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60Hegel's Political Anti-Cosmopolitanism: On the Limits of Modern Political CommunitiesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 39 (S1): 65-92. 2001.
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64Reflexivity, agency and constraint: The paradoxes of Bourdieu's sociology of knowledgeSocial Epistemology 11 (2). 1997.(1997). Reflexivity, agency and constraint: The paradoxes of Bourdieu's sociology of knowledge. Social Epistemology: Vol. 11, New Directions in the Sociology of Knowledge, pp. 171-186.
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299Deliberative TolerationPolitical Theory 31 (6): 757-779. 2003.Political liberals now defend what Rawls calls the "inclusive view" of public reason with the appropriate ideal of reasonable pluralism. Against the application of such a liberal conception of toleration to deliberative democracy "the open view of toleration is with no constraints" is the only regime of toleration that can be democratically justified. Recent debates about the public or nonpublic character of religious reasons provide a good test case and show why liberal deliberative theories ar…Read more
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7On the Reliability of Science: The Critical Rationalist Version (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (1): 100-115. 2013.Error and Inference discusses Deborah Mayo’s theory that connects the reliability of science to scientific evidence. She sees it as an essential supplement to the negative principles of critical rationalism. She and Aris Spanos, her co-editor, declare that the discussions in the book amount to tremendous progress. Yet most contributors to the book misconstrue the Socratic character of critical rationalism because they ignore a principal tenet: criticism in and of itself comprises progress, and e…Read more
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42Democracy, solidarity and global exclusionPhilosophy and Social Criticism 32 (7): 809-817. 2006.
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1Deliberating about the Past: Decentering Deliberative DemocracyIn Chad Kautzer & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire, Indiana University Press. pp. 110. 2009.
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119We, Heirs of enlightenment: Critical theory, democracy and social scienceInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 13 (3). 2005.My goal here is to come to terms with the Enlightenment as the horizon of critical social science. First, I consider in more detail the understanding of the Enlightenment in Critical Theory, particularly in its conception of the sociality of reason. Second, I develop an account of freedom in terms of human powers, along the lines of recent capability conceptions that link freedom to the development of human powers, including the power to interpret and create norms. Finally, I show the ways in wh…Read more
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25Causal Pluralism Without Levels: Comments on HumphreysSouthern Journal of Philosophy 34 (S1): 115-127. 1996.
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Modernization and Impediments to Democracy: Hypercomplexity and HyperrationalityTheoria 86 1-20. 1995.
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30Beyond the Hype: The Value of Evolutionary Theorizing in EconomicsPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (1): 46-72. 2013.In this paper, I consider the recent resurgence of “evolutionary economics”—the idea that evolutionary theory can be very useful to push forward key debates in economics—and assess the extent to which it rests on a plausible foundation. To do this, I first distinguish two ways in which evolutionary theory can, in principle, be brought to bear on an economic problem—namely, evidentially and heuristically—and then apply this distinction to the three major hypotheses that evolutionary economists ha…Read more
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Improving democratic practice : practical social science and normative idealsIn Jeroen Van Bouwel (ed.), The Social Sciences and Democracy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 83. 2009.
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40Review of Otfried hffe, Kant's Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (8). 2007.
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52From Self-Legislation to Self-Determination: Democracy and the New Circumstances of Global PoliticsCritical Horizons 17 (1): 123-134. 2016.It is a distinctive feature of the global political order that democracy is no longer confined to nation-states, characterized by extensive and overlapping constituencies. It is important to think of the significance of these developments for individuals’ self-determination, which may be undermined in different ways. Here it is argued that democracy must serve to delegate power to complex units of decision making which favour self-determination. Contestability is part of this form of self-determ…Read more
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7Political philosophyIn Gerald F. Gaus & Fred D'Agostino (eds.), The Routledge companion to social and political philosophy, Routledge. pp. 158. 2013.
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8Democratic ExperimentalismSocial Philosophy Today 29 7-20. 2013.As developed by Sabel, Dorf and Cohen, and John Dewey before them, democratic experimentalism is based on the premise that current democratic practices are no longer able to deal with central and pressing social and political problems. Beginning with the criticism of democracy as command and control, Dorf and Sabel show how current democratic practices are part of the problem rather than the solution. Even as democratic experimentalists have successfully explored democracy beyond the state in th…Read more
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65Beyond the Democratic Peace: An Instrumental Justification of Transnational DemocracyJournal of Social Philosophy 37 (1): 127-138. 2006.
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1Critical theory and democracyIn David M. Rasmussen (ed.), Handbook of critical theory, Blackwell. pp. 190--215. 1996.
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254New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of IndeterminacyMIT Press. 1993.This article defends methodological and theoretical pluralism in the social sciences. While pluralistic, such a philosophy of social science is both pragmatic and normative. Only by facing the problems of such pluralism, including how to resolve the potential conflicts between various methods and theories, is it possible to discover appropriate criteria of adequacy for social scientific explanations and interpretations. So conceived, the social sciences do not give us fixed and universal feature…Read more
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