Anthony Simon Laden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1132392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Simon Laden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Laden |
| SIGNATURE | LADEN A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Arguments philosophical and political
Gina Schouten's book is full of nuanced, original arguments, sensitive to the difficulties of the issues involved, and fueled by a set of attractive commitments. Her attention to the persistent injustice constituted by the gendered division of labor is welcome, and her final take-away point—that the persistence of such division is a matter not merely of justice but of legitimacy—is important and, I think, right. Any political philosopher would be…
Democratic Multiplicity
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that through differently situated participatory and representative practic…
Freedom to Care
Liberal feminists think we can achieve the aims of feminism with the tools of liberalism and the recognition that women are equal rights-bearers along with men. In contrast, feminist liberals think that if we want to realise the aims of liberalism, we need the tools of feminism. They also think that joining liberalism and feminism in this way will realise the aims of feminism as well. With Freedom to Care, Asha Bhandary joins feminist philosopher…
Nature and Value
This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time.
Two Concepts of Civility
This chapter pulls apart three phenomena that strike me as routinely confused in popular and academic discussions of civility: (a) partisanship involves party loyalty; (b) polarization involves ideological separation and purity; and (c) incivility involves a failure to engage with one’s fellow citizens in the project of collective self-rule. These are independent of one another, though they might interact in interesting ways, and getting clear on…
On democratic justification
This comment on Alessandro Ferrara’s Democratic Horizon raises questions about his development of ‘conjectural reasoning’ and the democratic virtue of openness as responses to what he calls ‘hyperpluralism’. In order to probe these questions, the article offers an alternative reading of these ideas
Sharing Democracy
Ideals of justice
Amartya Sen describes John Rawls’s ‘justice as fairness’ as ‘transcendental institutionalism’ and develops his realization-focused approach in contrast. But Rawls is no transcendental institutionalist, and Sen’s construal of their opposition occludes a third, relation-based position and a valuable and practical form of ideal theory. What Sen calls transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparative theory each treat justice as som…
Reasoning
Most philosophical and social scientific work that discusses reason starts from a picture of reason that treats the activity of reasoning as a means of navigating our environment in the pursuit of various ends. This book offers an alternative, social picture of reasoning that pictures the activity of reasoning as a way of interacting with others that is reciprocal and responsive. On this picture, reasoning is to be contrasted with other forms of …
The Key to/of Public Philosophy
Reasonable Deliberation, Constructive Power, and the Struggle for Recognition
Dusk falls on Europe and North America at somewhat different times, and so it should not surprise us if the owl of Minerva adopts different flight paths in the two places. In the work of Axel Honneth, Hegel's long shadow is unmistakable. In Honneth's continental context, it takes the form of a focus on social struggles and conflict, on oppositional social movements and other extra-government social actors. In the work of John Rawls, Hegel's shado…
Republican Moments in Political Liberalism
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971) is widely regarded as the most fully developed and philosophically sophisticated articulation of since at least the work of John Stuart Mill. Much of the reception of Rawls's work, both in North America and in Europe, has been deeply influenced by his readers' prior understanding of what constitutes liberalism, and their assumption that Rawls's theory fits squarely within that framework.2 So it might come a…
Democratic Autonomy
Evaluating Social Reasons
Taking the Distinction between Persons Seriously
Rawls criticizes utilitarianism for not taking the distinction between persons seriously, and suggests that his own theory: justice as fairness, does. I argue that justice as fairness aims to take the distinction seriously at four levels, ranging from the content of its principles to its conception of political philosophy, and that doing so at each stage is of fundamental importance in working out the basis of a conception of justice for a democr…
The House That Jack Built
Radical Liberals, Reasonable Feminists
Legitimate Differences
Legitimate Differences
Real Rights
Reasoning
Most philosophical and social scientific work that discusses reason starts from a picture of reason that treats the activity of reasoning as a means of navigating our environment in the pursuit of various ends. This book offers an alternative, social picture of reasoning that pictures the activity of reasoning as a way of interacting with others that is reciprocal and responsive. On this picture, reasoning is to be contrasted with other forms of …
