explain why this is and why respect is vital to—and yet so lacking in—contemporary US politics. \nRespect and Loathing in American Democracy argues that liberals and conservatives are less divided than many believe\, but alienate one another because they moralize different issues. Liberals moralize social justice\, conservatives champion national solidarity\, and this worldview divide keeps them at odds. \nRespect is both far-reaching and vital\, yet it is much harder to grant than many recognize\, partly because of the unseen tension between respect\, social justice\, and national solidarity. Respect and Loathing in American Democracy proposes a path forward that\, while challenging\, is far from impossible for citizens to traverse.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/workshop-respect-and-loathing-in-american-democracy-polarization-moralization-and-the-undermining-of-equality/
LOCATION:CEPS Room – ELACH\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250219T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20250219T170000
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SUMMARY:Rodrigo Merayo Fernández // Poverty and Political Philosophy: Special Attention to Theories of Justice
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Poverty continues to be an urgent issue and a bleeding reality in our world. Political philosophy\, especially since the middle of the last century\, has promoted a programme of thought about social justice in which poverty represents the worst of all injustices. For this reason\, this work is interested in examining how the issue of poverty has been dealt with from the theoretical postulates of the main Theories of Justice\, that is\, from the perspectives of John Rawls\, Ronald Dworkin\, the capability thinkers’Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum and\, finally\, Thomas Pogge. Alongside these\, the critical contributions of Iris Marion Young and Nancy Fraser will be briefly considered\, through which the debate is enriched. Finally\, some conclusions drawn from this theoretical journey will be analyzed. \nBio: Rodrigo Merayo Fernández is PhD in Legal Philosophy at the University Carlos III of Madrid. He has studied law at the University of León (Spain) and subsequently completed a Master in Political Theory and Democratic Culture at the University Complutense of Madrid and another in Access to the Legal Profession at the UNED (Spain). Since his inception at the University\, his academic concerns have been closely related to human rights theory and legal and political philosophy. Specifically\, his field of study is focused on reflection on human rights and social justice in general. His thesis is on poverty\, Theories of Justice and human rights approach\, with a special interest in showing the connections between international law of human rights and political philosophy in social justice issues. He has completed several doctoral stays during his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute in Heidelberg (Germany) and recently in the CEPS (Portugal). 
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/poverty-and-political-philosophy-special-attention-to-theories-of-justice/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:CEPS PhD Seminars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250206
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SUMMARY:A grim future for workers? Technological developments and work-related domination
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, we have witnessed several changes that impacted significantly both labour markets and workplace environments. Many of these changes have been a result of both technological developments\, but also changing norms and preferences around work resulting from the experience with the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes can be clustered around two main topics: (1) changes in the supply and demand of labour; (2) changes in the workplace and in work-related relationships. \nTo understand how we can fare these challenges\, our workshop wishes to address this question by focusing on the following related issues: \n\nWhat are the key changes in the workplace which are worth considering? What (if anything) is problematic about these changes?\nHow do these technological developments impact workers´ freedom? Can such developments contribute to a more equal society – and\, if so\, how?\nGiven recent developments\, how is the power in the workplace distributed? To what extent\, if any\, do these changes contribute to (dis)empower workers?\nWhat (if any) kind of domination is at stake? Is it related to the economic structure? Or to individuals’ lack of resources which forces them to accept bad work conditions?\nHow can we consider instances of domination when it comes to technological developments? Who is dominated and who is the dominator? How does remote working impact the power relationship between workers and bosses?\nWhat are the normative issues around AI-based human resources processes (recruitment and selection\, training and evaluation procedures)?\n\nCheck the program of PPE workshop here. \nRegistration form here. \nMore information here. \nThis text should be hidden.
URL:https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/event/a-grim-future-for-workers-technological-developments-and-work-related-domination/
LOCATION:University of Minho | Braga Campus\, Rua da Universidade\, Braga\, 4710-057\, Portugal
CATEGORIES:Events,Workshops
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