Anthony Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3836964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3032-5060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Limits of Reasonable Disagreement
Political liberals hold that the exercise of political power must be made acceptable to all reasonable citizens. This view is widely thought to be vulnerable to a powerful objection: There is too little that would be acceptable to all reasonable citizens for political liberalism to provide a plausible basis for legitimate state action. This article offers a new response to this challenge, which proceeds in two steps. First, the article develops a…
Belonging for Whom? Seeing Class in Classical Music Institutions
College Music Symposium is the premier journal of The College Music Society, published for over 50 years, since 1961. Symposium is an online, refereed, journal through which The College Music Society will present the work of its members for use by the public and professional musicians. The name \'College Music Symposium\' honors the achievements of the past while using new technologies to meet the continuing need of the public and all working in …
Religious Pluralism and Political Stability
Journal Article Religious Pluralism and Political Stability: Obligations in Agreement. By David Golemboski Get access Religious Pluralism and Political Stability: Obligations in Agreement. By David Golemboski. London: Routledge, 2022. 206pp. $124.00. Anthony Taylor Anthony Taylor University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and Stat…
Can Civic Friendship Ground Public Reason
Public reason views hold that the exercise of political power must be acceptable to all reasonable citizens. A growing number of philosophers argue that this reasonable acceptability principle (RAP) can be justified by appealing to the value of civic friendship. They claim that a valuable form of political community can only be achieved among the citizens of pluralistic societies if they refrain from appealing to controversial ideals and values w…
Stability, Autonomy, and the Foundations of Political Liberalism
An attractive form of social stability is realized when the members of a well-ordered society give that society’s organizing principles their free and reflective endorsement. However, many political philosophers are skeptical that there is any requirement to show that their principles would engender this kind of stability. This skepticism is at the root of a number of objections to political liberalism, since arguments for political liberalism of…
A framework for analyzing public reason theories
Proponents of public reason views hold that the exercise of political power ought to be acceptable to all reasonable citizens. This article elucidates the common structure shared by all public reason views, first by identifying a set of questions that all such views must answer and, second, by showing that the answers to these questions stand in a particular relationship to each other. In particular, we show that what we call the ‘rationale quest…
A Framework for Analyzing Public Reason Theories
Liberal Perfectionism, Moral Integrity, and Self-Respect
This paper presents a dilemma for Matthew Kramer’s view, as defended in his Liberalism with Excellence. A central aim of that book is to critique existing liberal perfectionist theories, which he labels “edificatory,” and to defend a different such theory, which he calls “aspirational.” Edificatory perfectionism holds that governments ought to promote citizens’ well-being directly by inducing them to live lives that are more wholesome, cultivated…
Public justification and the reactive attitudes
A distinctive position in contemporary political philosophy is occupied by those who defend the principle of public justification. This principle states that the moral or political rules that govern our common life must be in some sense justifiable to all reasonable citizens. In this article, I evaluate Gerald Gaus’s defence of this principle, which holds that it is presupposed by our moral reactive attitudes of resentment and indignation. He arg…
Radical Funerals, Burial Customs and Political Commemoration
Belonging at the zoo
The present study affirms previous research findings that volunteering satisfies personal needs but goes further by considering the factor of collective identity for volunteers and its consequences for them. The study specifically focused on older volunteers working at zoos. In the initial phase at Central Park Zoo 30 volunteers completed a short self-completion questionnaire. The second phase involved one-on-one interviews with 21 Bronx Zoo volu…
Nonprofessional intervention for maladjusting elementary school children
An intervention program for elementary schools involved assigning the same maladjusting children to different college undergraduates each of three consecutive semesters. Typical for undergraduates in most companionship therapy programs, they received no systematic counselor training. A set of rating scales and a behavior survey completed periodically by teachers suggested that the program children progressively imporoved in adaptive behaviors bot…
A framework for analyzing public reason theories
Proponents of public reason views hold that the exercise of political power ought to be acceptable to all reasonable citizens. This article elucidates the common structure shared by all public reason views, first by identifying a set of questions that all such views must answer and, second, by showing that the answers to these questions stand in a particular relationship to each other. In particular, we show that what we call the ‘rationale quest…
Belonging at the zoo
The present study affirms previous research findings that volunteering satisfies personal needs but goes further by considering the factor of collective identity for volunteers and its consequences for them. The study specifically focused on older volunteers working at zoos. In the initial phase at Central Park Zoo 30 volunteers completed a short self-completion questionnaire. The second phase involved one-on-one interviews with 21 Bronx Zoo volu…
