high contrast version
pl polski (Polska)

Calendar - Interdyscyplinarne Centrum Etyki (INCET)

Skip banner

Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics

Metascience of Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

Diametros

A Journal of Philosophy

Philosophy in Practice

A Popular Science Journal

An Anthology of Bioethics

ed. Włodzimierz Galewicz
INCET logo

BIOUNCERTAINTY - ERC Starting Grant no. 805498

ERC logo

December 2025

20251211
Previous week
Next week

11 of December 2025 – Martin O’Neill – Limiting Markets: Socialisation, Decommodification, and the Sense of Justice

Date: 11.12.2025
Start Time: 17:30
Place: Grodzka 52
Organiser: Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics
Event website: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/37802068611721?p=bvFvVriApZtpFkm5l8
11 of December 2025 – Martin O’Neill – Limiting Markets: Socialisation, Decommodification, and the Sense of Justice

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Martin O’Neill will deliver a talk "Limiting Markets: Socialisation, Decommodification, and the Sense of Justice". The meeting will take place on December 11 at 5:30 PM in room 25 at 52 Grodzka Street and via the MS Teams platform.

Abstract

My talk addresses the questions of the size of the public sector in a just society, and the range of goods and services which should be decommodified, and provided to citizens outside of market relationships, in such a society. I examine some of the different answers given to these questions by (a) liberal egalitarians (particularly Rawls) and (b) social democrats and democratic socialists (particularly Esping-Andersen). Then, making use of the work of theorists including Waheed Hussain and Ralph Miliband, I examine the plausibility of a 'left Rawlsian' position, which would marry socialist insights about the functions of public provision with a liberal egalitarian account of the principles of justice, in order to defend an institutional model of a just society which would embody a form of liberal democratic socialism.