2015 Program

01:30 p.m. Coffee and Registration

02:00 p.m. Opening Remarks

02:15 p.m. Democracy and its Critics

John Halstead (Oxford University), "High Stakes Instrumentalism” (Discussant: James Brandt)
Daniel Pietrucha (University of Virginia), "Should Rawlsian Contractors Reject Democracy?” (Discussant: Zeynep Pamuk)
Theodore M. Lechterman (Princeton University), "Donations and Democracy” (Discussant: Jonathan Bruno)

04:30 p.m. Coffee Break

05:00 p.m. Keynote Address

Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University), “History of African-American Political Thought and Antiracist Critical Theory” (Discussant: John Harpham)

07:00 p.m. Reception

10:30 a.m. Breakfast

11:00 a.m. History of Political Thought: Interpretations and Approaches

Shterna Friedman (Managing Editor, "Critical Review"), "Castellio, Epistemological Pessimism, and Religious Tolerance” (Discussant: Greg Conti)
Danielle Charette (University of Chicago), "Quentin Skinner, John Milton, and the Problem of Political Poetry” (Discussant: Jamin Dowdy)

12:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. Philosophical Reflections on Ethical Life

Will Levine (University of Chicago), “Analogues of Revolution: Kant on Public Reason, Political Change and the Respublica Noumenon” (Discussant: Ignat Kalinov)
Renee Bolinger (University of Southern California), "The Moral Grounds of Mistaken Self-Defense” (Discussant: Edmund Flanigan)
Kameron St. Clare (University of Oxford), "Reflected Humanity: On the Potential of Recognition” (Discussant: Brian Palmiter)

03:45 p.m. Coffee Break

04:00 p.m. Closing Remarks