Conference „Philosophy and Social Science"

May 23 – 26, 2013

Venue: Villa Lanna, V sadech 1, Prague 6

Program

Thursday, May 23, 2013

9.30 Introduction

10.00 – 11.30 Plenary 1, Room A

Scheuerman, Bill: Cosmopolitanism and the World State

Break

12.00-13.30 Plenary 2, Room A

Goodin, Bob: On Complicity

Lunch Break

15.00 – 17.00 Panel Session 1

Room A: Section Crisis and Consequences

Langman, Lauren: Capitalism, Crises and "Great Refusals": Critical Theory, Social Movements and Utopian Visions

Milstein, Brian: Crisis, Object, and Community

Schaal, Gary: The Power of Neoliberalism. Sheldon Wolin's Contribution to the Analysis of Neoliberal Hegemony

Vatsov, Dimitar: Critique and Reactive Capitalism

Room B: Section Metaphysics and Critique

Bohmann, Ulf: Two Kinds of Critical Genealogy: Taylor and Foucault

Gray, Kevin W.: Marx as Proto-Systems Theory

Schecter, Darrow: Stratification, Differentiation and Dialectics: On the Possibility of De-Centred Mediations

Teixeira, Mariana: Critical Theory as Normative Reconstruction of Social Reality: An Assessment of Axel Honneth's Critical Model

Room C: Section Power, Domination, Violence

Baumanns, Bettina: Sexual abuse of children as a constitutional precondition of the patriarchate

Love, Nancy: Aesthetic Reason, Political Violence, and the Public Sphere

Eckert, Eva: Power of the Standard and the Dominated Roma Minority in Czech Republic

Sørensen, Asger: Habermas on Bildung – publicity, discourse, and politics

Break

17.30 – 19.00 Panel Session 2

Room A: Section Power, Domination, Violence

Ferrarese, Estelle: The Political Grammar of Consent. Investigating a New Gender Order

Kettner, Matthias: Power and Reason in Discourse

María Pía Lara: Paradoxes of the Concept of Violence: Semantic Struggles in Political Philosophy

Room B: Section Politics of Images

Bottici, Chiara: Imaginal politics

Bustinduy, Pablo: Fiction and Communism

Thaler, Mathias: Political Imagination and the Crime of Crimes: Coming to Terms with 'Genocide' and 'Genocide Blindness'

Room C: Section Justice, Law, Democracy

Cviklová, Lucie: Transnational Courts in the Field of Human Rights through the Perspective of International Legal Theory

Gümplová, Petra: Sovereignty and Proprietary Concept of Territory - A Critique

Larsen, Øjvind: Human Rights - The Normative Ground for Philanthropy in a Global World

Friday, May 24 2013

9.30 – 11.00 Plenary 3, Room A

Bhambra, Gurminder: Citizens and Others: Beyond Orientalism

Break

11.30-13.30 Panel Session 3

Room A: Section Justice, Law, Democracy

Wesche, Tilo: The Concept of Property in Rawls' Property-Owning Democracy

Iser, Mattias: On the Right of Revolution

Mazouz, Nadia: Defensive violence and relations of mutual respect

Wilke, Christiane: The Optics of Bombing: International Law, Civilians, and Burdens of Distinctions

Room B: Section Metaphysics and Critique

Ivkovic, Marjan: Social Theory and Post-Metaphysical Critique: the Problem of Conceptualizing Empirically Effective Normativity

McGuire, John: Who's Afraid of Karl Jaspers? Habermas and Postmetaphysical Praxis

Moss, Lenny: Metaphysics and Critique: On Regulative Autonomy and Empirical Hybridity.

Noppen, Pierre-François: What Is a Concept? Adorno's Idea of a Materialist Metaphysics

Room C: Section Crisis and Consequences

Crocker, Thomas P.: Can 'Necessitous Men' Ever Be Politically Free? On Crisis, Rules, and Exceptions

Dahl Rendtorff, Jacob: Critical hermeneutics, institutionalism and social legitimacy: Habermas and the need for another economics

Feng, Yanli /Wang, Zhen: The Characteristics of the Study on the Current Crisis and China's response to the Crisis

Pellizzoni, Luigi: Indefiniteness as emancipation? On the ontological critique of neoliberal governance

Lunch Break

15.00 – 17.00 Panel Session 4

Room A: Section Crisis and Consequences

Erlenbusch, Verena: Between National and Popular Sovereignty: Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Europe

Gledhill, James: Habermas's Reconstruction of the European Project: Merely Wishful Thinking?

Minda, Gary: The "Metaphysics of our Union"

Room B: Section Metaphysics and Critique

Duvenage, Pieter: At the beginning of Critical Theory. The early Horkheimer on metaphysics and critique

Erman, Eva: What to Expect (and not) from the Pragmatic Turn in Political Theory

Ibsen, Malte: Justice, Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School

Schaub, Jörg: Framing the Relationship Between Theory and Praxis

Room C: Section Justice, Law, Democracy

Fine, Robert: Natural Law and Critical Theory: Bringing Rights Back In

Vesper, Achim: Does the risk of oppression belong to the law (as Hart claims)?

