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211The human right to political participationJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 7 (2): 1-16. 2013.In recent developments in political and legal philosophy, there is a tendency to endorse minimalist lists of human rights which do not include a right to political participation. Against such tendencies, I shall argue that the right to political participation, understood as distinct from a right to democracy, should have a place even on minimalist lists. In addition, I shall defend the need to extend the right to political participation to include participation not just in national, but also in …Read more
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54Rationality and commitment (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2007.The volume concludes with a specially-written reply by Sen, in which he responds to his critics and provides a rich commentary on the preceding essays.
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48Democracy or decision-making by experts?Forum for European Philosophy Blog. 2015.Fabienne Peter on whether difficult political decisions should be made by experts.
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1562Epistemic Foundations of Political LiberalismJournal of Moral Philosophy 10 (5): 598-620. 2013.At the core of political liberalism is the claim that political institutions must be publicly justified or justifiable to be legitimate. What explains the significance of public justification? The main argument that defenders of political liberalism present is an argument from disagreement: the irreducible pluralism that is characteristic of democratic societies requires a mode of justification that lies in between a narrowly political solution based on actual acceptance and a traditional moral …Read more
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33Rules, Norms, and CommitmentIn Jarvie, Ian & Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Social Sciences, Sage Publications. pp. 216--232. 2011.
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268Democratic LegitimacyRoutledge. 2008.This book offers a systematic treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. It argues that democratic procedures are essential for political legitimacy because of the need to respect value pluralism and because of the learning process that democratic decision-making enables. It proposes a framework for distinguishing among the different ways in which the requirements of democratic legitimacy have been interpreted. Peter then uses this framework to identify and defend what appears as th…Read more
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1165The procedural epistemic value of deliberationSynthese 190 (7): 1253-1266. 2013.Collective deliberation is fuelled by disagreements and its epistemic value depends, inter alia, on how the participants respond to each other in disagreements. I use this accountability thesis to argue that deliberation may be valued not just instrumentally but also for its procedural features. The instrumental epistemic value of deliberation depends on whether it leads to more or less accurate beliefs among the participants. The procedural epistemic value of deliberation hinges on the relation…Read more
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1Rational fools, rational commitmentsIn Rationality and Commitment, Oxford University Press, Usa. 2007.
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