Philosophisches Seminar
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Ringvorlesung
Reason, Reflection & Responsibility
Thinkers in Philosophy & Public Policy
Our precarious times call for a rethinking and renewal of the shared underpinnings of an open, diverse, and inclusive democratic society. To support this process, the Institute of Philosophy is offering a lecture series with leading thinkers who are confronting the challenges and chances that we are facing in all dimensions of life. The idea of this series is to develop a culture of reason, reflection, and responsibility by bringing fundamental global debates to the heart of the campus. The series is about connecting philosophical enquiry to pragmatic action.
Ab dem Sommersemester 2017 können sich Studierende 1 Punkt für den fachspezifischen Wahlbereich für den regelmäßigen Besuch der Ringvorlesung des Philosophischen Seminars anrechnen lassen
Bitte beachten: Im WiSe 18/19 findet die Ringvorlesung in Hörsaal B des Hauptgebäudes der Universität Hamburg in der Edmund- Siemers-Allee 1 statt.
Programm WiSe 2018/19 (Poster)
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| 24.10.18 | Cécile Laborde (University of Oxford) |
On Rightful Sovereignty |
| About the Lecture In this lecture, I reflect about recent conflicts pitting religious authority against state law. I reject both the doctrine of religious institutionalism, which denies state sovereignty, and the liberal egalitarian doctrine that denies the special nature of religious authority. I steer a middle course which argues that robust protection for freedom of association, including religious association, is essential to the rightful exercise of state sovereignty. In the process, I introduce my theory of the disaggregation of religion, developed in my recent book LiberalismÕs Religion (Harvard University Press, 2017). About the Speaker Cécile Laborde holds the Nuffield Chair of Political Theory at the University of Oxford. Prior to that she was Professor of Political Theory at University College London, and a Lecturer at KingÕs College London and the University of Exeter. She holds a DPhil in Politics from Oxford. Prof. Laborde was the founding director of UCLÕs Religion and Political Theory Centre. She has held visiting positions in Paris and Princeton, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Laborde has published extensively in the areas of republicanism, liberalism and religion, theories of law and the state, and global justice. Her most recent book is LiberalismÕs Religion (Harvard University Press, 2017). |
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| 07.11.18 | Miriam Ronzoni (University of Manchester) |
Future of European Democracy |
| About the Lecture Should the EU should be conceived as a demoicracy, namely a “Union of peoples who govern together, but not as one”. The demoi of Europe recognise that they affect one another’s democratic health, and hence establish a union to guarantee their freedom qua demoi – which most demoicrats cash out as non-domination. This is more than intergovernmentalism, because the demoi govern together on these matters. However, if the union aims at protecting the freedom of the different European demoi, it cannot do so by replacing them with a “superdemos”, as federalists want. This talk will discuss the idea of the EU as a demoicracy. In particular we will look at the institutional choice between intergovernmentalism and federalism. About the Speaker Dr Miriam Ronzoni is Reader in Political Theory at the University of Manchester, which she joined in 2013. She works in contemporary normative theory, with a focus on global and international issues. Prior to moving to Manchester, Dr Ronzoni held research positions at the TU Darmstadt (where she held a Humboldt Foundation Kovalevskaja Award), the European University Institute in Florence, and at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. |
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| 05.12.18 | Martin O'Neill (University of York) |
Justice, Justification, and Monetary Policy |
| About the Lecture Since the great financial crisis of 2007 - 08, central banks have played an increasingly important and broad role in macroeconomic management in the UK, Europe, and US. Within democratic societies, the role of techno?cratic institutions in setting economic policy raises important normative questions of justice and justification. This lecture considers some of these issues relating to the role of central banks, paying special attention to forms of unconventional monetary policy such as Òquantitative easingÓ, and to the issues of distributive justice and democratic legitimacy raised by such policies. About the Speaker Martin O’Neill is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of York, where he has been since 2010. He works on social justice and inequality, and various issues at the intersection of political philosophy, political economy and public policy (including taxation, monetary policy, financial regulation, corporate governance, and labour unions). Dr. O’Neill is co-editor (with Thad Williamson) of Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and (with Shepley Orr) of Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives (OUP, 2018). He is a commissioning editor of Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy. |
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| 18.12.18 | Onora O'Neill (University of Cambridge) |
Rethinking the Ethics of Communication (2. PEP Weihnachtsvorlesung) |
| About the Lecture Ethical and epistemic standards for communication have been discussed since antiquity. And since antiquity they have periodically been disrupted by technological innovations, then revised and restored by cultural as well as by legal and regulatory changes. However, the disruptions to standards of communication produced by the mushrooming growth of online technologies in the late C20 may prove particularly difficult to deal with. One source of difficulty can be traced to widespread preoccupation with "freedom of expression" across the past half century, sometimes at the expense of adequate consideration of the ethical and epistemic standards that are essential for those on the receiving end of others' speech acts, on which adequate communication relies. I shall suggest that legal and regulatory remedies to these problems may prove difficult and controversial. About the Speaker Onora O’Niell is emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge. She is one of the world’s most distinguished moral philosophers, having published widely on widely on political philosophy and ethics, international justice, bioethics and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. In 2017 she was awarded the Holberg and Berggruen prizes. Professor O’Neill is also a life-peer and cross-bench member of the UK House of Lords. In 2016 she was awarded the Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Professor O’Neill is President of the Society for Applied Philosophy. |
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| 16.01.19 | Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford) |
Soft Ethics, Hard Ethics, and the Governance of the Digital |
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| 30.01.19 | Axel Gosseries (UC Louvain) |
Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice |
| About the Lecture In this lecture, I will present several theories of intergenerational justice and I will explore the degree to which sustainability is sufficient or necessary to meet the demands of intergenerational justice. In other words, we will ask ourselves whether what we transfer to the next birth cohort can sustainable without being fair, and conversely. About the Speaker TBD |
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