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12th Summer School in Political Philosophy and Public Policy De 2021-07-15 a 2021-07-17
Online | University of Minho, Braga - Portugal
Speakers:
Martin O’Neill (University of York)
Katharina Pistor (Columbia University)
João Rodrigues (Universidade de Coimbra)
Nicholas Vrousalis (University of Rotterdam)
Description:
Since Marx’s early theorization, exploitation has been identified as a defining feature of the capitalist mode of production. Exploitation sheds light on the causes of the unfair distribution of resources, opportunities, and wealth, the commodification of the labor market, as well as the plundering of natural resources. It also has the normative significance of both a moral wrongdoing and a structural aspect of an unjust system that calls for change, activism, and revolution once again. As inequalities soar and the concentration of wealth lacerates the social fabric of traditional welfare state societies, the exploitative nature of late-stage capitalism has drawn the attention of a new generation of political philosophers, both in the critical and the analytical tradition.
How does capitalist exploitation take place through legal, distribution, and productive means? How should we understand the conceptual and normative dimensions of exploitation, and what policies should be pursued to create a less exploitative form of production? The goal of the 12th edition is to answer this question by exploring the role exploitation plays within new forms of capitalist production.
The critique of capitalism is a recurrent theme of the School. In past editions, we discussed alternatives to the existing capitalist regime, such as property-owning democracy (2014) and democratic socialism (2018). We also questioned the legitimacy of free-market capitalism and the role of corporations (2019).
Our aim in this edition is to elucidate the concept of exploitation, investigate its distributive implications for public policy, its impact on labor and the labor market, and the legal framework enabling exploitative processes.
Among the questions we are particularly interested in debating are the following:
What is exploitation? Is exploitation always unjust? How to distinguish exploitation from other forms of moral wrongdoing?
What taxonomy of exploitation can we identify in capitalistic and socialist regimes?
Are new forms of exploitation essentially distinct from traditional forms of exploitation?
Which forms of labor are most affected by current forms of exploitation?
How can decommodification mitigate individuals’ exploitation in the labor market? How can policies of predistribution and/or redistribution address issues of exploitation?
Can egalitarian policies mitigate exploitation, and if so, which ones are the most effective?
Can exploitation happen in an egalitarian society, and what can we do about it?
What is the role of the law in perpetuating inequality and exploitation, especially through financial markets?
Format:
The school will take place over three days. Two invited lectures will be delivered each day. We invite the participation of Ph.D. students, postdoctoral scholars, and established researchers to join us in the discussion and present their ongoing work on these topics or any related theme. Abstract proposals should not exceed 500 words. To submit a proposal, visit the School’s website.
Deadline for Abstract submission: May 30, 2021.
Applicants who only wish to attend the summer school, and do not want to submit a proposal, should only register for the event (see information below).
Participation:
Due to travel restrictions that could still affect on-site participation next Summer, the School is being organized in a digital format this year. We hope that delivering the event online will encourage proposals from many who might be hesitating to commit to an in-person event, giving the current uncertainty. We will follow the changes in travel restrictions and the regulations in Portugal regarding international academic events. In case the situation changes, we will consider a blended format for the school, and we will inform all participants. More information about the format will be provided closer to the date of the school. For now, participants will be asked to submit their preferences for the school’s format.
The participation fee is 30 Euros in case the school takes place online. In case we are able to organize a partial in-person event, we will ask participants to increase the fee up to 50 Euros to cover expenses. Detailed information about registration and payment procedures are available on the School’s website.
Deadline for registration: June 20, 2021.
Information about the program and the school format will be available later on the website.
Where: The school will be held online. We will monitor existing conditions and regulations, and if possible, we will move the event to a blended format, featuring on-campus lectures and online sessions. In case of a blended format, the event will be hosted at the Auditorium of the Institute of Letters and Human Sciences (ILCH) at the University of Minho, Braga.
Organization: This event is co-organized by the Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society of the University of Minho, and the Philosophy Department of the University of York.
Convenors: Catarina Neves, Daniele Santoro, and Pedro Teixeira.
For other queries, please contact: 12thbragasummerschool@gmail.com
Reading group – 20th session De 2021-07-15 a 2021-07-15
16h (GMT+1 Lisbon time)
The 20th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on July 15th at 4pm GMT+1. In this session the following article will be discussed: Andrew Lister "The Difference Principle, Capitalism, and Property-Owning Democracy” (2017). Andrew Lister, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by a discussant.
Andrew Lister (speaker): Andrew Lister is Associate Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. His main area of research is contemporary normative theory, in particular in relation to political liberalism and public reason, and distributive justice. His current project is about the roles of reciprocity in theories of justice.
Roberto Merrill (discussant): Roberto Merrill is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Minho, where he coordinates the Master of Political Philosophy. He also is a researcher at the Center for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS), where he directs the Research Project on Unconditional Basic Income. e is also president of the Portuguese Association for Unconditional Basic Income. e is Visiting Assistant Professor in the MSc in Public Policy at ISCTE and an Associate Researcher at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po-Paris). His research interests within political philosophy include liberal neutrality, paternalism and pluralism of values, as well as contemporary theories of distributive justice.
