CALL FOR PANELS FOR A SECTION ORGANISED BY THE KANTIAN POLITICAL
THOUGHT STANDING GROUP
General
Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research
Section
Title: Justification and Application: The Nature and Function of Political
Norms
5-7 September 2013
Bordeaux,
France
Section Abstract: The focus of contemporary normative political theory is on
norms and their justification. The aim of this section is to engage with the
question of justification, as well as with issues, which emerge from the
attempt to apply justified norms to specific areas in politics and
international relations. The starting point for the papers will be given by a
set of assumptions stemming from Kant’s moral and political philosophy, such as
the non-subjective nature of political norms, the possibility of the
justification of norms and the context-transcending validity of justified
norms. Papers will address topics, which can be divided into three main
categories: The nature of justification and application in practical (moral and
political) theories; the justification and application of specific political
norms, for instance, in the area of citizenship, leadership, property or
international relations; issues of interpretation, concerning the roots of the
current dominant, Kantian views of justification and application. Thematically,
papers may focus on issues of justification or on questions related to the
application of norms, or on topics that relate justification and application.
Particular questions addressed will include: the justification of exclusion,
legitimate ownership, the moral transformation of politics, the nature of
political judgement, the specific character of political justification, and the
nature of application. This is a section organised by the Kantian Political
Thought Standing Group and currently includes 6 panels:
Section
Chair: Sorin Baiasu (Keele University, UK)
1.
The Nature of
Political Justification (Panel Chair: Sorin Baiasu; Panel Co-chair/Discussant:
Helga Varden)
2.
Kant and the
Notion of Application (Panel Chair: John Callanan; Panel Co-chair/Discussant:
Ido Geiger)
3.
Political
Judgement (Panel Chair: Mathias Thaler; Panel Co-chair/Discussant: Mihaela
Mihai)
4.
Kant on
Citizenship and Exclusion (Panel Chair: Oliviero Angeli; Panel
Co-chair/Discussant: Nele Schneidereit)
5.
Property,
Territory and Provisional Justice (Panel Chair: Sylvie Loriaux)
6.
The Morality
of Politics: Kantian Perspectives (Panel Chair: Harry Lesser)
For
more information, please see:
http://new.ecprnet.eu/Conferences/General/Default.aspx
To submit a panel proposal, please go to:
http://new.ecprnet.eu/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fMyEcpr%2fForms%2fPanelProposalForm.aspx%3fEventID%3d5&EventID=5
Deadline for the submission of panel proposals:
5 October 2012. A call for papers will be issued shortly after that
(deadline: 2 February 2013).
