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Vulnerability and Relational Equality<\/h1>\n

Giacomo Floris (University of Hamburg); Costanza Porro (University of Manchester)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arthur Lewis Building: Room 2.036<\/em><\/p>\n

The concepts of vulnerability and that of relational equality have been attracting growing\u00a0interest in recent years. Human vulnerability is regarded by philosophers (Mackenzie 2014;\u00a0Straehle 2017) and legal theorists (Fineman 2008) as central to rethinking the conception\u00a0of the person, the subject of the law and thus the obligations that institutions have towards\u00a0their citizens. Further, for many, vulnerability represents a novel perspective from which to\u00a0reflect on a variety of problems in moral and political philosophy, such as the nature of\u00a0autonomy (J. Anderson and Honneth 2005), and different fields of bioethics, research ethics\u00a0and health ethics (Rogers, MacKenzie, and Dodds 2012). On the other hand, the concept of\u00a0equality, hithereto most often defined as a matter of distribution of certain goods, has been\u00a0reconceptualised as an analysis of the quality of social relations (E. S. Anderson 1999;\u00a0Wolff 1998; Schemmel 2021). Political philosophers working in this new egalitarian vein\u00a0have explored the nature of relational equality and egalitarian relationships, and their\u00a0implications in all domains of social life. However, despite their growing popularity and\u00a0the many ways in which the concept of vulnerability and the conceptualization of relational\u00a0equality can inform each other, the potential connections between these ideas are rarely if\u00a0ever discussed (Garrau and Laborde 2015).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The aim of this workshop is contribute to the debates about individual vulnerability and\u00a0relational equality by bringing them into dialogue. Specifically, we invite contributions that\u00a0address, but are not limited to, the following questions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n