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arguments so far do not touch. You might be attracted to the following: The Human Nature Constraint A normative political theory is defective and so false if it imposes standards or requirements that ignore ... their practical value for producing other things of value. On the other hand, I am not satisfied to think that the value of understanding political justice is merely aesthetic, so I put those cases aside
justice: A response . In D. Bell & A. de-Shalit (Eds.), Forms of justice: Critical perspectives on David Miller's political philosophy (pp. 349 - 372 ). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Miller , D. ( 2007 ... and Language , 26 ( 4 ), 482 - 505 . Schuppert , F. ( 2013 ). Distinguishing basic needs and fundamental interests . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy , 16 ( 1 ), 24 - 44
, this can generate worries about hypocrisy. This article investigates whether and when members of political movements with certain ideals ought to worry they are being hypocritical. It first provides a ... hypocritical. It first provides a diagnosis of why worries about hypocrisy seem common in the political arena. I argue that accusations of hypocrisy are apt when one is in insufficiently committed to the values
The standard view in philosophy is that responsibility entails causation. Most philosophers treat this entailment claim as an evident insight into the ordinary concepts of responsibility and ... philosophy; Causal cognition 1 Introduction Sartorio (2007, p. 750) writes, “here’s a very natural idea about the relation between moral responsibility for outcomes and causation: moral responsibility for an
. https://doi.org/10.1007/ s11098-018-1124-5 Sunstein , C. R. ( 2002 ). The law of group polarization . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 10 ( 2 ), 175 - 195 . Taber , C. S. , & Lodge , M. ( 2006 ... political party compared to other parties. Respondents with a high difference in affect would contribute to higher polarisation, while respondents with no difference would contribute to depolarisation. Other
political philosophy – including other egalitarians – relational egalitarians have said relatively little on what role personal responsibility should play in their theories. For example, is equality ... University Press. Elford , G. ( 2017 ). Survey article: relational equality and distribution . Journal of Political Philosophy , 25 ( 4 ), e80 - 99 . https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12139 Eyal , N. ( 2006
The middle chapters of Soames’s The World Philosophy Made (comprising his accounts of developments in logic, computation, linguistics, probability and decision theory, cognitive science, and physics ... last, a direct account of philosophy’s—yes, even academic philosophy’s—continuing engagement with issues questions of value, of moral and political philosophy, and even ‘‘the meaning of life’’. (Walpole
In recent years, two competing methodological frameworks have developed in the study of the epistemology of philosophy. The traditional camp, led by experimental philosophy and its allies, has made ... the epistemology of philosophy based on the reactions, or intuitions, people have to works of philosophy. In contrast, multiple authors have followed the lead of Deutsch and Cappelen by setting aside
performing certain kinds of epistemic activity, such as questioning certain ideas, believing certain sources, or making certain inferences. Epistemic inoculation occurs when social, political or cultural ... . Political Psychology , 36 , 1 - 43 . Kahneman , D. ( 2011 ). Thinking, fast and slow . Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Kelly , T. ( 2003 ). Epistemic rationality as instrumental rationality: A critique . Philosophy
. Journal of Political Philosophy , 15 ( 3 ), 276 - 295 . Tversky , A. , & Kahneman , D. ( 1992 ). Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty . Journal of Risk and Uncertainty , 5 ... School of Economics and Political Science , London , UK According to a common judgement, a social planner should often use a lottery to decide which of two people should receive a good. This judgement
former and David Miller, ‘Distributing Responsibilities,’ Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (2001): 453– 471, for the latter. 36 One difficulty is that the related notions of ‘accountability’ and ... of Political Philosophy 19 (2011): 190–208; Robert E. Goodin and Christian Barry, ‘Benefiting from the Wrongdoing of Others,’ Journal of Applied Philosophy 31 (2014): 363–376. 4.1.2 The Acceptance
construction in critical theory and continental philosophy (which are often genealogical in character), is its ahistoricity. Of course, we all know that the ways in which the social world is structured are ... integrated into our preferences.9 Rather 6 Gilbert (2006 : Chap. 10) highlights the affinities between her plural-subject account of political society and actual-contract theory. 7 ‘When a we-mode group has
? Basing decisions on statistical correlates of protected class membership isn’t prohibited in general (consider the feature having a Ph.D. in Philosophy). Two responses. First, in cases where a feature is ... thereby demonstrates an important kind of respect for the decision-subject: she both recognizes and gives appropriate weight to their status as a fellow member of her moral and political community in her
Criterion that follows from plausible up-to-date assumptions about confirmation and meaning and which deserves a place in contemporary semantics, pragmatics, epistemology, and philosophy of science ... but not of meaningfulness; see Supplement E, Section 1, of Leitgeb and Carus (2021) for further discussion. However, Carnap’s work in philosophy of science—such as, in his most mature formulation
Pre´cis of philosophy within its proper bounds Edouard Machery 0 0 University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , USA Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds (Machery 2017) contributes to the lively ... metaphilosophical discussion of the methods of philosophy that emerged as a central concern in contemporary philosophy fifteen years ago, in large part because of the growth of experimental philosophy, at the time a
, their second-stage rating of their understanding is significantly lower than at the first stage. Sloman and colleagues hypothesized that revealing the illusion of explanatory depth in the political ... different people who together understand the relevant causal mechanisms. When it’s a political policy, you adopt it on the grounds that parties have mechanisms for integrating expert judgment, from a variety
Conceptual engineering is sometimes presented as an alternative to conceptual analysis. But one important objection to conceptual analysis threatens to carry across: that philosophy investigates ... phenomenon objection' poses to conceptual engineers. Finally, I develop a new response to the strong phenomenon objection. In doing so, I motivate, articulate and defend an account of philosophy and its
. ' Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?' , The Journal of Political Philosophy , 9 ( 2 ), 168 - 181 . Reprinted. In H. E. Kyburg & M. Thalos (Eds.), Probability is the Very Guide of Life (pp. 331 ... , B. , & Colyvan , M. ( 2019 ). Legal probabilism: a qualified defence . Journal of Political Philosophy , 27 ( 4 ), 448 - 468 . Kadane , J. B. , & Schum , D. A. ( 1996 ). A Probabilistic Analysis of
philosophy. To test this hypothesis, a randomized controlled experiment was carried out (for incentives and learning), as well as two lab experiments (for group consultation, and for experimental control ... economic methodology of old long before it became popular in philosophy (Simon and Bartel 1986) . In a famous experiment, two other pioneers of behavioral economics, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1983
this paper, I argue against commitment as Williams defines it, drawing upon insights from the socialist tradition as well as mainstream analytic moral philosophy. I show that given the mutual ... Nikhil Venkatesh 0 0 University College London , Philosophy, London , UK In his famous 'Integrity Objection', Bernard Williams condemns utilitarianism for requiring us to regard our projects as
