This year’s LSE-Bayreuth student philosophy conference will take place 2–3 May 2019 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 2 May
9:30–10:00 Tea & Coffee LAK 2.06
10:00–11:00 Nikolas Mattheis (UBT): “How Democratic Must Ethical Consumerism Be?”

Commentary: Liam Kofi Bright (LSE)

 LAK 2.06
11:00–12:00 Robert Pepper (LSE): “What Should NICE’s Discount Rate on Future Health-related
Well-being Be?”

Commentary: Soroush Rafiee Rad (UBT)

 LAK 2.06
12:00–13:30 Lunch LAK G.01
13:30–15:00 Keynote Lecture – Alice Pinheiro Walla (UBT): “Kant and Climate Ethics: A
Territorial Rights Approach”		 LAK 2.06
15:00–15:30 Tea & Coffee LAK 2.06
15:30–16:30 Yannic Vitz (LSE): “‘Having Too Much’ and Libertarian Freedom”

Commentary: Alice Pinheiro Walla (UBT)

 LAK 2.06
16:30–17:30 Leon Schlüter (UBT): “Sufficientarianism and the Interaction of Economic and
Political Inequality”

Commentary: Liam Kofi Bright (LSE)

 LAK 2.06
17:30–18:30 Drinks

 

Day 2: Friday 3 May
9:30–10:00 Tea & Coffee KSW 2.12
10:00–11:00 Ojasvi Goel (LSE): “On the Possibility of Holding Academic Economists
Morally Responsible for Events in the Economy”

Commentary: Alice Pinheiro Walla (UBT)

 KSW 2.12
11:00–12:00 Annabelle Riedesel (UBT): “How can Informed Desire-satisfaction Theories of
Welfare Account for Mental Disorders?”

Commentary: Johanna Thoma (LSE)

 KSW 2.12
12:00–13:30 Lunch LAK G.01
13:30–15:00 Keynote Lecture – Liam Kofi Bright (LSE): “Conceptual Decolonisation: An
Introduction to Formal Africana Philosophy”		 KSW 2.12
15:00–15:30 Tea & Coffee KSW 2.12
15:30–16:30 Selina Swift (LSE): “Is Media Impartiality a Democratic Necessity? Lessons
from the Value Free Ideal in Science”

Commentary: Soroush Rafiee Rad (UBT)

 KSW 2.12
16:30–17:30 Elena Göttert (UBT): “Climate Change as a Collective Action Problem – Private and
Public Duties of Justice”

Commentary: Johanna Thoma (LSE)

 KSW 2.12
17:30– Drinks