12 BRAGAMEETINS: Panel 16 - Revisiting the Difference Principle and its Competitors -, 12th Braga Meetings University of Minho. Campus de Gualtar. Braga, Portugal, June 27-28, 2022 |
Conference website | https://12bragameetings.weebly.com |
Abstract registration deadline | April 5, 2022 |
Submission deadline | April 5, 2022 |
The Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy is an annual event organized by the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS) at the University of Minho (Braga). This year the Meetings will be organized around a series of panels focusing on the Center’s research agenda.
Submission Guidelines
Panel 16: Revisiting the Difference Principle and its Competitors.
In this panel, we will discuss the success of the Difference Principle and the challenges posed by competitors and critics. We intend to confront these hypotheses with the demands of ideal theory – justification, coherence, parsimony, etc. – and with empirical circumstances that favor some over others.
We welcome submissions on Rawls’ Difference Principle, on any of his followers, critics, and competitors (Nozick's entitlement theory, Harry Frankfurt's doctrine of sufficiency, Sen's capabilities theory, Dworkin's luck egalitarianism and many others), and contributions on the institutional aspects of the application of the Difference Principle in real-world situations.
List of Topics
- The Difference Princple
- Theories of Justice
- Rawls and his competitors
Committees
Program Committee
Organizing committee
- Paula Mateus
- João Cardoso Rosas
Venue
Braga, Portugal
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to paula.mateus.pt@gmail.com