The use of „anarchy‟ in international relations theory appears very different from its incarnations in political philosophy. Whilst realist scholars have used anarchy to describe a condition of absence of centralised political authority in which states wield differential power, political philosophers in the anarchist tradition have mounted a critique of the coercive and compulsory powers of sta...

The emerging interdisciplinary work in language politics and language policy and planning studies demonstrates a rising interest among researchers in the interface between sociolinguistics, political science and philosophy. Much of the resulting cross-disciplinary work, however, tends to focus on the subject matters (politics, language) themselves rather than explore the broader issues that tra...

If philosophical moral reflection improves moral behavior, one might expect ethics professors to behave morally better than socially similar non-ethicists. Under the assumption that forms of political engagement such as voting have moral worth, we looked at the rate at which a sample of professional ethicists-and political philosophers as a subgroup of ethicists-voted in eight years' worth of e...

In his well-known introduction to contemporary political philosophy,1 Will Kymlicka includes a substantial chapter on libertarianism, plus a preface and introduction that are also relevant to the topic. These sections are likely to help form many readers’ opinions regarding libertarian political philosophy. Unfortunately, many of Kymlicka’s assumptions and arguments seem to me to be crucially m...

T he beginning of November last year was a busy time in the bioethics calendar with four conferences taking place in New Zealand and Australia. The Fifth International Conference on Priorities in Health Care took place in Wellington; the Fifth Feminist Approaches to Bioethics congress, the Seventh World Congress of Bioethics, and the meeting of the Australasian Bioethics Association were all in...

Journal of Political PhilosophyEarly View Original Article Are Intuitions Treated as Evidence? Cases from Philosophy* Sebastian J. Conte, Conte Science, University OsloSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12277 * Earlier versions article were presented at the Department Oslo, Nordic Network Theory’s workshop (Roskilde 2018), Norweg...