Public justification and the reactive attitudes
A distinctive position in contemporary political philosophy is occupied by those who defend the principle of public justification. This principle states that the moral or political rules that govern our common life must be in some sense justifiable to all reasonable citizens. In this article, I evaluate Gerald Gaus’s defence of this principle, which holds that it is presupposed by our moral reactive attitudes of resentment and indignation. He arg…
Can Civic Friendship Ground Public Reason
Public reason views hold that the exercise of political power must be acceptable to all reasonable citizens. A growing number of philosophers argue that this reasonable acceptability principle (RAP) can be justified by appealing to the value of civic friendship. They claim that a valuable form of political community can only be achieved among the citizens of pluralistic societies if they refrain from appealing to controversial ideals and values w…
Nonprofessional intervention for maladjusting elementary school children
An intervention program for elementary schools involved assigning the same maladjusting children to different college undergraduates each of three consecutive semesters. Typical for undergraduates in most companionship therapy programs, they received no systematic counselor training. A set of rating scales and a behavior survey completed periodically by teachers suggested that the program children progressively imporoved in adaptive behaviors bot…
Radical Funerals, Burial Customs and Political Commemoration
Belonging at the zoo
The present study affirms previous research findings that volunteering satisfies personal needs but goes further by considering the factor of collective identity for volunteers and its consequences for them. The study specifically focused on older volunteers working at zoos. In the initial phase at Central Park Zoo 30 volunteers completed a short self-completion questionnaire. The second phase involved one-on-one interviews with 21 Bronx Zoo volu…
Public justification and the reactive attitudes
A distinctive position in contemporary political philosophy is occupied by those who defend the principle of public justification. This principle states that the moral or political rules that govern our common life must be in some sense justifiable to all reasonable citizens. In this article, I evaluate Gerald Gaus’s defence of this principle, which holds that it is presupposed by our moral reactive attitudes of resentment and indignation. He arg…
Liberal Perfectionism, Moral Integrity, and Self-Respect
This paper presents a dilemma for Matthew Kramer’s view, as defended in his Liberalism with Excellence. A central aim of that book is to critique existing liberal perfectionist theories, which he labels “edificatory,” and to defend a different such theory, which he calls “aspirational.” Edificatory perfectionism holds that governments ought to promote citizens’ well-being directly by inducing them to live lives that are more wholesome, cultivated…
A Framework for Analyzing Public Reason Theories
Stability, Autonomy, and the Foundations of Political Liberalism
An attractive form of social stability is realized when the members of a well-ordered society give that society’s organizing principles their free and reflective endorsement. However, many political philosophers are skeptical that there is any requirement to show that their principles would engender this kind of stability. This skepticism is at the root of a number of objections to political liberalism, since arguments for political liberalism of…
A framework for analyzing public reason theories
Proponents of public reason views hold that the exercise of political power ought to be acceptable to all reasonable citizens. This article elucidates the common structure shared by all public reason views, first by identifying a set of questions that all such views must answer and, second, by showing that the answers to these questions stand in a particular relationship to each other. In particular, we show that what we call the ‘rationale quest…
Can Civic Friendship Ground Public Reason
Public reason views hold that the exercise of political power must be acceptable to all reasonable citizens. A growing number of philosophers argue that this reasonable acceptability principle (RAP) can be justified by appealing to the value of civic friendship. They claim that a valuable form of political community can only be achieved among the citizens of pluralistic societies if they refrain from appealing to controversial ideals and values w…
Religious Pluralism and Political Stability
Journal Article Religious Pluralism and Political Stability: Obligations in Agreement. By David Golemboski Get access Religious Pluralism and Political Stability: Obligations in Agreement. By David Golemboski. London: Routledge, 2022. 206pp. $124.00. Anthony Taylor Anthony Taylor University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and Stat…
The Limits of Reasonable Disagreement
Political liberals hold that the exercise of political power must be made acceptable to all reasonable citizens. This view is widely thought to be vulnerable to a powerful objection: There is too little that would be acceptable to all reasonable citizens for political liberalism to provide a plausible basis for legitimate state action. This article offers a new response to this challenge, which proceeds in two steps. First, the article develops a…
Belonging for Whom? Seeing Class in Classical Music Institutions
College Music Symposium is the premier journal of The College Music Society, published for over 50 years, since 1961. Symposium is an online, refereed, journal through which The College Music Society will present the work of its members for use by the public and professional musicians. The name \'College Music Symposium\' honors the achievements of the past while using new technologies to meet the continuing need of the public and all working in …
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