Fall Semester 2024 – Cross-Sectional Course: Law 210.2A, Political Science 211, & Philosophy 290-6
All sessions for Fall 2024 will be held in person in room 141 Law Building on Fridays from 12:10 pm-2:00 pm (until 3:00 pm for enrolled students only). Papers for upcoming talks will become available to download in the table below one week before their respective workshop dates and will be taken down after their workshop has concluded. Alternatively, copies of papers may be requested by contacting Jennifer McBride at jrmcbride@berkeley.edu. Please note that we can only distribute each paper for the week of its workshop.
The full Fall 2024 workshop schedule is available for download here.
Course Description:
A workshop for presenting and discussing work in progress in moral, political, and legal theory. The central aim is to provide an opportunity for students to engage with philosophers, political theorists, and legal scholars working on normative questions. Another aim is to bring together people from different disciplines who have strong normative interests or who speak to issues of potential interest to philosophers and political theorists.
The theme for the Fall 2024 workshop is “Disagreement.”
This semester the workshop is co-taught by Joshua Cohen and Veronique Munoz-Darde.
Format: for the first two hours, a student will lead off with a 15-minute comment on the presenter’s paper, and the presenter will have 5-10 minutes to respond before we open up the discussion to the group. The first two hours will be open to non-enrolled students and faculty. For the third hour, the guest presenter will continue the discussion with students enrolled in the course. Enrolled students must serve as a discussant for at least one presenter’s work in progress and write three short response papers as well as a final paper of 15-20 pages.
The course is cross-listed with the Philosophy and Political Science Departments.
Zoom is available for those who cannot attend in person.
Zoom link to join: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97010991317
| Aug. 23 |
Introduction (Enrolled Students Only) |
Instructors: Professor Veronique Munoz-Darde munoz_darde@berkeley.edu Professor Josh Cohen joshua_cohen@apple.com |
| Aug. 30 | Peter Koellner, Harvard University, Philosophy |
Disagreement in Mathematics: Formal Proofs and the Continuum Hypothesis |
| Sept. 6 | Edward Hall, Harvard University, Philosophy | Collaborative Disagreement |
| Sept. 13 |
Lilliana Mason, Johns Hopkins University, Political Science |
Pluralism Polarization: The Deepest Partisan Divide is Over Pluralistic Democracy |
| Sept. 20 | Peter Galison, Harvard University, History of Science | Governing Epistemology: Knowledge in Large-Scale Experiments |
| Sept. 27 | John MacFarlane, University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy | Disagreement and Meaning |
| Oct. 4 | Leif Nelson, University of California, Berkeley, (Haas) Business Administration & Marketing | Transparency, Replicability, and Integrity |
| Oct. 11 | Mike Martin, University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy | Hume, Sentiment, and No-Fault Disagreement |
| Oct. 18 | David Enoch, Oxford University, Philosophy of Law (Zoom Only) | Against Public Reason |
| Oct. 25 | Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University, Philosophy | Stories That Wrong and Stories That Repair |
| Nov. 1 | Genevieve Lakier, University of Chicago, Law | TBA |
| Nov. 8 |
Lara Buchak, Princeton University, Philosophy |
TBA |
| Nov. 15 | Charles Larmore, Brown University, Philosophy | Reasonable Disagreement: Its Nature and Importance |
| Nov. 22 | Deanna Kuhn, Columbia University, Psychology | What Can Discourse Do? |