"The Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory" in the School of Philosophy organises a lunchtime seminar every week. The MSPT seminar normally takes place on Mondays from 12:30 to 2:00 in Coombs seminar room D. The current convenor for the MSPT seminar series is Oliver Rawle (oliver.rawle@anu.edu.au). Recent and upcoming papers are listed below.
MSPT Seminars are announced on both the the philsoc mailing list, and the CMSPT mailing list.
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Past Events
Corey Brettschneider (Brown University), "Value Democracy and the Freedom of Expression: Promoting Equality and Protecting Rights"
Hate groups are sometimes thought to reveal a flaw, even a paradox, in liberal thinking. On the one hand, such groups challenge the very…
Leif Wenar (King's College, London), "The Nature of the Claim"
Rights are the distinctive normative concept of modernity, and the claim-right is the paradigm of rights. Kant, Hart and Steiner defend one…
J. Donald Moon (Wesleyan University), "Is There A Global Basic Structure?"
Rawls limits the claims of social justice to those who participate in a shared “basic structure” of a society; he defines the basic structure as “the…