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4Political Legitimacy in the Real Normative World: The Priority of Morality and the Autonomy of the PoliticalBritish Journal of Political Science 45 (1): 215-233. 2015.
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34How practices do not matterCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (1). 2019.
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91Why Political Realists Should Not Be Afraid of Moral ValuesJournal of Philosophical Research 40 459-464. 2015.In a previous article, we unpacked the so-called “ethics first premise”—the idea that ethics is “prior” to politics when theorizing political legitimacy— that is denied by political realists. We defended a “justificatory” reading of this premise, according to which political justification is irreducibly moral in the sense that moral values are among the values that ground political legitimacy. We called this the “necessity thesis.” In this paper we respond to two challenges that Robert Jubb and …Read more
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Book review: The Crisis of the European Union, by Jürgen HabermasEuropean Political Science 11. 2012.
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On Goodhart's Global Democracy: A CritiqueEthics and International Affairs 22 (4). 2008.In this critique of Michael Goodhart's "Human Rights and Global Democracy," Eva Erman argues that Goodhart has reconceptualized democracy and therefore does not offer a better understanding of the relationship between human rights and global democracy
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48What not to expect from the pragmatic turn in political theoryEuropean Journal of Political Theory (2): 1474885114537635. 2014.The central ideas coming out of the so-called pragmatic turn in philosophy have set in motion what may be described as a pragmatic turn in normative political theory. It has become commonplace among political theorists to draw on theories of language and meaning in theorising democracy, pluralism, justice, etc. The aim of this paper is to explore attempts by political theorists to use theories of language and meaning for such normative purposes. Focusing on Wittgenstein's account, it is argued t…Read more
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121Practices and Principles: On the Methodological Turn in Political TheoryPhilosophy Compass 10 (8): 533-546. 2015.The question of what role social and political practices should play in the justification of normative principles has received renewed attention in post-millennium political philosophy. Several current debates express dissatisfaction with the methodology adopted in mainstream political theory, taking the form of a criticism of so-called ‘ideal theory’ from ‘non-ideal’ theory, of ‘practice-independent’ theory from ‘practice-dependent’ theory, and of ‘political moralism’ from ‘political realism’. …Read more
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4Freedom as Non-Domination or How to Throw the Agent Out of the Space of ReasonsJournal of Power 3 (1). 2011.This paper analyzes agency in Pettit’s republican conception of freedom. By understanding freedom intersubjectively in terms of agency, Pettit makes an important contribution to the contemporary debate on negative liberty. At the same time, some of the presumptions about agency are problematic. The paper defends the thesis that Pettit is not able to provide the sufficient conditions for freedom as non-domination that he sets out to do. In order to show why this is the case and how we can address…Read more
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21The Right to Justification : Elements of a Constructivist Theory of JusticeNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews 40. 2012.The Right to Justification : Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice
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1The Right to have Rights' to the Rescue: From Human Rights to Global DemocracyIn M. Goodale (ed.), Human Rights at the Crossroads, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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38This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is an innovative study that offers tools for democratizing existing global political institutions.
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Democratic Credentials of Transnational ActorsIn E. Erman & A. Uhlin (eds.), Legitimacy Beyond the Nation-State?, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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43Rethinking accountability in the context of human rightsRes Publica 12 (3): 249-275. 2006.Within liberal democratic theory, ‘democratic accountability’ denotes an aggregative method for linking political decisions to citizens’ preferences through representative institutions. Could such a notion be transferred to the global context of human rights? Various obstacles seem to block such a transfer: there are no ‘world citizens’ as such; many people in need of human rights are not citizens of constitutional democratic states; and the aggregative methods that are supposed to sustain the l…Read more
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41Conflict and Universal Moral TheoryPolitical Theory 35 (5): 598-623. 2007.The solutions to moral problems offered by contemporary moral theories largely depend on how they understand pluralism. This article compares two different kinds of universal moral theories, liberal impartiality theory and discourse ethics. It defends the twofold thesis that (1) a dialogical theory such as discourse ethics is better equipped to give an account of pluralism than impartiality theory due to a more correct understanding of the nature of conflict, but that (2) discourse ethics cannot…Read more
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Stockholm UniversityProfessor
Stockholm, Sweden
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |