Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics

by Ruth Chang (Editor), Amia Srinivasan (Editor)

Overview

New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. It showcases three generations of scholars—from newly minted professors to some of today's most distinguished thinkers. Consisting of fifteen conversations, pairs of chapters dedicated to a single topic, the volume provides intergenerational and multidisciplinary perspectives on aspects of our social world. Each conversation comprises a first paper by a scholar who sets the topic, followed by a second paper by a scholar of a different generation, and usually a different discipline, who offers further insight or commentary. Each conversation thus provides two sets of original thoughts about a matter of lively current interest and interdisciplinary significance. Topics investigated include moral revolutions, AI and democracy, trust and the rule of law, responsibility, praise and blame, reasonableness, duty, political obligation, justice and equality, justice and intersectionality, domination, pornography, intentions in the law, and legal argumentation. Written in clear prose, the volume is accessible by philosophers, lawyers, political theorists, and beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198864516
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/19/2024
Pages:	656
Product dimensions:	0.00(w) x 0.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Ruth Chang, University of Oxford,Amia Srinivasan, University of Oxford

Ruth Chang is the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. She holds a JD in law from Harvard and a DPhil. in philosophy from Oxford. Her research focusses on values, normativity, conflict, rationality, choice, and agency. She has given lectures or been a consultant at Google, the World Bank, CIA, US Navy, Big Pharma, TellTale Games and many other institutions. Her TED talk about decision-making has over 9 million views. She has written guest essays for popular publications and has been interviewed about her work by newspapers, magazines, and radio and television programmes from around the world. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Amia Srinivasan is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. She holds a BA from Yale and a BPhil and DPhil from Oxford. Her research spans epistemology, political philosophy, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy. She is the author of The Right to Sex (2021), and is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. Her essays on sex, animals, death, the university, technology, anger, politics, and other topics have also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

1. Moral RevolutionsOn the Urgency of Kick-starting a Moral Revolution to Save Ourselves, Kimberley BrownleeMaking Change, Kwame Anthony Appiah2. AI and DemocracyCan Artificial Intelligence Bring Deliberation to the Masses?, Hélène LandemoreThe Two Roles of Deliberation in Democracy, Philip Pettit3. Trust and the Rule of LawTrust and the Rule of Law, Thomas W. SimpsonCultures of Trust and the Rule of Law, Onora O'Neill4. Taking ResponsibilityTaking Responsibility , Pauline SliwaTaking Responsibility, Defensiveness, and the Blame Game, Pamela Hieronymi5. PraiseWhat Are We Praiseworthy For?, Zoë Johnson KingUnderstanding Praise, Susan Wolf6. BlameWhat Can We Say to Each Other?, James EdwardsStanding to Blame: Can it Be Defended?, Alison Hills7. ReasonablenessThe Reasonable and the Justified, Hasan DindjerVarieties of Reasonableness, Thomas Scanlon8. DutyLooking and Seeing, Nicolas CornellOn Duty, Jeremy Waldron9. Political ObligationPluralism in Political Obligation, Ashwini VasanthakumarAll Our Imperatives, Nancy L. Rosenblum10. Justice and EqualityDistributive Egalitarianism as Aspirational Justice, Gina SchoutenRelational Equality and Pluralism about Justice, Samuel Scheffler11. Justice and GroupsThe Metaphysics of Injustice, Robin DembroffSocial Systems and Intersectional Oppression, Sally Haslanger12. DominationOn Domination, Lori WatsonOf Domination and its Ending, Catharine A. MacKinnon13. PornographyPornography and the Limits of Speech Act Analysis, Kate GreasleyPornography: 'Enacting' or 'Eroticising' Women s Subordination?, Rae Langton14. Law and IntentionsIntentional Legislation: What Makes a Text a Statute?, Brian FlanaganIntentions, Procedures, and Social Rules, Michael Bratman15. ArgumentationArguing A Contrario, Luís Duarte d'AlmeidaA Contrario Argument and Default Reasoning, John Horty

Editorial Reviews

"Busy practitioners are unlikely to have time to ponder such abstract issues, let alone wade through almost 600 pages of academic writing. But for those missing their days studying jurisprudence, or who are attracted to considering or writing more theoretically on legal issues, this book will be of interest." — James Wilson, Law Society Gazette

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