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Conference Announcement
Theme: Democracy, Legality and Policy
Type: International Conference
Institution: Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
(TILPS) and Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University
Location: Tilburg (Netherlands)
Date: 31.5.–1.6.2012
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This conference brings together experts from political philosophy,
legal philosophy and social epistemology to examine fundamental
issues in the theory of democracy. Is there an internal connection
between the value of democracy within a group of enquirers and the
"objective" standing of the products of that inquiry? How is the
ideal of democratic self-governance connected to the pluralism of
moral values? What is the relationship between the normative
authority of democracy and of a legal system? How might the emergence
of a trans-national legal order alter how we think about
constitutional ideas? In what way can formal methods give insight
into practical policy issues?
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Helen Longino (Stanford), Annabelle Lever (Geneva) and Alexander
Somek (Iowa)
ORGANIZERS:
Stephan Hartmann, Hans Lindahl, Alan Thomas
The program is now online. One can register by sending an email to
the address given on the webpage. Please note that the registration
deadline is 20 May.
Program
Day 1: Thursday, 31 May
Room AZ 211, Academia Building
09:00 - 09:45 Registration (Foyer)
09:45 - 10:00 Welcome
Chair: Stephan Hartmann
10:00 - 11:15 Helen Longino
Science, Epistemology, and Politics
11:15 - 12:00 Anna Leuschner
Pluralism, Objectivity, and Democracy
12:00 - 13:15 Lunch
Chair: Hans Lindahl
13:15 - 14:00 Klemens Kappel
Factual Disagreement and Political Legitimacy
14:00 - 14:45 Maura Priest
The Binding Political Power of Collective Belief
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:00 Schicktanz Silke
Being Affected, Representation and Experts: How to Deal with
Moral Pluralism and Democratic Ideals in Science Policy?
16:00 - 17:15 Alexander Somek
Accidental Cosmopolitanism: Citizenship at the End of History
20:00 Conference Dinner
(Café Anvers)
Day 2: Friday, 1 June
Room AZ 211, Academia Building
Chair: Alan Thomas
10:00 - 11:15 Annabelle Lever
Democracy, Ethics and Method
11:15 - 12:00 Marieke Borren
Illegal Subjectivity and The Politics of In/Visibility:
Re-thinking the Ontological Condition of the 'Illegal' Alien
12:00 - 13:15 Lunch
Chair: Helen Longino
13:15 - 14:00 Stephan Hartmann & Soroush Rafiee Rad
Voting, Deliberation and Truth
14:15 - 14:45 Conrad Heilmann & Philip Cook
The Structure of Censorship
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:00 Desire Louis Nizigiyimana
Social Justice and Capability Building: The Normative Grounds
of Social Criticism
16:00 - 16:45 Alan Thomas
Politics Without Principles? - The Political Realist Critique
of Rawls
Conference website:
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/tilps/Democracy2012/
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