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65Relativism and the Ontological Turn within AnthropologyPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (1): 3-23. 2013.The “ontological turn” is a recent movement within cultural anthropology. Its proponents want to move beyond a representationalist framework, where cultures are treated as systems of belief (concepts, etc.) that provide different perspectives on a single world. Authors who write in this vein move from talk of many cultures to many “worlds,” thus appearing to affirm a form of relativism. We argue that, unlike earlier forms of relativism, the ontological turn in anthropology is not only immune to …Read more
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69The Politics of Modern ReasonThe Monist 82 (2): 235-252. 1999.While Continental philosophers have had much to say about the nature of politics and about modern political institutions, they do not consider their task to provide the basis for evaluating policies or justifying institutions. Even if analytic philosophers no longer think of themselves as giving conceptual analyses of key political terms, they generally do what Continental philosophers do not: by elaborating systematic principles, their goal is precisely to provide the basis for “evaluating the …Read more
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19Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World (review)Ethics and International Affairs 28 (3): 402-404. 2014.
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37The Public Spheres of the World CitizenProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 1065-1080. 1995.
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102Pluralism, Pragmatism and Self-knowledge: Comments on Baert’s Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards PragmatismHuman Studies 32 (3): 375-381. 2009.
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1Language and Social Criticism: On the Philosophical Foundations of Normative Social InquiryDissertation, Boston University. 1985.The social critic must be able to supply participants with truthful insights into their practices, particularly with regard to the representation and constitution of these practices in speaking and acting. Marx offers one form of such criticism in the critique of ideology and lays its foundations in a general theory of linguistic representation; the particular theory he employs must be criticized, but this methodology should not abandoned. His error was to restrict the function of language to me…Read more
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8Pluralismus, Kulturspezifität und kosmopolitische Öffentlichkeit im Zeichen der GlobalisierungDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 45 (6): 927-942. 1997.
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21The globalization of the public sphere: Cosmopolitan publicity and the problem of cultural pluralismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 24 (2-3): 199-216. 1998.
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62Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge: Participants, Observers, and CriticsIn Stephen P. Turner & Paul A. Roth (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Critics, Observers, and Participants: Two Forms of Critical Theory Social Inquiry as Practical Knowledge Pluralism and Critical Inquiry Reflexivity, Perspective Taking, and Practical Verification Conclusion: The Politics of Critical Social Inquiry Notes.
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HermeneuticsIn Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 89--91. 1999.
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Die Republik der Menschheit. Nicht-Beherrschung und transnationale DemokratieIn Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Andreas Niederberger & Philipp Schink (eds.), Kosmopolitanismus: zur Geschichte und Zukunft eines umstrittenen Ideals, Velbrück. 2010.
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3Citizen and Person: Legal Status and Human Rights in Hannah ArendtIn Marco Goldoni & Christopher McCorkindale (eds.), Hannah Arendt and the law, Hart Pub.2. 2012.
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2The importance of the second person: interpretation, practical knowledge, and normative attitudesIn K. R. Stueber & H. H. Kogaler (eds.), Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences, Boulder: Westview Press. pp. 222--224. 2000.
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9No dominación y democracia transnacionalIn Immanuel Kant, Granja Castro, Dulce María, Gustavo Leyva & James Bohman (eds.), Cosmopolitismo: democracia en la era de la globalización, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, División De Ciencias Sociales Y Humandidades. pp. 107--140. 2009.
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106Participation through publics: did Dewey answer Lippmann?Contemporary Pragmatism 7 (1): 49-68. 2010.John Dewey's Public and its Problems provides his fullest account of democracy under the emerging conditions of complex, modern societies. While responding to Lippmann's criticisms of democracy as self-rule, Dewey acknowledges the truth of many of the social scientific criticisms of democracy, while he defends democracy by reconstructing it. Dewey seeks a new public in a “Great Community” based on more face-to-face communication about nonlocal issues. Yet Dewey fails to consistently apply his ow…Read more
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1Democracy as inquiry, inquiry as democratic: pragmatism, social science, and the cognitive division of laborAmerican Journal of Political Science 43 (2): 590--607. 1999.
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Ethics as moral inquiry: Dewey and the moral psychology of social reformIn Molly Cochran (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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1Beyond overlapping consensus : Rawls and Habermas on the limits of cosmopolitanismIn James Gordon Finlayson & Fabian Freyenhagen (eds.), Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, Rouledge. 2010.
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182Formal pragmatics and social criticism: The philosophy of language and the critique of ideology in Habermas's theory of communicative actionPhilosophy and Social Criticism 11 (4): 331-353. 1986.
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356Liberalism, Deliberative Democracy, and “Reasons that All Can Accept”Journal of Political Philosophy 17 (3): 253-274. 2009.No Abstract
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32Kant, Madison and the Problem of Transnational Order: Popular Sovereignty in Multilevel SystemsIn Andreas Niederberger & Philipp Schink (eds.), Republican democracy: liberty, law and politics, Edinburgh University Press. 2013.Although eighteenth-century Federalists, including James Madison, have been associated with the very contemporary idea of a transnational political order, the argument that the modern state with its centralised authority and supreme power poses a threat to liberty was already a subject of discussions during the period. The American Constitution was intended to establish a new political order, rather than a loose federation or an enlarged state. The Framers were not alone in their preoccupation w…Read more
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13Theoretical strengths and empirical weaknesses: Habermas's pragmatics in Cooke's Language and ReasonPragmatics and Cognition 3 (2): 299-316. 1995.
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13Causal mechanisms are not enough: Welshon, Elster and the need for an integrated theory of ideologySocial Epistemology 5 (3). 1991.
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23Hegel's Political Anti‐Cosmopolitanism: On the Limits of Modern Political CommunitiesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 39 (S1): 65-92. 2001.
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15The Completeness of Macro-Sociological ExplanationsProtoSociology 5 103-113. 1993.The debate about Habermas' use of the system and lifeworld distinction has not focused on the explanation of social pathologies that he offers, but rather only on conceptual problems with the theories that he uses. Twill argue that the explanation offered by his thesis that "systems colonize the lifeworld" fits the main criterion for adequacy for macro-micro explanation: because it establishes macro-micro linkage, it is at least potentially complete. Such an analysis fits the empirical approach …Read more
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24Deliberative TolerationPhilosophy Today 31 (5): 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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