17-18 December 2015 Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Pavia Room CASIP “Mario Stoppino” The workshop offers a venue for the discussion of the political dimension of corruption. While corruption is generally recognized as wrong, few studies have been entirely devoted to the analysis of the kind of...
Workshop on Hate Speech Law and Political Philosophy
Thursday 12 November 2015 12.0 – 6.0 pm Sponsored by the Society for Applied Philosophy Workshop on Hate Speech Law and Political Philosophy ---- ---- Speakers: Prof. Eric Barendt, University College London. Author of Freedom of Speech (Oxford, 2005) ‘Some Bad Arguments for Hate Speech Bans’ Dr Alexander Brown,...
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...