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Religious Political Arguments, Accessibility, and Democratic Deliberation

“inclusivists,” who permit religious contributions to deliberation. Yet even inclusivists provide little reason to think that religious political arguments can be persuasive or fruitful. After all, they tend to ... Prospects for Public Reason Liberalism?, in UNDERSTANDING LIBERAL DEMOCRACY: ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 76, 110 (Terence Cuneo ed., 2012). VALLIER, supra note 12, also rejects the “consensus” public

Towards a Terrestrially Ontological Philosophy of Technology

Technologies are undeniably having a decisive, transformative impact on Earth, yet the currently prevailing empirically orientated approaches in the philosophy of technology seem unable to get to ... method as well as its key elements and structure. Elucidating Blok's emphasis on the experience of climate change, the paper clarifies his call for a terrestrial turn in the philosophy of technology. This

Does Logic Have a History at All?

in a broader context of the history and philosophy of science, and that Kant and his supporters never advocated the logical monism that they are still said to hold today. ... monism that they are still said to hold today. History of logic; Kantian logic; Philosophy of science; Methodology; Logical pluralism 1 Introduction Ever since the monumental works of Bocheński or the

Establishment’s Political Priority to Free Exercise

, political benefits. To prioritize free speech rights, they say, reflects an unjust inflation of individual interest over our common political commitments. These disagreements afflict the Religion Clauses as ... establishment, and of the best political establishment, is one of the enduring problems of classical political philosophy. In Aristotle’s famous scheme, a community becomes an authentic political regime when it

Christians and/as Liberals?

dignity, is the political system that reflects and embodies Christian commitments; and the constitutional legal order that accompanies liberalism, centrally including legally enforced rights of religious ... Truth, LAW & LIBERTY (Apr. 23, 2021), https://lawliberty.org/forum/rawls-and-the-rejection-of-truth/ [https://perma.cc /F3KW-8EHP] (“Rawls’ political philosophy makes no appeal to truth: ‘in public reason

"The Arc of the Moral Universe": Christian Eschatology and U.S. Constitutionalism

to promote social progress. The second and third were both influenced by the Hegelian school’s philosophy of history, in which God is synonymous with human conscience, social conflict, and an ... MAKING: INTERPRETING AND AMERICAN TRADITION 234 (2011). 134 See RORTY, supra note 126, at 20–21. 135 Dewey’s Political Philosophy, STAN. ENCYCLOPEDIA PHIL. (updated July 26, 2018), https

Deleuze’s Conception of Virtuality Versus Virtual Computer Objects

Is Gilles Deleuze’s concept of virtuality sufficiently close to the concept of virtuality used in informatics and the philosophy of information for computer-created objects and virtual reality to ... most commonly found in the philosophy of information and debates on the digital revolution, and precisely this is the aim of this paper. By analysing the virtuality concept outlined in The Actual and the

The Use of Examples in Philosophy of Technology

This paper is a contribution to a discussion in philosophy of technology by focusing on the epistemological status of the example. Of the various developments in the emerging, inchoate field of ... question as to whether philosophy still has a proper object of study is a broader problematic within academic philosophy. One answer is: No, philosophy of language is fundamental linguistics, political

Physicalism Without the Idols of Mathematics

. “Mathematical concepts” are just idols, that philosophy can completely deny and physics can completely ignore. ... more complicated than this, and there are two basic reasons for this. On the one hand, those strands of the philosophy of mathematics that deny in principle the existence of mental or abstract

Clothing and the Discovery of Science

-gatherer communities where nakedness remained the norm. This novel perspective aims to advance the history and philosophy of science, revealing the emergence of science as a situated phenomenon contingent on ... stress is on ensuring a disconnection from immediate experience to achieve reliability. In its ultimate formulation, analytic philosophy, even the most objective observations must be distrusted along with

Connecting Things in the Setting of Foundations and Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the special issue

of this special issue is broad in scope, since its contributions range over different topics in logic and philosophy of science. Following Sellars' idea that “the aim of philosophy, abstractly ... among all of these. To better understand those connections, the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Sciences (SILFS) organized its 4th Postgraduate Conference. The conference took place in Urbino

"It is Tash Whom He Serves": Deneen and Vermeule on Liberalism

of society. Some on the left concededly do. They aren’t liberals. The insouciant enthusiasm, in factions on the left and the right, for dismantling American political institutions calls to mind Roger ... citation to the Notre Dame Law Review, and includes this provision in the copyright notice. * John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, Department of Philosophy

Movement Administrative Procedure

. This Article gives the APA a hard look through the lens of movement law—an approach to legal scholarship that is informed by and supportive of left social movements that seek to transform the political ... movement activity around the administrative state and focused attention on the APA. 2023] M O V E M E N T A D M I N I S T R A T I V E P R O C E D U R E 2179 Part II provides an account of the political

The Influence of Quantum Physics on Philosophy

We ponder the question whether quantum physics has had any influence on philosophy, and if not, whether it ought to have had any. Answers to these questions are provided, and they turn out to depend ... reach philosophy? Has the Quantum Revolution had any influence on philosophy? If it had not had any influence, should it have had any influence? These questions are the topic of this paper. A

Epidemiological Models and Epistemic Perspectives: How Scientific Pluralism may be Misconstrued

political leaders seeking to justify their political decisions (Devlin  & Boseley, 2020) . This has raised understandable concerns about transparency surrounding the use of scientific outcomes to inform ... implicated in policy design processes, how politics intertwine with science in informing effective policies, and the role and relative influence of scientists in complex political decision-making processes

Whose Liberalism, Which Christianity?

liberalism they seek to defend, some contributors either propose or imply a broad distinction between what Andrew Koppelman calls liberalism as “philosophy”1 and liberalism as “political practice.”2 I will ... example, distinguishes a package of “‘liberal’ political institutions” from liberal philosophy, arguing that the former can be better defended by “New Natural Law” (NNL) arguments than by liberal philosophy

Relativism Versus Absolutism in Linguistics

Whether truth is absolute or relative has been a widely discussed topic for over two thousand years in epistemology and the philosophy of science. However, this issue has not yet been discussed ... , and categories, get in touch with the deep foundational problems which exist in their discipline. Although relativism has been one of the most challenging topics in epistemology and the philosophy of

The Transcendental and the Agonistic: A Media Philosophy Perspective

This critical response to Dominic Smith’s ‘Taking Exception: Philosophy of Technology as a Multidimensional Problem Space’ begins by outlining the key contributions of his essay, namely his ... Smith's essay provides a number of exciting questions for the philosophy of technology, none the least suggesting new images with which we should describe our practice of theory development and ideas of

Natural Law, Parental Rights, and the Defense of "Liberal

show, through these concrete examples related to parental rights, how natural law principles can save liberal political institutions not only from their integralist critics, but also from liberalism’s ... natural law tradition more generally are indeed incompatible with liberalism understood as a philosophy, they are not incompatible with what we commonly refer to as “liberal” political institutions.19 On

Why Finance Needs Philosophy (and Vice Versa): Some Epistemic and Methodological Issues

rethinking requires a new look at the theories of finance that is philosophical in kind. In effect, as Martha Nussbaum claims, if the absence of philosophy in economics is arguably one of the main reasons for ... flaws in our theories on financial systems. In this paper I discuss the mutual relations and benefits between finance and philosophy. First, I examine the contribution that philosophy can offer to finance