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Dr. Jan Philip Dapprich (Düsseldorf): The Problem of Original Acquisition in Robert Nozick’s Theory of Justice (Zoom)

Research Seminar Theoretical Philosophy Forschungsseminar

Abstract:

A major problem in Robert Nozick’s historical entitlement theory of justice is that he lacks an explanation of how property rights (or entitlements) first come about (original acquisition). Nozick does adopt a version of Locke’s proviso, which requires that no one be made worse off by an acquisition. In the presented paper, I take seriously the possibility that the Lockean proviso could not only serve as a necessary, but also as a sufficient condition for justice in acquisition. I find that the proviso is insufficient to justify the existence of Nozickian property rights.

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Dr. Jan Philipp Dapprich received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 2020 with a thesis on economic rationality and distributive justice. Before joining the philosophy department at Glasgow, he studied physics and philosophy at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and political economy at the University of Manchester. His research interests are in political philosophy, economic philosophy, and the philosophy of science. He co-authored Philosophy and Logic of Quantum Physics, published in the series Philosophical Foundations of the Sciences and their Applications, and currently teaches philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

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15.12.2020, 18:30 Uhr - 20:15 Uhr
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