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2A Morally Enlightened Positivism? Kelsen and Habermas on the Democratic Roots of Validity in Municipal and International LawIn D. A. Jeremy Telman (ed.), Hans Kelsen in America - Selective Affinities and the Mysteries of Academic Influence, Springer Verlag. 2016.A commonplace misconception identifies Kelsen as a one-dimensional legal positivist and Habermas as a one-dimensional legal moralist. I argue, on the contrary, that both theorists defend a complex normative conception of democratic proceduralism that straddles the positivism/naturalism divide. I then show how their extension of this conception to international law commits them to a monistic human rights regime. I conclude that their realistic acknowledgment of the fragmented nature of legal para…Read more
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18Imaginaries of modernity: politics, culture, tensionsTandf: Critical Horizons 20 (1): 88-94. 2017.Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2019, Page 88-94.
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1The sirens of pragmatism versus the priests of proceduralism: Habermas and American legal realismIn Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Orbach Bookman & Cathy Kemp (eds.), Habermas and Pragmatism, Routledge. 2002.
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14Appendix A: Explaining ActionIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 329-330. 2010.
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44. Knowledge and Truth RevisitedIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 95-114. 2010.
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8Appendix D: Developmental PsychologyIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 339-340. 2010.
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20Developments in Anglo-American philosophy during the first half of the 20th Century closely tracked developments that were occurring in continental philosophy during this period. This should not surprise us. Aside from the fertile communication between these ostensibly separate traditions, both were responding to problems associated with the rise of mass society. Rabid nationalism, corporate statism, and totalitarianism posed a profound challenge to the idealistic rationalism of neo-Kantian and …Read more
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17Appendix F: Systems TheoryIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 345-350. 2010.
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15Appendix C: Habermas and BrandomIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 335-338. 2010.
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3Truth, Method, and Understanding in the Human Sciences: The Gadamer/Habermas ControversyDissertation, University of California, San Diego. 1980.The Gadamer/Habermas controversy principally revolves around a group of interrelated issues pertaining to the capacity of the human sciences to provide practical knowledge. Rejecting the positivist dichotomy between "facts" and "values", Gadamer and Habermas maintain that normative institution
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34I propose to criticize two strands of argument - contractarian and utilitarian – that liberals have put forth in defense of economic coercion, based on the notion of justifiable paternalism. To illustrate my argument, I appeal to the example of forced labor migration, driven by the exigencies of market forces. In particular, I argue that the forced migration of a special subset of unemployed workers lacking other means of subsistence cannot be redeemed paternalistically as freedom or welfare enh…Read more
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133. The Linguistic TurnIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 67-94. 2010.
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31Response to Andrew Cutrofello's comments on reason, history, and politics by David IngramSocial Epistemology 12 (2). 1998.
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13William Maker, Philosophy Without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel (review)Man and World 30 (4): 483-489. 1997.
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3Review essay: Under consideration: Alessandro Ferrara's The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, Columbia University Press, 2008, 235 pp (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 36 (8): 981-984. 2010.
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12My critical time in Prague: Reminiscence not theoryPhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (3): 331-332. 2017.
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1011. Postsecular Postscript: Modernity and Its DiscontentsIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 307-328. 2010.
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62Recognition Within the Limits of Reason: Remarks on Pippin's Hegel's Practical PhilosophyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (5): 470-489. 2010.In Hegel's Practical Philosophy (2008), Robert Pippin argues that Hegel's mature concept of recognition is properly understood as an ontological category referring exclusively to what it means to be a free, rational individual, or agent. 1 I agree with Pippin that recognition for Hegel functions in this capacity. However, I shall argue that conceiving it this way also requires that we conceive it as a political category. Furthermore, while Hegel insists that recognition must be concrete?mediated…Read more
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39. Law and Democracy: Part IV: Social Complexity and a Critical AssessmentIn Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, Cornell University Press. pp. 253-266. 2010.
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33Law: key concepts in philosophyContinuum. 2006.Clear, concise and comprehensive, this is the ideal introduction to the philosophy of law for those studying it for the first time.
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27Human rights belong to individuals in virtue of their common humanity. Yet it is an important question whether human rights entail or comport with the possession of what I call group-specific rights, or rights that individuals possess only because they belong to a particular group. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says they do. Article 15 asserts the right to nationality, or citizenship. Unless one believes that the only citizenship compatible with a universal human rights regime is cos…Read more
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