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Does Political Equality Require Equal Power? A Pluralist Account

In this paper, I criticize two views on how political equality is related to equally distributed political power, and I offer a novel, pluralist account of political equality to address their ... , Vallentyne P , Wall S (eds) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy , Volume 4 . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 110 - 137 Mill JS ( 1861 [2008] ) Considerations on representative government . Electric Book

Fay Niker and Aveek Bhattacharya (eds.): Political Philosophy in a Pandemic: Routes to a More Just Future

, The Netherlands - Accepted: 25 March 2022 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 Political Philosophy in a Pandemic consists of twenty chapters divided into five parts ... . Each part applies a broad theme or concept from political philosophy to the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of articles treat the United Kingdom and the United States context as their focus, and, more

The Justice and Ontology of Gastrospaces

societies can develop the capacity for a sense of justice and the capacity to form, revise, and pursue a conception of the good. Integrating political philosophy with analytic ontology, we then unfold a ... resources of analytical political philosophy and analytic ontology. On the one hand, it brings out the conceptual and ontological assumptions that implicitly underlie much political philosophical analysis; we

Corporate Counterspeech

Are corporations ever morally obligated to engage in counterspeech—that is, in speech that aims to counter hate speech and misinformation? While existing arguments in moral and political philosophy ... ; Duties of rescue; Complicity - Corporations are potentially potent sources of counterspeech, and activists have increasingly called on corporations to speak up against threats to civil and political

Introduction: Symposium Limitarianism: Extreme Wealth as a Moral Problem

ongoing debate in political philosophy about the concentration of wealth and economic justice. ... insights in the case for and against limitarianism in distributive justice and policymaking. The hope is that this symposium will contribute to the ongoing debate in political philosophy about the

What’s Wrong with Social Hierarchy? On Niko Kolodny’s The Pecking Order

decisive, and suggest that egalitarians should be open to alternative ways of mitigating the threat of hierarchy posed by political rule. ... range of topics in moral and political philosophy. It, therefore, resists easy summary. Nevertheless, the book’s central arguments share a common structure. Kolodny categorizes various ‘received materials

The Philosophy and History of the Moral ‘Ought’: Some of Anscombe’s Objections

According to G.E.M Anscombe’s paper ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’, modern moral philosophy has introduced a spurious concept of moral obligation, and has therefore made a mistake that the Greeks, and ... 'Modern Moral Philosophy'1 has exerted considerable influence since it was published, in 1958. It is probably one of the main sources for contemporary interest in 'virtue ethics'. Those who accept some of

Explainability, Public Reason, and Medical Artificial Intelligence

The contention that medical artificial intelligence (AI) should be ‘explainable’ is widespread in contemporary philosophy and in legal and best practice documents. Yet critics argue that ... explainable artificial intelligence . Mind Mach 32 : 219 - 239 Zerilli J ( 2022 ) Explaining machine learning decisions . Philos Sci 89 : 1 - 19 Zimmermann A et al ( 2022 ) The political philosophy of data and

Editorial ‘Political Normativity. Critical Essays on the Autonomy of the Political

://doi.org/10.1111/papa.12031 Favara G ( 2022 ) “Political Realism as Reformist Conservatism” . Eur J Philos 30 ( 1 ): 326 - 344 . https://doi. org/10.1111/ejop.12636 Geuss R ( 2008 ) Philosophy and Real ... Enzo Rossi ( 2015 ) “Political Norms and Moral Values” . J Philosophical Res 40 (April): 455 - 458 . https://doi.org/10.5840/jpr201511539 Larmore C ( 2020 ) What Is Political Philosophy? Princeton

A Realist Membership Account of Political Obligation

The paper offers a realist account of political obligation. More precisely, it offers an account that belongs to the Williamsian liberal strain of contemporary realist theory (as opposed to a ... describes a political-ethical 4 The distinction is not exclusive to Williams’ philosophy but it is the Williamsian usage that matters most to this paper’s argument. For another uses, see: Dancy 1995

Vaccine Passports and Political Legitimacy: A Public Reason Framework for Policymakers

philosophy, and in particular to political liberalism (Gaus 2010; Quong 2011; Rawls 2005) . It is the idea that to be legitimate, political rules ought to be justified to those individuals who are subject to ... Israel . N Engl J Med 386 : 1712 - 1720 . https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2201570 Barnhill A , Bonotti M ( 2022 ) Healthy eating policy and political philosophy: a public reason approach . Oxford University

What does it mean to have an equal say?

Democracy is the form of government in which citizens have an equal say in political decision-making. But what does this mean precisely? Having an equal say is often defined either in terms of equal ... , however, that drawing such a sharp distinction between meaning and value in political philosophy is impossible (Dworkin 2004) . Indeed, one’s judgements about the value of democracy likely influence what

Realism and Political Normativity

A prevailing understanding of realism, chiefly among its critics, casts realists as those who seek a ‘distinctively political normativity’, where this is interpreted as meaning nonmoral in kind ... of the book of the thought that … the relationship between moral philosophy and politics is not deductive, … many of the abstract values found in moral philosophy and much liberal political theory are

Why Limitarianism Fails on its Own Premises – an Egalitarian Critique

justice, since vast wealth is a threat to political equality and the revenue raised from taxing wealth can be used to meet urgent needs. She also claims that limitarianism is problem-driven philosophy and ... Robeyns' concerns about economic inequality have reason to be wary of limitarianism. Limitarianism; Economic justice; Political equality; Egalitarianism; Ingrid Robeyns; Problem-driven philosophy

Signing on: A Contractarian Understanding of How Public History is Used for Civic Inclusion

What makes public history more than just another hill to fight over in culture war politics? In this paper I propose a novel way of understanding the political significance of how public history ... ; Collective memory; Contractarianism; Social and political philosophy; Applied ethics 1 Introduction Public history certainly seems to be political. Protests target statues for removal. Governments send

Distinctively Political Normativity in Political Realism: Unattractive or Redundant

Political realists’ rejection of the so-called ‘ethics first’ approach of political moralists (mainstream liberals), has raised concerns about their own source of normativity. Some realists have ... structure the political domain; a paradigmatic example being the value of political liberty. And moral norms and values are the norms and values treated in moral philosophy proper (at the very least from Kant

Political Realism as Methods not Metaethics

This paper makes the case for a revision of contemporary forms of political realism in political theory. I argue that contemporary realists have gone awry in increasingly centring their approach ... through such analytical critique is “unproductive.” Jubb (2019: 361–2) elaborates: “Realism is most sensibly understood as a hostility to a way of doing political philosophy and theory… The challenge that

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Issue “Moral Phenomenology and Moral Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ , USA Moral experience plays a crucial role in people's lives and deliberations. However, when one or another philosophical “ism” claims to capture ... of philosophical investigation has not generally been part of moral philosophy although lately interest in moral phenomenology has gained increasing attention from philosophers.1 This special issue

Doxastic Affirmative Action

. In: Sobel D , Vallentyne P , Wall S (eds) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy , vol 5 . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 1 - 38 Voigt K ( 2018 ) Relational Equality and the expressive dimension ... political decisions to members of groups whose acceptance as social equals is under threat in other domains” (Kolodny 2014: 309) . Anderson—another relational egalitarians argue that how we regard each