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153Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2016.Written by an international team of leading political and legal theory scholars whose writings have contributed to shaping the field, Migration in Political Theory presents seminal new work on the ethics of movement and membership. The volume addresses challenging and under-researched themes on the subject of migration, and debates the question of whether we ought to recognize a human right to immigrate, and whether it might be legitimate to restrict emigration. The authors critically examine cr…Read more
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29Response to Critics: What is the Human Being? Kant’s Architectonic of Pure Reason and its LimitationsKantian Review 28 (3): 477-485. 2023.
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187Language and luckPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 11 (4): 357-381. 2012.In this article, we examine how language and linguistic membership might feature in luck egalitarianism, what a luck-egalitarian theory of linguistic justice would look like, and, finally, what the emphasis on language teaches us about the validity of standard luck-egalitarian assumptions. We show that belonging to one language group rather than another is a morally arbitrary feature and that where membership of a specific linguistic group affects individual chances, the effects of such bad brut…Read more
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Introduction : Kant on colonialism : apologist or critic?In Katrin Flikschuh & Lea Ypi (eds.), Kant and Colonialism: Historical and Critical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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Commerce and colonialism in Kant's philosophy of historyIn Katrin Flikschuh & Lea Ypi (eds.), Kant and Colonialism: Historical and Critical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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28The Architectonic of Reason: Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant's Critique of Pure ReasonOxford University Press. 2021.This book focuses on a question issued from The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique: what is the human being? It suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its purposive character.
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38Irregular Migration, Historical Injustice and the Right to ExcludeRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 91 169-183. 2022.This paper makes the case for amnesty of irregular migrants by reflecting on the conditions under which a wrong that is done in the past can be considered superseded. It explores the relation between historical injustice and irregular migration and suggests that we should hold states to the same stringent standards of compliance with just norms that they apply to the assessment of the moral conduct of individual migrants. It concludes that those standards ought to orient migrants and citizens’ m…Read more
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15Ideas and Ends of Reason in the Critique of Pure ReasonIn Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner (eds.), Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 1693-1702. 2018.
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11The Problem of Systematic Unity in Kant’s Two Definitions of PhilosophyIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 773-786. 2013.
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28The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Mandatory Citizenship for ImmigrantsBritish Journal of Political Science 45 (2). 2015.© © Cambridge University Press 2015. Long-term immigrants often have the option but not the obligation to acquire citizenship in their state of residence. Contrary to the received wisdom, this article defends the idea of mandatory citizenship for immigrants. It suggests that the current asymmetry in the distribution of political obligations between native-born citizens and immigrants is unfair. It also argues that mandatory citizenship is required by the principle that those who persistently aff…Read more
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134Democratic dictatorship: Political legitimacy in Marxist perspectiveEuropean Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 277-291. 2020.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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34A Sufficiently Just Liberal Society is an IllusionRes Publica 25 (4): 463-474. 2019.Matteo Bonotti’s book on Partisanship and Public Reason in Diverse Societies is grounded on a theory of partisanship that sees the demands of public reason as internal to the very definition of a party. Bonotti suggests that partisanship is not only compatible with but essential to the stability and legitimacy of a well-ordered liberal society. My paper aims to raise some questions internal to the liberal account of partisanship so as to probe the methodological foundations and plausibility of t…Read more
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77From Revelation to Revolution: The Critique of Religion in Kant and MarxKantian Review 22 (4): 661-681. 2017.This article examines Kant’s and Marx’s analysis of religion in its relation to human emancipation. It highlights some important affinities in their accounts of human nature and their critique of religious authority including: the emphasis on freedom as distinguishing human beings from other species, the relation between moral and political progress, the critique of revealed religion, the role of political community and the importance of ethical community to achieve moral emancipation.
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190Structural Injustice, Epistemic Opacity, and the Responsibilities of the OppressedJournal of Social Philosophy 50 (1): 7-27. 2019.
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60Kant and HegelBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 32 (1-2). 2011.Special issue on Kant and Hegel
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52Borders of Class: Migration and Citizenship in the Capitalist StateEthics and International Affairs 32 (2): 141-152. 2018.
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64IX—The Transcendental Deduction of Ideas in Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasonProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 117 (2): 163-185. 2017.
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2Qué está mal con el colonialismoSignos Filosóficos 18 (36). 2016.En este trabajo se pide suponer que algo está mal con el colonialismo, con lo cual se hace una revisión de las principales posturas que intentan justificarlo, para mostrar que no resuelven correctamente ciertos cuestionamientos.
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464Structural Injustice and the Place of AttachmentJournal of Practical Ethics 5 (1): 1-21. 2017.Reflection on the historical injustice suffered by many formerly colonized groups has left us with a peculiar account of their claims to material objects. One important upshot of that account, relevant to present day justice, is that many people seem to think that members of indigenous groups have special claims to the use of particular external objects by virtue of their attachment to them. In the first part of this paper I argue against that attachment-based claim. In the second part I suggest…Read more
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39The owl of Minerva only flies at dusk, but to where? A reply to criticsEthics and Global Politics 6 (2): 117-134. 2013.The quote that inspires a part of my title will be familiar to most readers. In the concluding paragraphs of the Preface to his Philosophy of Right, Hegel examines the role of philosophy in prescribing principles on how the world ought to be. ‘When philosophy paints its grey in grey’, Hegel writes, citing a part of Goethe’s Faust,'A shape of life has grown old, and it cannot be rejuvenated, but only recognized by the grey in grey of philosophy; the owl of Minerva begins its flight only when the …Read more
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152On the Confusion between Ideal and Non-ideal in Recent Debates on Global JusticePolitical Studies 58 (3). 2010.
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19Book review: freedom, loyalty and the state (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. forthcoming.
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127Sovereignty, Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of European Foreign PolicyEuropean Journal of Political Theory 7 (3): 349-364. 2008.This article explores the tensions between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty as a means to conceptualize the ethics of European foreign policy. It starts by discussing the claim that, in order for the EU to play a meaningful role as an international actor, a definition of the common ethical values orienting its political conduct is required. The question of a European federation of states and its ethical conceptualization emerges clearly in some of the philosophical writings of the 17th and 18th c…Read more
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55Taking Workers as a Class: The Moral Dilemmas of Guestworker ProgrammesIn Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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