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Precis of Utopophobia: on the limits (if any) of political philosophy

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

Analyzing image-based political propaganda in referendum campaigns: from elements to strategies

Due to the increasing prominence of social network services, political communication has experienced a paradigm shift. To communicate with internet users, politicians, candidates, and political ... pages. Initially, they provide text-only material on their pages; later, to increase engagement, they include photos, images, and videos. This paper investigates image-based political images in Taiwan for

Detecting political biases of named entities and hashtags on Twitter

Ideological divisions in the United States have become increasingly prominent in daily communication. Accordingly, there has been much research on political polarization, including many recent ... computational perspective. By detecting political biases in a text document, one can attempt to discern and describe its polarity. Intuitively, the named entities (i.e., the nouns and the phrases that act as

Broad, subjective, relative: the surprising folk concept of basic needs

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

Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident

, providing a trove of public opinion that diplomatic agents can collect. Social media bots actively participate in political events through influencing political communication and purporting coordinated ... well as the perception of political issues by social media users. Twitter; Bots; Digital diplomacy; Bridging; News; Social media 1 Introduction Digital diplomacy can be understood as the use of

Does being a ‘bad feminist’ make me a hypocrite? Politics, commitments and moral consistency

, 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

Mutual entailment between causation and responsibility

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

Argumentation-induced rational issue polarisation

. 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

From relational equality to personal responsibility

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

Philosophy and its children: logic, computation, and the emergence of natural and social science

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

Philosophical producers, philosophical consumers, and the metaphilosophical value of original texts

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

Epistemic Health, Epistemic Immunity and Epistemic Inoculation

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

Reaching the bubble may not be enough: news media role in online political polarization

web. A way of reducing polarization would be by distributing cross-partisan news among individuals with distinct political orientations, i.e., “reaching the bubbles”. This study investigates whether ... enables identifying highly central bubble reachers, nodes that can distribute content among users with diverging political opinions-a fundamental metric for the proposed study. After that, we analyzed how

Identification and description of relationships between actors involved in crop diversification experiences across Europe

environmental and health concerns and the desire to make profit and innovate. We relate the cognitive factors to organizational, technical, economic, and political factors and suggest levers for crop ... experiences. We highlight the cognitive factors influencing the choice of farmers to diversify and link them to organisational, technical, economic, and political factors. We suggest levers for crop

Differences in collaboration structures and impact among prominent researchers in Europe and North America

Scientists collaborate through intricate networks, which impact the quality and scope of their research. At the same time, funding and institutional arrangements, as well as scientific and political ... arrangements or different scientific and political cultures, leave measurable fingerprints in collaboration networks [ 12–15 ]. For example, we know that resource-intensive fields (such as astrophysics or high

Fairness and risk attitudes

. 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

Design and analysis of tweet-based election models for the 2021 Mexican legislative election

preceding election day. We explore different election models that assign political preference to either the ruling parties or the opposition. We find that models using data with geographical attributes ... analysis of public online data can outperform conventional polling methods, and that political analysis and general forecasting would likely benefit from incorporating such data in the immediate future

Autonomised harming

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

Three sources of social indeterminacy

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

How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events

associated with them. Here, we study the dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during two global political events: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the 2022 French Presidential election ... play a major role in modern democracies, enabling individuals to openly discuss political and societal issues as well as respond to crises and emergencies [ 1, 2 ]. However, they also expose users to a