Friday, May 14, 2021

A Theory of Justice at Fifty: An Anniversary Conference

The University of Notre Dame is hosting a conference in September marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice":

"A Theory of Justice at Fifty"  

Organized by Paul Weithman (University of Notre Dame)

Registration is now open!


Conference Schedule

Day 1, September 24

* Session 1: Method in Political Philosophy

Aaron James (UC, Irvine) and Laura Valentini (KCL/Munich)

* Session 2: Rawls, Race and Non-Ideal Theory

Charles Mills (CUNY), Tommie Shelby (Harvard), Henry Richardson (Georgetown)

* Session 3: Rawls and Equality

Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan) and Michael Otsuka (LSE & Rutgers) 

* Session 4: Rawls and Public Reason Liberalism

Jonathan Quong (USC), Rainer Forst (Frankfurt), Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green)

Day 2, September 25

* Session 5: Rawls and the History of Political Philosophy

Daniel Brudney (Chicago), Sharon Lloyd (USC), Peter DeMarneffe (Arizona State)

* Session 6: Rawls and Moral Philosophy

Stephen Darwall (Yale) and Susan Neiman (Berlin)

* Session 7: Rawls and Democracy

Joshua Cohen (Berkeley & Apple) and David Estlund (Brown Univeristy)

* Session 8: A Theory of Justice vs. Political Liberalism

Samuel Scheffler (NYU) and Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh)

* Closing Panel: "What Can We Hope?"

Chair: Paul Weithman (Notre Dame); Speakers: Samuel Freeman (Penn), Erin Kelly (Tufts), Leif Wenar (Stanford)


See also my blog posts:

* John Rawls's lectures on Modern Political Philosophy (audio recordings)

* John Rawls's lectures on John Stuart Mill (audio recordings)

* John Rawls. Debating the Major Questions

* John Rawls at 100.


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