1st Oxford Comparative Political Philosophy Symposium

    Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etcEvent organized by non-HKBU units

    Description

    We are a group of scholars aiming to facilitate substantive philosophical argument amongst political theorists across diverse cultural traditions. In recent years there has been an increasing interest among Anglo-American political theorists in comparing the diverse ways of how the thinkers of different cultural traditions address political issues. The Oxford University Press started an interesting series “Oxford Studies in Comparative Political Theory.” Journals have also published work about Confucian, Islamic, Indian and African political theories (such as American Political Science Review, Philosophy and Social Criticism and European Journal of Political Theory). Despite this growing body of literature, there is still inadequate substantive engagement across different traditions about fundamental questions in political theory and public policy. The driving interest of our project is to promote such engagement, comparing competing (or possibly similar) answers to substantive questions, testing arguments and assumptions across traditions in philosophical debate, and then ask whether this debate can shed light on questions of substantive policy.


    With these issues in mind, we attempt to create a regular platform for fruitful cooperation and exchange of ideas among comparative political theorists. This three-day symposium is the first step. Scholars are invited to present their recent, original research in this subfield. The symposium each year will be organized around a particular theme in political theory and public policy. Here is the information of the 1st symposium:
    Period10 Jul 201912 Jul 2019
    Held atUniversity of Oxford, United Kingdom
    Degree of RecognitionInternational