`Author meets Critics’ workshop with John Baker

19-20 December 2016

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", 501
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, 60323 Frankfurt am Main

Convenors: Darrel Moellendorf and Eszter Kollár

Participation is free and open to all. Registration is necessary and available until room capacity. Please, register with ellen.niess@normativeorders.net

Author meets critics” workshop on the manuscript of the 2nd ed. of John Baker’s 1987 book Arguing for Equality. It discusses the justification for, and political implications of, valuing social, political, and economic equality.  Arguing for Equality is a philosophically informed book written for activists and citizens interested in public political life. The workshop aims to bring together the new generation of political theorists to critically assess the main ideas of the book and to discuss the prospects for the idea of equality in our times.

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Monday, 19 December 2016

Registration: 13:00 – 13:30

Session 1: 13:30 – 15:30

Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe-University Frankfurt): Welcome

John Baker (UC Dublin): Introduction

Chris Armstrong (University of Southampton): What Egalitarians Believe

Isaac Taylor (Goethe-University Frankfurt): Human Needs

Coffee break: 15:30 – 15:45

Session 2: 15:45 – 17:00

Chair: Lukas Sparenborg

Maria Paloa Ferretti (Goethe-University Frankfurt): Mutual Respect

Daniel Hammer (Goethe-University Frankfurt): Solidarity

Coffee break: 17:00 – 17:15

Session 3: 17:15 – 18:30

Chair: Sara Amighetti

Anca Gheaus (Pompeau Fabre Barcelona): Is Equality of Opportunity Enough?

Eszter Kollár (Goethe-University Frankfurt): Do Some People Deserve More than Others?

Reception in the Normative Orders Lounge: 18:30 – 19:30

Dinner for speakers (and organizers): 20:00

Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Session 4: 09:00 – 10:15

Chair: Maria Paoloa Ferretti

Lisa Herzog (TU München): Would Equality Restrict Freedom?

Gabriel Wollner (HU Berlin): Does Society Benefit from Inequality?

Coffee break: 10:15 – 10:30

Session 5: 10:30 – 11:45

Chair: Daniel Hammer

Brian Milstein (Goethe-University Frankfurt): Is Equality Possible?

Julian Culp (Goethe-University Frankfurt): Objections

Coffee break: 11:45 - 12:15

Session 6: Public Lecture 12:15 – 13:30
Chair: Exzter Kollar (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

John Baker (UC Dublin): Political Egalitarianism

Buffet Lunch

Presented by:
Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders"