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Moral and political philosophy for a broken world

Adeno Addis (Tulane): The Role of Human Dignity in a World of Plural Values and Ethical Commitments. Thom Brooks (Durham): Equality, Fairness and Responsibility in an Unequal World. Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden (NHH) and Ulrik H. Nielsen, Jean-Robert Tyran, Erik Wengstrom (Copenhagen): Fairness is Intuitive. Rob van Someren Greve (Amsterdam): “Ought”, “Can”, and Fairness. S. Mathhew Liao (NYU): Human Rights as Fundamental Conditions for a Good Life. Carina Fourie (Zurich): To Praise and to Scorn: The Problem of Inequalities of Esteem for Social Egalitarianism. Kehinde Bamikole (West Indies): Poverty and Moral Obligation. Marisa Iglesias Vila (Pompeu Fabra): Poverty and Humanity: Individual Duties and the Moral Point of View. Oded Stark (Bonn), Marcin Jakubek (Klagenfurt), and Fryderyk Falniowski (Cracow): Reconciling the Rawlsian and the Utilitarian Approaches to the Maximization of Social Welfare. Carina Fourie and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer (Zurich) and Fabian Schuppert (QUB): The Nature and Distinctiveness of Social Equality: An Introduction. Rutger Claassen (Utrecht): Public Goods, Mutual Benefits, and Majority Rule. Wojciech Sadurski (Sydney): Defending Public Reason. Ben Cross (Sydney): Public Reason and the Exclusion of Oppressed Groups. Thomas Alured Faunce (ANU): Bioethics and Human Rights. From Philosophy and Public Issues, a symposium on Moral and Political Philosophy for a Broken World. What if ethics finds its cause in physical, molecular processes? Hendrik Gommer on the biological foundations of global ethics and law. The first chapter from Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights by Alan Patten.