Democracy, Equality and Justice

The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

Friday 16 - Saturday 17 December 2005

A Symposium convened by Matt Matravers, University of York and
Lukas Meyer, University of Bern

Conference Fee £30 (£20 concessions)

ABOUT THIS EVENT  | PROGRAMME

This symposium brings together philosophers, political theorists, and political scientists, to reflect on some of the most pressing issues in contemporary politics and political theory. It includes contributions from scholars from North America, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. One of its aims is to promote productive dialogue between academics from different political and intellectual traditions.

The symposium is organised around three themes: Justice and Equality; International and Intergenerational Justice; and Multiculturalism and Universalism. Each of the three themes is particularly timely given the growth in inequalities in the UK (and elsewhere) in the last thirty years; the international situation, and the threat of environmental disaster; and the conflicts between cultures and, within the academy, between those who wish to maintain the Enlightenment project of finding universal rules that might guide political action and those for whom any such attempt smacks of Western-, or Ethno-, centrism.

Contributors from North America include Arthur Applbaum, Brian Barry, Charles Jones, and Thomas Scanlon. From continental Europe and Israel, David Heyd, Wilfried Hinsch, Peter Koller, Lukas Meyer, and Phillipe van Parijs. From the UK, Simon Caney, Keith Dowding, Paul Kelly, Matt Matravers, Susan Mendus, Andrew Williams, and Jonathan Wolff.

The proceedings of this conference were published in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Volume 13, Issue 1 (2010), and subsequently reprinted as a book Democracy, Equality, and Justice, edited by Matt Matravers and Lukas H Meyer (Routledge, 2011).