St Andrews Conference on Corporate Agency and Shared Responsibility
Mon 2nd November 2015 to Tue 3rd November 2015
Lower College Hall, University of St. Andrews
Day 1: Monday, 2nd November
9.00-9.30 Welcome and Introduction
9.30-11.00 First panel
Dr. Thomas Smith: Good and Bad Reasons for Attributing Agency to Groups
Dr. Avia Pasternak: Corporate Agency and Corporate Rights
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Second panel
Prof. Alejo Sison: Participation in the Corporate Common Good: Insights from Aquinas
Dr. Rowan Cruft: Individual Victimhood for the Common Good?
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Third panel
Dr. Elizabeth Ashford: Hunger’s Unwitting Executioners: The Nature of Shared Responsibility for the Persistence of Severe Poverty
Prof. Tim Mulgan: How Should Rule Utilitarians Think About the Future
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break
15.15-16.00 Dr. Annabel Brett:State Agency / Individual Agency in the Context of War
16.00-17.00 Break
17.00-19.00 Public Lecture in Parliament Hall, St Andrews
17.00-18.30 Professor Philip Pettit: Giving Corporations their Due – But No More than Their Due
– Introduction by Professor Louise Richardson (Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University)
18.30-19.00 Wine Reception
Day 2: Tuesday, 3rd November
9.00-9.30 Tea and coffee
9.30-11.00 Fourth panel
Dr. Marko Simendic:Persona civitatis and Thomas Hobbes’ definition of a commonwealth
Dr. Samuel Mansell: Hobbes on Corporate Agency
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Fifth panel
Dr. Jeroen Veldman:Ontological and epistemological backgrounds of the corporation
Dr. David Gindis: Legal Personhood and the Firm: Avoiding Anthropomorphism and Equivocation
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Sixth panel
Dr. Garrath Williams: Corporate Authority and Corporate Responsibility
Dr. Stephen Dunne: Corporate Agency, Cybernetic Organisation Theory and Hayek
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.00 Seventh panel
Prof. Paddy Ireland: Corporate Schizophrenia: The Corporation as a Separate Legal Person and an Object of Property
Dr. David Ciepley: Will and Responsibility in Member Corporations, Property Corporations, and Firms
Participant details
- Dr Elizabeth Ashford, Senior Lecturer in Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews
- Dr Annabel Brett, Reader in the History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge
- Dr David Ciepley, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Denver
- Dr Rowan Cruft, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Stirling
- Dr Stephen Dunne, Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption, University of Leicester
- Dr David Gindis, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Hertfordshire
- Prof Paddy Ireland, Professor of Law, University of Bristol
- Dr Samuel Mansell, Lecturer in Business Ethics, University of St Andrews
- Prof Tim Mulgan, Professor of Moral & Political Philosophy, University of St Andrews
- Dr Avia Pasternak, Lecturer in Global Ethics, University College London
- Prof Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University
- Dr Marko Simendic, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade
- Prof Alejo Sison, Professor of Philosophy, Universidad de Navarra
- Dr Thomas Smith, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Manchester
- Dr Jeroen Veldman, Senior Research Fellow, Cass Business School, City University London
- Dr Garrath Williams, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Lancaster University
Registration is free and open to all, but places are limited, so please contact us if you’d
like to register:
Elizabeth Ashford, ea10@st-andrews.ac.uk
Samuel Mansell, sfm5@st-andrews.ac.uk
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Scots Philosophical Association, and from the University of St Andrews School of Management
