[SAP Sponsored Event] Public Reason Across Time and Space: New Voices and Perspectives

[SAP Sponsored Event] Public Reason Across Time and Space: New Voices and Perspectives

11 December, 2025 
– 12 December, 2025
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

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Wednesday 11 December 2025 

 

9.00-9.15 Welcome and introduction Sala Von Appen 
9.15-10.15 Keynote Speaker 1: 

Carlos Peña (Universidad Diego Portales): TBC 

 

Sala Von Appen 
10.15-10.45 Coffee 1 
10.45-12.45 Panel 1 (In person) 

 

Sala Entel 2 
Animal Rights, the Problem of Stability, and the Political Responsibility to Change the Overlapping Consensus 

 

Constanza Carolina Guajardo Ortega (Universidad Católica de Chile) 
From Procedural Abstraction to Ethical Presence: Reimagining the Foundations of Public Reason 

 

Kevin Hujing (Metropolitan State University of Denver) 
Public Reason and Value Change Ibo van de Poel (Tu Delft) 
Q&A – Comments 
12.45-13.45 Lunch 
13.45-15.45 Panel 2 (Online) 

 

Sala Entel 2 
Fake News, Conspiracy Theories, and Epistemic Disobedience: A Public Reason Perspective 

 

Andrei Bespalov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) 
Beyond the Limits of Public Reason: Lessons from India Elizabeth Thomas and Ravi Chakraborty (Alliance School of Liberal Arts, Bangalore) 
Temporal Pluralism in Public Reason. Between Democratic Agency and Intergenerational Justice 

 

Riccardo Valenti (Università Ca’​ Foscari Venezia) 
Q&A – Comments 
15.45-16.15 Coffee 2 
16.15 – 17.45 Panel 3 (hybrid) 

 

Sala Entel 2 
Post-Traumatic Public Reason Rebeccah Leiby (Elon University) 
Justification Across Time: Phased Legitimacy and Substantive Public Reason in Sustainability Transitions Claudio Santander Martínez (Universidad Católica de Chile) 
Q&A – Comments 
18.00 – 19.00 Keynote Speaker 2 

Razón pública y laicidad: una comparación 

Faviola Rivera Castro (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) 

Sala Verde 
19.00 Dinner 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 12 December 2025 

 

9.30 – 11.30 Panel 4 (Online) 

 

Sala Celeste 
Kapwa as an alternative to prevailing liberal models of public reason’ 

 

Pamela Ann J. Boongaling (University of the Philippines) 
‘“Unreasonable” Publics and the Downfall of Philippine Liberalism: How Idealizing Public Reason Hampers Political Dialogue’ 

 

Justin Felip Daduya (University of the Philippines) 
‘Indigenous Environmental Knowledge for Political Liberals’ 

 

Sebastián Rudas Neyra (Fundação Getulio Vargas) 
Q&A – Comments 
11.30-12.00 Coffee 1 
12.00 – 13.00 Keynote Speaker 3 

Matteo Bonotti (Monash University): TBC 

Sala Celeste 
13.00 – 13.45 Lunch  
13.45 – 15.45 Panel 5 (In person) 

 

Sala Celeste 
‘Global Public Reason as a Normative Basis of Legitimacy: Governing Pluralism in an Age of Disagreement’ 

 

Simone Zhenting Mao (Harvard University) 
‘Razón Pública Supranacional como Estrategia Compensatoria Frente al Déficit Democrático más Allá el Estado’ Constanza Núñez Dinald (Universidad de Chile) 
‘The Antecedents and Afterlives of Public Reason in a Nascent Democracy: Insights from India’ 

 

Badrinath Rao (Kettering University) 
Q&A – Comments 
15.45 – 16.00 Coffee 2 
16.00 – 17.00 Keynote Speaker 4 

Chad Flanders (Saint Louis University):  

Is Public Reason Possible? 

 

Sala Celeste