Rights Workshop 2019

The 1st annual Rights Workshop was held at MIT on May 30-31, 2019. Our distinguished keynote: Frances Kamm (Rutgers). The event was organized by Samuel Dishaw (Harvard), Joseph Bowen (St. Andrews), and Daniel Muñoz (MIT/Monash), with generous support from the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

The theme in 2019 was rights and supererogation. The theme for 2020’s workshop, to be held at St Andrews, will be rights and harm. (The site for that event will go online by the end of 2019.)

May 30

1:00 - 1:30pm
Coffee and snacks (32-144)

1:30 - 3:00pm
Julia Markovits (Cornell)

3:30 - 5:00pm
Renee Jorgensen Bolinger (ANU/Princeton)

5:45pm
Dinner for speakers and commentators, Mead Hall

Format

Our keynote is a standard talk with comments and Q&A.

The other three sessions are “workshop style.” We circulate the papers to everyone registered. Each session starts with the comments (25m); then the author’s response (10-20m); and from there, we have an open Q&A (45m).

All talks are in the Stata Center (Building 32), Room 144.

May 31

1:00 - 1:30pm
More coffee and snacks (32-144)

1:30 - 3:00pm
Julia Driver (WUSTL)

3:30 - 5:00pm
Keynote: Frances Kamm (Rutgers)

5:45pm
Unofficial dinner, Cambridge Brewing Company

Commentators

Joseph Bowen (St Andrews)
Sanford Diehl (Harvard)
Anni Räty (MIT)
Kieran Setiya (MIT)