On the 9th and 10th of September 2013\, the Department of Political and Social Sciences\, University of Pavia (Italy)\, under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the \;Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy\, will host the eleventh \;edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. This \;two-day conference is meant to offer graduate students an opportunity \;to present papers\, get helpful feedback in a friendly atmosphere\, and \;exchange ideas both with peers and with leading academics in the field \;of political philosophy. In addition to parallel sessions devoted to \;students&rsquo\; presentations\, there will also be two plenary sessions. \;Plenary speakers in past editions have been: Hillel Steiner\, Anna \;Elisabetta Galeotti\, Peter Jones\, Gianfrancesco Zanetti\, Jonathan \;Wolff\, Michele Nicoletti\, Philippe Van Parijs\, Sebastiano Maffettone\, \;Giovanni Giorgini\, Andrew Williams\, David Miller\, Alessandro Ferrara\, \;Valeria Ottonelli\, Adam Swift\, Gerald Gaus\, Serena Olsaretti\, Thomas \;M. Scanlon. \;
\nConference registration is free of charge. Anyone who wishes to attend \;the conference without presenting a paper can write to check \;availability.
Please address all correspondence (including \;additional inquiries) to the conference email address: \;pavia.gradconference@gmail.com
Programme
\n09/09/2013
9-9.30
Registration: Aula Grande\, Department of Political and Social
Sciences\, University of Pavia
9.30-11
Plenary Session (Aula Grande)
Chair: Ian Carter (Università\; di Pavia)
Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS\, Roma) From Inter-National Justice to
Global Justice
11.30-13
1. Political Equality (Aula Grande)
Chair: Enrico Biale (Università\; del Piemonte Orientale\, Vercelli)
Attila Mrá\;z (Central European University\, Budapest) On the logical
priority of justice over legitimacy: the case of political equality
Alexander Prescott-Couch (Harvard University) Political equality and diversity
2. Security and Conflict (Sala CASIP)
Chair: Pamela Pansardi (Università\; di Pavia)
Jean-Franç\;ois Gré\;goire (KU Leuven) The federalist: a Machiavellian
solution to the security dilemma
Jacopo Costa (Università\; di Torino) The role of conflict on the
institutional evolution
14.30-16
3.Global Justice (Aula Grande)
Chair: Marianna Bindi (Università\; di Pavia)
Florian Ostmann (University College London) Constructive
interpretation and the status quo: the case against
practice-dependence
Isaac Taylor (University of Oxford) Coercion\, egalitarianism\, and
global public goods
4. Justice and Liberalism (Sala CASIP)
Chair: Chiara Testino (Università\; di Pavia)
Thomas Parr (University of Warwick) Against benefiting from injustice:
a fairness-based response to Daniel Butt
Matej Cí\;bik (Charles University\, Prague) Is Rawls defending liberalism?
16.30-18.30
5. Property and Territory (Aula Grande)
Chair: Federica Liveriero (Università\; del Piemonte Orientale\, Vercelli)
Kin-Wai Leung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Is the doctrine of
&ldquo\;first come\, first served&rdquo\; unfair? －an examination of G. A. Cohen&rsquo\;s
argument
Susanne Burri (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Personal sovereignty and our moral rights to non-interference
Laura Lo Coco (King&rsquo\;s College\, London) The Lockean theory of territory
and individual secession: a qualified defense
6. Justice and Redress (Sala CASIP)
Chair: Emanuela Ceva (Università\; di Pavia)
Sara Amighetti (University College London)\, Alasia Nuti (University of
Cambridge) A shared past calls for a shared redress
Mariangela Tobbia (Université\; de Montré\;al) Jus post bellum (jpb) and
Transitional Justice (TJ) in post-war and in post-authoritarian regime
context
10/09/2013
9.30-11
7. Partiality and Associative Obligations (Sala CASIP)
Chair: Federica Liveriero (Università\; del Piemonte Orientale\, Vercelli)
Rachelle Bascara (Birkbeck College\, University of London) Compatriot
Partiality and Cosmopolitan Justice
Valentin Stoian (Central European University\, Budapest) Dworkin&rsquo\;s
associative political obligations and the anarchist challenge
8. Freedom (Aula Grande)
Chair: Ian Carter (Università\; di Pavia)
Pietro Intropi (Nuffield College\, University of Oxford) Bivalence\,
trivalence\, liberal and republican freedom
Garvan Walshe (University of Manchester) Towards a Neo-Roman minimal state
11.30-13
9. Responsibility (Sala CASIP)
Chair: Enrico Biale (Università\; del Piemonte Orientale\, Vercelli)
Selina O&rsquo\;Doherty (University of South Wales\, Newport) &ldquo\;Harming by
degrees&rdquo\; &ndash\; Justifying pre-emptive action against global warming
through treating imminent harms as actual harms
Lorenzo Del Savio (Istituto Europeo di Oncologia) Are
responsibility-sensitive distributive theories suitable for health
policy?
10. Justice\, Virtue\, Respect (Aula Grande)
Chair: Chiara Testino (Università\; di Pavia)
Eric Robert Boot (Radboud University\, Nijmegen) The interdependence of
justice and virtue: a Kantian approach
Francesco Chiesa (University of South Wales\, Newport) Why respect is
not enough: when difference calls for esteem
14.30-16
Plenary Session (Aula Grande)
Chair: Emanuela Ceva (Università\; di Pavia)
Philip Pettit (Princeton University) Democracy and Justice
16.00
Conference ends