A new reading group, associated with the ERC/UKRI KantianDESERT project will start on 21 May. All are welcome, especially those with broad research interests in social justice, law, political and moral philosophy and related topics.
The KantianDESERT reading group is part of the 5-year €2-million ERC-selected UKRI-funded Advanced Research Grant 'Kantian Justice: A Responsibility-enhancing Desert-sensitive Theory' (KantianDESERT), led by Professor Sorin Baiasu. Joining Professor Baiasu on the project are two postdoctoral researchers, Dr Tom Bunyard and Dr Tom Whyman.
KantianDESERT is designed to formulate a new model of distributive justice in response to growing economic disparities globally, by offering a distinctive position within dominant egalitarianisms in current political theory/philosophy. Through several original contributions, the project builds an innovative case for a theory sensitive to individual just deserts. KantianDESERT is designed to produce work that not only has significant scientific, but also socio-political impact – it promises to break the cycle of structural economic injustice and to contribute to a fairer and more stable society. Find out more about the project here.
The first text that we will look at is Kevin Kinghorn's The Nature of Desert Claims: Rethinking What It Means to Get One's Due (CUP 2023).
Reading group meetings before the new academic year will take place on Wednesdays, 3.30-5.00pm: 21 May, 28 May, 11 June, 25 June, 9 July; more meetings to be confirmed. The sessions are hybrid (128 19-23 Abercromby Square and Teams).
Please contact: Tom Bunyard at t.bunyard@liverpool.ac.uk if you would like to attend.