CEPS Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy 2020-21 De 2021-06-30 a 2021-06-30
Online
By Teresa Marques (Universitat de Barcelona)
In this paper, I try to answer the above question, and another question that it presupposes: can philosophy of language help us navigate the political news cycle? A reader can be sceptical of a positive answer to the latter question; after all, citizens, political theorists, and journalists seem to be capable of following current politics and its coverage in the news, and there is no reason to think that philosophy of language should be capable of helping people make sense and respond to the news. I will illustrate the application of philosophy of language to three contrasting strategies of political propaganda: dogwhistles, meaning perversions, and bald-faced lies. I hope that these help us see that philosophy of language can be a good tool in diagnosing demagoguery, and in resisting it.
The Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy is a research oriented initiative hosted by the Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society at the University of Minho, whose aim is to discuss works in progress of both established and younger scholars working in the fields of ethics, social and political philosophy, political and social theory. The seminars are open to everyone, but pre-registration is required.
After registering, we will send a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and the pre-circulated material when available. For inquiries, contact the organizers at gballacci@ilch.uminho.pt or dsantoro@ilch.uminho.pt.
Reading group – 19th session De 2021-06-29 a 2021-06-29
Zoom, 16h (GMT time)
The 19th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on June 29 at 4pm GMT. In this session the following article will be discussed: Margaret Somers "Toward a Predistributive Democracy: Diagnosing Oligarchy, Dedemocratization, and the Deceits of Market Justice" (2021 forthcoming). Margaret Somers, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Catarina Neves and a debate with the participants.
Margaret Somers (speaker): Margaret R. Somers is Professor Emerita of Sociology and History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a comparative historical sociologist specializing in the work of Karl Polanyi, as well as political economy and economic thought (predistribution and the political economy of moral worth); democracy and citizenship rights; concept formation and historical epistemology. She is the author, with Fred Block, of The Power of Market fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique, Harvard 2014, an intellectual archaeology of Polanyi’s thought that aims to generate a repertoire of Polanyian concepts, theoretical insights, and a usable social theory (named “Book of the Year 2014” by Economic Sociology and Political Economy (economicsociology.org). Her book Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to have Rights (Cambridge 2008), is a study of how the moral authority of the market has transformed rights-bearing citizens into the internally stateless, making rights, inclusion and moral worth a privilege dependent on contractual market value (awarded the 2009 Giovanni Sartori Award for concept formation by the American Political Science Association). Her work in-progress, Toward a Predistributive Democracy: Free-market Utopianism and the Alchemy of Misrecognition examines how the fiction of the free market primes us to misrecognize the cause of inequality as deregulation, blinds us to how capital grows relative to labor by extracting value rather than creating it, and to the role of predistributive dedemocratization in accelerating and institutionalizing oligarchy.
Catarina Neves (discussant) : Catarina Neves is a researcher at Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, where she is also doing her PhD in Political Philosophy, with a thesis titled “Justifying an Unconditional Basic Income: reciprocity, productive justice and the impact of UBI in the labor market”. She is also a teaching assistant at Nova School of Business and Economics, in Lisbon.
Reading group – 18th session De 2021-06-18 a 2021-06-18
16h (GMT time)
The 18th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on June 18 2021 at 4pm. In this session the following articles will be discussed: Work in Property-Owning Democracy: Freeman, Rawls, and the Welfare State (2020) and replies proposed in the Symposium on Samuel Freeman. Ingrid Salvatorre, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper.
Ingrid Salvatorre (speaker): Ingrid Salvatore is associate professor at the University of Salerno (Italy), where she teaches Political Philosophy. She also teaches Gender Studies at Luiss University, in Rome where she lives. Last works include: Liberalism and Social Justice (ed.), Book Symposium on S. Freeman, Liberalism and Distributive Justice (Oxford, 2018). What is Pluralism? (co-editor), Routledge 2020. "Ingiustizia e instabilità sociale. Gli impegni teoretici della giustizia sociale" (Social injustice and Instability: The Theoretical Burdens of social justice). Rivista di filosofia, forthcoming. She is currently trying to write a book on the theoretical status of feminism.
Gavin Kerr (discussant): Gavin Kerr is an independent post-doctoral researcher currently based near Bonn in Germany. His research interests lie at the intersection of the fields of politics, philosophy, and economics. He pursued his doctoral studies in political philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, and has been conducting research on the ideas of predistribution and the property-owning democracy since graduating in 2011. His current research focuses on the importance of land and other forms of rent in economic theory and practice, and on the relevance of land economics to the issue of environmental sustainability. His book on these topics was published in 2017, The Property-Owning Democracy: Freedom and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, by Taylor & Francis.
Reading group – 17th session De 2021-06-01 a 2021-06-01
14h (GMT+1 - Lisbon time)
The 17th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on June 1st at 14h (GMT+1 Lisbon time). In this session we will be discussing Paul Raekstad’s current book project on Marxism and alienation. Paul Paul Raekstad will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper, followed by comments from an invited discussant.
Paul Raekstad (speaker): Paul Raekstad is Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. They work on methodological questions in political theory; concepts of freedom, equality, and democracy; and debates about alternative economic institutions and how to attain them – with a particular focus on questions of prefigurative politics, direct action, and proposals for a Green New Deal. They recently co-authored Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today.
