Thinking About the Age of Choice, with Sophia Rosenfeld
In this seminar Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld shows how the question of coice is central to concerns of the common good and the social contract, drawing particular attention to a significant and underappreciated shift in how the common good is framed in modern democracies. The seminar is followed by a time of questions and discussion.A video version of the seminar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd15MIGFpCAThe seminar took place over Zoom on 30 September 2025, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To be notified when future seminars, conversations and interviews are uploaded, you can subscribe to the SCRN YouTube channel by clicking on this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7geWYdmGE3kIcJrw8Ebsw?sub_confirmation=1
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Diverse relations to alterity: from relational physics to the transindividual, with Timothy Jackson
In this seminar Dr. Timothy Jackson explores key questions about the social contract and the common good: who or what pre-exists “a social contract” and is capable of entering into it? To what extent is a stable notion of the “common good” achievable amongst subjects who are always at odds with themselves? The seminar is followed by a time of questions and discussion.A video version of the seminar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0D2vcUhjmoThe seminar took place over Zoom on 16 September 2025, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To be notified when future seminars, conversations and interviews are uploaded, you can subscribe to the SCRN YouTube channel by clicking on this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7geWYdmGE3kIcJrw8Ebsw?sub_confirmation=1
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Children’s Periodicals and the Common Good: The Charitable Child, with Kristine Moruzi
In this seminar Dr. Kristine Moruzi explores the world of eighteenth-century magazines soliciting charitable donations from children. She explores the methods and social importance of these magazines, reflecting on how they informed and reflected the common good.The seminar is followed by a time of questions and discussion.A video version of the seminar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYembnNclR4The seminar took place over Zoom on 8 September 2025, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To be notified when future seminars, conversations and interviews are uploaded, you can subscribe to te SCRN YouTube channel by clicking on this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7geWYdmGE3kIcJrw8Ebsw?sub_confirmation=1
Featuring seminars and interviews about the contemporary social contract: what it is, how and why it breaks down, and how it can be strengthened.
Some episodes discuss academic and philosophical approaches to social contract theory; others discuss practical, social and political issues related to the social contract.
This podcast is made possible by funding from the Australian Resesarch Council Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism".
Project webpage: bit.ly/MonSCRN
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