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14Book Review: Natural Law, Economics, and the Common Good, edited by Samuel Gregg and Harold James (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (6): 773-776. 2014.
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120Computer decision-support systems for public argumentation: assessing deliberative legitimacy (review)AI and Society 19 (3): 203-228. 2005.Recent proposals for computer-assisted argumentation have drawn on dialectical models of argumentation. When used to assist public policy planning, such systems also raise questions of political legitimacy. Drawing on deliberative democratic theory, we elaborate normative criteria for deliberative legitimacy and illustrate their use for assessing two argumentation systems. Full assessment of such systems requires experiments in which system designers draw on expertise from the social sciences an…Read more
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46The CDF collaboration and argumentation theory: The role of process in objective knowledgePerspectives on Science 16 (1): 1-25. 2008.: For philosophers of science interested in elucidating the social character of science, an important question concerns the manner in which and degree to which the objectivity of scientific knowledge is socially constituted. We address this broad question by focusing specifically on philosophical theories of evidence. To get at the social character of evidence, we take an interdisciplinary approach informed by categories from argumentation studies. We then test these categories by exploring thei…Read more
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30Insight and Solidarity. A Study in the Discourse Ethics of Jurgen HabermasPhilosophical Review 105 (4): 547. 1996.Despite the foment of the last two decades, philosophical ethics has fallen on hard times. While an increasing number of universalistic moral theories in the Kantian tradition limit themselves to questions of social and political justice, neo-Aristotelian theories of the good, like that of Bernard Williams, question the very possibility and desirability of a philosophical ethics. Viewed against this landscape, the program of discourse or communicative ethics, initiated by Karl Otto-Apel and then…Read more
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The Transformation of Critical Theory: Essays in Honor of Thomas McCarthy (edited book)MIT Press. 2001.
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56Book symposium on expertise: Philosophical reflections by Evan Selinger automatic press/vip, vince inc. Press 2011Philosophy and Technology 26 (1): 93-109. 2013.
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14Solidarity and the Common Good: An Analytic FrameworkJournal of Social Philosophy 38 (1): 7-21. 2007.
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14Review of Jan kyrre Berg Olson, Evan Selinger, Søren Riis (eds.), New Waves in Philosophy of Technology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (6). 2009.
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25Moral discourse as reflection: Comments on James Swindal’s Reflection RevisitedPhilosophy and Social Criticism 29 (2): 127-136. 2003.In his Reflection Revisited, James Swindal interprets Habermas’s formal pragmatics as recasting the traditional philosophy of reflection in intersubjective, augmentation-theoretic terms. In this review essay, I consider some aspects of Swindal’s interpretation for situated moral criticism. I focus in particular on Swindal’s claim that moral discourse must be preceded by meta-discourses in which actors discuss issues related to the initiation of moral discourse. Although I reject Swindal’s argume…Read more
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17Review essay : Existentialism and formal pragmatics: Martin J. matu tík, postnational identity: Critical theory and existential philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel. (New York: Guilford, 1993Philosophy and Social Criticism 21 (2): 135-140. 1995.
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35Logi Gunnarsson. Making Moral Sense: Beyond Habermas and Gauthier (review)Modern Schoolman 79 (4): 315-318. 2002.
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19Understood as an analysis of clashing argument cultures, C. P. Snow’s “Two Cultures” illuminates challenges to interdisciplinarity. Argument cultures involve not only distinct styles of argumentation and background assumptions, but also emotional attitudes and prejudices, including disdain for other argument cultures, that rest on ideals of inquiry and society. Case studies suggest that fruitful interdisciplinary work across such cultures requires institutionalized boundary contexts in which het…Read more
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6Perceptual Intentionality and Brandom’s Pragmatics: Comments on Michael BarberModern Schoolman 84 (2-3): 267-277. 2007.
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23Review of Andrew Feenberg, Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (8). 2010.
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48Lonergan Y Habermas: Contribuciones a la comprensión Del ámbito moralUniversitas Philosophica 30 (60): 23-49. 2013.
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32Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge. By Patrick Murray (review)Modern Schoolman 66 (4): 316-318. 1989.
