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- Political Philosophy, Ethics, Bioethics, Philosophy, Democratic Theory, Deliberative Democracy, and 15 moreNormative Ethics, Democracia, Democracy, Ética, Egalitarianism, Social Epistemology, Emergencies and Disasters, Political Representation, Global Justice, Habermas, Political Theory, Moral and Political Philosophy, Pierre Rosanvallon, Luigi Ferrajoli, and John Stuart Milledit
- Associate Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Oviedo since 2011. He teaches undergraduat... moreAssociate Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Oviedo since 2011. He teaches undergraduate courses on political philosophy, moral theory, and a postgraduate course on Disaster ethics in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Public Health in Disasters. Javier Gil is the main researcher of the research project 'Ethical duties in disaster contexts (DISASTER)', funded by BBVA Foundation Grants for Scientific Research Projects 2021. Javier Gil is currently the main researcher of the project 'Ethical duties in disaster contexts (DISASTER)', funded by BBVA Foundation Grants for Scientific Research Projects 2021, and a member of both Red Temática: Espacyos: Ética de la Salud Pública (RED2022-134551-T), funded by Spanish MICIN, and Red Temática: Laboratorio Iberoamericano de Ética y Salud Pública (LIBERESP), funded by CYTED. He is moreover a member of the research team of the project 'Biological Reproduction, Social Reproduction and Public Sphere' (PID2020-115079RB-I, AEI/FEDER, UE).edit
"Emergencies, Disasters and Catastrophes: Perspectives from Ethics and Political Philosophy" in Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 February 2024:... more
"Emergencies, Disasters and Catastrophes: Perspectives from Ethics and Political Philosophy" in Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 February 2024: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/XKE4WO720E
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Disaster Studies, Disaster risk management, Public Health Ethics, Disaster Management, and 15 moreDisaster Preparedness, Filosofía Política, Disasters, Disaster risk reduction, Disaster, Salud Publica, Ética Aplicada, Emergencies and Disasters, Catastrofes Y Emergencias Sociales, Disaster Culture, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, Epidemiology and Public Health, Filosofía Moral Y Política, Crisis/disaster Management, and Gestion De Riesgos Y Desastres
In this chapter, two senses in which catastrophism is relevant to democratic politics are discussed. On the one hand, the adversarial attribution of impending catastrophes to political opponents is a usual practice in democracies and a... more
In this chapter, two senses in which catastrophism is relevant to democratic politics are discussed. On the one hand, the adversarial attribution of impending catastrophes to political opponents is a usual practice in democracies and a common polarizing tool among extremist positions. On the other hand, actual disasters are often depicted as potential crucial factors for policy and eventually social transformations. Exploiting disasters as an opportunity for major shifts and substitutions also characterizes some illiberal, anti-liberal and authoritarian-leaning strategies to delegitimize democracies as we know them. Liberal democracies might partially tackle this destabilizing catastrophism insofar as they are able to invest in disaster preparedness policies while correcting democratic short-termism as much as possible. The social and political construction of coming catastrophes should thus evolve into a means to build the resilience of existing democracies and to counter internal and external challenges that contribute to their delegitimization.
Research Interests: Disaster Studies, Political Science, Liberalism, Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Political Legitimacy, and 15 moreDisaster Management, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Theory, Teoría Política, Filosofía Política, Democracy and Good Governance, Emergencies and Disasters, Disaster Culture, Democracia, Liberalismo, Populismo, Catastrophism, Catastrophe Theory, Gestion De Riesgos Y Desastres, and Public Policy
This article focuses on some «disaster ethics» considerations on disaster preparedness and its related responsibilities. After recalling that concerns about preparedness and vulnerability have come to the fore in the domains of «disaster... more
This article focuses on some «disaster ethics» considerations on disaster preparedness and its related responsibilities. After recalling that concerns about preparedness and vulnerability have come to the fore in the domains of «disaster risk reduction» over the last decades, the article will endorse the view that the demarcation between natural disasters and human-induced disasters has becoming blurred and even questionable in many cases. Then, it will be argued that the ethical assessment of disasters needs to consider the entire disaster cycle and that ethical duties extend to the phase of disaster preparedness and require a framework of prospective and shared responsibilities. Accordingly, a number of ethical duties concerning disaster preparedness will be commented upon. Finally, the article will discuss a specific socio-epistemic dynamics of blame assignment that unbalances the appraisal of both vulnerability conditions and moral responsibilities of certain worst-off disaster victims.