Radical Liberals, Reasonable Feminists
The Key to/of Public Philosophy
Ideals of justice
Amartya Sen describes John Rawls’s ‘justice as fairness’ as ‘transcendental institutionalism’ and develops his realization-focused approach in contrast. But Rawls is no transcendental institutionalist, and Sen’s construal of their opposition occludes a third, relation-based position and a valuable and practical form of ideal theory. What Sen calls transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparative theory each treat justice as som…
Real Rights
Legitimate Differences
Legitimate Differences
The House That Jack Built
Radical Liberals, Reasonable Feminists
Taking the Distinction between Persons Seriously
Rawls criticizes utilitarianism for not taking the distinction between persons seriously, and suggests that his own theory: justice as fairness, does. I argue that justice as fairness aims to take the distinction seriously at four levels, ranging from the content of its principles to its conception of political philosophy, and that doing so at each stage is of fundamental importance in working out the basis of a conception of justice for a democr…
Evaluating Social Reasons
Republican Moments in Political Liberalism
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971) is widely regarded as the most fully developed and philosophically sophisticated articulation of since at least the work of John Stuart Mill. Much of the reception of Rawls's work, both in North America and in Europe, has been deeply influenced by his readers' prior understanding of what constitutes liberalism, and their assumption that Rawls's theory fits squarely within that framework.2 So it might come a…
Democratic Autonomy
Reasonable Deliberation, Constructive Power, and the Struggle for Recognition
Dusk falls on Europe and North America at somewhat different times, and so it should not surprise us if the owl of Minerva adopts different flight paths in the two places. In the work of Axel Honneth, Hegel's long shadow is unmistakable. In Honneth's continental context, it takes the form of a focus on social struggles and conflict, on oppositional social movements and other extra-government social actors. In the work of John Rawls, Hegel's shado…
The Key to/of Public Philosophy
Reasoning
Most philosophical and social scientific work that discusses reason starts from a picture of reason that treats the activity of reasoning as a means of navigating our environment in the pursuit of various ends. This book offers an alternative, social picture of reasoning that pictures the activity of reasoning as a way of interacting with others that is reciprocal and responsive. On this picture, reasoning is to be contrasted with other forms of …
Ideals of justice
Amartya Sen describes John Rawls’s ‘justice as fairness’ as ‘transcendental institutionalism’ and develops his realization-focused approach in contrast. But Rawls is no transcendental institutionalist, and Sen’s construal of their opposition occludes a third, relation-based position and a valuable and practical form of ideal theory. What Sen calls transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparative theory each treat justice as som…
Sharing Democracy
On democratic justification
This comment on Alessandro Ferrara’s Democratic Horizon raises questions about his development of ‘conjectural reasoning’ and the democratic virtue of openness as responses to what he calls ‘hyperpluralism’. In order to probe these questions, the article offers an alternative reading of these ideas
Nature and Value
This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time.
Two Concepts of Civility
This chapter pulls apart three phenomena that strike me as routinely confused in popular and academic discussions of civility: (a) partisanship involves party loyalty; (b) polarization involves ideological separation and purity; and (c) incivility involves a failure to engage with one’s fellow citizens in the project of collective self-rule. These are independent of one another, though they might interact in interesting ways, and getting clear on…
Democratic Multiplicity
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that through differently situated participatory and representative practic…
Freedom to Care
Liberal feminists think we can achieve the aims of feminism with the tools of liberalism and the recognition that women are equal rights-bearers along with men. In contrast, feminist liberals think that if we want to realise the aims of liberalism, we need the tools of feminism. They also think that joining liberalism and feminism in this way will realise the aims of feminism as well. With Freedom to Care, Asha Bhandary joins feminist philosopher…
Arguments philosophical and political
Gina Schouten's book is full of nuanced, original arguments, sensitive to the difficulties of the issues involved, and fueled by a set of attractive commitments. Her attention to the persistent injustice constituted by the gendered division of labor is welcome, and her final take-away point—that the persistence of such division is a matter not merely of justice but of legitimacy—is important and, I think, right. Any political philosopher would be…
Philosophy (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (6 works) · Democracy (6 works)