BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240328T200607Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210516T194500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210516T194500 SUMMARY:The Ideal of Recognition in Contemporary Normative Theory UID:20240328T200633Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Manchester\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:
The Ideal of Recognition in Contemporary Normative Theory
\nMANCEPT Workshops 2021 (online)
\nConvener: Nick French (University of California\, Berkeley)
\nSubmission deadline: May 16\, 2021
\nRecognition \;and closely related notions have played prominent roles in recent moral\, political\, and social theory. It is central to Louis Althusser&rsquo\;s account of ideology and accounts of ideology inspired by it\, which understand recognition to be a central mechanism by which dominant classes secure the cooperation and consent of the dominated. Recognition is also crucial to the critical theory of Axel Honneth\, who sees relations of mutual recognition as the ultimate goal of emancipatory social struggles and as an immanent ideal with which to criticize existing social practices. T.M. Scanlon&rsquo\;s influential contractualist theory of morality uses the notion of mutual recognition to explain our reasons for caring about our moral obligations to fellow persons. Philosophers such as Stephen Darwall and R. Jay Wallace have appealed to notions of interpersonal respect and recognition to illuminate practices of moral accountability (e.g.\, blame and apology) and authority relations. And of course\, the notion of recognition has been central to attempts to theorize social movements associated with multiculturalism and identity politics.
\nThese thinkers and others have invoked different conceptions of recognition for a variety of explanatory purposes. This workshop aims to bring together theorists working on topics related to the notion of recognition from diverse normative disciplines and theoretical perspectives\, from both &ldquo\;analytic&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;Continental&rdquo\; backgrounds\, with the hope of generating fruitful dialogue across different approaches. We are interested in exploring questions such as the following:
\nWhat is the relationship between various conceptions of recognition? For example\, what is the relationship between value-neutral conceptions of recognition (like Althusser&rsquo\;s) and conceptions of recognition as a positive value (such as Honneth&rsquo\;s or Scanlon&rsquo\;s)?
\nCan a single notion of recognition play multiple theoretical roles&mdash\;for instance\, articulating both the driving force of emancipatory social struggles and an ideal of personal morality?
\nCan recognition provide an overarching framework for addressing questions of social justice\, or must it be supplemented by other concepts (e.g.\, that of distributive justice)?
\nWhat is the relationship between the recently much discussed phenomenon of &ldquo\;bipolar obligations&rdquo\; and mutual recognition? Between mutual recognition and Darwall&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;second-personal reasons&rdquo\;?
\nMost theorists of recognition see a connection between that notion and that of autonomy. How should we understand the relationship of different conceptions of recognition to autonomy of various kinds (personal\, moral\, political)?
\nHow might conceptual or empirical work in moral psychology inform our thinking about recognition?
\nIf you wish to present a paper at the workshop\, please submit a 300-500 word abstract of your paper\, prepared for blind review\, by \;Sunday\, May 16\, 2021. \;Email all abstracts and inquiries to workshop convener Nick French (nick.french@berkeley.edu). Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified within two weeks. We aim to provide each speaker 15-20 minutes to present and then 25-30 minutes for Q&\;A. \;
\n*Information on \;MANCEPT: Registration for the conference opens in May. All \;participants must register to attend.
This year&rsquo\;s fees are:
Academics: £\;45
Graduate students\, retirees\, and unaffiliated attendees: £\;20
Non-speaker/non-presenting attendees: £\;15
MANCEPT \;offers fee-waiver bursaries to attend the \;conference (available for current graduate students only)\, and the \;application deadline for a bursary is June 15\, 2021. To give presenters time to apply for a bursary\, authors will be notified by June 8\, 2021.
For more information\, please visit \;MANCEPT&rsquo\;s website:
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/mancept/mancept-workshops/*