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Everyone wants to be virtuous, but recent psychological investigations suggest that this may not be possible. Mark Alfano challenges this theory and asks, not whether character is empirically adequate, but what characters human beings could have and develop. Although psychology …
Steven Crowell has been for many years a leading voice in debates on twentieth-century European philosophy. This volume presents thirteen recent essays that together provide a systematic account of the relation between meaningful experience (intentionality) and responsiveness to…
This book addresses conflicts involving different normative orders: what happens when international law prohibits behavior, but the same behavior is nonetheless morally justified or warranted? Can the actor concerned ignore international law under appeal to morality? Can soldier…
Philosophy of Globalization
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The aim of the publication is both to provide the debates on globalization with a genuine philosophical perspective by working out its normative dimensions, and to scientifically ground the ethical-philosophical discourse on global responsibility. Other topics addressed are the …
Philosophy of globalization
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Type: Book
The aim of the publication is both to provide the debates on globalization with a genuine philosophical perspective by working out its normative dimensions, and to scientifically ground the ethical-philosophical discourse on global responsibility. Other topics addressed are the …
The English translation of Forst's 'Normativitat und Macht' (2015), this book continues to develop the author's account of the nature of social orders and their justifications by re-evaluating fundamental philosophical concepts such as 'reason' and 'power'
The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity
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The question of reason’s relationship to history poses a challenge for critical theory. If reason or rationality emerges out an historical process and is historically conditioned, not guaranteed metaphysically, on what normative and theoretical basis can present conditions be cr…
The thesis has three objectives. First, to examine the relationship between reason and freedom, and their experience in modernity. Second, to employ Adorno's critical philosophy to address the problem of ideology from a contemporary perspective. Third, to suggest what a 'truth o…
The topic of this dissertation is the epistemology of 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume. Hume notoriously pursues a constructive science of human nature in his masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature while raising serious skeptical doubts about that project and leaving…
Literary modernism’s “queer” textual forms and erotic meanings were inextricable from the construction of “normal” sexuality as a statistical, racial, and gendered category in the early-twentieth century. However, scholarship on modernist sexualities has tended not to historiciz…
This thesis examines the words and works of six Arab American rappers who use hip-hop music as a tool to create and represent selves that are informed by both individual experience and multiple group identities. In doing so, each of these six artists confront a particular catego…
Normativity: epistemic and practical
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What should I do? What should I think? Traditionally, ethicists tackle the first question, while epistemologists tackle the second. This volume is innovative in drawing together issues from epistemology and ethics and in exploring neglected connections between epistemic and prac…
