The conference will take place at the University of Birmingham on the 9th and 10th of April, 2015. Guest speakers include: Gary Steiner (Bucknell University) Elisa Aaltola (University of Turku/University of Eastern Finland) Robert Garner (University of Leicester) Tony Milligan (University of Hertfordshire) Alasdair Cochrane (University of Sheffield) Tatjana Visak...
A place for the old right of necessity in the contemporary debate on global poverty
Theme of the workshop The question regarding our moral duties to alleviate poverty at the global level has been repeatedly addressed by moral and political philosophers, especially since Peter Singer’s groundbreaking essay ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality’ (1972) and Thomas Pogge’s World Poverty and Human Rights (2002). A question that has...
Justice without Retribution
For centuries, certain philosophers have argued that our everyday concepts of free will and responsibility are misguided. New neuroscientific findings have given added impetus to such critiques. Free will sceptics often point out that their view undermines the retributive justification of punishment, but they are only just beginning to develop...