KantianDESERT Launch Conference

KantianDESERT is designed to formulate a new model of distributive justice in response to growing economic disparities globally, by offering a distinctive position within dominant egalitarianisms in current political theory/philosophy. Through several original contributions, the project builds an innovative case for a theory sensitive to individual just deserts.

This 5-year, €2 million Advanced Research Project, selected by the European Research Council and funded by the UK Research and Innovation, is led by Professor Sorin Baiasu (Liverpool). With this conference, the project will be officially launched.

The event can be attended either in-person or online. Registration is free but required. To register please email [email protected]

Day 1

9. 00-9.15: Coffee/tea. Welcome addresses from Professor Peter Buse (Liverpool, Dean of the School of the Arts) and Professor Michael Hauskeller (Liverpool, Head of the Philosophy Department)

9:15-10:15 Introduction; about the project. Sorin Baiasu (Liverpool): Kantian Justice: A Desert-sensitive Responsibility-enhancing Theory; Tom Bunyard (Liverpool): 'Is Desert a Viable Concept?'; Tom Whyman (Liverpool): 'Food Justice and Desert' 

10.20-11.20: Sebastian Orlander (Independent): ‘Kant, Freedom, Desert and Practical Faith’

11:20-11:30: Break, coffee

11.30-12.30: Tommaso Mauri (Perugia): ‘Desert and Inequality in Kant: A Theologico-Political Approach’

12.30-1.15: Lunch

1.15-2.15: Elisabeth Widmer (LSE): ‘What’s the point of Kantian Inequality?’

2.20-3.20: Huub Brouwer (Tillburg): ‘Defending Asymmetries of Desert’

3.20-3.30: Break, coffee

3.30-4.30: Tom Mulligan (Georgetown): ‘Who deserves what AI produces?

4.35-5.20: Roundtable

7.00: conference dinner - please ask for details if you are interested in attending.

Day 2

9:30-9.45: Welcome; coffee

9.45-10.45: Seniye Tilev (Kadir Has University): ‘Kant on Well-Being and Virtue: A Framework for Desert Without Consequentialism’

10.50-11.50: Krishna Pathak (Delhi): ‘Institutional Desert, Injustice, and Adaptive Preference for Suicide: A Kantian Perspective’

11.50-12.10: Break, coffee

12:10-1.10: Jochen Bojanowski (Illionois): ‘Luck Egalitarianism and the Limits of Desert’

1.10-2.10: Lunch

2.10-3.10: Gabriel Maruchi (Campinas): ‘Denotational Revisionism Cannot Escape Basic Desert’

3.15-4.15: Marius Baumann (LMU): ‘Desert, Responsibility and Skepticism’

4.15-4:30: Break, coffee

4.30-5.15: Roundtable & close

Commentators: Tom Whyman (Liverpool), Sorin Baiasu (Liverpool), Bertjan Wolthuis (VU Amsterdam), Christian Españo (University of the Philippines Diliman), Sung-Yeop Jo (LMU), Tom Bunyard (Liverpool), Robin Eliath Joy (Calicut), Beşir Özgür Nayır (Boğaziçi).