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16Pluralizing Constitutional Review in International Law: A Critical Theory ApproachRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 70 (2-3): 261-286. 2014.Resumo O autor defende uma descrição normativa fraca do constitucionalismo internacional à luz de dois factos: a contínua relevância da soberania do Estado face à hegemonia de superpotências e a necessidade imperiosa de um regime supranacional eficaz de direitos humanos. Ao defender uma institucionalização constitucional de direitos humanos, que inclui aspectos de justiça processual e material, mostra-se que, como nos casos domésticos, tal institucionalização pode e, talvez deva, incorporar um p…Read more
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16Hans Seigfried, 1933-2006Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 80 (5). 2007.
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15Appendix C: Habermas and BrandomIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 335-338. 2016.
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15Critical Theory and Global DevelopmentIn M. Thompson (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory, . pp. 677-696. 2017.This chapter explores recent research by critical theorists concerning theories of (under)development. Drawing from the research of Thomas McCarthy, Axel Honneth, Jurgen Habermas, Amy Allen, Nancy Fraser, and others, the author explores some of the divergent responses critical theorists have given toward the theory and practice of global developmental assistance. Some theorists defending a strong modernist approach to development (e.g., McCarthy, Habermas and Honneth) appear to endorse a logic o…Read more
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14Poverty and Critical TheoryIn Adrienne Martin (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Love. forthcoming.This chapter surveys the various critical theory approaches from Marx to the present in the study of poverty and underdevelopment in relationship to capitalism, democracy, and intersectionality.
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14European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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13Habermas and the Dialectic of ReasonYale University Press. 1987.In his magnum opus, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes the themes of Habermas's masterwork, placing them in the context of the philosopher's other work, relating them to poststructuralism, hermeneutics, and Neo-Aristotelianism, and surveying what other critics have said about Habermas. "Ingram's exposition of Habermas is impressive for …Read more
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133. The Linguistic TurnIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 67-94. 2016.
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13William Maker, Philosophy Without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel (review)Man and World 30 (4): 483-489. 1997.
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12The Role of Recognition in Kelsen's Account of Legal Obligation and Political DutyAustrian Journal of Political Science 51 (3): 52-61. 2022.Kelsen’s critique of absolute sovereignty famously appeals to a basic norm of international recognition. However, in his discussion of legal obligation, generally speaking, he notoriously rejects mutual recognition as having any normative consequence. I argue that this apparent contradiction in Kelsen's estimate regarding the normative force of recognition is resolved in his dynamic account of the democratic generation of law. Democracy is embedded within a modern political ethos that obligates …Read more
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12Appendix A: Explaining ActionIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 329-330. 2016.
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12My critical time in Prague: Reminiscence not theoryPhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (3): 331-332. 2017.
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10Response to James Swindal and Bill Martin on Reason, History, and PoliticsHuman Studies 23 (2): 203-210. 2000.
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10I argue that the same factors that motivated Catholicism to champion liberal democracy are the same that motivate 21st Century Islam to do the same. I defend this claim by linking political liberalism to democratic secularism. Distinguishing institutional, political, and epistemic dimensions of democratic secularism, I show that moderate forms of political and epistemic secularism are most conducive to fostering the kind of public reasoning essential to democratic legitimacy. This demonstration …Read more
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1011. Postsecular Postscript: Modernity and Its DiscontentsIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 307-328. 2016.
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9Between Political Liberalism and Postnational Cosmopolitanism: Toward an Alternative Theory of Human RightsPhilosophy Today 31 (3): 359-391. 2003.It is well known that Rawls and Habermas propose different strategies for justifying and classifying human rights. The author argues that neither approach satisfies what he regards as threshold conditions of determinacy, rank ordering, and completeness that any enforceable system of human rights must possess. A related concern is that neither develops an adequate account of group rights, which the author argues fulfills subsidiary conditions for realizing human rights under specific conditions. …Read more
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9Appendix E: Rational Choice TheoryIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 341-344. 2016.
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9Response to Andrew Cutrofello's comments on Reason, History, and Politics by David IngramSocial Epistemology 12 (2): 127-133. 1998.
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9The Ethics of Development: An IntroductionRoutledge. 2018.The Ethics of Development: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of development. The book addresses important questions such as: What does development mean? Is there a human right to development? If we aim for sustainable development in an age of global climate change, should developed nations sacrifice economic growth for the sake of allowing developing countries to catch up? Should eradication of poverty or diminution of radical …Read more
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9Philosophy in the middle of the 20th Century, between 1920 and 1968, responded to the cataclysmic events of the time. Thinkers on the Right turned to authoritarian forms of nationalism in search of stable forms of collective identity, will, and purpose. Thinkers on the Left promoted egalitarian forms of humanism under the banner of international communism. Others saw these opposed tendencies as converging in the extinction of the individual and sought to retrieve the ideals of the Enlightenment …Read more
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8Mediating the Theory and Practice of Human Rights in Morality and LawIn Reidar Maliks & Johan Karlsson Schaffer (eds.), Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights: Implications for Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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8Appendix D: Developmental PsychologyIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 339-340. 2016.
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8Human Rights, Legalism, and the Parodox of Pluralism: Some Comments on Benhabib’s Exile, Statelessness and MigrationArendt Studies 5 37-44. 2021.This article examines the theoretical pathways connecting Benhabib’s thoughts on ethical normativity, human rights, legality, democracy, liberalism, pluralism, and the tragedy of the political. It endorses Benhabib’s dialectical treatment of these paradoxical political tropes but notes a possible unresolved tension in her discussion of the ambiguous moral and legal nature of human rights. I propose a pluralist approach to the moral grounding of legal human rights that might be at odds with Benha…Read more
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7Abbreviations for Titles of Works by HabermasIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. 2016.
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7Contesting the Public Sphere: Within and against Critical TheoryIn Peter E. Gordon & Warren Breckman (eds.), The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought. Vol. 2., . 2019.This chapter examines how European thinkers working from within and without the Frankfurt School of critical theory have understood the public sphere as a distinctive political category. First-generation members of the school rejected institutional democracy and mass politics as ideologies that mask domination. The succeeding generation, whose most important representative is Jürgen Habermas, rejected that diagnosis. Habermas’s more optimistic assessment of the emancipatory potential of the publ…Read more
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7Civil Discourse and Religion in Transitional Democracies: The Cases of Lithuania, Peru, and IndonesiaIn Democracy, Culture, Catholicism, . 2016.Respect for human dignity and the common good in democratic regimes cannot be sustained by reason alone. Citizen faith commitments endorsing both of these values are necessary. However, negotiating in practice the relationship between civic values and religious morality is extremely challenging in a democracy. As a contribution to greater balance in these matters, Ingram argues that the capacity of religion to promote democratic reform in a way that respects fair procedures (rule of law) must ex…Read more
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