The ‘realist’ conception of the political challenges neo-Kantian liberal political philosophy as abstract and utopian. More particularly, it charges that liberalism: a) displaces politics and constrains democracy with antecedent moral ...

What is really unique about whites is the extent of their efforts to stop such atrocities by creating a moral philosophy that sets limits to the acceptable use of power and institutions that actualize that philosophy in the real world. ...

Meeting Amparo Garzon in her gallery in Downtown Miami provides new insights into the meaning of magic realism and the role of art as healer.

They had no plan for education, and McCain’s healthcare plan, though fundamentally sound, was barely mentioned during the campaign. No wonder the working class picked handouts over trickle-down. The data resonates with this line of ...

... Blog is written by Thom Brooks, a political and legal philosopher at the University of Newcastle (UK), highlighting his interests in the philosophy of law, crime and punishment, American and British politics, and higher education. ...

This recounts and analyses the southern tours by Booker T. Washington and his associates in 1908-12, assessing the importance of these tours in early 20th-century race relations and relating them to Washington's racial philosophy and ...

Presents Roy Bhaskar's, the originator of the increasingly influential, international and multidisciplinary philosophy of critical realism, philosophy. This title articulates his ideas on the 'spiritual turn', through the philosophy of ...

To support this, the article explores the compatibility of some of the realist tenets of post-empiricist philosophy with those of post-structuralism, especially as seen in the work of Jacques Derrida. It is suggested that if the ...

Butler applies the effects of her gender Anti-Realist argument to ethical and political philosophy by making her normativity argument which is comprised of two additional claims: The first, which is reflective of the general trends in ...

My areas of research are 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy and American philosophy (transcendentalism and pragmatism). I also have strong interests in early modern philosophy and some themes in philosophy of mind and ...