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21Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism (edited book)Routledge. 2020.While Kantian constructivism has become one of the most influential and systematic schools of thought in analytic moral and political philosophy, Hegelian approaches to practical normativity hold out the promise of building upon Kantian insights into individual self-determination while avoiding their dualistic tendencies. James Gledhill and Sebastian Stein unite distinguished scholars of German idealism and contemporary Anglophone practical philosophy with rising stars in the field, to explore w…Read more
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IntroductionIn James Gledhill & Sebastian Stein (eds.), Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism, Routledge. 2020.
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Rawls's post-Kantian constructivismIn James Gledhill & Sebastian Stein (eds.), Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy: Beyond Kantian Constructivism, Routledge. 2020.
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16The Habermas‐Rawls debate. By James Gordon Finlayson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019Constellations 27 (3): 553-555. 2020.Constellations, EarlyView.
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23The ideal and reality of epistemic proceduralismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20 (4): 486-507. 2017.
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14Kantian Republicanism and the Internal Relation between Justice and LegitimacyPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 5 (2). 2015.Download.
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55The Basic Structure of the Institutional ImaginationJournal of Social Philosophy 45 (2): 270-290. 2014.
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25In defense of transcendental institutionalismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 40 (7): 665-682. 2014.What do we want from a theory of justice? Amartya Sen argues that what we should not want is to follow the social contract approach revived by John Rawls, or transcendental institutionalism, in its preoccupation with perfectly just institutions. Sen makes an effective case against approaches, such as G. A. Cohen’s, concerned with transcendent, fact-independent principles of justice, but not against Rawls’ constructivist approach to justice when this is properly interpreted as making a weak trans…Read more
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31The ideal and reality of epistemic proceduralismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20 (4): 486-507. 2017.
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1Procedure in substance and substance in procedure : reframing the Habermas-Rawls debateIn James Gordon Finlayson & Fabian Freyenhagen (eds.), Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, Routledge. 2010.
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19The Political is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy, by Lorna Finlayson. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, vii + 240 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐78‐348286‐3 hb £75; ISBN: 978‐1‐78‐348287‐0 pb £24.95 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 24 (4): 970-975. 2016.
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125Rawls and RealismSocial Theory and Practice 38 (1): 55-82. 2012.Political realists like Bernard Williams and Raymond Geuss reject political moralism, where ideal ethical theory comes first, then applied principles, and politics is reduced to a kind of applied ethics. While the models of political moralism that Williams criticizes are endorsed by G.A. Cohen and Ronald Dworkin respectively, I argue that this realist case against John Rawls cannot be sustained. In explicating and defending Rawls’s realistically utopian conception of ideal theory I defend a Kant…Read more
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35Constructivism and Reflexive Constitution-Making PracticesRaison Politiques 51 (3): 63-80. 2013.The practice-dependent approach to global justice makes a welcome attempt to steer a course between egalitarian liberal cosmopolitanism, on the one hand, and statism and nationalism, on the other. In so doing, it seeks to reconcile the universality of justice with the particular role principles of justice play within the context of different social practices. In this paper, I argue, however, that the “practice turn” in theorising about justice has not gone far enough, either methodologically or …Read more
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Social and Political Philosophy |
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Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
European Philosophy |