April 07, 2014
“There Is No Such Thing As Ideal Theory”
It’s come up a number of times around here that my approach to questions of normative political theory is not what gets referred to as “ideal theory,” and indeed that…
Posts filed under ideal theory
February 12, 2014
Ideal Frat Theory
I’m in the process of writing Against Politics. Among other things, the book argues that Mill was wrong and Schumpeter was right about how political engagement affects us. Political engagement doesn’t…
September 05, 2013
CFP: Political Utopia: Promise or Peril?
I don’t usually post ads, but we’re running a pretty darn cool conference out at BGSU next year. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public…
June 22, 2012
Reply to Deirdre McCloskey: Normative Free Market Fairness
[Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium,…
June 20, 2012
Reply to Elizabeth Anderson: Part II, Workplace Democracy
[Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium,…
March 12, 2012
Bleeding Heart Ideal Theory Libertarianism, Take 2
Say one had a view about what justice is but did not see justice, as understood on that view, instantiated in the world. Would one conclude that one’s view of…