Research Interests: Ethics, Applied Ethics, Disaster Studies, Public Health Ethics, Risk and Vulnerability - Natural Hazards, and 15 moreVulnerability, Disaster Preparedness, Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Natural Disasters, Solidarity, Disasters, Ética Aplicada, Emergencies and Disasters, Catastrofes Y Emergencias Sociales, Disaster Culture, Environmental Hazards and Disasters, Responsabilidad Social, Social Responsibillity, and Gestion De Riesgos Y Desastres
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La experiencia de la pandemia de la COVID-19 y el horizonte de expectativas en relación con el cambio climático nos recuerdan que es una responsabilidad colectiva anticiparnos en la medida de nuestras posibilidades y conocimientos a los... more
La experiencia de la pandemia de la COVID-19 y el horizonte de expectativas en relación con el cambio climático nos recuerdan que es una responsabilidad colectiva anticiparnos en la medida de nuestras posibilidades y conocimientos a los riesgos atendibles de los desastres previsibles y a sus posibles impactos sobre las comunidades vulnerables. En el artículo se examina el sentido y el estatuto de los deberes éticos acerca de la preparación ante los desastres, para lo cual se adopta un enfoque de ética de desastres que se basa en la interrelación de la bioética con la ética de la Salud Pública y que contempla el ciclo completo de la gestión de los desastres y el correspondiente ciclo de protección de las víctimas y profesionales. Después de comentar varias controversias normativas que acompañan a conocidas clasificaciones de los desastres y caracterizar el giro ético hacia la preparación en la gestión de desastres, en el artículo se sostiene que los deberes de preparación incluyen obligaciones relativas a la planificación, la anticipación y la prevención de desastres, así como que son deberes derivados y positivos que implican un entramado de responsabilidades prospectivas, compartidas e institucionalmente mediadas.
Research Interests: Applied Ethics, Disaster Studies, Disaster risk management, Public Health Ethics, Public Health Policy, and 15 moreRisk and Vulnerability, Medical Ethics, Disaster Management, Risk and Vulnerability - Natural Hazards, Public Health, Disaster Preparedness, Disasters, Disaster risk reduction, Ética Aplicada, Emergencies and Disasters, Catastrofes Y Emergencias Sociales, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, Salud Pública, Desastres, and Gestion De Riesgos Y Desastres
The conceptual history of the political that Pierre Rosanvallon explained in his methodological papers and practiced in major works endorsed a distinctive reflexivity. The present contribution claims that the specificity of this approach... more
The conceptual history of the political that Pierre Rosanvallon explained in his methodological papers and practiced in major works endorsed a distinctive reflexivity. The present contribution claims that the specificity of this approach largely rested on using the methodological and interdisciplinary openness to account for the indeterminacy and entropy of democracy, and the experiences that accompany its incompleteness and its pathologies. It is also shown that more recently, in the so-called tetralogy on the mutations of contemporary democracies, the conceptual history of the political is remodelled and put at the service of a complex, interdisciplinary and self-proclaimed realist, but at the end normative-laden theory that aims to arrive at sound diagnoses of the present in view of the current transformations in Western democracies. While the conceptual elaborations appear again as a result of historical research, the theory actually advances a reframing of our understanding of contemporary democracy which incorporates the view of a mixed modern regime. Finally, it is suggested that the value of the civic involvement at the theoretical kern of the conceptual history of the political was also underpinned by the methodological choices on pluralism and interdisciplinarity and continues nowadays to be central to Rosanvallon’s theoretical project.
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Interdisciplinarity, Democratic Theory, Republicanism, and 15 morePolitical History, Conceptual History, Civic Engagement, Modern Political Philosophy, Teoría Política, Filosofía Política, Metodología y Teoría de la Investigación Social, Pierre Rosanvallon, Interdisciplinariedad, Republicanismo, Neorepublicanism, TEORÍA DE LA DEMOCRACIA, Historia Y Teoría De La Democracia, Pensamiento Politico Posfundacional, and Historia Conceptual De Lo Político
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Political Parties, Political Theory, Democratic Theory, Liberalism, and 15 morePolitical Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Public Deliberation, Populism, History of Political Parties, Public Reason, Deliberative Democracy, Agonistic Pluralism, Democracy, Radical Democracy, Pluralism, Agonism, Partisanship, Religio-Political Factionalism, Political Parties and Party Politics, and Deliberative Democracy and Conflict
In disasters, multiple victims are involved that exceed the capacities and resources of emergencies available to face the necessary help. As in other areas of public health ethics, the allocation of resources and the rights and care of... more
In disasters, multiple victims are involved that exceed the capacities and resources of emergencies available to face the necessary help. As in other areas of public health ethics, the allocation of resources and the rights and care of populations in mass casualty incidents often triumph over the priority given by mainstream bioethics to autonomy and individual rights and care. Triage is a series of standardized methods that use calculation and rank ordering in medicine. Patients are quantitatively represented by algorithmic and numerical triage systems, and some of them even categorize the victims with scales and scores. In disaster triage, consequentialist criteria consistent with this quantification of the bodies prevail that order to save as many lives as possible while making the best use of available resources, which often means to prioritize the patients who are more likely to survive.
