{"title":"Financial Power and Democratic Legitimacy in advance","authors":"Janosch Prinz, Enzo Rossi","doi":"10.5840/soctheorpract2021121144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract2021121144","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71294466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Realistic European Story of Peoplehood in advance","authors":"Peter J. Verovšek","doi":"10.5840/soctheorpract20211214149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20211214149","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71294620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Choosing Where to Stand in advance","authors":"Aaron J. Yarmel","doi":"10.5840/SOCTHEORPRACT2021420128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/SOCTHEORPRACT2021420128","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71294261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Power Explicit in advance","authors":"R. Claassen, Lisa Herzog","doi":"10.5840/SOCTHEORPRACT202147119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/SOCTHEORPRACT202147119","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71294300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Christians Join the Overlapping Consensus?","authors":"Paul Billingham","doi":"10.5840/SOCTHEORPRACT202169131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/SOCTHEORPRACT202169131","url":null,"abstract":"The success of political liberalism depends on there being an overlapping consensus among reasonable citizens—including religious citizens—upon principles of political morality. This paper explores the resources within one major religion—Christianity—that might lead individuals to endorse (or reject) political liberalism, and thus to join (or not join) the overlapping consensus. I show that there are several strands within Christian political ethics that are consonant with political liberalism and might form the basis for Christian citizens’ membership of the overlapping consensus. Nonetheless, tensions remain, and it is not clear that Christians could wholeheartedly endorse the political conception or give unreserved commitment to political liberal ideals.","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":"47 1","pages":"519-547"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71294426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prostitution and the Good of Sex","authors":"N. McKeever","doi":"10.5840/soctheorpract20201028104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20201028104","url":null,"abstract":"In Sascha Settegast’s recently published article, “Prostitution and the Good of Sex” in Social Theory and Practice, he argues that prostitution is intrinsically harmful. In this article, I object to his argument, making the following three responses to his account: 1) bad sex is not “detrimental to the good life”; 2) bad sex is not necessarily unvirtuous; 3) sex work is work as well as sex, and so must be evaluated as work in addition to as sex.","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44605021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Defense of Strict Compliance as a Modeling Assumption","authors":"Jeff Carroll","doi":"10.5840/soctheorpract202041692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202041692","url":null,"abstract":"Rawlsian ideal theory has as its foundational assumption strict compliance with the principles of justice. Whereas Rawls employed strict compliance for his particular positive purpose, I defend the more general methodological point that strict compliance can be a permissible modeling assumption. Strict compliance can be assumed in a model that determines the most just set of principles, but such a model, while informative, is not straightforwardly action-guiding. I construct such a model and defend it against influential contemporary criticisms of models that assume strict compliance.","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":"46 1","pages":"441-466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47412881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithms, Agency, and Respect for Persons","authors":"Alan Rubel, Clinton Castro, Adam Pham","doi":"10.5840/soctheorpract202062497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202062497","url":null,"abstract":"Algorithmic systems play an increasingly important role in modern life. Much of the scholarship on the moral ramifications of such systems focuses on bias and harm. We argue that understanding the moral salience of algorithmic systems requires understanding the relation between algorithms, autonomy, and agency. We use recent cases in criminal sentencing and K-12 teacher evaluation to outline four key ways in which issues of agency, autonomy, and respect for persons can conflict with algorithmic decisionmaking. Three involve failures to treat individuals with sufficient respect. The fourth involves distancing oneself from morally suspect actions by laundering one’s agency.","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":"46 1","pages":"547-572"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45068410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Micro-level Exploitation","authors":"Derrick Gray","doi":"10.5840/soctheorpract202051295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202051295","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that, at least in the context of employment, we should reconsider the applicability of the dominant framework in the contemporary literature on exploitation, which views exploitation as a micro-level moral wrong. I present a novel argument showing that these micro-level theories share commitments inconsistent with taking exploitation seriously as a moral wrong. Given the difficulties these theories face, I argue that we should pursue a structural theory of exploitation, and I give a brief sketch of what such a theory might look like.","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":"46 1","pages":"515-546"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48519945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Is the Argument for the Fair Value of Political Liberty?","authors":"W. Edmundson","doi":"10.5840/soctheorpract202043094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202043094","url":null,"abstract":"The equal political liberties are among the basic first-principle liberties in John Rawls’s theory of Justice as fairness. But Rawls insists, further, that the “fair value” of the political liberties must be guaranteed, and that a market economy must be embedded in an institutional structure that realizes this guarantee. The aim and the supposed capacity to assure fair value are what distinguish property-owning democracy and liberal democratic socialism from other ideal regime-types. Disavowing an interest in fair value is what disqualifies welfare-state capitalism as a possible realization of Justice as fairness. \u0000Yet Rawls never gives a perspicuous statement of the reasoning in the original position for the fair-value guarantee. This article gathers up the two distinct strands of Rawls’s argument, and presents it in a straightforward sequence. The exposition proceeds by contrasting Justice as fairness to a competitor political conception of justice, called here Neoliberalism, which is just like Justice as fairness but without the fair-value guarantee. A schema of the two-strand argument is presented in the Appendix.","PeriodicalId":82726,"journal":{"name":"Social theory and practice","volume":"46 1","pages":"497-514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44170493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}