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
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
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