Research Interests: Emergency Medicine, Bioethics, Disaster Studies, Disaster risk management, Public Health Policy, and 15 moreProfessional Ethics, Critical Bioethics, Consequentialism, Utilitarianism, Disaster Management, Public Health, Emergency Management, Solidarity, Disasters, Triage, Bioética, Ética Aplicada, Emergencies and Disasters, Epidemiology and Public Health, and Disaster Ethics
Resumen: La filosofía política de la inmigración de David Miller pretende aportar un enfoque realista y basado en principios de las principales cuestiones normativas a que se enfrentan los estados anfitriones cuando se deciden por... more
Resumen: La filosofía política de la inmigración de David Miller pretende aportar un enfoque realista y basado en principios de las principales cuestiones normativas a que se enfrentan los estados anfitriones cuando se deciden por políticas públicas en materia de inmigración. En este capítulo se analiza su argumento en pro del derecho de los estados a controlar la inmigración sobre la base de la autodeterminación democrática, argumento que sostiene que la política de inmigración, por su impacto e interrelación en las otras políticas públicas legítimas, es un instrumento en manos del demos para la reproducción y la dirección futura de una comunidad política estable y aceptablemente justa. Se considera además la trama con que David Miller traba esa argumentación con su interpretación del cosmopolitismo en sentido débil y con la interconexión entre el principio de equidad y el valor de la integración de los inmigrantes.
Abstract: David Miller's political philosophy of immigration aims to provide a realistic and principled approach to the main regulatory issues that host states face when deciding on public immigration policies. This chapter analyses Miller's argument for the right of states to control their borders on the basis of their democratic self-determination. This argument holds that immigration policy, due to its impact and interrelation on other legitimate public policies, is an instrument of the demos for the reproduction and future direction of a stable and fair political community. The chapter also considers the broader view that ties this argument with David Miller’s version of weak cosmopolitanism and with the interconnection between the principle of fairness and the value of the integration of immigrants.
Abstract: David Miller's political philosophy of immigration aims to provide a realistic and principled approach to the main regulatory issues that host states face when deciding on public immigration policies. This chapter analyses Miller's argument for the right of states to control their borders on the basis of their democratic self-determination. This argument holds that immigration policy, due to its impact and interrelation on other legitimate public policies, is an instrument of the demos for the reproduction and future direction of a stable and fair political community. The chapter also considers the broader view that ties this argument with David Miller’s version of weak cosmopolitanism and with the interconnection between the principle of fairness and the value of the integration of immigrants.
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Self-Determination Theory, Nationalism, Migration Studies, Democracy, and 13 moreDiversity & Inclusion, Social Inclusion, David Miller, Filosofía Política, Políticas Públicas, Migraciones, Integration, Democracia, Migración, Nacionalismo, Integración, Inclusión / Exclusión, and Public Policy
En este artículo se analizan algunas de las implicaciones que tienen las prácticas de triaje para la ética de desastres. Se considera la centralidad técnica de la cuantificación en los modelos algorítmicos y numéricos de triaje y se... more
En este artículo se analizan algunas de las implicaciones que tienen las prácticas de triaje para la ética de desastres. Se considera la centralidad técnica de la cuantificación en los modelos algorítmicos y numéricos de triaje y se incide en la prevalencia normativa de los criterios consecuencialistas, incluso cuando éstos hayan de ajustarse a sistemas de múltiples principios. Finalmente se sugiere que una concepción ética de los desastres precisa de una perspectiva compleja y integral de la gestión de los desastres que no se limite a la fase de respuesta inmediata a los mismos y que supere a la par que integre los principios de la bioética y la indispensabilidad de los criterios consecuencialistas en las decisiones de triaje
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Research Interests: Indian Philosophy, Indian studies, Anthropology of the Body, Capability Approach, Body Image, and 15 moreIndian nationalism, Indian Politics, Amartya Sen, Indian Literature, Martha Nussbaum, Feminism(s), Feminismo, Martha Nussbaum's theory of human capabilities, Indian History, Poverty Studies, Feminism and Gender Issues in Indian Writing in English, Human Capabilities Approach, The Philosophy of Amartya Sen, Estudios De Género Y Feminismo, and Amartya Sen on Bangal Famine
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Abstention is itself an object of ongoing definitional and political debates. The chapter examines some attempts to re-signify it and argues against the depoliticisation of the abstaining citizenship. It considers recent views about... more
Abstention is itself an object of ongoing definitional and political debates. The chapter examines some attempts to re-signify it and argues against the depoliticisation of the abstaining citizenship. It considers recent views about practicing citizenship through voting that update the claim that universal turnout has become a dispensable principle whereas abstentions, no matter how qualified they may be, should be discounted as irrelevant. In particular, Jason Brennan’s epistocratic arguments about the moral duties and legal constraints relating to our practice of voting are examined. These arguments use the political analogy of the doctor-patient relationship profusely and work with a conception of abstention at four levels: abstention as a personal choice, as a moral responsibility, as a duty legally enforceable, and as an obligation decided by lot. The contrast with John Stuart Mill’s proposals of encompassing the epistocratic arrangements in a wider democratic framework helps to highlight the postdemocratic ambivalences and the disguised paternalism behind Brennan’s rejection of massive voting and electoral democracy and his defence of compulsory abstention and restricted suffrage.