Sara Amighetti (discussant): Sara Amighetti is a Post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Ethics of the University of Zurich. She works on egalitarianism (in particular defending relational or social equality), immigration and various topics in global justice (including redressing international injustices like colonialism). More recently, she has also begun working on solidarity. She holds a PhD from the University of London (UCL). She spends her free time playing with her dog Pepe.
Reading group – 16th session De 2021-05-27 a 2021-05-27
16h (GMT+1 - Lisbon time)
The 16th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on May 27 at 16h (GMT+1 Lisbon time). In this session we will be discussing Jens van ’t Klooster’s papers: Central banking in Rawls’s property-owning democracy (2019) and Central Banks To appear in: The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (3 vols.). Jens van ’t Klooster, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his two papers, followed by comments from Josep Ferret.
Jens van ’t Klooster (speaker): Jens van ‘t Klooster is a Research Foundation – Flanders postdoc at the KU Leuven’s Institute of Philosophy and a member of the University of Amsterdam’s "A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt" research group. His research in political philosophy focuses on normative questions in the governance of financial markets.
Josep Ferret (discussant): Josep Ferret pursued doctoral studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, having authored a dissertation on the distributive justice and political legitimacy of independent financial institutions. He has since carried out postdoctoral research at the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics and at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique. He was also a visiting professor at the Central European University.
CEPS Seminars Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy 2020-21 De 2021-05-19 a 2021-05-19
Online, 4:30 pm–7 pm Western European Summer Time | 5:30 pm–8 pm Central European Summer Time
Discussants: Camila Vergara (Columbia University); Mark Warren (University of British Columbia)
Wednesday, 19 May 2021 | 4:30 pm–7 pm Western European Summer Time | 5:30 pm–8 pm Central European Summer Time | Zoom
From the spread of kleptocracy in Venezuela at the expense of the country's economy, to President Trump's appointment of family members to high-ranking White House positions, to President Lukashenko's desperate stranglehold on power in Belarus, across the world political corruption is rampant—indeed practically too ubiquitous to keep track of. As these examples illustrate, political corruption is often associated to a variety of instances of abuse of power that either derive from a vicious trait of individual character, or develop within deeply dysfunctional institutions. To Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, however, this piecemeal view is inadequate: individual and institutional instances of political corruption have a common root that we can understand only by treating corruption and anticorruption as a matter of a public ethics of office. Political corruption is the Trojan horse that undermines public institutions from within via an interrelated action of officeholders. Even well-designed and legitimate institutions can veer off track if the officeholders fail through their conduct to uphold a public ethics of office accountability.
This book offers an analytically rigorous definition of political corruption. It also investigates the common normative root of its two manifestations—corrupt individual character, and corrupt institutional mechanisms—as a relationally wrongful practice that consists of an unaccountable use of the power of office by officeholders in public institutions. From this perspective, political corruption must be understood from within, for it is an internal enemy of public institutions that can only be opposed by mobilizing the officeholders to remain accountable and mutually answerable for their conduct. In this way, anticorruption calls on the officeholders' responsibility to work together to maintain an interactively just institutional system.
The Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy is a research oriented initiative hosted by the Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society at the University of Minho, whose aim is to discuss works in progress of both established and younger scholars working in the fields of ethics, social and political philosophy, political and social theory.
The seminars are open to everyone, but pre-registration is required.
After registering, we will send a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and the pre-circulated material when available. A 30% discount code for the book purchase is available for registered participants. For inquiries, contact the organizers at dsantoro@ilch.uminho.pt or gballacci@ilch.uminho.pt.
Reading group – 14th session De 2021-04-26 a 2021-04-26
Zoom, 3pm (GMT time)
The 14th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on April 26 2021 at 3pm. This will be a special session, where we will be discussing William Lazonick’s and Jang-Sup Shin’s recent book “Predatory Value Extraction”. The session will last between 2h30 and 3h, and it will feature the presentation of the book by William Lazonick, as well as a comment by Alan Thomas, Joshua Preiss and Rahul Basu.
William Lazonick:
William Lazonick, professor of economics emeritus at University of Massachusetts, is co-founder and president of the Academic-Industry Research Network, a 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an Open Society Fellow and a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow. Over the past decade, the Institute for New Economic Thinking has funded a number of his research projects.
He has professorial affiliations with SOAS University of London and Institut Mines-Télécom in Paris. Previously, Lazonick was assistant and associate professor of economics at Harvard University, professor of economics at Barnard College of Columbia University, and distinguished research professor at INSEAD in France. Lazonick earned his B.Com. at the University of Toronto, M.Sc. in Economics at London School of Economics, and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University. He holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala University and the University of Ljubljana. Lazonick was president of the Business History Conference in 1990-91.
