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30Taking politics seriously: A prudential justification of political realismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 50 (6): 904-928. 2024.Political realists have devoted much effort to clarifying the methodological specificity of realist theorising and defending its consistency as an approach to political reasoning. Yet the question of how to justify the realist approach has not received the same attention. In this article, I offer a prudential justification of political realism. To do so, I first characterise realism as anti-moralism. I then outline three possible arguments for the realist approach by availing myself of recent in…Read more
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54Political realism and the relationship between ideal and non-ideal theoryCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (3): 376-397. 2023.When interest in political realism started to resurge a few years ago, it was not uncommon to interpret realist political theory as a form of non-ideal theorising. This reading has been subjected to extensive criticism. First, realists have argued that political realism cannot be interpreted as merely a form of applied political theory. Second, realists have explained that political realism can defend a role for unfeasible normative prescriptions in political theory. I explain that these develop…Read more
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32Editorial ‘Political Normativity. Critical Essays on the Autonomy of the Political’Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 25 (3): 393-396. 2022.
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32Digital Identities, Digital Ways of Living: Philosophical AnalysesPhenomenology and Mind 20 12-16. 2021.This special issue seeks to problematize the role of digital technologies in the constitution of the self, taking up the phenomenological premise that experiential structures are shaped and renegotiated through interactions between subjects, environments, and the manipulation of both real and fictional objects. The articles herein address the effects of digital technologies on the human self and, conversely, the active, open, and plastic ways that the self experiences and shapes the digital w...
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33Political realism and the quest for political progressConstellations 29 (1): 93-106. 2022.Constellations, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 93-106, March 2022.
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44Feasibility beyond Non-ideal Theory: a Realist ProposalEthical Theory and Moral Practice 25 (3): 417-432. 2021.Some realists in political theory deny that the notion of feasibility has any place in realist theory, while others claim that feasibility constraints are essential elements of realist normative theorising. But none have so far clarified what exactly they are referring to when thinking of feasibility and political realism together. In this article, we develop a conception of the realist feasibility frontier based on an appraisal of how political realism should be distinguished from non-ideal the…Read more
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52Political realism as reformist conservatismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 30 (1): 326-344. 2021.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 326-344, March 2022.
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27It is often claimed that in normative political theory political imagination should remain unaffected by real-world contingencies: our idea of how the world “ought to be” should be independent from how the world “actually is”. According to the practice-dependent thesis, instead, “[t]he content, scope, and justification of a conception of justice depends on the structure and form of the practices that the conception is intended to govern”. This methodological approach conceives the relationship b…Read more
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New York University, ShanghaiPost-doctoral Fellow
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Shanghai, Shanghai, China