Based on a deliberative understanding of abstention, the chapter questions the assumption in Brennan’s successive proposals, but also in some advocates of the ‘mini-publics approach’, that there is no significant loss in overlooking the political valence of qualified abstention. The defenders of selective deliberation also share the view that a functioning democracy deserves citizens’ efforts beyond voting by default and aspire to counteract the widespread condoning of citizens’ political ignorance and misuse of voting. Moreover, these self-declared agnostics about mass participation could approve a vast majority of citizens as abstainers who blindly transfer their authorization to a few representative ones. This chapter claims alternatively that reasonable and conscientious abstainers might be loyal citizens that decide to be heard or to exit and that, instead of praising the trends to misrecognize, exploit and detract from the abstentions, the political agents and political theorist alike would do better to deal with the stream of warning signals these citizens are sending.
Key words: Jason Brennan, John Stuart Mill, abstention, deliberation, epistocracy, voting.
Based on a deliberative understanding of abstention, the chapter questions the assumption in Brennan’s successive proposals, but also in some advocates of the ‘mini-publics approach’, that there is no significant loss in overlooking the political valence of qualified abstention. The defenders of selective deliberation also share the view that a functioning democracy deserves citizens’ efforts beyond voting by default and aspire to counteract the widespread condoning of citizens’ political ignorance and misuse of voting. Moreover, these self-declared agnostics about mass participation could approve a vast majority of citizens as abstainers who blindly transfer their authorization to a few representative ones. This chapter claims alternatively that reasonable and conscientious abstainers might be loyal citizens that decide to be heard or to exit and that, instead of praising the trends to misrecognize, exploit and detract from the abstentions, the political agents and political theorist alike would do better to deal with the stream of warning signals these citizens are sending.
Key words: Jason Brennan, John Stuart Mill, abstention, deliberation, epistocracy, voting.
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This article focuses on some philosophical assumptions of The China Model and on the claim that political meritocracy should serve as a paradigmatic case. First, it discusses Daniel A. Bell’s attachment to Confucianism in this and other... more
This article focuses on some philosophical assumptions of The China Model and on the claim that political meritocracy should serve as a paradigmatic case. First, it discusses Daniel A. Bell’s attachment to Confucianism in this and other writings, with special attention to the role played in the model by the concept of ‘harmony’. Then, it questions the strong opposition between meritocracy and democracy that Bell apparently proposes and highlights both the meritocratic aspects of democracy itself and the meritocratic redescription of deliberation in order to lead democracy from agonism to harmonism. The article ends by casting some doubts on the expectation that the Chinese Model could be transferred into not-Asian contexts, due to its dependence on a very specific cultural background.
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Resumen: Este artículo se pregunta por la significación de diversos experimentos de de-mocracia deliberativa y participativa que se han llevado a cabo en China y para ello toma en consideración los análisis y las valoraciones que los... more
Resumen: Este artículo se pregunta por la significación de diversos experimentos de de-mocracia deliberativa y participativa que se han llevado a cabo en China y para ello toma en consideración los análisis y las valoraciones que los mismos han recibido desde varios frentes de la teoría política deliberativa. Los autores del artículo creemos que el éxito que han alcanzado esos procesos e innovaciones institucionales, junto con el hecho de que están involucrados en la transformación política que está experimentado la sociedad china, instan a que prestemos atención al retorno del confucianismo a la arena del pensamiento político y al papel que este está desempeñando en varias elaboraciones de lo que cabe de-nominar una apropiación china de la deliberación democrática. En la medida en que esto puede estar poniendo en perspectiva una profunda resignificación de la propia democracia, tal como la conocemos, señalamos finalmente algunos interrogantes que se nos plantean a quienes vivimos políticamente dentro del marco de experiencia de las democracias electo-rales de cuño occidental. Palabras clave: armonía, confucianismo, deliberación, democracia electoral, jerarquía.
Abstract: This article asks about the meaning of diverse deliberative and participatory democratic experiments that have been carried out in China, taking into consideration the analyses and evaluations that they have received from several fronts of the deliberative political theory. The authors of the article believe that the success of these processes and institutional innovations and the fact that they are involved in the political transformation experienced by Chinese society urge us to pay attention to the return of Confucianism to the arena of political thought and the role that it is playing in various elaborations of what may be called a Chinese approach to the democratic deliberation. To the extent that it may be putting into perspective a profound resignification of democracy itself, we finally point out some questions that are posed to those of us who politically live within the framework of experience of Western-style electoral democracies.
