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64Dilemas en torno a la verdadTheoria 10 (2): 109-124. 1995.This article argues for an intermediate standpoint concerning the theory of truth which finds an equilibrium between realist an epistemic conceptions of truth. At the same time it is accepted that truth is a notion with an ultimate realist sense, but it is made clear that this intuitive sense does only have a non-trivial (i.e. non-“disquotational”), reading if the function of “truth” is seen from within the epistemic framework of our practices of belief-formation (i.e. of confirmation and revisi…Read more
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61Alternative visions of a new global order: what should cosmopolitans hope for?Ethics and Global Politics 1 (1-2). 2008.In this essay, I analyze the cosmopolitan project for a new international order that Habermas has articulated in recent publications. I argue that his presentation of the project oscillates between two models. The first is a very ambitious model for a future international order geared to fulfill the peace and human rights goals of the UN Charter. The second is a minimalist model, in which the obligation to protect human rights by the international community is circumscribed to the negative duty …Read more
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138Review essay: Communicative action and rational choicePhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (2): 253-263. 2005.
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12Universalismo y pluralismo en la ética del discursoIsegoría 17 37-58. 1997.En este artículo se intenta mostrar cómo es posible defender un punto de vista universalista y cognítivista en cuestiones morales sin tener que negar el pluralismo ético que caracteriza a las sociedades modernas. Para ello se analiza una dificultad que ha sido planteada recientemente a la ética del discurso de Habermas en relación con la posibilidad de compaginar ambas cosas. Si defender un universalismo moral implica defender lo que Habermas denomina "la premisa de una respuesta correcta» en re…Read more
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16Citizens in robesPhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (4-5): 453-464. 2017.The normative place of religion in liberal democracies is as contested as ever. This contestation produces understandable fears that liberal democratic institutions may ultimately be incompatible with religious forms of life. If this is so, if there is genuinely no hope that secular and religious citizens can equally take ownership over and identify with these institutions, then the future of democracy within pluralist societies seems seriously threatened. These fears commonly arise in debates c…Read more
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20Realismo y constructivismo en la teoría moral kantiana: el ejemplo de la ética del discursoIsegoría 27 115-129. 2002.En este artículo se argumenta contra la interpretación metaética del kantianismo moral como una forma de constructivismo o antirealismo moral. Dado que los kantianos no comparten el expresivismo característico del antirealismo moral estándar, el constructivismo kantiano parece llevar a una posición inherentemente inestable que sólo puede desarrollarse o bien en un realismo consistente con el cognitivismo moral kantiano o en un decidido antirealismo moral. Tomando la ética del discurso de Haberma…Read more
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27RepliesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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25King, Magda. A Guide to Heidegger’s Being and Time (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (1): 181-183. 2002.
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120Heidegger, language, and world-disclosureCambridge University Press. 2000.This book is a major contribution to the understanding of Heidegger and a rare attempt to bridge the schism between traditions of analytic and Continental philosophy. Cristina Lafont applies the core methodology of analytic philosophy, language analysis, to Heidegger's work providing both a clearer exegesis and a powerful critique of his approach to the subject of language. In Part One, she explores the Heideggerean conception of language in depth. In Part Two, she draws on recent work from theo…Read more
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134Deliberation, Participation, and Democratic Legitimacy: Should Deliberative Mini‐publics Shape Public Policy?Journal of Political Philosophy 23 (1): 40-63. 2014.
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53Can democracy go global?Ethics and Global Politics 3 (1): 13-19. 2010.In his Democracy across borders, Bohman articulates an ambitious political proposal for a future international order. Perhaps its most salient feature is the promise of global democracy without a world government. Global democracy is usually associated with the ideal of a world community unified under a set of global democratic institutions. Fear of the totalitarian consequences that such a concentration of power would generate often leads even the staunchest cosmopolitans to limit their democra…Read more
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95Religion in the Public Sphere: Remarks on Habermas's Conception of Public Deliberation in Postsecular SocietiesConstellations 14 (2): 239-259. 2007.
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2Is Objectivity Perspectival? Reflexions on Brandom's and Habermas's Pragmatist Conceptions of ObjectivityIn Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Orbach Bookman & Cathy Kemp (eds.), Habermas and Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 185--209. 2002.
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30World-Disclosure and Critique: Did Habermas Succeed in Thinking with Heidegger and against Heidegger?Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2008 (145): 161-176. 2008.Any attempt to elucidate the interconnections between phenomenology and critical theory must at some point confront the question of what role Heidegger's philosophy plays in that equation. The historical or biographical side of the question is interesting in its own right and can be philosophically illuminating.1 My focus here, however, will be systematic. In particular, I would like to analyze the similarities and differences between Heidegger's hermeneutic transformation of phenomenology in Be…Read more
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58Referencia Y verdadTheoria 9 (2): 39-60. 1994.The main thesis of this article consists in that the two concepts “reference” and “truth” have an ultimate realist sense of which all epistemologizing conceptions -like relativism and incommensurabilist theses- necessarily have to come short. The arguments for this thesis are embedded in a revision of the ‘direct’-reference-position as well as of recent arguments against epistemic notions of truth, to show in the next,evaluating step how it is exactly the realist kernel of both concepts that mak…Read more
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7Habermas-Handbuch (edited book)Metzler. 2009.Bekanntester deutscher Philosoph der Gegenwart. Seit mehr als fünfzig Jahren prägt Jürgen Habermas das intellektuelle Leben Deutschlands und darüber hinaus. Mit seinem Werk nimmt er entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Wissenschaften, auf Politik und aktuelle gesellschaftliche Diskussionen. Neben einem Überblick zur Biografie stellt das Handbuch Habermas intellektuelle Kontexte, wie z. B. die Frankfurter Schule, vor und beleuchtet die wichtigsten Stationen seines komplexen Werkes. Der Schlussteil inf…Read more
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Rational Acceptability and TruthIn David M. Rasmussen & James Swindal (eds.), Jürgen Habermas, Sage Publications. pp. 4--303. 2002.
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La razón como lenguaje. Una revisión del "giro lingüístico" en la filosofía del lenguaje alemanaCritica 26 (76/77): 237-248. 1994.
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27Critical NoticesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 66 (2): 489-503. 2007.Heidegger, Language, and World‐Disclosure. cristina lafont. Kant's Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings. Robert B. Louden Dynamics in Action, Intentional Behavior as a Complex System. alicia juarrero. Self‐Governance & Cooperation. Robert h. myers. Husserl or Frege? Meaning, Objectivity, and Mathematics. claire ortiz hill and guillermo e. Rosado haddock.
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423The place of self-interest and the role of power in deliberative democracyJournal of Political Philosophy 18 (1): 64-100. 2009.No Abstract
University of Frankfurt (Germany)
Alumnus, 1992
Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Law |