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21st Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference—Markets and Morality
Friday November 4, 2022 - Saturday November 5, 2022
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Markets are a familiar and widespread feature of contemporary economic life. Given the pivotal role they have in organizing our individual and collective activity, markets raise a number of important moral questions, including: What are the moral limitations, if any, of what commodities can be bought and sold on the market? Are markets suitable tools for solving collective action problems, such as climate change? What role do markets play in producing or re-producing structures of oppression, marginalization, and exploitation? Does the competitive nature of markets erode the values of solidarity and community? Are hierarchically ordered workplaces inconsistent with the values of equality or freedom? Does justice forbid certain goods and services from being provided by privately-owned firms?
Join us for the 21st annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference, with keynote speakers Debra Satz and Vida Panitch. We hope to welcome you in person, but you can also join the livestream.
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Schedule (revised)
Friday, November 4, 2022
10:10am–11:10am
Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) and Hamish Russell (Toronto), “Remembering the Work Waheed Hussain”
11:20am–12:20pm
Ben Ohavi (Hebrew), “Why Metaphysics Matters: The Case of Property Law”
12:20pm–1:20pm
Lunch
1:30pm–3:00pm
Vida Panitch (Carleton) “Decommodification as Exploitation” (Keynote Day 1)
3:10pm–4:10pm
Willa Saadat (King’s College London), “Commercial Surrogacy and Commodifying Women’s Reproductive Labour”
4:20pm-5:20pm
Evan Behrle (NYU), “Desert and Economic Independence”
Saturday, November 5, 2022
10:10am–11:10am
Josh Petersen (Michigan), “How Race Makes Place”
11:20am–12:20pm
Marina Moreno (Munich), “How Markets Bias Moral Theorizing”
12:20pm–1:20pm
Lunch
1:30pm–3:00pm
Debra Satz (Stanford) “When Cash Is Not Enough: The Egalitarian Case for Distribution in Kind” (Keynote Day 2)
3:10pm–4:10pm
Sophia Wushanley (Michigan), “The Morality of Women’s Sexual Labour”
4:20pm-5:20pm
Miikka Jaarte (Stanford), “Commerce Republicanism and Civic Virtue”
Keynote Speakers
Debra Satz is the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society, professor of Philosophy, and professor, by courtesy, of Political Science at Stanford University. Her work has focused on the ethical limits of markets, the place of equality in political philosophy, theories of rational choice, democratic theory, feminist philosophy, and issues of international justice.
Vida Panitch is a an associate professor of Philosophy and Ethics and Public Affairs at Carleton University. Her primary research project addresses the moral boundaries of markets – specifically markets in public goods, including health care and education, and physical goods, including body parts and intimate services – and the extent to which theories of exploitation, commodification, and inequality can help us determine their permissible regulation. Dr. Panitch received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 2008.
Please contact Joshua Brecka with any questions about the conference.
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