Abstract: This article asks about the meaning of diverse deliberative and participatory democratic experiments that have been carried out in China, taking into consideration the analyses and evaluations that they have received from several fronts of the deliberative political theory. The authors of the article believe that the success of these processes and institutional innovations and the fact that they are involved in the political transformation experienced by Chinese society urge us to pay attention to the return of Confucianism to the arena of political thought and the role that it is playing in various elaborations of what may be called a Chinese approach to the democratic deliberation. To the extent that it may be putting into perspective a profound resignification of democracy itself, we finally point out some questions that are posed to those of us who politically live within the framework of experience of Western-style electoral democracies.
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In this article Jason Brennan’s arguments about the moral duties relating to our practice of voting are examined. These arguments provide an epistocratic approach of politics and present a conception of abstention at four levels:... more
In this article Jason Brennan’s arguments about the moral duties relating to our practice of voting are examined. These arguments provide an epistocratic approach of politics and present a conception of abstention at four levels: abstention as a personal choice, as a moral responsibility, as a duty legally enforceable and as an obligation decided by lot. The contrast with John Stuart Mill’s positions helps to highlight the postdemocratic ambivalences and the latent paternalism behind Brennan’s rejection of massive voting and electoral democracy. A deliberative, Millian-inspired understanding of abstention also allows questioning the assumption in Brennan’s successive proposals that there is no significant loss in overlooking the political valence of qualified abstention.
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Este numero especial esta dedicado monograficamente al tema «Vida y Politica». En la coordinacion del numero se han implicado, ademas del Consejo de redaccion de la revista Eikasia, el Laboratorio de Estudios Politicos y Debates... more
Este numero especial esta dedicado monograficamente al tema «Vida y Politica». En la coordinacion del numero se han implicado, ademas del Consejo de redaccion de la revista Eikasia, el Laboratorio de Estudios Politicos y Debates Regionales Tramas, de la Universidad Nacional de Catamarca en Argentina, el Departamento de Filosofia de la Universidad de Oviedo y la Sociedad Asturiana de Filosofia. Por su parte, Francisco Javier Gil Martin desea hacer constar el apoyo recibido por el Proyecto de Investigacion Esfera Publica y Sujetos Emergentes (FFI2016-75603-R, AEI/FEDER, UE), financiado por el Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad.
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The aim of this paper is threefold. First, I will comment on Mill’s epistocracy in connection with his applications of the political analogy, which highlight both the value of authority derived from the epistemic superiority of the... more
The aim of this paper is threefold. First, I will comment on Mill’s epistocracy in connection with his applications of the political analogy, which highlight both the value of authority derived from the epistemic superiority of the physician, and the non-delegable authorisation of patient consent. In the second section I will briefly consider some contemporary epistemic defenses of democratic deliberation that try to get rid of the suspicion about the survival of epistocracy, and for that reason assume the notion of informed consent in a new application of the political analogy of the doctor-patient relationship. In the final section, I will discuss the persistence of an ambiguous Millian legacy behind libertarian paternalism’s endorsement of expertocratic schemes. For that I will discuss the vindication of the notion of presumed consent and the consequent mandated choice by ruling institutions, as well as the attempt to redescribe the very idea of informed consent by making it compatible with choice architecture interventions.
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La analogía entre la relación médico/paciente y la de expertos/ciudadanos cuenta con una larga tradición en el pensamiento politico occidental. Algunos exponentes de la deliberación democrática han retomado dicha analogía en atención a... more
La analogía entre la relación médico/paciente y la de expertos/ciudadanos cuenta con una larga tradición en el pensamiento politico occidental. Algunos exponentes de la deliberación democrática han retomado dicha analogía en atención a los tipos respectivos de consentimiento que implica y se han servido de ella para desacreditar la expertocracia y para, al mismo tiempo, reivindicar el valor epistémico que no debe perder la autoridad democrática siempre que esté avalado por la autorización del paciente. Este texto destaca en cambio el esquema expertocrático con el que el planteamiento deliberativista de Cass Sunstein pretende “re-enmarcar” la inclusion y la participación democráticas. En último término, el texto pone en cuestión la pretensión del paternalismo libertario de “redescribir” el consentimiento informado por la vía de hacer del consentimiento presunto o implícito un mecanismo deliberativo acorde con la arquitectura de los nudges.
The analogy between the doctor/patient and the expert/citizen relationships has a long tradition in the western political thought. In view of the respective kinds of consent operating in these relationships, some defenders of democratic deliberation take up the analogy again and use it specifically for undermining the expertocracy and for claiming, at the same time, the epistemic value that any democratic authority should pursue when backed by the patient’s authorization. In contrast, this paper analises the expertocratic scheme with which Cass Sunstein’s deliberative approach tries to reframe the democratic inclusion and participation. Additionally, the paper questions the libertarian paternalism’s attempt to redescribe the very idea of informed consent by making the presumed consent a deliberative devise compatible with the choice architecture of nudges.
