Visiting fellowships for the 2009-10 academic session
The Centre is pleased to announce that the following have been awarded visiting fellowships to be held during the 2009-10 academic session.
September to December 2009
Dr Kimberley Brownlee,
Department of Politics,
University of Manchester, UK
Project: Protest and Punishment
The purpose of this research is to examine both the defensibility of various forms of personal and public protest and the justifiability of different legal and political responses to protest. The work aims to address certain key theoretical and practical issues in moral political and legal philosophy such as the requirements for civic responsibility and civic virtue, the limits of state authority, the parameters of political participation rights, and the justifiability of state punishment.
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December 2009 to March 2010
Dr Adrian Walsh,
Department of Philosophy,
University of New England, Australia
Project: "On Usury and Justice: The Moral Foundations of the Taking of Interest"
In this project I will be exploring the moral foundations of the practice of lending at interest: in particular, I will explore how one might justify the profits associated with the practice and whether there will be occasions where loans should be either prohibited or constrained. A central assumption of the project will be an acceptance of both the necessity and moral legitimacy of some forms of money-lending; yet at the same time it will be argued that some financial practices are morally pernicious.
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April to June 2010
Dr Robert Lamb
Department of Politics,
University of Exeter, UK
Project: "Sharing Nature's Bounty: Universal Equal Endowment.
My project aims to provide an account of the moral intuitions that underpin left-libertarian accounts of justice and an analysis of what such accounts demand of political institutions. It will address the following questions: what grounds the moral case for equal endowment of resources? what grounds the moral case against alternatives such as status quo norms of inheritance? What constitutes an equal endowment? What resources are to be equalised, and how do we know when they are equal?