Research Beehive room 2.21
Old Library Building
Newcastle University
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Philip Pettit is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. He has previously held appointments at the Australian National University, Columbia University, the University of Cambridge, and University College Dublin. His books include The Common Mind (1996); Republicanism (1997); A Theory of Freedom (2001); Rules, Reasons and Norms (2002); Economy of Esteem (2004); Mind, Morality and Explanation (2004); Penser en Societe (2004), Made with Words (2007), and the forthcoming Group Agents and Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit amongst many others. He has contributed to numerous leading journals, including Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal of Political Science, Economics and Philosophy, Ethics, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Mind and Language, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Political Studies, Political Theory, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Synthese, and Utilitas amongst many others and he is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Ethics and the Newcastle-based Journal of Moral Philosophy [http://www.brill.nl/jmp].
Thom Brooks is Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at the University of Newcastle and the editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy. His books include The Legacy of John Rawls (with Fabian Freyenhagen) (2005); Rousseau and Law (2005); Hegel’s Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right (2007); Locke and Law (2007); The Global Justice Reader (2008); The Right to Fair Trial (2009); and a forthcoming book on punishment. His articles have appeared in several journals, such as History of Political Thought, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Ratio, and Utilitas amongst others. He is currently editing a book with Martha Nussbaum entitled Rawls’s Political Liberalism.
Cecile Laborde is Reader in Political Theory at University College London. She is the author of Law ConfrJrie Layenne et les LJbous du SJnJgal (1995), Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France (2000), Republicanism and Political Theory (with John Maynor) (2008), and Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy, Republican Theory and the Left (2008). Her work on secularism, multiculturalism, patriotism, and republicanism has recently been published in Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, British Journal of Political Science, Political Studies, and Constellations. Current projects include the political philosophy of religion, and republicanism and global justice.
Michael Ridge is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author (with Sean McKreever) of Principled Ethics: Generalism as a Regulative Ideal (2006). He has also contributed to numerous leading journals, including American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Political Philosophy, Mind, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Ratio, and Uilitas amongst many others.
The conference is open to all and it is supported generously by the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (NIASSH); the Newcastle Ethics, Legal, and Political Philosophy Group; the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology; and the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
Registration fees:
Unwaged/student: £15
Waged: £20