The analogy between the doctor/patient and the expert/citizen relationships has a long tradition in the western political thought. In view of the respective kinds of consent operating in these relationships, some defenders of democratic deliberation take up the analogy again and use it specifically for undermining the expertocracy and for claiming, at the same time, the epistemic value that any democratic authority should pursue when backed by the patient’s authorization. In contrast, this paper analises the expertocratic scheme with which Cass Sunstein’s deliberative approach tries to reframe the democratic inclusion and participation. Additionally, the paper questions the libertarian paternalism’s attempt to redescribe the very idea of informed consent by making the presumed consent a deliberative devise compatible with the choice architecture of nudges.
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Con los tres conceptos del título y la secuencia de los mismos se plantea en primera instancia el asunto bien controvertido -sobre todo en las filas neopragmatistas- de si el pragmatismo implica de suyo la democracia y de si ésta ha de... more
Con los tres conceptos del título y la secuencia de los mismos se plantea en primera instancia el asunto bien controvertido -sobre todo en las filas neopragmatistas- de si el pragmatismo implica de suyo la democracia y de si ésta ha de ser además de naturaleza deliberativa. El propósito de este artículo es atender a ese contexto de discusiones en torno a la urdimbre de dicha terna conceptual y exponer algunas de las principales posiciones en liza. Repasa por ello algunas de las respuestas -contrarias unas, favorables las otras- de destacados autores pragmatistas en torno a la posibilidad de hilvanar el nexo interno entre el pragmatismo y la democracia y, más en concreto, del pragmatismo con la deliberación democrática. En el tramo final del artículo se presta al planteamiento que de esa secuencia ha ofrecido Robert B. Talisse, autor a quien se le reconoce una innovadora, polémica y discutible versión política del pragmatismo.
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Hilary Putnam and Jürgen Habermas share the conviction that the finitude of the human mind is a virtue and not a shortcoming. In this paper I track this shared philosophical conviction by comparing their ways of withdrawing the pragmatist... more
Hilary Putnam and Jürgen Habermas share the conviction that the finitude of the human mind is a virtue and not a shortcoming. In this paper I track this shared philosophical conviction by comparing their ways of withdrawing the pragmatist conception of truth and by reviewing their debate on the objectivity of values and norms.
ABSTRACT. Drawing upon several questions raised in a recent exchange between Putnam and Habermas, this paper exposes Putnam's pragmatist arguments against both moral skepticism and substantive moral realism and examines his realist... more
ABSTRACT. Drawing upon several questions raised in a recent exchange between Putnam and Habermas, this paper exposes Putnam's pragmatist arguments against both moral skepticism and substantive moral realism and examines his realist account of moral objectivity in ...
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Resumen: El creciente interés mutuo de las filosofías de Habermas y Putnam durante los años ochenta tuvo tal vez uno de sus motivos aglutinadores en sendas rehabilitaciones de una concepción de la verdad de resonancias peirceanas. Este... more
Resumen: El creciente interés mutuo de las filosofías de Habermas y Putnam durante los años ochenta tuvo tal vez uno de sus motivos aglutinadores en sendas rehabilitaciones de una concepción de la verdad de resonancias peirceanas. Este artículo secuencia varias fases del mutuo proceso de aprendizaje de ambos autores y del itinerario que les lleva a descartar una concepción radicalmente epistémica de la verdad. También intenta aclarar por qué el más reciente debate entre ambos, centrado en la objetividad de normas y valores, ha tenido uno de sus puntos más polémicos en el sentido que concede cada uno a sus respectivos abandonos de dicha concepción de la verdad.
Abstract: The ongoing mutual interest between Putnam’s and Habermas’s philosophies during the 80’s showed a point of convergence in their rehabilitations of a theory of truth with a Peircean flavor. This article sequences various stages both in their mutual learning process and in the route to their departures from the radically epistemic notion of truth. The article also tries to explain the relevance of their divergent interpretations of the withdrawal of such a conception of truth in their most recent debate on norms and values.