Rostboll, Christian: The Non-Instrumental Value of Democracy: The Freedom Argument

Yaghoubi, Ardevan: Self-Legislation and the Constitutional Politics of Idealism: Kant, Hegel, and Savigny

Break

17.30 – 18.30 Panel Session 5

Room A: Section Crisis and Consequences

Biebricher, Thomas: The Other Crisis – Democracy in Europe

Sauter, Martin: Europe at the Crossroads: The Crisis of Integration and the Problem of Identity

Room B: Section Politics of Images

Hübner, Dietmar: The Role of Images in Distributive Justice

Koch, Christina: The 'Guy Fawkes Mask': An Icon (Un)Masking Politics

Room C: Section Metaphysics and Critique

Buddeberg, Eva: Practising Responsibility

Dege, Carmen: Situating the Other: The Ethical Turn Reconsidered

Saturday, May 25 2013

9.30 – 11.00 Plenary 4, Room A

Moellendorf, Darrel: Why Global Justice: The Case of Crisis Transfer Mechanisms

Break

11.30-13.30 Panel Session 6

Room A: Section Power, Domination, Violence

Karnein, Anja: Structural Injustice and Individual Agency

Marin, Mara : What is Structural about Structural Injustice? A Critique of Iris Young's Reliance on the Rawls-an Idea of the Basic Structure

Menke, Christoph: At the Brink of Law – Hannah Arendt's Revision of the Judgement on Eichmann

Room B: Section Metaphysics and Critique

Bordum, Anders: Power and the challenges of change

Dege, Martin : The emergence of cooperation in everyday-life

Mihai, Mihaela : Curb your Enthusiasm: Reflective Judgement and the Inertia of Political Habitus

Schmidt, Christian: Norms for Social Change

Room C: Section Justice, Law, Democracy

Banerjee, Kiran: Rethinking Membership: Statelessness, Domination, and the Limits of Contemporary Citizenship

Eule, Tobias : The Power of Law? Domination through and of law, and the prospects for equality

Gregoratto, Federica: From Power to Domination in Habermas' Theory of Deliberative Democracy

Peritz, David: Equality for Whom? A Status Sensitive Approach to Prioritarian Distributive Justice

Lunch Break

15.00 – 17.00 Panel Session 7

Room A: Section Power, Domination, Violence

Franěk, Jakub: Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault on Biopower

Park, Gyunghee (April): Memory, Emotions, and Moral Perception: A Critical Perspective

Petherbridge, Danielle: The Power of Critique: Rethinking the Analysis of Power in Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition

Winter, Steven: Three Mistakes about Power: Lessons from George Orwell, Václav Havel, and Robert Cover on Power, Violence, and Commitment

Room B: Section Metaphysics and Critique

Claviez, Thomas: The Limits of Recognition

Buchwalter, Andrew: The Fact of Poverty and Hegel's Account of Right as Reflexive Ethicality

Jütten, Timo: Dignity and Recognition

Särkela, Arvi-Antti: Evil as "Spiritual Monopoly" - Hegel and Dewey on some Complexities of Universality

Room C: Section Justice, Law, Democracy

Biskamp, Floris: Islam and anti-Muslim Resentments in Germany

Kreuzzieger, Milan: The Museum as Cosmopolitan Institution

Invernizzi, Carlo: Are 'Epistemic' Theories of Democracy really Democratic? Truth, freedom, and equality as grounds for political legitimacy

Menent, Melis: Provisional title: "Constitutional Patriotism"

Break

17.30 – 19.00 Panel Session 8

Room A: Section Power, Domination, Violence

Berger, Tobias: Good Shalish/Bad Shalish – Islam & the Promotion of Women's Rights in Bangladesh

Kasanda, Albert: African Women's Power Dynamics

Lindner, Urs: Annihilation of Caste and Social Philosophy: Ambedkar as a Critical Theorist

Room B: Section Crisis and Consequences

Alpsancar, Suzana: Critique of Technology and the Human Condition: Comparing Arendt and Gehlen

Gottschalk-Mazouz, Niels: Power and domination as challenges of an emerging "internet of things"

Ylönen, Marja: Post-Fukushima: signaled and silenced aspects of nuclear safety regulation

Room C: Section Metaphysics and Critique

Bueno, Arthur: From Teleology to Life: Normative Patterns of Money

Seyfert, Robert: The soluble riddles of modern society

Sunday, May 26 2013

9.30 – 11.00 Plenary 5, Room A

Cooke, Maeve: The Metaphysical Moment: Post-Postmetaphysical Critical Theory

Break

11.30-13.30 Panel Session 9

Room A: Section Metaphysics and Critique

Carleheden, Mikael: On the Relation between Critical Sociology and Sociology of Critique

Costa, Paolo: The Axial Breakthrough and Social Criticism: A Reassessment

Henning, Christoph: Resonance and Ontology: A Comeback for Perfectionism in Critical Theory?

Susen, Simon: Is There Such a Thing as a "Pragmatic Sociology of Critique"?

Room B: Section Crisis and Consequences

Carneiro, Silvio: Tabooed democracy: Marcusean thought on new political challenges

Znepolski, Boyan: Down with Demcocracy! Long Live the People! ('The People' as a Critical Idea in Contemporary Radical Political Philosophy)