The 8th Workshop in Political Philosophy will be held on January 9 and 10, 2026 at the University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 3, in a room called "Sitzungszimmer GEWI" (room number 0270). This edition of the series is organized by Julian F. Müller, David P. Schweikard, and Fabian Wendt. Like every year, the submitted abstracts were double-blind peer reviewed. The workshop is supported by the University of Graz and the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP).
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9
10:00-10:15 Welcome
10:15-11:00 Christian Rostbøll (University of Copenhagen): Social Hierarchy, Power, and the Justification of Democracy
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Jordan Walters (University of Oxford): Longtermism and the Dead
12:15-13:00 Felix Danowski (University of Vienna): Bureaucracy and Epistemic Injustice
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:45 David P. Schweikard (HHU Düsseldorf): Instigative Permissibility? Potential Pitfalls of Theorizing Political Contestation
14:45-15:30 Michele Giavazzi (LMU Munich): Making Excuses for Political Incompetence
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 Julian F. Müller (University of Graz): Governing the Conceptual Commons
16:45-17:30 Inari Lampinen (University of Hamburg): Is an Unfair Compromise Justified? Expanding on Friderike Spang’s Account of Fair Compromise
17:30-17:45 Break
17:45-18:30 Hrishi Joshi (University of Arizona): Democracy and the Academy
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10
11:30-12:15 Henry Krahn (Goethe University Frankfurt): Protest as Holding Others Accountable
12:15-13:00 Tuğba Sevinç (Kadir Has University): Mitigating the Exclusion Problem: Defining National Identity through what “We Do together"
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:45 Fabian Wendt (Virginia Tech): A. John Simmons and the Moral Power of Conventions
14:45-15:30 Sanjar Akayev (CEU Vienna): When Can One (Permissibly) Withdraw from Society?
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 Ben Sachs-Cobbe (University of St Andrews): Should Liberals Worry about Coercion?
16:45-17:30 Chia-Hung Huang (Academia Sinica): The Ethics of De Facto States – a Conceptual Framework
17:30-17:45 Break
17:45-18:30 Dorota Mokrosinska (Leiden University): On Political Activism by Journalists
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9
10:00-10:15 Welcome
10:15-11:00 Christian Rostbøll (University of Copenhagen): Social Hierarchy, Power, and the Justification of Democracy
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Jordan Walters (University of Oxford): Longtermism and the Dead
12:15-13:00 Felix Danowski (University of Vienna): Bureaucracy and Epistemic Injustice
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:45 David P. Schweikard (HHU Düsseldorf): Instigative Permissibility? Potential Pitfalls of Theorizing Political Contestation
14:45-15:30 Michele Giavazzi (LMU Munich): Making Excuses for Political Incompetence
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 Julian F. Müller (University of Graz): Governing the Conceptual Commons
16:45-17:30 Inari Lampinen (University of Hamburg): Is an Unfair Compromise Justified? Expanding on Friderike Spang’s Account of Fair Compromise
17:30-17:45 Break
17:45-18:30 Hrishi Joshi (University of Arizona): Democracy and the Academy
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10
11:30-12:15 Henry Krahn (Goethe University Frankfurt): Protest as Holding Others Accountable
12:15-13:00 Tuğba Sevinç (Kadir Has University): Mitigating the Exclusion Problem: Defining National Identity through what “We Do together"
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:45 Fabian Wendt (Virginia Tech): A. John Simmons and the Moral Power of Conventions
14:45-15:30 Sanjar Akayev (CEU Vienna): When Can One (Permissibly) Withdraw from Society?
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 Ben Sachs-Cobbe (University of St Andrews): Should Liberals Worry about Coercion?
16:45-17:30 Chia-Hung Huang (Academia Sinica): The Ethics of De Facto States – a Conceptual Framework
17:30-17:45 Break
17:45-18:30 Dorota Mokrosinska (Leiden University): On Political Activism by Journalists
