Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics

Ruth Chang is the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. She holds a JD in law from Harvard and a DPhil. in philosophy from Oxford. Her research focusses on values, normativity, conflict, rationality, choice, and agency. She has given lectures or been a consultant at Google, the World Bank, CIA, US Navy, Big Pharma, TellTale Games and many other institutions. Her TED talk about decision-making has over 9 million views. She has written guest essays for popular publications and has been interviewed about her work by newspapers, magazines, and radio and television programmes from around the world. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Amia Srinivasan is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. She holds a BA from Yale and a BPhil and DPhil from Oxford. Her research spans epistemology, political philosophy, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy. She is the author of The Right to Sex (2021), and is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. Her essays on sex, animals, death, the university, technology, anger, politics, and other topics have also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere.

1. Moral Revolutions
Kimberley Brownlee: On the Urgency of Kick-starting a Moral Revolution to Save Ourselves
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Making Change
2. AI and Democracy
Hélène Landemore: Can Artificial Intelligence Bring Deliberation to the Masses?
Philip Pettit: The Two Roles of Deliberation in Democracy
3. Trust and the Rule of Law
Thomas W. Simpson: Trust and the Rule of Law
Onora O'Neill: Cultures of Trust and the Rule of Law
4. Taking Responsibility
Pauline Sliwa: Taking Responsibility 
Pamela Hieronymi: Taking Responsibility, Defensiveness, and the Blame Game
5. Praise
Zoë Johnson King: What Are We Praiseworthy For?
Susan Wolf: Understanding Praise
6. Blame
James Edwards: What Can We Say to Each Other?
Alison Hills: Standing to Blame: Can it Be Defended?
7. Reasonableness
Hasan Dindjer: The Reasonable and the Justified
Thomas Scanlon: Varieties of Reasonableness
8. Duty
Nicolas Cornell: Looking and Seeing
Jeremy Waldron: On Duty
9. Political Obligation
Ashwini Vasanthakumar: Pluralism in Political Obligation
Nancy L. Rosenblum: All Our Imperatives
10. Justice and Equality
Gina Schouten: Distributive Egalitarianism as Aspirational Justice
Samuel Scheffler: Relational Equality and Pluralism about Justice
11. Justice and Groups
Robin Dembroff: The Metaphysics of Injustice
Sally Haslanger: Social Systems and Intersectional Oppression
12. Domination
Lori Watson: On Domination
Catharine A. MacKinnon: Of Domination and its Ending
13. Pornography
Kate Greasley: Pornography and the Limits of Speech Act Analysis
Rae Langton: Pornography: 'Enacting' or 'Eroticising' Women s Subordination?
14. Law and Intentions
Brian Flanagan: Intentional Legislation: What Makes a Text a Statute?
Michael Bratman: Intentions, Procedures, and Social Rules
15. Argumentation
Luís Duarte d'Almeida: Arguing A Contrario
John Horty: A Contrario Argument and Default Reasoning