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    In 1795 Immanuel Kant published an essay entitled "Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch." The immediate occasion for the essay was the March 1795 signing of the Treaty of Basel by Prussia and revolutionary France, which Kant condemned as only "the suspension of hostilities, not a peace." In the essay, Kant argues that it is humankind's immediate duty to solve the problem of violence and enter into the cosmopolitan ideal of a universal community of all peoples governed by the rule of la…Read more
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    The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens.
  • Index
    with David Hiley and Richard Shusterman
    In David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 319-323. 1991.
  • Contributors
    with David Hiley and Richard Shusterman
    In David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 315-318. 1991.
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    7. Holism without Skepticism: Contextualism and the Limits of Interpretation
    In David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 129-154. 1991.
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    Cosmopolitismo: democracia en la era de la globalización (edited book)
    with Immanuel Kant, Granja Castro, Dulce María, and Gustavo Leyva
    Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humandidades. 2009.
  • Preface
    with David Hiley and Richard Shusterman
    In David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. 1991.
  • Frontmatter
    with David Hiley and Richard Shusterman
    In David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. 1991.
  • Contents
    with David Hiley and Richard Shusterman
    In David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. 1991.
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    Introduction: The Interpretive Turn
    with David R. Hiley and Richard Shusterman
    In David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 1-14. 1991.
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    The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture (edited book)
    with David R. Hiley and Richard Shusterman
    Cornell University Press. 1991.
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    In his long attempt to solve the vexing and diverse problems of formulating a critical social science of modern societies, Habermas has along the way borrowed from many and quite diverse theoretical and philosophical resources, including Anglo-American analytic philosophy of language, ethics and political philosophy. Initially, Habermas borrowed extensively from American Pragmatism, first Peirce’s philosophy of inquiry and then later from George Herbert Mead, whose thought his own enterprise mos…Read more
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    La madurez de la democracia deliberativa
    Co-herencia 13 (24): 105-143. 2016.
    Reviso tres maneras diferentes como los ideales de la democracia deliberativa han cambiado a la luz de las preocupaciones prácticas sobre su viabilidad, es decir, haciendo cada vez más importante el problema de cómo este ideal puede acercarse a sociedades caracterizadas por profundos desacuerdos, problemas sociales de enorme complejidad e instrumentos inoperantes en sus instituciones existentes. En primer lugar, las teorías de la democracia deliberativa enfatizan el proceso mismo de la deliberac…Read more
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    Constitution Making and Democratic Innovation
    European Journal of Political Theory 3 (3): 315-337. 2004.
    The European Union stands before a constitutional moment. While some deny the need for a constitution and others want a familiar federal form, I argue that one of the main goals of the constitutional convention ought to be to make the European Union more democratic. The central question is: what sort of democracy is suggested by some of the more novel aspects of European integration? This question demands a normative standard by which to evaluate the realization of democracy in transnational pol…Read more
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    Rights, cosmopolitanism and public reason
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 31 (7): 715-726. 2005.
    In this discussion of Seyla Benhabib’s Claims of Culture, I defend a more pluralist conception of deliberative democracy and a stronger conception of the cosmopolitan content of human rights. I will discuss three main issues: first, problems of incommensurability and deep conflict; second, the role of impartiality and normative constraints embodied in the ‘syntactic’ and ‘semantic’ interpretations of the deliberative formula ‘reasons that all could accept’; and third, the differences in our conc…Read more
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    Beyond Distributive Justice and Struggles for Recognition
    European Journal of Political Theory 6 (3): 267-276. 2007.
    This article argues that a theory of recognition cannot provide the comprehensive basis for a critical theory or a conception of social justice. In this respect, I agree with Fraser's impulse to include more in such a theory, such as distributive justice and participatory parity. Fraser does not go far enough, to the extent that methodologically she seeks a theory of the same sort as Honneth's. Both Honneth's and Fraser's comprehensive theories cannot account for a central phenomenon of contempo…Read more
  • Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 31 (4): 321-326. 1998.
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    This article investigates the status of Norbert Elias’s conception of the sociology of knowledge as the means to provide a new epistemological security for sociology. The author of the article argues that this translates into an effective critique of the underlaboring model of the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences, which is consistent with Elias’s attempt to consolidate his own sociological theory. Nevertheless, the author argues that Elias’s sociology of knowledge runs int…Read more
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    How to Do Things with Fictions: Reconsidering Vaihinger for a Philosophy of Social Sciences
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (2): 201-222. 2014.
    The article reconstructs three key concepts of Hans Vaihinger: the idea of mental fictions as self-contradictory, provisory, conscious, and purposeful; the law of the devolution of ideas stating that an idea oscillates between dogma, hypothesis, or fiction; and the underlying assumption about human consciousness that the psyche constructs thoughts around perceptions like an oyster produces a pearl. In a second, constructive part, these concepts are applied in a discussion of John Searle’s social…Read more
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    The Idea of Philosophy and Its Relation to Social Science
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (2): 151-178. 2014.
    This article takes up Winch’s exploration of a certain dialectic in philosophical accounts of social inquiry, the poles of which I refer to as the under-laborer and over-laborer conceptions of philosophy. I argue that these conceptions, shown in Risjord and Reed, respectively, are caught in a dialectic of treating philosophy’s roles as either modestly clarifying or broadly determining the claims of social science. A third conception of philosophy, the therapeutic conception, is exemplified by Re…Read more
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    Blame It on the Norm: The Challenge from “Adaptive Rationality”
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (2): 131-150. 2014.
    In this paper, I provide a qualified defense of the claim that cognitive biases are not necessarily signs of irrationality, but rather the result of using normative standards that are too narrow. I show that under certain circumstances, behavior that violates traditional norms of rationality can be adaptive. Yet, I express some reservations about the claim that we should replace our traditional normative standards. Furthermore, I throw doubt on the claim that the replacement of normative standar…Read more
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    Book Review: Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic (review)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (1): 116-120. 2013.