University of Frankfurt (Germany)
Alumnus, 1992
Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Law
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    Gadamer Y Brandom: Sobre la interpretación
    Signos Filosóficos 12 (23): 99-118. 2010.
    En su libro Tales of the Mighty Dead, Brandom analiza la concepción hermenéutica de la interpretación de Gadamer para mostrar que su enfoque inferencialista del significado explica y suscribe las tesis centrales de la hermenéutica de Gadamer que él denomina los tópicos hermenéuticos gadamerianos. En..
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    Die Rolle der Sprache in "Sein und Zeit"
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 47 (1). 1993.
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    In this essay, I address some questions and challenges brought about by Thomas Christiano in his inspiring review of my book Democracy without Shortcuts. First, I defend the democratic credentials of the conception of self-government that I articulate in the book against conceptions of self-determination that are allegedly compatible with non-democratic government. To do so, I clarify some aspects of the notion of “blind deference” that I use in the book as a contrast concept to identify a minim…Read more
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    Human Rights and the Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions
    Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía Política 2 (1). 2013.
    In a recent article Allan Buchanan and Robert Keohane defend the view that one of the necessary conditions for the legitimacy of global governance institutions such as the WTO and the IMF is that they respect basic human rights. I certainly agree that setting the minimal threshold of moral acceptability any lower would be entirely unreasonable. But, unfortunately, the view that global governance institutions have human rights obligations is far from uncontroversial. These institutions themselves…Read more
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    En este ensayo analizo algunas dificultades conceptuales asociadas a la exigencia de que las instituciones globales adquieran un grado mayor de legitimidad democrática. En ausencia de un Estado mundial, puede parecer inconsistente exigir que las instituciones globales sean responsables ante todos los que han de acatar sus decisiones y al mismo tiempo insistir en que los miembros de dichas instituciones, en tanto que representantes de sus respectivos Estados, mantengan las responsabilidades espec…Read more
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    World-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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    The return of the critique of ideologies
    Constellations 30 (4): 390-394. 2023.
    Constellations, EarlyView.
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    Critical Notices
    Philosophy 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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    Replies
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (2). 2002.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    Justicia global en una sociedad mundial pluralista
    Estudios de Filosofía (Universidad de Antioquia) 139-162. 2008.
    En la discusión contemporánea sobre modelos normativos para un nuevo orden internacional está ampliamente aceptado que la justicia internacional requiere garantizar la paz, la seguridad y la defensa de los derechos humanos. Sin embargo, así́ como los objetivos de paz y seguridad son incontrovertibles, no puede decirse lo mismo del objetivo de protección de los derechos humanos. Los habituales candidatos al desacuerdo son los llamados derechos económicos y sociales, seguidos por los derechos polí…Read more
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    In her book A Duty to Resist, Candice Delmas defends the view that we are not only permitted to disobey gravely unjust laws, but we may have a duty to do so. Moreover, not only civil but also uncivil disobedience may be justified in such cases. To justify both claims she argues that the same principles that justify a duty to obey the law—such as the principle of fairness, Samaritan duty, and associative obligations—also justify a duty to disobey the law. The problem with this argumentative strat…Read more
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    Truth, Knowledge, and Reality
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 18 (2): 109-126. 1995.
    The main argument of this article is that the concept of truth is as much internally linked to the concept of knowledge as to the concept of reality. As a consequence it is affirmed that all attempts to explain its structure which are either exclusively biased in an epistemic point of view or in a purely realist metaphysics are bound to fail. Instead this article proposes the adoption of a pragmatic standpoint which would permit to reconstruct the fallibilistic role displayed by the concept of t…Read more
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    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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    In this essay I defend an institutional approach to democratic legitimacy against proceduralist approaches that are commonly endorsed by deliberative democrats. Although deliberative democrats defend a complex view of democratic legitimacy that aims to account for both the procedural and substantive dimensions of legitimacy, most accounts of the relationship between these dimensions currently on offer are too proceduralist to be plausible (I). By contrast, I argue that adopting an institutional …Read more
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    Citizens in robes
    Philosophy 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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    Critical Theory
    Philosophy Today 52 (Supplement): 104-113. 2008.
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    Spannungen im Wahrheitsbegriff
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 42 (6): 1007-1024. 1994.
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    Habermas Handbook (edited book)
    with Hauke Brunkhorst and Regina Kreide
    Columbia University Press. 2017.
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    A Guide to Heidegger’s Being and Time (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 56 (1): 181-182. 2002.
    This book is one of the most comprehensive and detailed commentaries on both divisions of Heidegger’s Being and Time available in English. The chapters on division 1 were originally published in 1964 under the title Heidegger’s Philosophy: A Guide to His Basic Thought. The new edition prepared by John Llewelyn includes Magda King’s commentaries on division 2 of Being and Time, which are now published for the first time posthumously. The renderings of Heidegger’s German terms have also been revis…Read more
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    Realismus und Konstruktivismus in der kantianischen Moralphilosophie - das Beispiel der Diskursethik Habermas und Kant
    with Reinhard Brandt
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 50 (1): 39-52. 2002.
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    InA Theory of Justice, Rawls claims that “to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.” Although it may indeed seem intuitively plausible that a principle based on “threat advantage” cannot count as a principle of justice, it is an altogether different matter to explain why this is so. The question is especially pressing if one bears in mind that such a principle of bargaining in fact underlies many institutionally regulated interactions. Moreover, to the extent that…Read more