BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4834-0467640bcb979eb1c83ccaab94d273d3@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T181707Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T144500 SUMMARY:RepRules Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:\nLindsey J. Schwartz\, a doctoral candidate in the philosop hy department at the University of Wisconsin&ndash\;Madison\, will prese nt &ldquo\;Social Equity and Reasonable Pluralism: Some Thoughts About D emocratic Values and Fidelitous Representation.&rdquo\; Social equity an d reasonable pluralism are both vague terms. They are increasingly cast as competing aims of good policy work\, pitted against each other as con ceptually incompatible\, and characterized as key players in a pro- vs. anti-democratic struggle. Pluralism cannot account for fine-grained diff erences in the life experiences and resulting public interests of differ ent groups of people the way that social equity does. Accounting for the difference between social equity and pluralism is vital to good represe ntation and positive social outcomes. A focus on the value of social equ ity is preferable to a focus on the value of pluralism. Advocates argue that policy work that centers on the aims of social equity tends to make society more democratic than does policy work that centers on the value of pluralism.\n\nIn this talk\, Schwartz pushes back on this narrative. She aims to offer some clarity on the concepts at issue\, including soc ial equity\, reasonable pluralism\, and democracy\, and to offer some in sight into what it means to represent all people with fidelity without u ndercutting\, subverting\, or eroding democratic principles.\n\nSchwartz '\;s research addresses questions of ethics and policy in criminal ju stice\, education\, and law. Her interests include thinking about how so ciety is and ought to be disposed toward its members who have less than full agency as a matter of natural or social circumstance.\n\nFor more d etails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/reprules_seminar_series/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Lindsey J. Schw artz, a doctoral candidate in the philosophy department at the Universit y of Wisconsin–Madison, will present “Social Equity and Reas onable Pluralism: Some Thoughts About Democratic Values and Fidelitous R epresentation.” Social equity and reasonable pluralism are both va gue terms. They are increasingly cast as competing aims of good policy w ork, pitted against each other as conceptually incompatible, and charact erized as key players in a pro- vs. anti-democratic struggle. Pluralism cannot account for fine-grained differences in the life experiences and resulting public interests of different groups of people the way that so cial equity does. Accounting for the difference between social equity an d pluralism is vital to good representation and positive social outcomes . A focus on the value of social equity is preferable to a focus on the value of pluralism. Advocates argue that policy work that centers on the aims of social equity tends to make society more democratic than does p olicy work that centers on the value of pluralism.

In this talk, S chwartz pushes back on this narrative. She aims to offer some clarity on the concepts at issue, including social equity, reasonable pluralism, a nd democracy, and to offer some insight into what it means to represent all people with fidelity without undercutting, subverting, or eroding de mocratic principles.

Schwartz's research addresses questions o f ethics and policy in criminal justice, education, and law. Her interes ts include thinking about how society is and ought to be disposed toward its members who have less than full agency as a matter of natural or so cial circumstance.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/re prules_seminar_series/

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