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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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16Should We Take the “Human” Out of Human Rights? Human Dignity in a Corporate WorldEthics and International Affairs 30 (2): 233-252. 2016.
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15A 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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14Critical 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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13Sticking to the Long Road of Participatory Democracy: Replies to my CriticsKrisis 40 (1): 144-164. 2020.This essay is part of a dossier on Cristina Lafont's book Democracy without Shortcuts.
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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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9How demanding is human dignity? Remarks on Pablo Gilabert’s dignitarian approach to human rightsJournal of Global Ethics 16 (3): 294-304. 2020.ABSTRACT Pablo Gilabert's book Human Dignity and Human Rights offers a bold and fascinating account of the claim that human rights are grounded in human dignity. I am quite sympathetic to the dignitarian approach articulated in the book and agree with many of its argumentative goals. My critical comments are therefore lodged in the spirit of a family quarrel. I focus on three issues: the relationship between the humanistic and political perspectives on human rights (1), the suitability of the su…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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9Habermas-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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9Revisiting the Liberal Case against Liberal EugenicsRes Philosophica 101 (2): 359-376. 2024.In his book The Future of Human Nature, Habermas argues against the moral and legal permissibility of any future practices of genetic human enhancement as well as against current practices such as embryonic research or preimplantation genetic diagnosis. After analyzing the core of Habermas’s argument against positive eugenics, I argue that his attempt to derive a principle of abstention under uncertainty from the principle of counterfactual consent assumes that non-interference is the proper def…Read more
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7Los minipúblicos deliberativos y la concepción populista de la representación como “encarnación” del puebloLas Torres de Lucca: Revista Internacional de Filosofía Política 11 (1): 13-21. 2022.En este trabajo analizo las propuestas de insertar minipúblicos deliberativos en el proceso político para superar las numerosas “brechas” de representación que aquejan actualmente a los sistemas de partidos tradicionales. Sostengo que la noción de representación que subyace a muchas de estas propuestas tiene algunas similitudes importantes con la noción de representación como “encarnación” del pueblo propia del populismo. A partir de un análisis comparativo entre las variedades populistas y loto…Read more
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6Church and StateIn Graham Oppy (ed.), A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, Wiley. 2019.The separation of church and state is generally taken to be a requirement of constitutional democracies. However, there is little agreement on the precise meaning of the ideal of separation. Some liberal conceptions of democratic legitimacy interpret the ideal of separation such that religious beliefs and reasons should be excluded from political justification. This exclusivist view raises fears that a commitment to liberal democracy is suitable only for secular citizens and religious citizens w…Read more
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63. Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Responsibility to ProtectIn Cristina Lafont & Penelope Deutscher (eds.), Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order, Columbia University Press. pp. 47-73. 2017.
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5Introduction: Critical Theory in Critical TimesIn Cristina Lafont & Penelope Deutscher (eds.), Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order, Columbia University Press. 2017.
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5Jürgen HabermasIn Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.Jürgen Habermas is one of the most significant contributors to the development of hermeneutics in contemporary philosophy. His specific approach to critical theory is heavily indebted to the hermeneutic conception of language. This chapter highlights the basic features of that approach through an analysis of the main philosophical issues at the center of Habermas's sustained engagement with Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics. The hermeneutic model of a linguistically articulated lifeworld that…Read more
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445. Communicative ActionIn Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide & Cristina Lafont (eds.), The Habermas handbook, Columbia University Press. pp. 499-503. 2018.
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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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3HermeneuticsIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Historical Background: Philosophical Continuities and Discontinuities Behind the Project of Being and Time The New Conceptual Framework: The Ontological Difference The Hermeneutic Notion of World The Priority of Understanding over Perception The Fore‐structure of Understanding Cognition as a Mode of Interpretation.
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330. Communicative Rationality: Vorbereitende Bemerkungen zu einer Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns (Preparatory Remarks for a Theory of Communicative Action, 1971) (review)In Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide & Cristina Lafont (eds.), The Habermas handbook, Columbia University Press. pp. 288-305. 2018.
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35. Hermeneutics and the Linguistic TurnIn Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide & Cristina Lafont (eds.), The Habermas handbook, Columbia University Press. pp. 49-57. 2018.
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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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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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1Martin HeideggerIn Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.Martin Heidegger generalizes hermeneutics from a traditional method for interpreting authoritative texts (mainly sacred or legal texts) to a way of understanding human beings themselves. It is precisely because human beings are nothing but interpretation all the way down that the activity of interpreting a meaningful text offers the most appropriate model for understanding any human experience whatsoever. Recognizing the linguistically articulated intelligibility that Dasein shares with others b…Read more
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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.
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 |