His research focuses on the social conditions of innovation and economic development in advanced and emerging economies. His book Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States (Upjohn Institute 2009) won the 2010 Schumpeter Prize. He has twice—in 1983 and 2010—had the award from Harvard Business School for best article of the year in Business History Review. In 2014, he received the HBR McKinsey Award for outstanding article in Harvard Business Review for “Profits Without Prosperity: Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market and Leave Most Americans Worse Off.” In January 2020, Oxford University Press published his book, co-authored with Jang-Sup Shin, Predatory Value Extraction: How the Looting of the Business Corporation Became the U.S. Norm and How Sustainable Prosperity Can Be Restored.
Alan Thomas:
Professor Alan Thomas began his professional career in Philosophy as a lecturer at King’s College, London, between 1993 and 1998. Following this he moved to the University of Kent to take a position as senior lecturer there. In 2007 he was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia and in 2010 he held the position of Fellow of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. Between 2010 and 2016 he was Professor of Ethics at Tilburg University. During that time he also held a visiting fellowship at the Australian National University (2015) and a visiting research professor position at St. Louis University (also 2015). In 2016 he came to York to be Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department.
Joshua Preiss
Joshua Preiss is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Minnesota State University, Mankato. His research is in moral and political philosophy, political economy, and the philosophy of economics, including freedom in markets and the ethics of economic relations. His recent monograph Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century (Routledge 2021) concerns the theory, practice, and politics of justice in the face of winner-take-all trends in contemporary political economy.
Rahul Basu
Rahul Basu is the Research Director at Goa Foundation and a member of The Future We Need, a global movement to make intergenerational equity foundational for civilization beginning with minerals.
Workshop series - Session 5 De 2021-04-22 a 2021-04-22
18h (GTM), Online
Reading group – 13th session De 2021-04-09 a 2021-04-09
Zoom, 16h (GMT time)
The 13th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on April 9 2021 at 4pm. In this session the following article will be discussed: “Political Liberalism and Property-Owning Democracy in Contemporary Capitalism” (2018). Nuno Martins, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Paul Bou-Habib and a debate with the participants.
Nuno Martins (speakers): Nuno Martins has a PhD in Economics by the University of Cambridge, and a licenciatura in Economics by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto), where he also obtained his habilitation in History of Economic Thought. He is currently full professor at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa where he teaches History of Economic Thought and Social Philosophy and Ethics. He also taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of the Azores. He is a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group (CSOG) interdisciplinary research network, and of the editorial board of various academic journals. He published the book The Cambridge Revival of Political Economy in 2013 (London and New York, Routledge), and co-edited the book Contributions to Social Ontology (London, Routledge). He has also published several articles in various academic journals.
Paul Bou-Habib (discussant): Paul Bou-Habib teaches political theory in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He has written a number of articles in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory. He is currently writing a book on the consequences of the "brain drain" for global justice.
CEPS Seminars Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy De 2021-03-17 a 2021-03-17
Online, 4:30–6:30pm (GMT/UTC +0)
By Mónica Brito Vieira (University of York).
This chapter of Brito Vieira's forthcoming book, The Politics of Silence, explores the complex historicity of a seemingly paradoxical tradition: feminist silent protesting. Within feminism, silence figures prominently as the sign of oppression - as something that is done to one, or a historically endured condition, excluding women as speaking subjects. To break silence, and to reclaim a speaking position for women, is thus, justifiably, a key feminist desideratum. But is it necessarily the case that in speech, and speech alone, women might harbour any hope of enacting a "blueprint for a new life" (to cite Adrienne Rich's famous poem)? This is the question the chapter pursues.
The Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy is a research oriented initiative hosted by the Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society at the University of Minho, whose aim is to discuss works in progress of both established and younger scholars working in the fields of ethics, social and political philosophy, political and social theory.
The seminars are open to everyone, but pre-registration is required. To register, visit the link in attachment.
After registering, we will send a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and the pre-circulated material when available. For inquiries, contact the organizers at gballacci@ilch.uminho.pt or dsantoro@ilch.uminho.pt .
Reading group – 12th session De 2021-03-12 a 2021-03-12
Zoom, 16h (GMT time)
Nicholas Vrousalis (speaker): Nicholas Vrousalis is an Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before coming to Rotterdam, he also taught political philosophy at Cambridge, Leiden, and KU Leuven. His research interests revolve around distributive ethics, democratic theory, the history of political thought (especially Kant, Hegel and Marx).
Daniele Santoro (discussant): Daniele is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society, where he is also in charge of Political Philosophy Research Area and the Center Seminar Series. HE previously held appointments at Luiss University (where he also taught courses in political philosophy, history of political thought, philosophy of social sciences, and bioethics) and at the National Research Council of Italy. HE earned a PhD in Philosophy of Law from the University of Padua, and held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University, and the Hoover Chaire of UCL Louvain. His current interests are in constitutional rights, the justification of dissent, and the epistemic aspects of rights.
Reading group – 11th session De 2021-03-04 a 2021-03-04
Zoom, 17h (GMT time)
The 11th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on March 4 2021 at 5pm. In this session the following article will be discussed: O’Shea, T. Socialist republicanism. Political Theory, 48(5), 548-572 (2020). Tom O’Shea, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Vincent Bourdeau and a debate with the participants.
Tom O’Shea (speaker): Tom O'Shea is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton. He researches several areas of practical philosophy - including moral, social, and political philosophy - with a focus on human freedom. Tom's current project excavates the history of radical republican thought and defends a socialist republican conception of political and economic liberty.
