Conference of the
Northern Political Theory Association
Friday February 19th 2010
Programme
1030 Tea/ Coffee
1100 – 1200 Dr Adrian Walsh (University of New England, Australia)
‘Against Parsimony?
A Middle Path between Virtue Impoverished
and the Virtue Rich Forms of Institutional Design’
1200 – 1210 Break
1210 – 1310 Jaakko Kuosmanen (Edinburgh)
‘The Costs and Obstacles in the Right of Exit’
(Winner of the Postgraduate Paper Competition)
1310 -1410 Lunch
1410 – 1510 Prof. Christopher Thornhill (Glasgow)
‘Crises of legitimacy in global society?
Perspectives from the sociology of political ideas’
1510-1520 Break
1520 -1620 Prof. Chandran Kukathas (LSE)
'The Labour Theory of Justice'.
All sessions will be held in The Hebdomadar’s Room, St Salvator’s Quad.
For further information please contact Dr Craig Smith cs210@st-and.ac.uk