Kant’s Legal Theory and Global Justice 29th and 30th June 2018 Department of Philosophy University of Bayreuth, Germany
Considered for a long time the “work of a senile mind”, Kant’s legal theory has long been ignored in debates on global justice. Kantian theories tend to focus mainly on Kant’s moral philosophy and on moral concepts such as dignity and autonomy to provide arguments for global justice and political questions.Is Kant’s legal theory still pertinent today? How can Kant’s legal philosophy be applied to current global challenges such as climate change, refugees, migration, growing populism and nationalist movements, and threats to international peace?
Conference Program 29. June 9:30: Coffee and registration
10:00-11:15 am Keynote talk: Marie Newhouse (Surrey): “Actions on Lawbreaking Maxims” Commentary: Ruhi Demiray (Siegen)
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:45 Tim Waligore (Pace, New York): “Kant’s Legal Theory and Climate Justice”
12:45-14:00 Lunch buffet
14:00-15:15 Nuria Sanchez Madrid (Complutense University of Madrid), "A Contemporary Account of the Kantian Demos"
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:45 Alice Pinheiro Walla (Bayreuth), “Kant on money, trade and the international legal order”
17:00 Promenade through Bayreuth / Free time
19:00 Conference Dinner at Oskar
30. June 2018 10:00-11:15 am (Room S6, GW II) Keynote talk: Alessandro Pinzani (Santa Catarina): "The Mystery of Poverty. Can a Metaphysics of Morals Explain Empirical Reality?" Commentary: Gualtiero Lorini (TU Berlin)
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:45 Sofie C. Møller (Frankfurt), “Kant on political obligation”
12:45-14:00 Lunch at the mensa
14:00-15:15 Aravind Ganesh (Luxemburg/ Amsterdam), “Wirtbarkeit: Cosmopolitan Right and Innkeeping”
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:45 Ewa Wyrębska-Đermanović (Lodz), “World Republic, State of States or League of Nations? Kant’s Global Order Revisited”
16:45-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:15 Lewis Wang (Oxford), "No Duties of Global Distributive Justice: A Kantian Theory"
19:00 Dinner at Ganesha
This conference is funded thanks to a WiN-UBT conference grant of the University of Bayreuth. To register, please send a message to alice.pinheirowalla@uni-bayreuth.de. Registration is free of charge.