Vincent Bourdeau (discussant): Vincent Bourdeau is Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Besançon (UBFC, France) and researcher in the lab Logiques de l'agir (E.A. 2274). He is working on the relations between republicanism, socialism and the emergence of social sciences in the 19th century and has also published on contemporary developments concerning republicanism. Amongst recent works on these subjects in French: Quand les socialistes inventaient l'avenir. Presse, théories et expériences (1825-1860), La Découverte, 2015 (directed with Thomas Bouchet, Edward Castleton, Ludovic Frobert and François Jarrige) and La République et ses démons. Essais de républicanisme appliqué, éditions è®e, 2006 (directed with Roberto Merrill). Publications in English include : "Revolutionary France and the Social Repubic that never was" (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/revolutionary-france-and-social-republic-that-never-was/) and "What do todays republicans have to say about work" (https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-todays-republicans-have-to-say-about-work/).
Reading group – 10th session De 2021-02-19 a 2021-02-19
Zoom, 16h (GMT time)
The 10th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on February 19 2021 at 4pm. In this session the following article will be discussed: Hockett, Robert. “Open labor market operations”. Challenge 63:6 (2019). Robert Hockett, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Alan Thomas and a debate with the participants.
Robert Hockett (speaker): Robert Hockett joined the Cornell Law Faculty in 2004. His principal teaching, research, and writing interests lie in the fields of organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics in both their positive and normative, as well as their national and transnational, dimensions. His guiding concern in these fields is with the legal and institutional prerequisites to a just, prosperous, and sustainable economic order.
A Fellow of the Century Foundation and regular commissioned author for the New America Foundation, Hockett also does regular consulting work for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Monetary Fund, Americans for Financial Reform, the 'Occupy' Cooperative, and a number of federal and state legislators and local governments.
Prior to doing his doctoral work and entering academe, he worked for the International Monetary Fund and clerked for the Honorable Deanell Reece Tacha, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Alan Thomas (discussant): Professor Alan Thomas began his professional career in Philosophy as a lecturer at King’s College, London, between 1993 and 1998. Following this he moved to the University of Kent to take a position as senior lecturer there. In 2007 he was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia and in 2010 he held the position of Fellow of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. Between 2010 and 2016 he was Professor of Ethics at Tilburg University. During that time he also held a visiting fellowship at the Australian National University (2015) and a visiting research professor position at St. Louis University (also 2015). In 2016 he came to York to be Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department.
CEPS Seminars (Online) De 2021-01-25 a 2021-01-26
16:30 - 18:30
CEPS Seminars (Online) De 2021-01-25 a 2021-01-26
Online
Dates: Monday January 25, 2021 | 14:00-18:30 CET; Tuesday, January 26, 2021| 15:00-18:30 CET.
Every cohort of voters may dream of being "the people", under the sway of serial visions of sovereignty; or understand itself, more modestly, as co-author of a constitutional project in a sequential pattern rooted in the past and extending into the future. Sequential Sovereignty articulates a view of popular sovereignty and constituent power grounded in John Rawls’s "political liberalism".
Political Liberalism opens up with the question, "How is it possible for there to exist over time a just and stable society of free and equal citizens, who remain profoundly divided by reasonable religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines?". In response to populist threats to democracy, still latent in 1993, this book focuses on a hitherto neglected two-word phrase within Rawls’s question: "over time".
That inconspicuous phrase signals the urgency of clarifying how "the people," as the transgenerational author of the constitution, relates to its living segment in its dual capacity of electorate – a constituted power amongst other constituted powers – and, at the same time, of the co-author of the constitution, possessed of amending power. While the people’s constituent power responds to the political conception of justice most reasonable for its bearers, amending power responds to the normativity of constitutional essentials already in force.
Why couldn’t the present voters be as sovereign as the whole transgenerational people?
When addressing this question, we experience why "political liberalism" is broader than Political Liberalism. Rawls’s best answer is not his explicit one but rests on the notion of reciprocity integral to "the reasonable". Alongside horizontal reciprocity among free and equal citizens, a new Rawlsian notion of vertical reciprocity among free and equal generations of the same people can cast light on the relation of the people to its living segment.
Program
January 25 | 14:00 - 18:30 CET
14:00-14:15 - Workshop Presentation - Joāo Cardoso Rosas (CEPS, UMinho)
14:15-15:00 - Alessandro Ferrara - Introduction to Sequential Sovereignty
15:00-16:00 - Chapter 3: Political liberalism on constituent power: beyond an ossified binary | Comments by Ben Schupmann (Yale-NUS College)
16:00-16:30 - break
16:30-17:30 - Chapter 4: Constituent power and a "political conception of the people" | Comments by David Rasmussen (Boston College)
17:30-18:30 - Chapter 6: Representing the people as interpreting the constitution |Comments by Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University)
January 26 | 15:00 - 18:30 CET
15:00 -15:30 - Alessandro Ferrara: Précis of chapters 5 and 7
15:30 -16:30 - Chapter 5: Time and representation: on representing the people and the electorate |Comments by Giuseppe Ballacci (CEPS, UMinho)
16:30-17:00 - break
17:00-18:00 - Chapter 7: Transforming the constitution: amending power and political liberalism |Comments by Camila Vergara (Columbia University)
18:00-18:30 - Conclusions: Daniele Santoro (CEPS, UMinho)
The workshop is open to everyone. Each session will be followed by a Q&A with the public. Pre-registration is required. After registering, we will send a confirmation email containing information on how to join the meeting and the pre-circulated material when available. For inquiries, contact the organizers at ceps@ilch.uminho.pt.
The Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy is a research-oriented initiative hosted by the Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society at the University of Minho, whose aim is to discuss works in progress of both established and younger scholars working in the fields of ethics, social and political philosophy, political and social theory.
Reading Group - 9th session De 2021-01-21 a 2021-01-21
Online session, 4p.m.
The 9th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place on January 22 2021 at 4pm. In this session the following article will be discussed: Vallier, Kevin. "Rawls, Piketty, and the critique of welfare-state capitalism." The Journal of Politics 81.1 (2019): 142-152. Kevin Vallier, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a reply by Stuart White and a debate with the participants.
Kevin Vallier is an Associate Professor ofPhilosophy at Bowling Green State University, where he directs their program inPhilosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. Vallier’s interests lie primarily inpolitical philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy, politics,and economics (PPE). He is the author of three monographs, four edited volumes,and over forty peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles. His booksinclude Liberal Politics and PublicFaith: Beyond Separation (Routledge 2014), Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society (OxfordUP 2019), and Trust in a Polarized Age (OxfordUP 2020).
Stuart White is Associate Professor of Politics at Jesus College, Oxford, which he joined in 2000 after three years at MIT where he gained a Career Development Research Award for his teaching. His research focuses centrally on democracy, citizenship and property rights and the question of what rights to resources we should have as members of a democratic community. Relevant publications include Radical Republicanism, co-edited with Bruno Leipold and Karma Nabulsi, forthcoming,and Building a Citizen Society: The Emerging Politics of Republican Democracy. London: Lawrence and Wishart. Co-edited with Daniel Leighton. 2008. He coordinates with Roberto Merrill the project on UBI experiments UBIEXP. Webpage.
CEPS Seminars Seris in Ethics and Political Philosophy De 2020-12-16 a 2020-12-16
4:30–6:30pm (GMT/UTC +0) , Online
In the last two decades there has been a rising interest in the democratic function of trust. Based on work initially begun by sociologists in the early 1990s, political theorists have subsequently focused on the distinctively political consequences of trust. This large swath of publications notwithstanding, the democratic relevance of elites' trust in citizens has so far remained unexplored. This paper aims at filling this gap. It offers a more complete account of political trust that builds on but goes significantly beyond the currently accepted juxtaposition of social and political trust. Starting from a richer taxonomy of types of trust relationships, the paper provides first a descriptive account of elites' trust in citizens and then an explanation of their democratic relevance.
The Seminar Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy is a research oriented initiative hosted by the Center for Ethics, Politics, and Society at the University of Minho, whose aim is to discuss works in progress of both established and younger scholars working in the fields of ethics, social and political philosophy, political and social theory.
The seminars are open to everyone, but pre-registration is required. After registering, we will send a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and the pre-circulated material when available. For inquiries, contact the organizers at ceps@ilch.uminho.pt
Debate De 2020-12-16 a 2020-12-16
18h, Zoom
RBI De 2020-12-10 a 2020-12-10
19h, Zoom
Reading Group - 8th session De 2020-12-07 a 2020-12-07
Online session, 3p.m.
The 8th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place December 7 2020 at 3pm. In this session the following article will be discussed: Lisa Herzog, "Are financial markets epistemically efficient (and if so, in the right way)?" (manuscript). Lisa Herzog, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of her paper which will be followed by a reply by Pedro Teixeira and a debate with the participants.
Lisa Herzog works at the intersection of political philosophy and economic thought. Between 2016 and 2019, she was professor for political philosophy and theory at the Technical University of Munich, since 2019 she works at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics of the University of Groningen. She holds a master (Diplom) in economics from LMU Munich, and an M.St. in Philosophy and D.Phil. in Political Theory from the University of Oxford. She has worked at, or visited, the universities of St. Gallen (CH), Leuven (BE), Frankfurt/Main (D), Utrecht (NL), and Stanford (US). She was a Rhodes Scholar (2007-2011), and in 2019, she received the Tractatus-Preis and the German Award for Philosophy and Social Ethics. Herzog has published on the philosophical dimensions of markets (both historically and systemically), liberalism and social justice, ethics in organizations and the future of work. The current focus of her work are workplace democracy, professional ethics, and the role of knowledge in democracies.
Pedro Teixeira teaches political philosophy at the Otto-Suhr Institute of Political Science (Free University of Berlin), where he recently concluded his PhD on the work of Rawls, Habermas and Honneth. From 2017 to 2019 he received a PhD Scholarship by FCT (Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation). In 2017, during his PhD, he was a visiting scholar at the Philosophy Department of Columbia University in New York. He worked as a research assistant at the Department of Finance of the London School of Economics (LSE) and at the Department of Economics of NOVA School of Business and Economics in Lisbon. His current work focuses on conceptions of socialism, political economy, theories of the market, models of democratic control of the economic sphere and on issues related to the roots of political and social normativity.
