Where Should We Expect Social Change in Non-Ideal Theory?
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 116-143
ISSN: 0090-5917
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In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 116-143
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 89-100
ISSN: 1467-8675
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 198, Heft 12, S. 12195-12221
ISSN: 1573-0964
AbstractElay Shech and John Earman have recently argued that the common topological interpretation of the Aharonov–Bohm (AB) effect is unsatisfactory because it fails to justify idealizations that it presupposes. In particular, they argue that an adequate account of the AB effect must address the role of boundary conditions in certain ideal cases of the effect. In this paper I defend the topological interpretation against their criticisms. I consider three types of idealization that might arise in treatments of the effect. First, Shech takes the AB effect to involve an idealization in the form of a singular limit, analogous to the thermodynamic limit in statistical mechanics. But, I argue, the AB effect itself features no singular limits, so it doesn't involve idealizations in this sense. Second, I argue that Shech and Earman's emphasis on the role of boundary conditions in the AB effect is misplaced. The idealizations that are useful in connecting the theoretical description of the AB effect to experiment do interact with facts about boundary conditions, but none of these idealizations are presupposed by the topological interpretation of the effect. Indeed, the boundary conditions for which Shech and demands justification are incompatible with some instances of the AB effect, so the topological interpretation ought not justify them. Finally, I address the role of the non-relativistic approximation usually presumed in discussions of the AB effect. This approximation is essential if—as the topological interpretation supposes—the AB effect constrains and justifies a relativistic theory of the electromagnetic interaction. In this case the ends justify the means. So the topological view presupposes no unjustified idealizations.
In: Journal of social philosophy
ISSN: 1467-9833
In: Journal of global ethics, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 40-51
ISSN: 1744-9634
In: Polity, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 376-396
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 376
ISSN: 0032-3497
In: Paper for the Political Studies Association's 50th Annual Conference, The Challenges for Democracy in the 21st Century, London School of Economics and Political Science, 10-13 April 2000
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The following article responds to a realist critique of ideal theory in the "official" liberal democratic account of civil disobedience classically offered by John Rawls. The shortcomings the critical theorist, Robin Celikates (2014:236), identifies in Rawls's account follow, "at least, in part, from treating ideal theory as an independent starting point and working towards a definition of this decidedly nonideal political practice from there". The research aims, firstly, to identify and to explain a significant weakness in "new realist" political theory, and, secondly, to offer direction from our recent historical past to contemporary struggles for social justice in South Africa today, which suffer from such weakness in practice. The Freedom Charter is identified as the embodiment of a set of ethical ideals which exceeds but which may complement Tully's approach. . Mainstream historical sources are used, firstly, to identify a serious shortcoming with a dominant approach in political theory, and, secondly, to identify a significant factor that frustrates the effectiveness of "service delivery" protests today.
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In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, S. 1-23
ISSN: 1743-8772
In: The Ethics and Politics of Asylum, S. 194-228
In: Journal of global ethics, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 159-172
ISSN: 1744-9634
In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 239-245
ISSN: 1469-9931
In: New political science: a journal of politics & culture, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 239-246
ISSN: 0739-3148
In: The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy. New York: Routledge, pp. 701-712 (2017)
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