Theories of Public Reason
Areti Theofilopoulou (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) and Gabriele Badano (The University of York)
Arthur Lewis Building: Room G.035
This panel seeks to bring together those working on issues related to theories of public reason and public justification, broadly understood. There has been a significant literature developing in recent years around political and public reason liberalism. Alongside John Rawls’s view, distinct viewpoints on the idea of a publicly justified polity have emerged through the work of Gerald Gaus, Andrew Lister, Jonathan Quong, Kevin Vallier, and others.
Not only are these accounts interesting by their own lights, they also relate to important questions about the foundations of liberalism, the scope of political toleration, the status of religion and other comprehensive worldviews in liberal democracies, and debates between perfectionist and anti-perfectionist liberals.
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Monday 11th September
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11:00-12:30
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Registration
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12:30-13:30
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Lunch
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13:30-14:00
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Welcome Speech
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14:00-16:00
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N/A
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16:00-16:30
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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16:30-17:30
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N/A
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17:45-19:00
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Wine Reception
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19:30
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Conference Dinner
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Tuesday 12th September
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9:30-11:30
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Session 2
Alexander Motchoulski: Toleration and Public Justification
Jeremy Williams: Nothing but the Truth: Correctness-Based Political Justification Without Compromise
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11:30-12:00
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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12:00-13:00
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Session 2 (continued)
Blain Neufeld: TBC
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-16:00
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Session 3
Gabriele Badano: Values in Science, Public Reason, and the Shifting Boundaries of the Political Forum
Marta Giunta Martino: Reasonable Disagreement and the Roots of Contestatory Uses of Powers of Office within Public Institutions
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16:00-16:30
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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16:30-17:30
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Session 3 (continued)
Marilie Coetsee: Piety, Public Justification, and the Democratic Duty Against Dogmatism (via Zoom)
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Wednesday 13th September
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9:30-11:30
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Session 4
Man-kong Li and Baldwin Wong: The Eye of a Needle: On how the convergence conception of public justification upsets social insurance
Brian Carey: Liberal Neutrality and Multilingualism
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11:30-12:00
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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12:00-13:00
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Session 4 (continued)
Areti Theofilopoulou: TBC
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-16:00
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Session 5
Daniel Beck: Liberal Neutrality and Societal Stability – A Perspective through the Collective Paradigm
Paul Weithman: Public Reason, Cheap Talk and Signaling Games (via Zoom)
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16:00-16:30
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Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
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16:30-17:30
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Session 5 (continued)
Max Afnan: Must global public justification be liberal?
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17:30
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End of Conference
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