ALSP 2009 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
CMB: Crystal McMillan Building
WRB: William Robertson Building
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
DAY 1: THURSDAY JULY 2nd
NOON-2PM REGISTRATION AND LUNCH (Foyer of Crystal MacMillan Building)
2:00-3:45 PM CONCURRENT PANELS I
1. Ethics of war – Lawful and unlawful combatants (WRB G.01)
James Pattison (U. of the West of England)Private warriors, humanitarian intervention, and civil-military
relations
DavidLouk (Oxford University) Hostis Humani Generis? Assessing the Moral Status of Enemy
Combatants in International Humanitarian Law
2. Ethics of genetics – Preimplantation and prenatal genetic diagnosis (WRB G.11)
Gabriele De Angelis (Universidade Nova, Lisbon), Values and Norms: Public Disputes on
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Stephen John (University of Cambridge), Dodging our obligations of care? How to understand the savings
argument in favour of publicly funded Pre-Natal-Diagnosis
3. Climate change and environmental justice – Ecological debt and carbon offsets
(CMB3)
Allen Habib (University of Calgary), Non-Renewable Resources and Future Generations
Kai Spiekermann (University of Warwick), A clear conscience on the cheap: Voluntary carbon offsets, the undemandingness problem and motivational robustness
4. Freedom of movement – the case of labour (CMB4)
Nir Eyal (Harvard University), Coercion in the fight against medical brain drain
Harry Lesser (University of Manchester), Should there is a right to free movement of labour?
5. Ethics, Politics and Reason (CMB5)
Gabriel Mras (University of Vienna), On the Need, Relevance, and Limitation of Ethical
Reasoning
Sean Molloy (University of Edinburgh) Has Kant Led Ethics too far away from Politics?
6. Global Justice – State sovereignty and the International Community (CMB6)
Joshua Kassner (University of Baltimore), Global Climate Change: The Moral Limits of State
Sovereignty
Milla Vaha (European University Institute), International Society and the Chain of Responsibilities:
Looking for the Duty-Bearers within the System of the States
3:45-4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00-5:45 PLENARY SESSION I (WRB, ROOM G.08)
Professor Peter Jones (Newcastle, President of ALSP) Opening Address
Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL), Keynote Lecture: Political Philosophy and Public Policy
6:00-7:00 WINE RECEPTION AT TEVIOT HALL, SPONSORED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
7:00 DINER
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DAY 2: FRIDAY JULY 3rd
9:30-11:15 CONCURRENT PANELS II
7. Ethics of war – Terrorism (CMB1)
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus) The Doctrine of the Double Effect: Permissibility, Deliberation, and
Meaning
Anne Schwenkenbecher (Humboldt University),Terrorism Against Non-Innocents – The Ethical
Implications of a So Called Wide Definition
Anna Goppel, (University of Zurich), The Targeted Killing of Terrorists – Moral Limits to State Lethal
Use of Force
8. Ethics of genetics – Genetics and individual freedom (CMB2)
Lene Bomann-Larsen (University of Oslo) Violation of freedom without interference
Oliver Feeney (National U. of Ireland, Galway), On monolithic alternatives: against the notion of genetic
enhancements as a singular moral entity
9. Climate Change and environmental justice – Climate Change, Culture, and future generations (CMB3)
Fiona Woollard (University of Sheffield), Damaging the Environment and the Non-
Identity Problem
Carl Knight (University of Glasgow), A Pluralistic Approach to Climate Change
Claire Heyward (Oxford University), Is climate change a matter of cultural justice?
10. Territorial rights and state sovereignty (CMB4)
Kim Angell (University of Oslo), Challenging David Miller’s Quasi-Lockean
Argument for Territorial Rights
Adina Preda (University College, Dublin), State Legitimacy, Territory and Fair Compensation
Karl Widderquist (University of Reading), Five False Claims of Political Philosophy: Modern theories of
power and rights evaluated in light of anthropological evidence
11. Egalitarian justice: which rights? whose rights? (CMB5)
Alexa Zellentin (Oxford University), Treating Citizens as Equals in the context of Pluralism
Vicky Martzoukou (UCL), Claims to resources in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights
Philip Cook (LSE), Child-Citizenship: Goods and Votes for Children in the 21st Century
12. Justice and property rights in organs and tissues (CMB6)
Anna Karin Andersson (Harvard University), Embryonic stem cells and property rights
Jurgen de Wispelaere (Trinity College, Dublin), Procuring Permission: Exploring the (Moderate) Case for
Organ Transplants Tax Credits
J. R. Kuntz (University of Edinburgh), A Litmus Test for Exploitation: J. Stacey Taylor’s Stakes and
Kidneys
11:15-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 PLENARY SESSION II (WRB ROOM G.08)
Professor Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) Proportionality
13:00-1:45PM LUNCH
1:450-2:45 AGM FOR THE ALSP (CMB1)
2:30-4:15 CONCURRENT PANELS III
13. Ethics of War - Risks, Harms, and War Killings (CMB1)
David Holly (UCL) Prima Facie Rights vs. Goal-Rights and the Problem of Risk.
