The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy invites you to a double seminar to be delivered by Ralf Bader (Fribourg) and Paola Romero (Fribourg). The seminar will be “hybrid”, with some attendees in person and some online.

The Zoom meeting will begin at 15:00 (UK time) on Oct 27. A link will be provided HERE closer to the date.

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Ralf Bader is professor of philosophy at the Université de Fribourg in Switzerland, where he holds the chair for ethics and political philosophy. His research focuses on ethics, meta-ethics, metaphysics, Kant, political philosophy and decision theory. He is also interested in neo-Kantian and early analytic philosophy, as well as the history of political thought. Previously, he was a Fellow of Merton College and an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Oxford, as well as a Bersoff Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at New York University. Prof Bader has held visiting positions at Princeton University, at UT Austin (as a Harrington Faculty Fellow) and at the IFFS in Stockholm. He received his Ph.D. and M.Litt. from the University of St Andrews and did his undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford (St Edmund Hall).

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Paola Romero is a post-doc research assistant at the Department of Philosophy in Fribourg University (Switzerland). She received her PhD in 2020 from the London School of Economics and Political Science, with a dissertation on Kant’s theory of political willing. Romero’s work explores questions about political authority and the relationship between individual freedom and the state. She has published articles in several, peer-reviewed journals, and has nurtured her research from visiting fellowships in Germany, the United States, and Argentina.