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give rise to corresponding general recommendations for how to do empirical political philosophy. Proponents of this approach should take care to (1) check for inappropriately narrow (and broad) samples ... theorizing. 1 Introduction Political philosophy has traditionally mainly been conducted from the proverbial philosopher’s armchair.1 Only in recent decades a methodological shift or expansion has taken place
, expertise and expert disagreement, social justice, climate change ethics, racism and gender. These issues raise questions in ethics, social and political philosophy, but also in epistemology, philosophy of ... philosophy in non-academic settings. On the other hand, we witness philosophers going public in the sense of intervening in ongoing political debates. The difference concerns the origin of the subject matter
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
ground for answering to this question by showing that it cannot be answered within a widely influential framework in the philosophy of action that has been dubbed the Standard Conception of Action, shared ... within a widespread framework in the philosophy of action that has been dubbed the ‘Standard Conception of Action’ (cf. Schlosser, 2019: §2) . That framework is a broad school, uniting causal theories of
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
-conscious machines via ad hoc means. Second, we can identify ad hoc AI by taking inspiration from the notion of an ad hoc hypothesis in philosophy of science. Third, given the first and the second claim, the ... , whether a being has conscious (affective) experience determines whether it has moral status (Dung, 2022b; Jaworska & Tannenbaum, 2021; Shevlin, 2020b) . 2 Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-Universität
. 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
work. Acknowledgements For comments, I would like to thank audiences of the UCL Colloquium in Political Philosophy, the VI Braga Meetings on Ethics & Political Philosophy, the German Analytic Philosophy ... Conference, the Public Goods Workshop in Zurich and the Ashoka Colloquium in Political and Legal Theory. I am especially indebted to Paul Bou-Habib, Paula Casal, Andrée-Anne Cormier, Anca Gheaus, Geert Keil
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
can be justified. We will address these two problems by combining ideas taken from legal theory and moral philosophy. Our analysis will emphasise the importance of the voluntary involvement of the ... University in Bratislava , Bratislava , Slovak Republic 1 Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Public Research Institution , Bratislava , Slovak Republic
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
opportunities for welfare . Philosophical Studies , 56 ( 1 ), 77 - 93 . Axelsen , D. , & Nielsen , L. ( 2015 ). Sufficiency as Freedom from Duress . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 23 ( 4 ), 406 - 426 ... egalitarian self-relations . British Journal of Political Science , 52 ( 2 ), 908 - 920 . Huseby , R. ( 2010 ). Sufficiency: Restated and defended . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 18 ( 2 ), 178 - 197
that are less tightly connected to rationality, such as political philosophy or the philosophy of language. As is characteristic for a handbook of this kind, certain key concepts or aspects are ... Informatics Campus , Saarland University , Campus E The concept of rationality is staple in philosophy, though it is not exclusive to it. Other disciplines - psychology in particular - take an interest in it
. 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
The problem of dream skepticism – i.e., the problem of what can justify one’s belief that they are not dreaming – is one of the most famous problems in philosophy. I propose a way of responding to ... two separate imagistic experiences in the same modality. 1 Introduction The problem of dream skepticism is one of the most famous problems in philosophy. It can be put simply: What can justify one’s
