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37Human Rights and the Legitimacy of Global Governance InstitutionsRevista 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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12Verdad y apertura de mundo. El problema de los juicios sintéticos a priori tras el giro lingüísticoAzafea: Revista de Filosofia 5 (1). 2003.Este artículo analiza el impacto del giro lingüístico en la transformación de la concepción kantiana de los juicios sintéticos a priori. Se centra para ello en dos concepciones contemporáneas de los mismos, a saber, el a priori hermenéutico de Heidegger y el a priori contextual de Putnam, y saca a relucir expresamente tanto sus rasgos similares como sus importantes diferencias: mientras que la concepción heideggeriana mantiene el idealismo transcendental de Kant a través de la suposición hermené…Read more
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52Neoliberal globalization and the international protection of human rightsConstellations 25 (3): 315-328. 2018.
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16Alternative visions of a new global orderPhilosophical Inquiry 42 (1-2): 92-114. 2018.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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17Realismus und Konstruktivismus in der kantianischen Moralphilosophie - das Beispiel der Diskursethik Habermas und KantDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 50 (1): 39-52. 2002.
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29Universalization or Threat Advantage? The Difficult Dialogue between Discourse Ethics and the Theory of Rational ChoiceDialogue 44 (2): 373-382. 2005.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
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9Referencia y verdadTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 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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196Moral Objectivity and Reasonable Agreement: Can Realism Be Reconciled with Kantian Constructivism?Ratio Juris 17 (1): 27-51. 2004.In this paper I analyze the tension between realism and antirealism at the basis of Kantian constructivism. This tension generates a conflictive account of the source of the validity of social norms. On the one hand, the claim to moral objectivity characteristic of Kantian moral theories makes the validity of norms depend on realist assumptions concerning the existence of shared fundamental interests among all rational human beings. I illustrate this claim through a comparison of the approaches …Read more
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373Philosophical Foundations of Judicial ReviewIn David Dyzenhaus (ed.), Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press. pp. 265-282. 2016.
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520This essay focuses on recent proposals to confer decisional status upon deliberative minipublics such as citizen juries, Deliberative Polls, citizen’s assemblies, and so forth. Against such proposals, I argue that inserting deliberative minipublics into political decision-making processes would diminish the democratic legitimacy of the political system as a whole. This negative conclusion invites a question: which political uses of minipublics would yield genuinely democratic improvements? Drawi…Read more
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15Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2017.World-renowned specialists in contemporary critical theory address the recent crises and transformations of the global political and economic order.
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117Heidegger on meaning and referencePhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (1): 9-20. 2005.This paper is an attempt to criticize the reification of language present in Heideggers writings after the Kehre . The steps of the argument are as follows. First, it is argued that the specific features of Heideggers conception of language after the Kehre can be traced back to Heideggers conception of the ontological difference in Being and Time . The common element in both conceptions is the assumption that meaning determines reference (i.e. that the way entities are understood determines w…Read more
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2Democracia y deliberación públicaIn Rodolfo Arango Rivadeneira (ed.), Filosofía de la Democracia: Fundamentos Conceptuales, Ediciones Uniandes, Ceso. pp. 125--146. 2007.
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21The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic PhilosophyMIT Press. 1999.Cristina Lafont draws upon Hilary Putnam's work in particular to criticize the linguistic idealism and relativism of the German tradition, which she traces back to the assumption that meaning determines reference.
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229Review essay: Whose poor are the global poor?: Thomas Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008) (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 35 (8): 1007-1013. 2009.
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Correctness and legitimacy in the discourse theory of lawIn Matthias Klatt (ed.), Institutionalized reason: the jurisprudence of Robert Alexy, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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52Pre´cis of Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosureInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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Kommunikatives HandelnIn Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide & Cristina Lafont (eds.), Habermas-Handbuch, Metzler. pp. 332--336. 2009.
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3Heidegger and the synthetic a-prioriIn Steven Galt Crowell & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Transcendental Heidegger, Stanford University Press. pp. 104--118. 2007.
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129Was Heidegger an externalist?Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 48 (6). 2005.To address the question posed in the title, I focus on Heidegger's conception of linguistic communication developed in the sections on Rede and Gerede of Being and Time. On the basis of a detailed analysis of these sections I argue that Heidegger was a social externalist but semantic internalist. To make this claim, however, I first need to clarify some key points that have led critics to assume Heidegger's commitment to social externalism automatically commits him to semantic externalism regard…Read more
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66Dilemas 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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138Review essay: Communicative action and rational choicePhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (2): 253-263. 2005.
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69Alternative 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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19Universalismo 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
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 |