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Précis of Philosophy, Literature and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition

This précis gives an overview of my book Philosophy, Literature, and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition which is the subject of a book symposium in Philosophia. The overview covers the book’s ... works of fictional literature, has been mostly studied as a propositional attitude which the reader adopts toward the content of the work. In analytic philosophy of literature, imagination is seen much of

Kant’s Formula of Autonomy: Continuity or Discontinuity?

In two recent articles I have argued that Kant’s legal and political philosophy can shed new light on his much-contested account of moral autonomy and that important changes in his political theory ... ). Political Representation . In E. N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/political-representation/. Fk [Justus Friedrich Runde]. (1782

Contingency in Political Philosophy

The paper examines John Horton’s realist political theory, in particular his critique of John Rawls’s “high” or “liberal moralism”, and seeks to determine the extent to which, together with Horton ... ) Introduction to the first series of Philosophy, Politics and Society, Peter Laslett delivered the funeral oration for political philosophy. 'For the moment, anyway' he declared 'political philosophy is dead

Should We Take Up the Slack?: Reflections on Non-ideal Theory in Ethics

situations are called non-ideal circumstances in political philosophy. With the increasing importance of non-ideal theories of justice and ethics, the question of how we should act in non-ideal situations has ... philosophers in recent years, especially in political philosophy. There are two main controversies regarding ideal and non-ideal theories of justice. The first controversy concerns which theory, ideal or non

Promoting data harmonization to evaluate vaccine hesitancy in LMICs: approach and applications

on health outcomes with datasets on potentially important contextual factors, like political violence or development, due to incompatible levels of geographic support; differing data formats and ... , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI , USA 1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI , USA 2 Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research

Recklessness, Agent-Relative Prerogatives, and Latent Obligations: Does Belief-Relativity Trump Fact-Relativity with Respect to Our Rights?

Political Philosophy Vol. 7. Oxford University Press. He believes it is an ordinary light switch and extraordinarily unlikely to be rigged to explode a bomb. Alice, however, believes that the switch is rigged ... of the duty to save . In D. Sobel (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. (Vol. 7) . Oxford University Press. Moore , M. S. , & Hurd , H. M. ( 2011 ). Punishing the awkward, the stupid, the weak

The Principle of Autonomy’s Enduring Validity

writings. This comment concurs with Sorin Baiasu that the merits of Kant’s analogy were untouched by his evolving political views. The analogy presupposes that when lawmakers legislate, they do so as ... Press. Kant , I. ( 2016a ). Reflections on the philosophy of right . In The Cambridge Edition of the works of Immanuel Kant: Lectures and drafts on political philosophy (Ed. F. Rauscher and tr. F

Metaphysical Causal Pluralism: What Are New Mechanists Pluralistic About?

Although the literature on the issue of pluralism within the philosophy of science is very extensive, this paper focuses on the metaphysical causal pluralism that emerges from the new mechanistic ... ” on causation, with a few exceptions such as S. Glennan, P. Machamer and J. Bogen. Causality; Causal pluralism; New mechanical philosophy; Metaphysics of causation 1 Introduction In the current

Reinventing Black Womanhood: Alternative Media and Identity Discourse in the 2019 Chicago Mayoral Race

to examine the multiple identities of Black women and how such identities determine their representation in socio-cultural and political spaces. The findings from this study show that agency is a major ... ., 2019) . Lightfoot eventually emerged as the winner. Lori Lightfoot’s Black woman identity sets a new tone for the city’s political climate as well as the Black community. It showed a vigorous attempt to

The Theological Philosophy of William Temple: A Desire Argument and a Compassionate Theodicy

In this paper, I will investigate the early work of William Temple (1881–1944). My contention is that Temple’s systematic philosophy contains resources for an interesting variant of a desire argument ... histories of philosophy, though he was conversant with philosophical classics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and Lotze, and, to list a few of the contemporaries or nearcontemporaries: Balfour