Abstract: The ongoing mutual interest between Putnam’s and Habermas’s philosophies during the 80’s showed a point of convergence in their rehabilitations of a theory of truth with a Peircean flavor. This article sequences various stages both in their mutual learning process and in the route to their departures from the radically epistemic notion of truth. The article also tries to explain the relevance of their divergent interpretations of the withdrawal of such a conception of truth in their most recent debate on norms and values.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Professional Ethics, Police Accountability, Ética Profesional, and 14 morePolice studies, Constitutional Patriotism, Police Ethics, Códigos Deontológicos, Policía, Codes of Ethics, Police Ethics Training, Codes of Professional Ethics, Guardia Civil, Professional and Applied Ethics, Cuerpos Y Fuerzas De Seguridad, Patriotismo constitucional, Modelos de policía, and Policía de Proximidad
Este artículo emprende un cotejo de textos pertenecientes a tres periodos diferentes del pensamiento de Habermas y defiende que existe una conexión genealógica entre la concepción de la racionalidad procedimental con las ideas de la... more
Este artículo emprende un cotejo de textos pertenecientes a tres periodos diferentes del pensamiento de Habermas y defiende que existe una conexión genealógica entre la concepción de la racionalidad procedimental con las ideas de la esfera pública burguesa y de la situación ideal de habla. Además de examinar el contenido normativo de la racionalidad procedimental asentado en las “reglas de la razón”, el artículo explora algunas de las implicaciones de la dimensión pública de las idealizaciones inevitables y contrafácticas de los discursos racionales.
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Desde que perfilara su concepcion de la racionalidad en relacion con «las idealizaciones inscritas en la propia comunicacion linguistica» alla por los comienzos de los anos setenta o, mas aun, desde que elaborara una teoria de la misma a... more
Desde que perfilara su concepcion de la racionalidad en relacion con «las idealizaciones inscritas en la propia comunicacion linguistica» alla por los comienzos de los anos setenta o, mas aun, desde que elaborara una teoria de la misma a comienzos de los anos ochenta, vale decir, desde su monumental Teoria de la accion comunicativa, Jurgen Habermas ha empleado siempre su concepto de la racionalidad comunicativa con un doble sentido. En virtud de su dimension pragmatica es una racionalidad mundana y familiarizada con el sentido comun. En virtud de su dimension procedimental es tambien una racionalidad discursiva, asentada a la larga gracias a los procesos autocorrectivos de aprendizaje en la comprension moderna del mundo. Este doble frente nos da licencia para hablar de la «anfibologia» de la racionalidad2. El caracter anfibologico de la racionalidad se sigue de la ubicacion sistematica que ocupa la accion comunicativa entre el mundo de la vida y el discurso y se ajusta al contenido ...
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RESUMEN: Al menos en tres ocasiones Habermas ha perfilado su concepcion comunicativa del lenguaje mediante una contraposicion con concepciones del lenguaje asociadas con las tradiciones analitica y hermeneutica. Esas exposiciones... more
RESUMEN: Al menos en tres ocasiones Habermas ha perfilado su concepcion comunicativa del lenguaje mediante una contraposicion con concepciones del lenguaje asociadas con las tradiciones analitica y hermeneutica. Esas exposiciones coinciden en el tiempo con sendas aclaraciones del instrumental conceptual de la pragmatica formal y contienen variaciones que indican a las claras algunos de los mas importantes reajustes de dicha teoria. El articulo recupera y contextualiza los enclaves textuales de tales perfiladuras conceptuales y los marcos teoricos de la pragmatica formal alzaprimados en cada caso. ABSTRACT: At least at three times Habermas has shaped his communicative conception of language through a contrast with conceptions of language that arise from hermeneutic and analytical philosophical traditions. These explanations both coincice with other three explanations of the formal pragmatic set of conceptual instruments and contain variations that enlighten some of the most important...
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Gil Martín, Francisco Javier; «La lucha por el marco», Isegoría, nº 43 (monográfico sobre justicia global), Julio-diciembre 2010, pp. 687-691. (ISSN 1130-2097 y eISSN 1988-8376).
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Reseñas de los siguientes libros: Jon Juaristi, El bosque originario. Genealogías míticas de los pueblos de Europa, Taurus, Madrid, 2000 Félix de Azúa, La invención de Caín, Alfaguara, Madrid, 1999 Manuel Delgado, El animal público.... more
Reseñas de los siguientes libros:
Jon Juaristi, El bosque originario. Genealogías míticas de los pueblos de Europa, Taurus, Madrid, 2000
Félix de Azúa, La invención de Caín, Alfaguara, Madrid, 1999
Manuel Delgado, El animal público. Hacia una antropología de los espacios urbanos, Anagrama, Barcelona, 1999
Victoriano Sainz Gutiérrez, La cultura urbana de la posmodernidad. Aldo Rossi y su contexto, Ediciones Alfar, Sevilla, 1999
Jon Juaristi, El bosque originario. Genealogías míticas de los pueblos de Europa, Taurus, Madrid, 2000
Félix de Azúa, La invención de Caín, Alfaguara, Madrid, 1999
Manuel Delgado, El animal público. Hacia una antropología de los espacios urbanos, Anagrama, Barcelona, 1999
Victoriano Sainz Gutiérrez, La cultura urbana de la posmodernidad. Aldo Rossi y su contexto, Ediciones Alfar, Sevilla, 1999
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How are the contemporary conceptions of the living body and health related to numerical systems? Addressing the contemporary practice of quantification of bodies and health, such a question is bound to arise. As a discipline historically... more
How are the contemporary conceptions of the living body and health related to numerical systems? Addressing the contemporary practice of quantification of bodies and health, such a question is bound to arise. As a discipline historically positioned amidst natural sciences, technology, and art, medicine has always been sensitive to theories and apparatuses able to quantify and reshape the living body, as well as to the practical possibility of operating on it. This is why, in the era where telecommunication, algorithmic information technology, and data-driven decision making are reaching their apex, new forms of medical practice, and new alliances between medicine and technology are emerging as a direct consequence of the evolution of technology. Such a transformation has happened not without continuity with an inner tendency of early modern science, which progressively "translated" the living organism and the concept of "health" into a quantitative model. Indeed,...
