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The Transformation of Critical Theory: Essays in Honor of Thomas McCarthy (edited book)MIT Press. 2001.
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145Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal (edited book)MIT Press. 1997.In 1795 Immanuel Kant published an essay entitled "Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch." The immediate occasion for the essay was the March 1795 signing of the Treaty of Basel by Prussia and revolutionary France, which Kant condemned as only "the suspension of hostilities, not a peace." In the essay, Kant argues that it is humankind's immediate duty to solve the problem of violence and enter into the cosmopolitan ideal of a universal community of all peoples governed by the rule of la…Read more
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126Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics (edited book)MIT Press. 1997.The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens.
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642. The Constitutionalization of International Law and Politics: “Does the Constitutionalization of International Law Still Have a Chance?” (2004) (review)In Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide & Cristina Lafont (eds.), The Habermas handbook, Columbia University Press. pp. 474-486. 2018.
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84Discourse and democracy: The formal and informal bases of legitimacy in Habermas' faktizität und geltungJournal of Political Philosophy 4 (1). 1996.
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IndexIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 319-323. 1991.
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ContributorsIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 315-318. 1991.
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77. Holism without Skepticism: Contextualism and the Limits of InterpretationIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 129-154. 1991.
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11Discourse and Democracy: The Formal and Informal Bases of Legitimacy in Habermas' Faktizität und GeltungJournal of Political Philosophy 4 (1): 79-99. 2006.
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7Cosmopolitismo: democracia en la era de la globalización (edited book)Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humandidades. 2009.
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PrefaceIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. 1991.
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FrontmatterIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. 1991.
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2ContentsIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. 1991.
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15Introduction: The Interpretive TurnIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 1-14. 1991.
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45The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture (edited book)Cornell University Press. 1991.
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6Pluralism, Pragmatism and Self-knowledge: Comments on Baert’s Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism (review)Human Studies 32 (3): 375-381. 2009.
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116Formal Theories, Pragmatic Purposes: Inferentialism, Rational Choice, and Communicative ActionCommunicative Action and Rational Choice (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33 (3): 423-440. 2003.In his long attempt to solve the vexing and diverse problems of formulating a critical social science of modern societies, Habermas has along the way borrowed from many and quite diverse theoretical and philosophical resources, including Anglo-American analytic philosophy of language, ethics and political philosophy. Initially, Habermas borrowed extensively from American Pragmatism, first Peirce’s philosophy of inquiry and then later from George Herbert Mead, whose thought his own enterprise mos…Read more
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15La madurez de la democracia deliberativaCo-herencia 13 (24): 105-143. 2016.Reviso tres maneras diferentes como los ideales de la democracia deliberativa han cambiado a la luz de las preocupaciones prácticas sobre su viabilidad, es decir, haciendo cada vez más importante el problema de cómo este ideal puede acercarse a sociedades caracterizadas por profundos desacuerdos, problemas sociales de enorme complejidad e instrumentos inoperantes en sus instituciones existentes. En primer lugar, las teorías de la democracia deliberativa enfatizan el proceso mismo de la deliberac…Read more
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39Constitution Making and Democratic InnovationEuropean Journal of Political Theory 3 (3): 315-337. 2004.The European Union stands before a constitutional moment. While some deny the need for a constitution and others want a familiar federal form, I argue that one of the main goals of the constitutional convention ought to be to make the European Union more democratic. The central question is: what sort of democracy is suggested by some of the more novel aspects of European integration? This question demands a normative standard by which to evaluate the realization of democracy in transnational pol…Read more
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31Rights, cosmopolitanism and public reasonPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (7): 715-726. 2005.In this discussion of Seyla Benhabib’s Claims of Culture, I defend a more pluralist conception of deliberative democracy and a stronger conception of the cosmopolitan content of human rights. I will discuss three main issues: first, problems of incommensurability and deep conflict; second, the role of impartiality and normative constraints embodied in the ‘syntactic’ and ‘semantic’ interpretations of the deliberative formula ‘reasons that all could accept’; and third, the differences in our conc…Read more
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47Beyond Distributive Justice and Struggles for RecognitionEuropean Journal of Political Theory 6 (3): 267-276. 2007.This article argues that a theory of recognition cannot provide the comprehensive basis for a critical theory or a conception of social justice. In this respect, I agree with Fraser's impulse to include more in such a theory, such as distributive justice and participatory parity. Fraser does not go far enough, to the extent that methodologically she seeks a theory of the same sort as Honneth's. Both Honneth's and Fraser's comprehensive theories cannot account for a central phenomenon of contempo…Read more
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Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and DemocracyPhilosophy and Rhetoric 31 (4): 321-326. 1998.
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29“When Water Chokes”: Ideology, Communication, and Practical RationalityConstellations 7 (3): 382-392. 2000.
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21Is a Post-philosophical Sociology Possible? Insights from Norbert Elias’s Sociology of KnowledgePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (2): 179-200. 2014.This article investigates the status of Norbert Elias’s conception of the sociology of knowledge as the means to provide a new epistemological security for sociology. The author of the article argues that this translates into an effective critique of the underlaboring model of the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences, which is consistent with Elias’s attempt to consolidate his own sociological theory. Nevertheless, the author argues that Elias’s sociology of knowledge runs int…Read more
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14How to Do Things with Fictions: Reconsidering Vaihinger for a Philosophy of Social SciencesPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (2): 201-222. 2014.The article reconstructs three key concepts of Hans Vaihinger: the idea of mental fictions as self-contradictory, provisory, conscious, and purposeful; the law of the devolution of ideas stating that an idea oscillates between dogma, hypothesis, or fiction; and the underlying assumption about human consciousness that the psyche constructs thoughts around perceptions like an oyster produces a pearl. In a second, constructive part, these concepts are applied in a discussion of John Searle’s social…Read more
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8The Idea of Philosophy and Its Relation to Social SciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (2): 151-178. 2014.This article takes up Winch’s exploration of a certain dialectic in philosophical accounts of social inquiry, the poles of which I refer to as the under-laborer and over-laborer conceptions of philosophy. I argue that these conceptions, shown in Risjord and Reed, respectively, are caught in a dialectic of treating philosophy’s roles as either modestly clarifying or broadly determining the claims of social science. A third conception of philosophy, the therapeutic conception, is exemplified by Re…Read more
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24Blame It on the NormPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (2): 131-150. 2014.In this paper, I provide a qualified defense of the claim that cognitive biases are not necessarily signs of irrationality, but rather the result of using normative standards that are too narrow. I show that under certain circumstances, behavior that violates traditional norms of rationality can be adaptive. Yet, I express some reservations about the claim that we should replace our traditional normative standards. Furthermore, I throw doubt on the claim that the replacement of normative standar…Read more
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6Book Review: Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (2): 252-258. 2014.
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9Book Review: Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (1): 116-120. 2013.
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