Workshop on Public Reason
            November 16 & 17, 2007


    The Workshop will be held in the Philosophy Seminar Room, Social Sciences Building Room 311.
    (Click here for a University of Arizona map)

    Please register if you plan to attend, by writing me at ggaus@email.arizona.edu. The Workshop is
    open to everyone who (1) reads the papers ahead of time and (2) attends all the sessions. There will be
    dinners on Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th.

    Thanks to the Arizona Philosophy Department for its financial assistance.

    To access the papers (you need to be registered ) click here.


    Friday, November 16

    3:00-3:15 Welcome

    3:15-4:45: S.A. Lloyd, University of Southern California, "Public Reasons, Private Judgments, and the
    Requirements of Reciprocity."

    Commentator: Tom Christiano, University of Arizona


    5:15-6:45: Jonathan Quong, University of Manchester, "Public Reason and the Overlapping
    Consensus."

    Commentator: Alyssa Bernstein, Ohio University

    Dinner

    Saturday, November 17

    9:30-11:00: Steven Wall, Bowling Green State University, "On Justificatory Liberalism."

    Commentator: Bruce Brower, Tulane University


    11:30-1:00 Chris Bertram, University of Bristol, "Insiders and Outsiders: Public Justification and
    Immigration."

    Commentator:  James  Nickel,  Arizona State University


    1:00-2:30 Lunch


    2:30-4:00 Andrew Lister, Queens University, "Public Justification and the Limits of State Action".

    Commentator: Peter de Marneffe, Arizona State University         



    4:30-6:00pm,  Jerry  Gaus, University of Arizona "The Place of Religious Belief in Public Reason
    Liberalism"

    Commentator: Christopher Eberle, Navel Academy

    Dinner