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Daily Summary

This schedule for the virtual Summer School on Political Epistemology is subject to change and should not be treated as final until notified otherwise. The times indicated are in British Summer Time (BST).

Monday 27 July
13:15 – 13:30 BST Introduction and Welcome
13:30 – 14:45 BST Teaching Session I 
Deep Disagreements on Values, Justice, and Moral Issues:
Their Meta-Ethical Relevance and the Need for an Ethics of Disagreement

Manuel Knoll Istanbul Şehir University/Universität München
14:45 – 15:00 BST Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:15 BST Teaching Session II
Epistemological Issues in the Theory of Equality of Opportunity (EOp)
John Roemer Yale University
Tuesday 28 July
09:30 – 10:45 BST Teaching Session III
What is So Good About Democracy?
Gordon Finlayson University of Sussex
10:45 – 11:15 BST Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 BST

Delegate Presentations
Evolution of the Concept of Democracy in the Constitutional Treaties of the European Union Jaanika Erne
Epistemic Democracy and the Truth Connection Robert Siscoe
Post-Conflict Peace Building and Inclusive Constitution Making Sivakaran Navaratnam

13:00 – 14:00 BST Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:15 BST Teaching Session IV
Brexit: Choosing the Open Sea
Attracta Ingram University College Dublin
15:15 – 15:45 BST Coffee Break and Day's Close
Wednesday 29 July
09:30 – 10:45 BST Teaching Session V
Republics of Conversation
Sophie Grace Chappell Open University
10:45 – 11:15 BST Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 BST Delegate Presentations
Dialogic Injustice and the Problem of Achieving a Stable Overlapping Consensus Elisa Piras
Rawls and Kant on Free Speech and the Limits of Obedience to Political Authority Stefano Lo Re
Freedom of Speech and Parrhesia in Uncertain Whistleblowing Lingyu Jing
13:00 – 14:00 BST Lunch Break
14:00 BST onwards Free Afternoon
Thursday 30 July
09:30 – 10:45 BST Teaching Session VI
Teleology in Politics. Kant’s Approach
Jakub Szczepański Jagiellonian University Krakow
10:45 – 11:15 BST Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 BST Delegate Presentations
Citizens' Culpability for Unjustified Political Beliefs Carline Klijnamn
Moral Naturalism, Environmental Ethics and Just War: Should Natural Facts Inform our Ethical Relations with the Non-Human World in the Context of War? Talia Shoval 
On Methodological Problems of Justice after War: Normative Approaches to Democratic Procedures in Divided Societies Camilo Andrés Ardila Arévalo
13:00 – 14:00 BST Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:15 BST Teaching Session VII
Collective Decision-making: A Theoretical Introduction
Thomas Mulligan Georgetown University
15:15 – 15:45 BST Coffee Break and Day's Close
Friday 31 July
09:30 – 10:45 BST Teaching Session VIII
Merit and the Epistemological Argument Against Desert
Sorin Baiasu Keele University
10:45 – 11:15 BST Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 BST Teaching Session IX
Political Knowledge: What it is, and How to Measure It
Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij Birkbeck College
12:30  – 13:00 BST Closing Session