RBI De 2020-11-30 a 2020-11-30
Online, 19h
A deputada Cristina Rodrigues volta a organizar mais um "À Conversa", em directo na sua página do Facebook, desta vez sobre o Rendimento Básico Incondicional (RBI).
O RBI voltou à atenção do público através de uma recente iniciativa legislativa europeia que solicita à Comissão Europeia a apresentação de uma proposta que vise a introdução de RBIs, em toda a UE, de forma a reforçar a coesão económica, social e territorial.
Mas afinal o que é o RBI? Segundo o livro Rendimento Básico Incondicional: Uma Defesa da Liberdade (Almedina, ed. 70), este é “um rendimento cuja quantia deve ser suficiente para garantir condições de vida decentes, pago em dinheiro a todos os cidadãos de forma incondicional, ou seja, sem ter em conta a situação financeira, patrimonial ou salarial (no caso dos que sejam remunerados pelo trabalho) de todas as pessoas que o recebem”. Os seus autores - Jorge Pinto, Gonçalo Marcelo, Sara Bizarro e Roberto Merrill - dizem ainda que “deve ser considerado um direito universal, individual e incondicional, e idealmente será uma quantia suficientemente elevada para assegurar a cada cidadão uma existência digna e uma participação na sociedade que esteja livre de constrangimentos económicos que levem à exclusão”.
Quem o defende crê que o RBI é sobretudo uma ferramenta para reduzir as enormes desigualdades que se acentuam cada vez mais, incentivando o envolvimento de todos os cidadãos nas respectivas comunidades onde poderiam ter uma vida digna. Além da promoção da dignidade, uma vez que todos os cidadãos seriam iguais beneficiários do mesmo rendimento, a implementação do RBI oferece a possibilidade de uma vida mais plena e mais feliz pois cada cidadão pode seguir uma vocação, uma vontade de empreender, de trabalhar não apenas devido à obrigação de pagar contas. Além de que a situação de pandemia que vivemos actualmente constitui uma oportunidade sem precedentes para reflectir seriamente sobre a necessidade de uma nova geração de políticas de protecção social com redes de segurança mais robustas, em que se insere precisamente o RBI.
Decerto que há desafios e mitos inerentes à sua implementação, dos quais se destacam, por exemplo, o financiamento e o alegado incentivo ao não trabalho.
Para perceber melhor as bases do RBI, as suas vantagens e os seus desafios, convidamos Catarina Neves, doutoranda em filosofia social e política na Universidade do Minho, com uma tese sobre a justificação do rendimento básico incondicional, e a sua ligação com o emprego e com a reciprocidade; Jorge Pinto, doutorado em filosofia social e política e co-autor do livro Rendimento Básico Incondicional: Uma Defesa da Liberdade (Almedina, ed. 70); Roberto Merrill, Professor Auxiliar de Filosofia na Universidade do Minho, Presidente da Associação Portuguesa pelo Rendimento Básico Incondicional e também co-autor do livro supra citado.
Reading Group De 2020-11-06 a 2020-11-06
Online session, 2p.m.
The 7th session of the reading group of the PREDPOD project will take place November 6 2020 at 2pm. In this session the following article will be discussed: Gavin Kerr, "Predistribution: what it is and why it matters" (manuscript). Gavin Kerr, our invited speaker, will make a brief presentation of the main ideas of his paper which will be followed by a debate with the participants. The password to join the meeting room are as follows: Meeting Room (password: 612106)
Gavin Kerr an independent post-doctoral researcher currently based near Bonn in Germany. His research interests lie at the intersection of the fields of politics, philosophy, and economics. He pursued his doctoral studies in political philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, and has been conducting research on the ideas of predistribution and the property-owning democracy since graduating in 2011. His current research focuses on the importance of land and other forms of rent in economic theory and practice, and on the relevance of land economics to the issue of environmental sustainability. His book on these topics was published in 2017, The Property-Owning Democracy: Freedom and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, by Taylor & Francis.
Lição inaugural do Curso de Filosofia De 2020-10-21 a 2020-10-21
Anfifeatro A1, Ed.1 (CP I), 14:30h
Reading Group De 2020-10-16 a 2020-10-16
Online session, 2p.m.
Escola de Verão De 2020-09-14 a 2020-09-21
Sessão Zoom
MANCEPT 2020 De 2020-09-09 a 2020-09-11
Zoom Meeting
⨁ | Program | AbstractsMANCEPT - Manchester Centre for Political Theory De 2020-09-09 a 2020-09-11
Manchester
CEPS Seminars (Online) De 2020-07-16 a 2020-07-16
16h30- 18h30 (Lisbon time)
Public Webinar De 2020-07-10 a 2020-07-10
Online
Summer School in Political Philosophy and Public Policy De 2020-07-06 a 2020-07-09
Universidade do Minho
Conference De 2020-07-01 a 2020-07-03
University of Minho
CEPS Seminars De 2020-06-30 a 2020-06-30
Ceps Seminar Room
⨁CEPS Seminars De 2020-04-23 a 2020-04-23
Ceps Seminar Room
⨁CEPS Seminars De 2020-04-16 a 2020-04-16
Ceps Seminar Room
CEPS Seminars De 2020-04-15 a 2020-04-15
Ceps Seminar Room
CEPS Seminars De 2020-03-19 a 2020-03-19
Ceps Seminar Room
Conferência e Apresentação de Livro De 2020-03-18 a 2020-03-18
Audiório Ed 1.07, 10:30
Por convite do CEPS e do departamento de Relações Internacionais, o Prof. Carlos Gaspar dará uma conferência no dia 18 de Março próximo às 10h30 no audiório Ed 1.07. pelas 10h30.
