12th Annual Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy

Democracy: Theoretical and Empirical Issues

March 31 and April 1, 2023

Location: Pallister Room in Jerome Library, BGSU Campus

Map: https://map.bgsu.edu/?id=652#!ct/

For information contact Jeff Carroll: jcarro@bgsu.edu

 

Friday, March 31

9:15AM – 9:30AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:30AM – 10:30AM: Jacob Sparks (Cal Poly), “The Authority of Human Democracy”

 Chair: Justin Donhauser (Bowling Green State University)

10:45AM – 11:45AM: Krupa Appleton (Harvard) “Tiers of Inclusion: Rethinking the Structure of the Demos”

Chair: Brandon Warmke (Bowling Green State University)

12:00PM – 1:15PM LUNCH BREAK

1:15PM – 2:15PM: Connor Kianpour (Colorado – Boulder), “The Political Speech Rights of the Tokenized”

Chair: Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green State University)

2:30PM – 3:30PM: Laura Engel, (Minnesota – Duluth), “Moral Psychology and Public Discussion”

Chair: Rishi Joshi (Bowling Green State University)

3:45PM – 5:30PM: Keynote Address 1: "On the Use and Abuse of Social Science for Political Life”

Michael Neblo (Ohio State University)

Chair: Al Dzur (Bowling Green State University)

7:00 PM: Conference dinner

Saturday, April 1

10:15AM – 10:30AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

10:30AM – 12:15PM: Keynote Address 2: "Should Effective Altruism Be Anti-Political?"

Christopher Freiman (William & Mary)

Chair: Brandon Warmke (Bowling Green State University)

12:30PM – 1:30PM: Joseph Porter (Janet Prindle Institute – DePauw University) “Power Laundering”

Chair: Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green State University)

1:30PM – 2:30PM LUNCH BREAK

2:30PM – 3:30PM: Laura Gurskey Siscoe (USC), “Public Justification Under Considerations of Epistemic Justice”

Chair: Rishi Joshi (Bowling Green State University)

3:45PM – 5:30PM: Keynote Address 3: "Democratic Stability: An Institutional Alternative to the Rawlsian Perspective"

Ryan Pevnick (NYU)

Chair: Jeff Carroll (Bowling Green State University)

6:00 PM Optional Drinks

7:00 PM Informal Dinner

All sessions will be 60 minutes total, including Q&A. The keynote addresses will be 1 hour 45 minutes, including Q&A.