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    Toleration: Conflict Resolution Method in Pluralist Societies or a Tool of Discrimination?
    Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 15 (1): 27-39. 2020.
    The article is an extended argument for a positive conception of toleration. First, it examines and ultimately rejects reductive interpretations of toleration proposed by David Heyd and Wendy Brown that stem from deflationary and deconstructive readings respectively. It is argued that deconstructive reading is not satisfactory because it perpetuates and amplifies rather than solves paradoxes of toleration, whereas Heyd’s reading does not recognise the importance of toleration for political proce…Read more
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    On Reconciling Care and Justice: An Interview with Tove Pettersen
    Etikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 2 (2): 119-126. 2016.
    In this interview, Tove Pettersen argues for a novel understanding of the relationship between care and justice that would reconcile these two values.
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    Robert Post’s theory of freedom of speech
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 40 (1): 107-123. 2014.
    Deliberative democracy’s approach with its emphasis on a multidimensional conception of freedom is very well suited to offer a sophisticated and critical account of freedom of speech in the democratic public sphere. Nevertheless, it has rarely engaged other competing free speech theories in order to offer a valuable social critique of other ways of thinking about freedom of expression. This article tries to fill this gap by critically engaging Robert Post’s theory of freedom of speech based on d…Read more
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    Seyla Benhabib in her book The Rights of Others focuses on the tension between the universal claims of human rights and the localized democratic regimes which are based on the rule of majority. In Benhabib’s opinion the tension between these two is constitutive of existing democratic states and can be resolved only provisionally through democratic deliberations. The article looks to the theory of deliberative democracy for a way of conceptualizing sexual minorities politics which would appeal to…Read more