O lançamento do seu livro mais recente será na Livraria Almedina às 17h, começando com uma breve apresentação dos Prof. Sandra Dias Fernandes e J. A Colen, e seguido de perguntas e respostas.
5th Braga Colloquium in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy De 2020-01-20 a 2020-01-21
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
Evento De 2019-12-12 a 2019-12-12
Restaurante Panorâmico da Universidade do Minho
Seminários CEPS De 2019-12-09 a 2019-12-09
Sala CEPS, 14:30h
Unconditional Basica Income De 2019-12-05 a 2019-12-05
Nova School of Business and Economics
10th Summer School in Political Philosophy and Public Policy De 2019-07-09 a 2019-07-11
Auditório ILCH
Seminários CEPS De 2019-07-08 a 2019-07-08
Sala CEPS, 16h30-18h30
Seminários CEPS De 2019-06-25 a 2019-06-25
Sala CEPS, 14h30-16h30
Seminários CEPS De 2019-06-17 a 2019-06-17
Sala CEPS, 14h30-16h30
Congresso Internacional De 2019-06-13 a 2019-06-15
Universidade do Minho, Braga
Seminários CEPS De 2019-06-12 a 2019-06-12
Sala CEPS, 15h30-17h30
EIBEA 2019 De 2019-06-11 a 2019-06-13
Universidade do Minho
⨁ | WebsiteSeminários CEPS De 2019-05-29 a 2019-05-29
CEPS Room, 14h30-16h30
Seminário De 2019-05-23 a 2019-05-23
Auditório ILCH, 15h
Seminários CEPS De 2019-05-21 a 2019-05-21
Sala CEPS, 14:30h
Seminários CEPS De 2019-05-02 a 2019-05-02
Sala de Reuniões CEPS, 14:30h
UBI Workshop Series - Session 1 De 2019-04-23 a 2019-04-23
CEPS Seminar Room
Seminários CEPS De 2019-04-03 a 2019-04-03
Sala de Reuniões CEPS, 14:30h
4th Braga Colloquium in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy De 2019-01-29 a 2019-01-30
Universidade do Minho
⨁ | WebsiteResearch Seminars in Ethics and Political Philosophy De 2019-01-25 a 2019-01-25
Universidade do Minho, CEPS meeting room, ILCH, ground floor, 14h30
Congresso Internacional De 2019-01-24 a 2019-01-26
University of Minho
Global Ethics Day De 2018-10-17 a 2018-10-17
Universidade do Minho, Sala CEPS
Inspirado pelo Dia da Terra, o Dia Mundial da Ética foi criado para explorar o papel da ética num mundo globalizado. A convite do seu fundador, o Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, o Centro de Ética, Política e Sociedade da Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal) associa-se à quinta edição deste evento planetário, organizando uma sessão de discussão aberta sobre o seguinte tópico: Que ética para o Antropoceno?
Seminar on Ethics and Political Philosophy De 2018-10-01 a 2018-10-01
Universidade do Minho, CEPS meeting room, ILCH, ground floor, 14h30
Seminar on Ethics and Political Philosophy De 2018-09-11 a 2018-09-11
Universidade do Minho, Auditório ILCH
Escola de Verão De 2018-07-03 a 2018-07-05
Universidade do Minho
Tema: Which Property? Whose Capital? Property-Owning Democracy and the Socialist Alternative
Colóquio De 2018-06-11 a 2018-06-12
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Keynote speakers: Prof. Catriona McKinnon (University of Reading, UK) [cv]; Prof. Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) [cv]
Seminar on Ethics and Political Philosophy De 2018-05-30 a 2018-05-30
Sala CEPS, 18h, Universidade do Minho - Campus Gualtar
Seminário De 2018-05-04 a 2018-05-04
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Almoços de ética De 2018-04-20 a 2018-04-20
Restaurante panorâmico da UMinho
Seminário De 2018-04-20 a 2018-04-20
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Seminário De 2018-04-13 a 2018-04-13
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Seminário De 2018-04-06 a 2018-04-06
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Colóquio De 2018-02-01 a 2018-02-02
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Tema: Radicalism and Compromise. Palestrante convidado: Avishai Margalit (The Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) [cv]
Colóquio De 2017-09-25 a 2017-09-26
Universidade do Minho - Auditório ILCH
Escola de Verão De 2017-07-13 a 2017-07-15
Universidade do Minho
Tema: Philosophical Ideas for a Brave New World of Work
