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The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Events
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 11:00Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe University
FKH colloquium
Azizjon Bagadirov (Justitia Center for Advanced Studies)
»The Limits of Procedural Autonomy: Competency, Authenticity, and the Case for a Normative Account«
Abstract
In this paper, I discuss potential limitations of the dominant content-neutral procedural accounts of personal autonomy. I focus on some of the central conditions such accounts stipulate, related to competency in one's reflection and to the authenticity of one's preferences, arguing that these conditions face difficulties in dealing with diffuse forms of autonomy-compromising practices. I also consider hybrid approaches that seek to incorporate normative constraints while preserving content-neutrality, noting a concern that, while resolving certain issues, they might do so at the cost of raising others. I conclude with suggesting an alternative (substantive and normative) account and with ways to answer the potential objections it might face.
The speaker
Azizjon Bagadirov is a political philosopher with an interest in sociology, critical theory, and ancient ethics. In 2025/26 he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, at the invitation of the Justitia Center for Advanced Studies funded by the Alfons and Gertrud Kassel Foundation. Prior to the Justitia fellowship, he was a Hannah Arendt Doctoral Fellow in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, where he received his Ph.D. in 2024, and a Chevening Scholar at the University of Southampton. The title of his dissertation is »Human flourishing and structural injustice«.
Participation
Closed event. Contact: Beate Sutterlüty; E-mail: b.sutterluety@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de
