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21Political Philosophy and Political PersuasionAustralasian Philosophical Review 4 (1): 80-86. 2020.ABSTRACT Avner de Shalit argues that political philosophy centrally involves political persuasion, defined as a process of mutual empathy that involves more than just providing rationales or normative arguments. Building upon this idea of political persuasion as mutual empathy, de Shalit thinks that to engage the public, philosophers need to examine problems from the public’s perspective, and not a perspective unique to their professional group. In this paper, I argue that de Shalit’s conception…Read more
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453On Not Blaming and Victim BlamingTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 39 (3): 95-128. 2020.In this paper we show that being blameworthy for not blaming and being blameworthy for victim blaming are structurally similar. Each involve the two traditional contours of moral responsibility: a knowledge condition and a control condition. But interestingly, in these cases knowledge and control are importantly interrelated. Being in a relationship with another person affords us varying degrees of knowledge about them. This knowledge in turn affords agents in relationships varying degrees of in…Read more
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40The Internet and the Democratic Imagination: Deweyan Communication in the 21st CenturyContemporary Pragmatism 10 (2): 49-78. 2013.
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95On Political Instrumentalism and the Justification of Democracy: Reply to ViehoffProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 118 (3): 387-397. 2018.
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Justification of Democracy |
Democratic Authority |
Responsibility and Reactive Attitudes |
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Instrumentalism about Political Authority |