Recording of AMC session on Public Reason and Political Autonomy

 

The PPE Society hosted an online “author-meets-critics” session on my book, Public Reason and Political Autonomy, last spring. It was recorded and is available on YouTube. Here’s a link to it.

 

My thanks (again) to the commentators, Christie Hartley, Micah Schwartzman, Chad Van Schoelandt, and Lori Watson. And thanks as well to Kori Hensell of the PPE Society for organizing the session.

 

Thanks as well for the excellent questions from Emil, Alex, and Baldwin!

Public Reason and Political Autonomy: Interview at the New Books Network

My book, Public Reason and Political Autonomy: Realizing the Ideal of a Civic People, was published last February by Routledge. 

Unfortunately, the hardcover version is ridiculously expensive. The e-book price, while pricey, is less absurd. Hopefully a softcover version will be published sometime next year. In any case, copies should now be available in most respectable university libraries.

Last May I talked about the book with Robert Talisse of Vanderbilt University. We covered the main claims of the book. The interview is available at the New Books Network website. I'm very grateful to Bob for guiding this pleasant and stimulating conversation!

A Theory of Justice 50 Years Later: Listen to the Talks

Last December there was a conference in honour of the 50^th anniversary of the publication of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. It was held at the University of Virginia School of Law. Micah Schwartzman did a magnificent job in putting the conference together. Lori Watson and I helped out as well. We currently are working on putting together a book that will include many of the papers from the conference (as well as a couple of others from people who couldn’t attend).

 

Below is a list of the speakers and their papers. Recordings of all the talks are available here.

 

Panel 1: Justice and Democracy

• Simone Chambers (University of California, Irvine): "John Rawls and Contemporary Democratic Theory."
• Derrick Darby (Rutgers University): "The Fair Value of Voting Rights."
• David Reidy (University of Tennessee): "Keeping the Faith: Progressive Democracy from Croly to Rawls."
  

Panel 2: Race, Religion, and Ideal Theory

• Larry Krasnoff (College of Charleston): "Rawls, Race, and Reparative Justice."
• Cécile Laborde (University of Oxford): "Rawls, Race, and Religion."
• Anthony Laden (University of Illinois - Chicago): "Ideal Theory for a Non-Ideal World: How to Make Justice as Fairness Anti-Racist."

Panel 3: Education, Labour, and Justice

• Gina Schouten (Harvard University): "Sectoral Justice and the Case of Education."
• Sabine Tsuruda (Queen's University): "Labour, Association, and the Priority of Liberty." 
  

 

Keynote: Charles Larmore (Brown University): "The Permanent Achievement of A Theory of Justice"

Panel 4: Justice and Legitimacy

• Andrew Lister (Queen's University): "Conditional vs. Unconditional Duties in Justice as Fairness."
• Simon May (Florida State University): "The Lexical Priority of Political Legitimacy."
• Cynthia Stark (University of Utah): "The Basic Structure, Structural Injustice, and the Limits of Fair Equality of Opportunity."  
  

 

Public Reason and Political Autonomy: Author Meets Critics Session

This Friday (29 April 2022), 1:00 - 3:00 (EDT), I'll be taking part in an "Author Meets Critics" session. We'll be discussing my new book, Public Reason and Political Autonomy (Routledge, 2022).

The critics will Micah Schwartzman (Law, University of Virginia), Chad Van Schoelandt (Philosophy, Tulane University), and Lori Watson (Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis). Chairing the session will be Christie Hartley (Philosophy, Georgia State University).

 For more information (and to register) please go here.