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12Review of 'Recognition and Social Ontology' (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (12.23). 2011.In assembling the contributions to Recognition and Social Ontology, the editors aim to bring together "two contemporary, intensively debated fields of inquiry: Hegel-inspired theories of recognition (Anerkennung) and analytic social ontology" (1). Considering the difficulty of this goal, the collection does rather well overall. Robert Brandom, whose own work deeply embodies the analytic engagement with Hegel, provides the lead contribution. Brandom's chapter in turn provokes critical reactions i…Read more
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3Moral discourse as reflection: Comments on James Swindal’s Reflection RevisitedPhilosophy and Social Criticism 29 (2): 127-136. 2003.In his Reflection Revisited, James Swindal interprets Habermas’s formal pragmatics as recasting the traditional philosophy of reflection in intersubjective, augmentation-theoretic terms. In this review essay, I consider some aspects of Swindal’s interpretation for situated moral criticism. I focus in particular on Swindal’s claim that moral discourse must be preceded by meta-discourses in which actors discuss issues related to the initiation of moral discourse. Although I reject Swindal’s argume…Read more
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3217 Reason and Rhetoric in Habermas's Theory of ArgumentationIn eds Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde (ed.), Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time: A Reader, Yale University Press. pp. 358-377
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16Legitimacy and Deliberation in Epistemic Conceptions of DemocracyModern Schoolman 74 (4): 355-374. 1997.
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1Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy: An Overview of the ArgumentIn David M. Rasmussen (ed.), Handbook of critical theory, Blackwell. 1996.
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64Intractable conflicts and moral objectivity: A dialogical, problem-based approachInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 42 (2). 1999.According to the standard version of discourse ethics (e.g. as formulated by Apel, Habermas, and others), the objectivity of moral norms resides in their intersubjective acceptability under idealized conditions of discourse. These accounts have been criticized for not taking sufficient account of contextual particularities and the realities of actual discourse. This essay addresses such objections by proposing a more realistic, contextualist 'principle of real moral discourse' (RMD). RMD is deri…Read more
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18Insight and Solidarity: A Study in the Discourse of Ethics of Jürgen HabermasUniversity of California Press. 1994.Discourse ethics represents an exciting new development in neo-Kantian moral theory. William Rehg offers an insightful introduction to its complex theorization by its major proponent, Jürgen Habermas, and demonstrates how discourse ethics allows one to overcome the principal criticisms that have been leveled against neo-Kantianism. Addressing both "commun-itarian" critics who argue that universalist conceptions of justice sever moral deliberation from community traditions, and feminist advocates…Read more
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13Ideals of Argumentative Process and the Ethnomethodology of Scientific Work: Implications for Critical Social TheorySymposium 9 (2): 313-337. 2005.
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54Habermas, Argumentation Theory, and Science Studies: Toward Interdisciplinary CooperationInformal Logic 23 (2): 161-182. 2003.This article examines two approaches to the analysis and critical assessment of scientific argumentation. The first approach employs the discourse theory that Jurgen Habermas has developed on the basis of his theory of communicative action and applied to the areas of politics and law. Using his analysis of law and democracy in his Between Facts and Norms as a kind of template, I sketch the main steps in a Habermasian discourse theory of science. Difficulties in his approach motivate my proposal …Read more
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12Insight and Solidarity: The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen HabermasUniversity of California Press. 1994.Discourse ethics represents an exciting new development in neo-Kantian moral theory. William Rehg offers an insightful introduction to its complex theorization by its major proponent, Jürgen Habermas, and demonstrates how discourse ethics allows one to overcome the principal criticisms that have been leveled against neo-Kantianism. Addressing both "commun-itarian" critics who argue that universalist conceptions of justice sever moral deliberation from community traditions, and feminist advocates…Read more
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39Lonergan and Habermas: Contributions to understanding the moral domainUniversitas Philosophica 30 (60): 23-49. 2013.
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31Ideals of Argumentative Process and the Ethnomethodology of Scientific WorkSymposium 9 (2): 313-337. 2005.