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Cara Nine, University College, Cork, Ireland

"Democracy, Self-Determination, and Territory"

Abstract: In contemporary theories of group self-determination, an important connection is made between the right of self-determination and the right to territory; the right of self-determination is a necessary condition for the right to territory. (Some theories assume that the right of
self-determination is a necessary and sufficient condition for the right to territory.) Any account of the right of self-determination must also be able to give an account of the connection between self-determination and territory. In this paper, I explore the relationship between accounts of the right of group self-determination from theories of
democracy and the right to territory. Unfortunately for existing democratic accounts of self-determination, I argue that they cannot give an account of a right to territory.  Fortunately, I offer an alternative democratic account of self-determination based on the notion of compromise as an element of justice.  My account, I argue, can explain
why it is that a group with the right of self-determination also may have a right to territory.

Friday, May 16, 2008
3:30 PM
Condon Hall, Room 109


Mauricio Suarez, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

Will talk about his work on representation. He has a book in progress on representation, but he applies his treatment more generally, in particular to paintings, which may be of general interest.

Wedsnesday, May 21, 2003
1-3 PM
Condon Hall, Room 511E

 

past colloquia

John Fischer, University of California, Riverside
"The Truth about Tracing"

Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University
"The Origin of the Good and Our Animal Nature"

Liam Murphy, New York University
"Promise, Practice, Trust"

Gabor Boros, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
"The Concept of Love in the 17th Centery"

Stephanie Ross, University of Missouri, St. Louis"Aesthetic Qualities and the Prospects for Aesthetic Realism"

Walker Ames Lecture: Nancy Cartwright, University of California, San Diego, and the London School of Economics
"Evidence-Based Policy: So, What's Evidence?"

Michael Della Rocca, Yale University
"Violations of the Principle of Sufficient reason in the Leibniz and in Spinoza"

Carole J. Lee, Mount Holyoke College
"Applied Cognitive Psychology and the 'Strong Replacement' of Epistemology by Normative Psychology"

Bharath Vallabha, Harvard University
"Agency, Folk Psychology and Functionalism"

Robert Briscoe, Loyola University, New Orleans
"The Perceptual Priority of Depth"

Kevan Edwards, University of Kansas
"Theories of Concepts: New Approaches, Old Mistakes"

Graham McFee, The Chelsea School, University of Brighton
Professor and Adjunct Professor at CSU, Fullerton
"Explanation in the Republic of Art: some consideration for an Institutional Account of Art"

Jennifer Lackey, Northwestern University
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
"A Justificationist View of Disagreement's Epistemic Significance"

Cheshire Calhoun (Presented by the Program on Values in Society)
Colby College, Chair, Philosophy
"Hope Matters"

Aaron James, University of California, Irvine
"When International Intellectual 'Piracy' is Fair"

Dale Jamieson (Presented by the Program on Values in Society), NYU
“What’s Wrong with Climate Change” - (Keynote address for the Ethics and Climate Change Conference)

Henry Shue (Presented by the Program on Values in Society), Oxford University
"Can Fighting Terrorism Justify Torture?"

Leora Batnitzky (Presented by the Jewish Political Thought Seminar Series), Princeton University
"From Politics to Law: Modern Jewish Thought and the Invention of Jewish Law"

Joy James, Williams College
"Political Literacy and Voice" - A discussion of post-Katrina policing issues and a reflection on radical independent presses and publications.

Carl Craver, Washington University
"When Mechanistic Models Explain: The Hodgkin And Huxley Model of Action Potential"

Laura Franklin-Hall, Columbia University
"Plato's Joints"

William Harms, Seattle Central Community College
"Primitive Content, Translation, and the Emergence of Complex Intentionality"

Joel Velasco, University of Wisconsin
"The Prior Probabilities of Phylogenetic Trees"

Miriam Solomon, Temple University
"New Epistemological Paradigms in Clinical Medicine"


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