#  2015 Program 

 



#### Friday, October 23

01:30 p.m. Coffee and Registration

02:00 p.m. Opening Remarks

02:15 p.m. **Democracy and its Critics**

- [John Halstead](/people/john-halstead/) (Oxford University), "High Stakes Instrumentalism” (Discussant: James Brandt)
- [Daniel Pietrucha](/people/daniel-pietrucha/) (University of Virginia), "Should Rawlsian Contractors Reject Democracy?” (Discussant: Zeynep Pamuk)
- [Theodore M. Lechterman](/people/theodore-lechterman/) (Princeton University), "Donations and Democracy” (Discussant: Jonathan Bruno)

04:30 p.m. Coffee Break

05:00 p.m. **Keynote Address**

- [Robert Gooding-Williams](/people/robert-gooding-williams/) (Columbia University), “History of African-American Political Thought and Antiracist Critical Theory” (Discussant: John Harpham)

07:00 p.m. Reception

#### Saturday, October 24

10:30 a.m. Breakfast

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

- [Shterna Friedman](/people/shterna-friedman/) (Managing Editor, "Critical Review"), "Castellio, Epistemological Pessimism, and Religious Tolerance” (Discussant: Greg Conti)
- [Danielle Charette](/people/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](/people/will-levine/) (University of Chicago), “Analogues of Revolution: Kant on Public Reason, Political Change and the Respublica Noumenon” (Discussant: Ignat Kalinov)
- [Renee Bolinger](/people/renee-bolinger/) (University of Southern California), "The Moral Grounds of Mistaken Self-Defense” (Discussant: Edmund Flanigan)
- [Kameron St. Clare](/people/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



 



 

 See also:- [ Conference Programs ](/conference-programs)
- [ 2015 ](/year/2015)