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Summer School in Methods in Normative Political Theory/Philosophy

16 - 26 June 2014
University of Keele, UK

Hosted by:
Keele University
Supported by:
Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought
Application deadline
18 April 2014
Fees
£400 for students from ECPR member institutions and £440.00 for non-members
Further information and booking


Target Audience

The School offers 20 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers working in the field of moral and political theory/philosophy the opportunity to exchange research and teaching ideas with colleagues from other universities and research institutes. 

Objectives

Apart from the taught sessions, there will be student papers, social events and opportunities to explore the surrounding countryside near Keele (including a visit to "Rousseau's cave", where he wrote the first drafts of his Confessions).

Courses

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Professor George Sher (Rice)
  • Professor Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna)
  • Professor David Owen (Southampton)
  • Dr Monica Mookherjee (Keele)
  • Professor Glen Newey (Brussels)
  • Professor John Horton (Keele)
  • Professor Elizabeth Frazer (Oxford)
  • Professor Andrew Dobson (Keele)
  • Professor Geoffrey Cupit (Waitako)
  • Dr Sorin Baiasu (Vienna/Keele)
Teaching will focus on specific methods or on methodologically significant topics and debates in normative political theory. Topics include:
  • Philosophical Foundations of Perfectionism
  • Law, Politics and Ethics
  • Textualism: Pros and Cons
  • An Interpretative Realist Approach to Political Theory
  • Feminist Critique
  • Handling Essentially Conteste Concepts: The Case of Environmental Sustainability
  • Justice, Desert and Equality
  • Politics and Metaphysics



Sorin Baiasu