Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy

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This is the seventh volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields. Topics explored in Volume 7 includeautonomy, perfectionism, truth and respect in politics, political epistemology, and the philosophy of work. Cover Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Copyright Acknowledgments Contents List of Contributors 1: The Philosophy of Work 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Bibliography 2: Political Epistemology and Social Critique 1. Introduction 2. Ideology and Subjection 3. Methodological Preliminaries: Narrowing the Task a. Moral Truths b. Anti-Utopianism c. The Social Domain d. Critique as Emancipatory 4. Methodological/Epistemic Challenge 5. The Epistemology of Consciousness Raising a. Case Studies Combahee River Collective (1983) (``A Black Feminist Statement´´) ``The Girls Fought Back.´´ b. Sources of Oppositional Consciousness c. Epistemic Credentials 6. Conclusion: The Normative Basis for Ideology Critique Works Cited 3: The Limited Use View of the Duty to Save 1. Introduction 2. The Limited Use View 3. Special Others 4. Depriving Others of Harm-Preventing Resources 5. Failing to Save as an Agent-Relative Prerogative 5.1. Augmenting Interests and the Scope of the Duty to Rescue 6. The Scope of Agent-Relative Prerogatives 6.1. Prerogatives as Independent Justifications for Harming 6.1.1. Duties and Using 6.1.2. Defence Against Non-Using Threateners 6.2. Agent-Relative Duties and Lesser-Evil Justifications for Harming 7. Choosing Between Deaths 8. Conclusion Cited Works 4: Politics, Truth, and Respect 1. Introduction 2. Exclusion, Insult, and Respect 3. Ignoring a False View versus Ignoring the Fact That Someone Holds a View (That Happens to Be False) 4. Why Telling Citizens That Their View Is Not Accepted Because It Is False Is Not Exclusionary 5. Conclusion References 5: Perfectionist Duties 1. Duty-Based and Non-Duty-Based Perfectionism 2. The Case for Duty-Based Perfectionism 2.1. From Self-Respect to Duty-Based Perfectionism 2.2. From Fairness to Duty-Based Perfectionism 2.3. A Right to a Flourishing Life 2.4. Indistinguishability? 3. The Advantages of Going Duty-Based 3.1. Legitimacy 3.2. Paternalism 3.3. The Quidnunc Mentality 4. Does Duty-Based Perfectionism Violate Public Justification? References 6: When Public Reason Falls Silent: Liberal Democratic Justification versus the Administrative State §1. Introduction §2. The Idea of Public Reason §3. Public Reason and the Sciences §4. The Administrative State §5. Egalitarianism versus Public Reason §6. Objections 6.1. Scope and Delegation 6.2. Idealization 6.3. Learning and Deliberation 6.4. Means versus Ends §7. A Concluding Section Works Cited 7: An Autonomy-Based Argument for Democracy I. Democracy and Autonomy: Alternative Approaches A. Collective Autonomy Arguments B. Individual Autonomy Arguments II. Aspects of Autonomy III. The Democratic Demands of Normative Autonomy A. From Non-Interference to Adequate Spheres of Concern B. Determining Spheres of Concern C. Alternative Explanations: Constitutionalism, Anarchism, Egalitarianism D. Direction and Implication of the Will E. Democracy and Self-Government Revisited IV. How Much Interaction Is Enough? Conclusion References 8: Why Strict Compliance? Introduction I. The Cooperative Conception of Society 1. Essential Plurality and Relational Constraints 2. Genuine Social Cooperation II. Moral Demands in Cooperative Schemes III. Strict Compliance in the Moral Theory of Cooperation 1. Strict Compliance and the Logic of Moral Demands 2. The Priority of Strict Compliance IV. The Well-Ordered Society 1. Two Roles for Principles of Justice 2. Ideal Theory and the Basic Structure Restriction V. An Anti-Utopian Objection to Ideal Theory VI. Non-Utopian Ideal Theory Conclusion References Index