Global Justice Philosophy in 2015 - Taking Stock (HDCA Pre-Conference)

The new millennium opened with much activity in global justice philosophy.  The initial debates about cosmopolitanism versus nationalism have now largely died down without it being clear which side won. Some scholars of global justice say the way forward is more engagement with empirical evidence and methods (Blake & Taylor Smith, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Others argue that the recognition of a plurality of contexts of justice within and beyond the state will be the distinctive mark of future global justice theorizing.  There is even the further argument that while philosophers should attend to the best science of our day, philosophers should be more ambitious and frame theories about the world that the social scientists have not tested and, perhaps, cannot yet test.

Global Justice Pre- Conference speakers - 10 September 2015

Leif Wenar, King's College London

Simon Caney, Oxford University

Judith Lichtenberg, Georgetown (tbc)

Speranta Dumitru, Université Paris Descartes (tbc)  

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