Oxford Forum Dialogues
An hour and a half of lively discussion at the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford, this series offers a unique mix of insights into the ideas and development of great philosophers and our most distinguished thinkers.
“Who Are You?” Debating Judith Butler
Thursday 4 March, 6.45 - 8.15 pm
Lecture Room, Faculty of Philosophy, 10 Merton Street, University of Oxford
Pamela Sue Anderson, Reader in Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford and Fellow in Philosophy and Ethics, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
In conversation with Victor Jeleniewski Seidler, Professor of Social Theory, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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In Giving An Account of Oneself, Judith Butler proposes a new ethical practice both responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in the opacity of the human subject. Seidler and Anderson will discuss whether ‘the relationality that conditions and binds [the] self’– who fails, despite her best efforts, to make herself fully accountable ‘to you’ – is, as Bulter says, ‘an indispensable resource for ethics’. |
The Legacy of John Rawls
Thursday 18 March, 2.30 - 4.00 pm
Lecture Room, Faculty of Philosophy, 10 Merton Street, University of Oxford
Catherine Audard, Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Chair of the Forum for European Philosophy; Département de philosophie, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Author of John Rawls (Acumen Press, 2007).
In conversation with Adam Swift, CUF Lecturer in Politics, Member of the Centre for the Study of Social Justice, Fellow in Politics and Sociology, Balliol College, University of Oxford.
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Beyond recognizing the extraordinary influence of Rawls’s work, it is not easy to assess his legacy because his is a dual legacy. Is he primarily a theorist of justice, or a theorist of stability and legitimacy? We will discuss whether Rawls should be read as a liberal seeking to justify individual rights and egalitarian distributive principles, as a republican committed to public reason in the political sphere, or as both. |
Oxford Forum Provocations
In this series we invite thinkers and scholars – thought provokers in their own right – to introduce a short text that has special significance to them.
Hegel, Freedom and Trust
Thursday 18 February, 2.30 - 4.00 pm
Lecture Room, Faculty of Philosophy, 10 Merton Street, University of Oxford
Stephen Houlgate, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick
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