This year’s LSE-Bayreuth student philosophy conference will take place 11–12 May 2017 at LSE.
The annual LSE-Bayreuth Student Philosophy Conference gives the opportunity for students from LSE and the University of Bayreuth to present their work in a friendly and supportive environment, and to receive commentary on their papers from LSE and Bayreuth academics.
Programme
Day 1: Thursday 11 May |
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9:30–10:00 | Tea & Coffee | KSW 1.04 | |
10:00–11:00 | Lukas Beck (UBT): “Can Economics Be a Separate Science?”
Commentary: Johanna Thoma (LSE) |
KSW 1.04 | |
11:00–12:00 | Jacob Metz (LSE): “Rescuing Paternalism: An Egalitarian Defense of Motorcycle Helmet Laws”
Commentary: Roberto Fumagalli (UBT) |
KSW 1.04 | |
12:00–13:30 | Lunch | NAB 8.02 | |
13:30–14:30 | Clarissa Busch (UBT): “The Relationship between Internal and External Validity”
Commentary: Johanna Thoma (LSE) |
KSW 1.04 | |
14:30–15:30 | Andreas Sorger (LSE): “Self-Defence and Innocent Threats: The Moral Inequivalence of Innocent Threats and Bystanders Commentary: Roberto Fumagalli (UBT) |
KSW 1.04 | |
15:30–16:00 | Tea & Coffee | KSW 1.04 | |
16:00–17:30 | Keynote Lecture – Julian Fink (UBT): “The Essence of Attitudinal Irrationality” | KSW 1.04 | |
17:30–18:30 | Drinks | The George pub |
Day 2: Friday 12 May |
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9:30–10:00 | Tea & Coffee | KSW 1.04 | |
10:00–11:00 | Lena Dominici (LSE): “Can Morality Be Explained as a Social Contract?”
Commentary: Julian Fink (UBT) |
KSW 1.04 | |
11:00–12:00 | Nikolas Mattheis (UBT): “Why Quong Doesn’t Save Left Libertarianism”
Commentary: Mike Otsuka (LSE) |
KSW 1.04 | |
12:00–13:30 | Lunch | NAB 8.02 | |
13:30–14:30 | Nathaniel Sussman (LSE): “Does the Mere Notion of a Frozen Light Wave Discredit the Electromagnetic Ether?” Commentary: Bryan Roberts (LSE) |
KSW 1.04 | |
14:30–15:30 | Marcel Jahn (UBT): “Against the Unrestricted Applicability of Disjunction Elimination”
Commentary: Bryan Roberts (LSE) |
KSW 1.04 | |
15:30–16:00 | Tea & Coffee | KSW 1.04 | |
16:00–17:30 | Keynote Lecture – Laura Valentini (LSE): “There Are No Natural Rights” | KSW 1.04 | |
17:30– | Drinks | The George pub |
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