A remarkable feature of the philosophical work on conspiracy theory has been that most philosophers agree there is nothing inherently problematic about theories (AKA thesis particularism). Recent work, however, challenged this consensus view, arguing really something epistemically wrong with theorising generalism). Are particularism and generalism incompatible? By looking at just how much parti...

When influencing the allocation of federal dollars across the country, do presidents strictly pursue maximally efficient outcomes, or do they systematically target dollars to politically influential constituencies? In a county-level analysis of federal spending from 1984 to 2008, we find that presidents are not universalistic, but particularistic – that is they reliably direct dollars to specif...

this paper contends that there has been a definitive and negative change in the trajectory of so-called islamic feminism. this change has been effected in large part in the west , as part of the growing discourse of euro-islam, european islam, indigenization of islam, etc., a discourse that comes not from governments (though it is mirrored, applauded and rewarded by governments in the region) b...

In his article "Goethe's World Literature, Universal Particularism, and European Imperialism" Dongho Cha tracks the ideology in Goethe's concept of "world literature." Early comparatists claim to stand for the universalism of this concept by understanding it to totalize all literatures across linguistic, territorial, and national boundaries and intended to go beyond European nationalism. Cha ar...