Fuller’s Clock: A Case for Legal Non-Positivism in Artefactual Theory of Law1

This article covers the traditional problems of the philosophy of law: the controversies between realism and normativism, on the one hand, and positivism and non-positivism, on the other. The author ... changes along with historical, political and ideological conditions (which are external to science, and often irrational). For the author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the philosophy of

In Defence of Necessity

. (Eds.), A companion to contemporary political philosophy (Vol. 2 ). Wiley-Blackwell. Shue , H. ( 2016 ). Last resort and proportionality . In S. Lazar & H. Frowe (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of ethics of ... affiliations. Foot , P. ( 1978 ). The problem of abortion and the doctrine of double effect . In P. Foot (Ed.), Virtues and vices and other essays in moral philosophy . Basil Blackwell. Lazar , S. ( 2016 ). War

WAC REPORT Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) 2023 Summer Institute

Encore This project examines the environmental geography of deforestation in the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rain forest in the context of dramatic political currents at the regional, national, and ... (Political Science) Book Review on Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies (2022) by Johannes Urpelainen. This book review introduces an important book that expands the

Public Reason in a Pandemic: John Rawls on Truth in the Age of COVID-19

In “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical,” John Rawls suggests an approach to a public conception of justice that eschews any dependence on metaphysical conceptions of justice in favor of ... . Rawls; Public reason; Truth; Pandemic; Coronavirus; Political philosophy 1 Introduction I’d also like to add a footnote to the effect of "I’m grateful to Jared Riggs and Robert Talisse for thorough

Aspects of Practical Bindingness in Kant: Introduction

Philosophy Programme, School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University , Keele ST5 5BG , UK One of the few points of consensus in the Kantian literature is that Kant's Moral Law is binding ... in his moral philosophy to the concept of autonomy by coming to systematic grips with his political thought qua origin of that concept. “Moral Autonomy as Political Analogy” calls on the Naturrecht

Upon Entering a Second Half-Century with Philosophia

reason Philosophia welcomes contributions in traditional areas of philosophy such as normative ethics, meta-ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, political philosophy, action theory, general philosophy of ... , Africana philosophy, indigenous philosophy, Latinx philosophy, applied philosophy of language, political epistemology, environmental philosophy, and philosophy of technology, as well as research that

Can Local Comparative Judgements Justify Moderate Perfectionism?

the life of a person who spends her time with family and philosophy – political liberals must concede that the state can sometimes permissibly use perfectionist reasons. I argue in this paper that this ... pursue this approach in (Kugelberg, 2021 ). Kugelberg , H. D. ( 2021 ). Civic equality as a democratic basis for public reason . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy . https

Dirty Hands and Moral Conflict – Lessons from the Philosophy of Evil

hands and ordinary moral conflict. In order to do so, I will borrow from the terminology employed in recent debates in the philosophy of evil which have tackled a similar problem to the one at hand, i.e ... . Clarifying the concept of dirty hands has a variety of benefits. Firstly, we may hold that conceptual clarity in and of itself mat‑ ters in analytic philosophy. Secondly, there has been some debate as to

Getting on to the Same Page: War, Moral Fundamentalism, and Convention

. ( 2014 ). The reciprocity theory of rights . Law and Philosophy , 33 ( 3 ), 281 - 308 . Steinhoff , U. ( 2008 ). Jeff McMahan on the moral inequality of combatants . Journal of Political Philosophy , 16 ... Press. Cohen , G. A. ( 2006 ). Casting the first stone: Who can, and who can't, condemn the terrorists? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement , 58 , 113 - 136 . Darwall , S. ( 2009 ). The second-person

Redistributive wars

hypothetical examples in political philosophy e.g. Dennett (2013) ; Elster (2011) ; List and Valentini (2016) ; Brownlee and Stemplovska (2017) . 27 E.g. Coates (2016) ; Lee (2012) ; Walzer (2000 ... Ethics and Political Philosophy, and the conference Theoretical and Applied Ethics in St. Petersburg. This work was supported by a Niels Stensen Fellowship award and a postdoctoral research grant of the