Eric Macgilvray
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Macgilvray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Macgilvray |
| SIGNATURE | MACGILVRAY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2374-9375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Appeal to Heaven
John Locke repeatedly associates the famous ‘appeal to heaven’ in the Second Treatise of Government with the biblical figure of Jephtha. However the content and circumstances of Jephtha’s appeal as reported in the Book of Judges are notably out of joint with several of the key tenets of Locke’s political thought. I try to account for this anomaly by arguing that Locke was using the Jephtha story to make a subtle but pointed intervention in the Al…
The Serpent and the Whale
Response to Frank Lovett’s Review of Liberal Freedom
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The Spiral of Responsibility and the Pressure to Conflict
This essay calls attention to two blind spots in Power Without Knowledge. First, the book has little to say about the role that political institutions can play in promoting effective democratic governance. Drawing on the “mixed government” tradition, I argue that properly designed institutions can correct for the epistemic deficits that Friedman describes by creating what I call the “pressure to conflict.” Second and more importantly, the book ha…
Robert Dahl, A Preface to Democratic Theory
Democracy can be understood as a mechanism for making decisions and as an ideal of social life. The defense of “polyarchy” that Robert Dahl provides in A Preface to Democratic Theory takes a negative position on both dimensions. It is not concerned with enabling “the people” to decide political outcomes, but rather with ensuring that no one has unchecked decision-making power. Nor is it concerned with developing people’s capacities to the fullest…
Democratic Doubts
The Invention of Market Freedom
How did the value of freedom become so closely associated with the institution of the market? Why did the idea of market freedom hold so little appeal before the modern period and how can we explain its rise to dominance? In The Invention of Market Freedom, Eric MacGilvray addresses these questions by contrasting the market conception of freedom with the republican view that it displaced. After analyzing the ethical core and exploring the concept…
Reply to Festenstein
Pluralism in the Thought of William James
Research Article| January 01 2006 Pluralism in the Thought of William James Eric MacGilvray Eric MacGilvray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2006) 15 (3): 15–18. https://doi.org/10.2307/25702828 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eric MacGilvray; Pluralism in the Thought of William James. The Good Society 1 January 2006; 15 (3): 15–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Sufficient Reason
Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions. By Daniel W. Bromley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 256p. $35.00. The purposes of this book are twofold: first, to call into question what the author takes to be the dominant economic approach to explaining institutional change—and thus public policy outcomes—and second, to offer an alternative explanatory approach rooted in what the author calls “vo…
Reconstructing Public Reason
Five Myths about Pragmatism, or, against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence
L'A. defend l'idee selon laquelle la philosophie pragmatique fournit les fondements normatifs pour la poursuite d'une politique democratique participative. Examinant les mythes pragmatiques de l'ethnocentrisme, du contextualisme, de la justification, de la recherche scientifique et de l'hermeneutique, l'A. etablit un lien entre la critique pragmatique de l'epistemologie et les conditions morales et politique de la nature humaine
Experience as Experiment
Contemporary pragmatists are divided between those who focus on the critique of epistemology and those who focus on the defense of democracy. I argue that classical pragmatism provides a moral framework which links these projects while largely avoiding their respective pitfalls. In particular, I argue that the pragmatic conception of human intelligence as a tool for managing experience through experimental inquiry provides a set of egalitarian an…
Experience as Experiment
Contemporary pragmatists are divided between those who focus on the critique of epistemology and those who focus on the defense of democracy. I argue that classical pragmatism provides a moral framework which links these projects while largely avoiding their respective pitfalls. In particular, I argue that the pragmatic conception of human intelligence as a tool for managing experience through experimental inquiry provides a set of egalitarian an…
Five Myths about Pragmatism, or, against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence
L'A. defend l'idee selon laquelle la philosophie pragmatique fournit les fondements normatifs pour la poursuite d'une politique democratique participative. Examinant les mythes pragmatiques de l'ethnocentrisme, du contextualisme, de la justification, de la recherche scientifique et de l'hermeneutique, l'A. etablit un lien entre la critique pragmatique de l'epistemologie et les conditions morales et politique de la nature humaine
