Social Theory and Practice back issues from January 2008:
Moral internalism and the brain.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction It is a commonsense observation that people who judge that they ought not to act in a certain way tend to refrain from acting so, or at least act with some degree of reluctance and feel guilty about doing so. Consequently, it is at least initially plausible that ...
Cultural claims and the limits of liberal democracy.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson's theory of deliberative democracy has been widely influential and the focus of much attention among liberal democracy theorists in recent years. (1) This conception of democracy has been favorably viewed by many as a successful attempt to combine procedural ...
Racist variations of bad faith: a critical study of Lewis Gordon's phenomenology of racism.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction Within the relatively specialized field of philosophy of racism--a field that is particularly well developed in the Anglo-American world--the work of the African-American philosopher Lewis Gordon is well known. This is especially the case for his work on the ...
How do we acquire parental responsibilities?(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction It is commonly believed that parents have special duties toward their children--weightier duties than they owe other children. How these duties are acquired, however, is not well understood. This is problematic when claims about parental responsibilities are ...
Buns in the oven: objectification, surrogacy, and women's autonomy.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Since reaching fever pitch in the 1990s, academic debate regarding commodification and exploitation in commercial surrogacy has waned considerably. Still, continuing technological advances and the globalization of reproductive technologies make contract pregnancy an increasingly relevant ...
How does the good appear to us?(Sergio Tenenbaum, Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [Review Essay: Sergio Tenenbaum, Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), viii + 315 pp.] 1. Appearances of the Good According to what Kant called "the formula of the schools," we desire only ...
Appearing good: a reply to Schroeder.(Mark Schroeder)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I would like to thank Mark Schroeder for such an insightful discussion of my book; (1) he certainly raises many important questions and I am not sure I'll satisfactorily address all of them in this short piece. I would like to start with what I take to be the most important criticism that ...
Catherine Osborne, Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Catherine Osborne, Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), xi + 262 pp. In this intriguing, quirky, and frustrating study Catherine Osborne adopts a kind of idealist, quasi-Platonist ...
Erik J. Olsen, Civic Republicanism and the Properties of Democracy: A Case Study of Post-Socialist Political Theory.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Erik J. Olsen, Civic Republicanism and the Properties of Democracy: A Case Study of Post-Socialist Political Theory (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006), x + 325 pp. The jumping-off point in Erik J. Olsen's engaging book is the thought that within theoretical discussions of ...