18th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy 21st – 23rd September 2020
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia
Sponsored by North-western Italian Philosophy Consortium (FINO)
Under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy (SIFP) and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA)
21ST SEPTEMBER 2020
14:00–14:20 Welcome Address Ian Carter, University of Pavia
14:20 – 15:40 Keynote I Chair: Michele Bocchiola, University of Pavia
Emanuela Ceva, University of Geneva. Second-Personal Authority and The Practice of Democracy
15:40 – 15:55 Break
15:55 – 17:05 Graduate Session 1
a. Competition Chair: Giacomo Marossi, University of Eastern Piedmont
Kasim Khorasanee, University College London. The Market, The Forum, and Honest Speech Yvette Drissen, Tilburg University. Competition: What It Is and Why It Is Morally Problematic. A Response to Hussain’s ‘Pitting People Against Each Other’
b. Politics and Ideology Chair: Simone Ghelli, University of Pavia
Davide Vicini, University of Milano-Bicocca. The Analogical Relationship between Politics and Criticism. Starting from The Work of Immanuel Kant Adrian Kreutz, University of Amsterdam. How Radical is Radical Realism? On Genealogy, Immanent Critique, and Radical Purchase
22ND SEPTEMBER 2020
14:00 – 15:10 Graduate Session 2
a. Immigration and Human Rights Chair: Marco Miglino, University of Eastern Piedmont
Lukas Schmid, European University Institute. The Human Right to Immigration Reconsidered Theodore Lai Wenming, University of Chicago. Natality as the Right to have Rights: Jacques Rancière's cri- tique of Hannah Arendt
b. Democratic Theory I Chair: Lorenzo Testa, University of Pavia
Elena Icardi, University of Milan. Democratic Participation: Which Kind of Duty for Citizens? William Chan, University of Warwick. Equality, Fairness, Affordability and Political Opportunity
15:10 – 15:25 Break
15:25 – 16:35 Graduate Session 3
a. FINO Panel I: Justice in Migration Chair: Sylvie Bláhová, Universityof Eastern Piedmont
Laura Santi Amantini, University of Genoa. Responsibility for Forced Migrants: A Backward-looking Ap- proach Marco Miglino, University of Eastern Piedmont. Porous Borders, Principle of Coercion, and Democratic Inclu- sion
b. Democratic Theory II Chair: Carline Klijnman, University of Genoa
Paolo Bodini, University of Milan and University of Co- logne. Playing Democracy. A Defense Of Citizens’ Epistemic Em- powerment Amaël Maskens, University of Louvain. Should Deliberations Seek for Consensus or Clarify Conflicts? Addressing A Blind Spot in Theories of Deliberative Democ- racy
16:35 – 16:50 Break
16:50 – 18:35 Graduate Session 4
a. Corruption, Responsibility and Compensation Chair: Laura Santi Amantini, University of Genoa
Silvia Donzelli, Berlin. Complicity and Bystander Responsibility Uğur Bulgan, University of Milan. (In)Justice as (Mis)Recognition: Remedying the Wrong of Terrorism
Brigid Evans, University of Warwick. Iagoian Injustice: The Wrongful Epistemic Corruption of Hearer
b. FINO Panel II: Democratic Theory III Chair: Gabriele Tassinari, University of Turin
Carline Klijnman, University of Genoa. Voting-Ethics and Culpable Ignorance: Epistemic Procedural Obligations of Democratic Citizens Lorenzo Testa, University of Pavia. Reasonableness and Coherence in Rawls's Account of Public Reason Giacomo Marossi, University of Eastern Piedmont. Vox Populi: Incorporating Ordinary Language in the Analysis of Political Concepts
18:45 Drinks
23RD SEPTEMBER 2020
14:00 – 15:10 Graduate Session 5
a. Distributive Justice Chair: Francesco Camboni, University of Eastern Piedmont
Annalisa Costella, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics. The Shaky Grounds of The Equal Sacrifice Principle Kuizhi (Lewis)Wang, Boston University. On the Incoherence of Luck Egalitarianism
b. Structures and Societal Change Chair: Diego A. Biancolin, University of Pavia
Karen Saavedra, University of Leipzig. Social Agency and Emancipation. Honneth’s Anthropological Commitments for a Social Critique Simon Gansinger, University of Warwick. Why We Should Worry About Legal Change: Preliminaries to a Philosophy of Normative Crises
15:10 – 15:25 Break
15:25 – 16:45 Keynote II Chair: Ian Carter, University of Pavia
Victor Tadros, University of Warwick. Fairness, Avoidability and Sanctions