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Ideas como las de igualdad, justicia, bienestar o libertad han ido cediendo terreno a los conceptos economicos, sin embargo, el actual fracaso del economicismo reclama que esas ideas vuelvan al primer plano y que la economia y otras... more
Ideas como las de igualdad, justicia, bienestar o libertad han ido cediendo terreno a los conceptos economicos, sin embargo, el actual fracaso del economicismo reclama que esas ideas vuelvan al primer plano y que la economia y otras disciplinas trabajen conjuntamente. Las aportaciones de este libro abarcan, desde un enfoque historico, temas relacionados con la crisis de nuestra realidad economica y su alejamiento cada vez mayor de nuestras metas sociales. Se abordan asuntos como el sentido de las estructuras politicas, el papel de la ciencia y la tecnologia en las sociedades contemporaneas, nuestra disposicion colectiva frente al trabajo, el beneficio, etc., y nuestras actitudes individuales con respecto al esfuerzo o la austeridad. Este volumen se suma a las voces que ambicionan conocer mejor la realidad que nos rodea para mejorarla, saliendo asi de una suerte de somnolencia de la razon que, acomodada en el mero calculo, permanecia inactiva por miedo, tal vez, a sus monstruos.
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Esta investigacion aporta una vision de conjunto del pensamiento de Habermas que, en base a las implicaciones de su conviccion kantiana basica de que el ejercicio critico de la razon va de suyo con el uso publico de la razon, toma como... more
Esta investigacion aporta una vision de conjunto del pensamiento de Habermas que, en base a las implicaciones de su conviccion kantiana basica de que el ejercicio critico de la razon va de suyo con el uso publico de la razon, toma como tema vertebrador las intrincadas interrelaciones de la categoria de la esfera publica con la concepcion postmetafisica de la racionalidad. Los tres capitulos de la primera parte interpretan ese marco de relaciones en atencion a la encarnacion comunicativa de la racionalidad, desde la perspectiva contemporanea del giro linguistico; en atencion a la sedimentacion de la razon en los proceso de integracion social dentro del mundo de la vida, desde la perspectiva de una teoria de la sociedad que asume la critica de la razon impura, y en atencion a los ciclos argumentativos postconvencionales, desde la perspectiva del pensamiento postmetafisico que ha radicalizado la metacritica a la concepcion kantiana de la razon. Los analisis de los diversos frentes en l...
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Hardcover 99,99 € | £89.99 | $119.99 106,99 € (D) | 109,99 € (A) | CHF [1] 118,00 eBook 85,59 € | £71.50 | $89.00 85,59 € (D) | 85,59 € (A) | CHF [2] 94,00 Available from your library or springer.com/shop MyCopy [3] Comprises a collection... more
Hardcover 99,99 € | £89.99 | $119.99 106,99 € (D) | 109,99 € (A) | CHF [1] 118,00 eBook 85,59 € | £71.50 | $89.00 85,59 € (D) | 85,59 € (A) | CHF [2] 94,00 Available from your library or springer.com/shop MyCopy [3] Comprises a collection of especially written essays by specialists in philosophy, literary theory, the visual arts and architecture Provides a much-needed and original take on the relationship between emotions and morality Offers perspectives on critical questions facing a globalised society on the verge of political, financial and emotional collapse This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks. One of the distinctive aspects of social existence today is our subjection to traumatic events on a global scale, and our subsequent embodiment of the emotional responses these events provoke. Covering various methodological angles, the contributors ensure careful and heterogeneous reflection on this delicate topic. With eleven original essays, the collection spans a wide variety of fields from philosophy and literary theory, to the visual arts, history, and psychology. The authors cover diverse themes, including philosophical approaches to political polarization; the impact of negative emotions such as anger on inter-relational balance; humour and politics; media and the idea of progress; photography and trauma discourse; democratic morality in modern Indian society; emotional olfactory experiences; phenomenological readings of spatial disorientation, and the significance of moral shocks. This timely volume offers crucial perspectives on contemporary questions relating to ethical behaviours, and the challenges of a globalized society on the verge of political, financial and emotional collapse.