Nolen Gertz (New School for Social Research) Just and Unjust Killing
Zahler Bryan (Oxford University) Last Resort: a 21st century reassessment
14. Ethics of genetics – Genetics and luck egalitarianism (CMB2)
Shlomi Segall (Hebrew University), The Justice of Fair Skin (and Other Problems): Towards a Luck
Egalitarian View of Health and Genetic Enhancements
David Hunter (Keele University), New genetic technologies, changing people and luck egalitarianism
15. Climate Change and environmental justice – Climate Change and future generations (CMB3)
Derek Bell (U. of Newcastle), Duties of Global Climate Justice
Furio Cerutti (U. of Florence), Global Challenges for Ethics and Politics
Kerri Woods (U. of York), Solidarity with the future: Climate Change and environmental citizenship
16. Freedom of Movement– Issues in immigration (CMB4)
Jonathan Seglow (Royal Holloway), Immigration and Freedom of Movement
Sune Lægaard (University of Copenhagen), Territorial rights and the right to exclude immigrants
Gianfranco Pellegrino (University of Rome), Environmental migrants and positional responsibilities for
climate change
17. Justice and Forgiveness in Democratic Transitions (CMB5)
Monica Mookherjee (U. of Keele), Justice, amnesty and evil: from third party forgiveness to
moral disrepair?
Simon Cabulea May (Virginia Tech), Compromise and reconciliation in Democratic Transitions
18. Business ethics: justice and corporate responsibility (CMB6)
Chandra Mohan (Singapore Management University), The Satyam Saga : Enron Once More?
Kristian Hoyer Toft (Independent researcher), Global corporate social responsibility and global
justice – two sides of the same story?
Joakim Sandberg (University of Birmingham), Are Microlenders Exploiting the Poor?
On Interest Rates, Usury and Justice
4:15-4:30 COFFEE BREAK
4:30-6:00 CONCURRENT PANELS IV
19. Ethics of war - Terrorism and the war on terror (CMB1)
Thomas Moore (University of Westminster), Ethical warfare? Australia and the ‘war
on terror’
Bob Brecher (University of Brighton), Why there is no such thing as political terrorism
20. Ethics of genetics – State Regulation and public policy (CMB2)
Alasdair Gunn and Kelly Tudhope (U. of Waikato), Public consultation, values and the regulation of
genetically modified organisms: the New Zealand experience
Niall Scott (UCLAN), Anarchism and Bioethics
21. Climate change and environmental justice – Human rights (CMB3)
Simon Hope (Stirling University), 'Green Hypocrisy', Human Rights, and Vulnerability
Makoto Usami (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Climate Change, Rights and Fairness
22. Multiculturalism and Citizenship – majorities, minorities, and resistance to oppression (CMB4)
Joshua Broady Preiss (Bucknell University), Contractualism, Identity and Impartiality
Piero Moraro (Stirling University), Why an activist should plead Not Guilty
23. Justice and non-human animals (CMB5)
Arabella Millett (University of Edinburgh), A Libertarian Defence of Animal Rights
Jan Deckers (U. of Newcastle), Justice, negative GHIs, and the consumption of farmed animal products
24. Privacy and Surveillance – Investigative freedom (CMB6)
Saul Smilansky (Haifa University), Moral Paradoxes, Morality in the Future, and the Future of Morality
Kimberley Brownlee (University of Manchester), Investigative Freedom and Vicarious Responsibility
7:00 DINER
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DAY 3 SATURDAY JULY 4th
9:30-11:00 CONCURRENT PANELS V
25. Ethics of war V – War, natural resources and the environment (CMB1)
Susan Power (Trinity College, Dublin), Transformative Occupation: A Chasm in
Natural Resource Protection
Graham Long (University of Newcastle), Environmentally just war
26. Ethics of Genetics– Genetic enhancements (CMB2)
Katerina Sideri (University of Exeter), Regulating Enhancement, a virtue ethics perspective
Michele Loi (U. Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milano), Eugenics, opportunity and lotteries
27. Climate change and environmental justice – Climate change and democracy (CMB3)
Ben Saunders (Oxford University), Defining the Demos
Matthew Humphrey (U. of Nottingham), Climate Change Activism and Democratic Deliberation
28. Multiculturalism and citizenship – Cultural homogeneity, integration and public
policy (CMB4)
Maren Behrensen (Boston University), Trust without Cultural Homogeneity
Stephen Robson (Murdoch University), Changing conceptions of rights, freedom and justice as applied to the Indigenous public policy in Australia
29. Global Justice – Ideal and non-ideal theory(CMB5)
Robert Jubb (Oxford University), The tragedy of non-ideal theory
Richard Child (University of Manchester), The Dual-Component Model of Distributive Justice: Reconciling the
Impersonal and Personal Standpoints on Global Justice
30. Privacy and Surveillance – New technologies (CMB6)
Gary Levvis (University of Connecticut), Pornography, Prostitution and Sex trafficking: policing the internet
Alan Rubel (John Hopkins University), Nanosensors and Privacy Rights
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 CONCURRENT PANELS VI (CMB)
31. Ethics of war – Torture: a crime against humanity? (CMB1)
Filip Spagnoli (Belgian Central Bank), The Ticking Bomb Fallacy, Torture and Human
Rights After 9-11
Massimo Renzo (University of Stirling), Crimes against Humanity and the Limits of International Law
32. Ethics of genetics – Killing at ‘the margins of life’ (CMB2)
Jeremy William (LSE), Wrongful Life and Abortion
David Shaw (U. of Glasgow), Discriminating against the dying
33. Multiculturalism and citizenship – Civic Education, religious beliefs and politics
(CMB3)
Jeffrey Howard (Oxford University), Democratic Education in an Age of
Terror A Habermasian Reconceptualization of Rawlsian Civic Education for the 21st Century
Peter Jones (U. of Newcastle), Scientific Development, Religious Belief, and Politics Decision-Making
13:00- 14:00 LUNCH. END OF CONFERENCE.
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