Freedom and Autonomy

This is the third of an annual series of conferences and aims to bring together a wide range of researchers working on autonomy and freedom as topics in moral, social and political philosophy. 

SCHEDULE

Thursday, 6th June

9.30 Arrival

9.45 ‘Beyond Adaptive Preferences: Rethinking Women's Complicity In Their Own Subordination’
Charlotte Knowles, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen

11.15 Break

11.30 ‘A Puzzle About Epistemic Manipulation’
Chris Lernpass, Doctoral Research Student, Australian National University

1 Lunch break

2 ‘Coercion Without Incapacitation’
William Tadros, Doctoral Research Student, Harvard University

3.30 Break

4 Keynote Talk: ‘Effective Intentions and Autonomy: A Social-Relational Analysis’
Natalie Stoljar, Associate Professor, McGill University

5.30 End

Friday, 7th June

9.30 Arrival

9.45 ‘Outline of an Autonomous Choice Theory of Rights’
Elias Moser, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Graz

11.15 Break

11.30 ‘The Necessary Conditions For Autonomy That Make Theories Substantive’
Andréa Wilson, Doctoral Research Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst

1 Lunch break

2 ‘Negative Freedom and Its Measurement’
Ian Carter, Professor, University of Pavia
&
Hillel Steiner, Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester

3.30 Break

4 ‘What Is Paternalistic Intervention?’
Stephanie Sheintul, Doctoral Research Student, University of Wisconsin Madison

5.30 End

This conference has been generously funded by the Mind Association and the Birkbeck
Philosophy Department.