Seth Mayer Northwestern University Title: Constitutional Patriotism and the Cosmopolitan Project Many have argued that justice among both co-nationals and citizens of different countries must be founded on solidarity. Recently, constitutional patriotism has emerged as a promising form of such...

Hamad Mohamed Duquesne University Title: Islamism as a Bourgeois Ideological Problematic: Towards a Marxist Critique This paper attempts to situate the phenomenon of Islamism in its historical context, and present it as representative of a general, pervasive “civilizational paradigm”, to invoke...

Daniel Susser SUNY – Stony Brook Title: Religion How? Deliberative Democracy and Proposition 8 Deliberative democratic theorists—Habermas chiefly among them—have lately been calling for a new openness to the influence of religious opinions on public political debate. And while I find many of their...

Rafeeq Hasan University of Chicago Title: Rousseau’s Two Concepts of Obligation In this paper I argue that Rousseau has two concepts of obligation. The first, which locates the ground of obligation in the agent’s rational commitment, looks like the beginning of the Kantian road. But in the second...

Mindi Torrey Michigan State University Title: Epistemic Injustice: The Occupation of Rigoberta Menchú Rigoberta Menchú's testimonio, I, Rigoberta Menchu, an Indian Woman in Guatemala has generated a great deal of political discussion in the academy. Anthropologist David Stoll has ignited a...

Everett C. Fulmer Georgia State University Title: Immigration and Globalization: The Stakes of Open Borders in a Globalizing World The arguments for absolute open borders across the globe generally appeal, in a libertarian fashion, to a human right to movement while arguing that there are no...

Joseph Spino Western Michigan University Title: Is the Ticking Time Bomb a Dud? Some thought experiments lead us to surprising conclusions like the now famous ticking time bomb case. If any action seems a likely candidate for absolute moral prohibition, it is the intentional torture of another...

Marianne LeNabat The New School for Social Research Title: On the Significance of Disagreement in Politics The significance of disagreement is both over- and underestimated in theorizations of politics. It is underestimated by Karl Marx, for example, for whom the universal class will simply carry...

Matt Lovett Duquesne University Title: Capitalizing on Women: Globalization and the International Sex Trade This paper examines the phenomena of international trafficking of women and sex tourism in light of an increasingly globalizing world. Globalization, while an amorphous concept, has been...

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