Thursday, November 9, 2017
4:30 p.m., Room 5200
Co-sponsored by Political Theory Workshop, and the SPTSA (Social and Political Theory Student Association)

Guest Speaker: Joseph Carens (The University of Toronto)
Economic Duties and Economic Justice: Why Philosophers Need to Think About How Things Work in the World

From the author: In this paper, I will seek to defend G. A. Cohen’s proposed egalitarian ethos as a necessary element of a just social order. Contrary to Cohen, however, I contend that philosophers ought to think about the ways in which abstract principles can or cannot be institutionalized in the world, and I seek to show that a Cohen-like egalitarian ethos is plausible as an institutional arrangement and a social mechanism.  To download the paper, click here

Joseph H. Carens, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University in Sydney. His most recent book, The Ethics of Immigration (Oxford University Press, 2013) won five book awards. He is the author of three other books: Immigrants and the Right to Stay (MIT Press 2010); Culture, Citizenship and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness (Oxford University Press 2000); and Equality, Moral Incentives, and the Market: An Essay in Utopian Politico-Economic Theory (University of Chicago, Press 1981). He has also published two edited books and more than 90 journal articles or chapters in books.

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