Sufficient Reason
Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions. By Daniel W. Bromley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 256p. $35.00. The purposes of this book are twofold: first, to call into question what the author takes to be the dominant economic approach to explaining institutional change—and thus public policy outcomes—and second, to offer an alternative explanatory approach rooted in what the author calls “vo…
Democratic Doubts
The Spiral of Responsibility and the Pressure to Conflict
This essay calls attention to two blind spots in Power Without Knowledge. First, the book has little to say about the role that political institutions can play in promoting effective democratic governance. Drawing on the “mixed government” tradition, I argue that properly designed institutions can correct for the epistemic deficits that Friedman describes by creating what I call the “pressure to conflict.” Second and more importantly, the book ha…
The Serpent and the Whale
Reply to Festenstein
Experience as Experiment
Contemporary pragmatists are divided between those who focus on the critique of epistemology and those who focus on the defense of democracy. I argue that classical pragmatism provides a moral framework which links these projects while largely avoiding their respective pitfalls. In particular, I argue that the pragmatic conception of human intelligence as a tool for managing experience through experimental inquiry provides a set of egalitarian an…
Five Myths about Pragmatism, or, against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence
L'A. defend l'idee selon laquelle la philosophie pragmatique fournit les fondements normatifs pour la poursuite d'une politique democratique participative. Examinant les mythes pragmatiques de l'ethnocentrisme, du contextualisme, de la justification, de la recherche scientifique et de l'hermeneutique, l'A. etablit un lien entre la critique pragmatique de l'epistemologie et les conditions morales et politique de la nature humaine
Reconstructing Public Reason
Pluralism in the Thought of William James
Research Article| January 01 2006 Pluralism in the Thought of William James Eric MacGilvray Eric MacGilvray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2006) 15 (3): 15–18. https://doi.org/10.2307/25702828 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eric MacGilvray; Pluralism in the Thought of William James. The Good Society 1 January 2006; 15 (3): 15–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Sufficient Reason
Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions. By Daniel W. Bromley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 256p. $35.00. The purposes of this book are twofold: first, to call into question what the author takes to be the dominant economic approach to explaining institutional change—and thus public policy outcomes—and second, to offer an alternative explanatory approach rooted in what the author calls “vo…
Reply to Festenstein
The Invention of Market Freedom
How did the value of freedom become so closely associated with the institution of the market? Why did the idea of market freedom hold so little appeal before the modern period and how can we explain its rise to dominance? In The Invention of Market Freedom, Eric MacGilvray addresses these questions by contrasting the market conception of freedom with the republican view that it displaced. After analyzing the ethical core and exploring the concept…
Democratic Doubts
Robert Dahl, A Preface to Democratic Theory
Democracy can be understood as a mechanism for making decisions and as an ideal of social life. The defense of “polyarchy” that Robert Dahl provides in A Preface to Democratic Theory takes a negative position on both dimensions. It is not concerned with enabling “the people” to decide political outcomes, but rather with ensuring that no one has unchecked decision-making power. Nor is it concerned with developing people’s capacities to the fullest…
The Spiral of Responsibility and the Pressure to Conflict
This essay calls attention to two blind spots in Power Without Knowledge. First, the book has little to say about the role that political institutions can play in promoting effective democratic governance. Drawing on the “mixed government” tradition, I argue that properly designed institutions can correct for the epistemic deficits that Friedman describes by creating what I call the “pressure to conflict.” Second and more importantly, the book ha…
Response to Frank Lovett’s Review of Liberal Freedom
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
The Serpent and the Whale
The Appeal to Heaven
John Locke repeatedly associates the famous ‘appeal to heaven’ in the Second Treatise of Government with the biblical figure of Jephtha. However the content and circumstances of Jephtha’s appeal as reported in the Book of Judges are notably out of joint with several of the key tenets of Locke’s political thought. I try to account for this anomaly by arguing that Locke was using the Jephtha story to make a subtle but pointed intervention in the Al…
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