Justin Tosi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4391979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Tosi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Tosi |
| SIGNATURE | TOSI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5820-1831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conservative Critiques
American sociologist Robert Nisbet once described conservatives and libertarians as “uneasy cousins.” The description is apt. While sharing a family resemblance and many of the same political rivals, conservatism and libertarianism are fundamentally at odds. This chapter explains why this is so from the conservative perspective. It surveys the starting points and major themes of conservatism and libertarianism. It identifies what conservatives an…
Moral grandstanding, narcissism, and self-reported responses to the Covid-19 crisis
Moral grandstanding and political polarization: A multi-study consideration
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk
The Possibility of a Fair Play Account of Legitimacy
The philosophical literature on state legitimacy has recently seen a significant conceptual revision. Several philosophers have argued that the state's right to rule is better characterized not as a claim right to obedience, but as a power right. There have been few attempts to show that traditional justifications for the claim right might also be used to justify a power right, and there have been no such attempts involving the principle of fair …
A Fair Play Account of Legitimate Political Authority
There is an emerging consensus among political philosophers that state legitimacy involves something more than—or perhaps other than—political obligation. Yet the principle of fair play, which many take to be a promising basis for political obligation, has been largely absent from discussions of the revised conception of legitimacy. This paper shows how the principle of fair play can generate legitimate political authority by drawing on a neglect…
Moral Grandstanding
Kurt Baier wrote that “moral talk is often rather repugnant. Leveling moral accusations, expressing moral indignation, passing moral judgment, allotting the blame, administering moral reproof, justifying oneself, and, above all, moralizing—who can enjoy such talk?”1 When public moral discourse is at its best, we think that these features (if they are present at all) are unobjectionable. But we also think that, to some degree, Baier is right: publ…
Moral Grandstanding
Kurt Baier wrote that “moral talk is often rather repugnant. Leveling moral accusations, expressing moral indignation, passing moral judgment, allotting the blame, administering moral reproof, justifying oneself, and, above all, moralizing—who can enjoy such talk?”1 When public moral discourse is at its best, we think that these features (if they are present at all) are unobjectionable. But we also think that, to some degree, Baier is right: publ…
Moral grandstanding and political polarization: A multi-study consideration
Moral Grandstanding
Kurt Baier wrote that “moral talk is often rather repugnant. Leveling moral accusations, expressing moral indignation, passing moral judgment, allotting the blame, administering moral reproof, justifying oneself, and, above all, moralizing—who can enjoy such talk?”1 When public moral discourse is at its best, we think that these features (if they are present at all) are unobjectionable. But we also think that, to some degree, Baier is right: publ…
The Possibility of a Fair Play Account of Legitimacy
The philosophical literature on state legitimacy has recently seen a significant conceptual revision. Several philosophers have argued that the state's right to rule is better characterized not as a claim right to obedience, but as a power right. There have been few attempts to show that traditional justifications for the claim right might also be used to justify a power right, and there have been no such attempts involving the principle of fair …
A Fair Play Account of Legitimate Political Authority
There is an emerging consensus among political philosophers that state legitimacy involves something more than—or perhaps other than—political obligation. Yet the principle of fair play, which many take to be a promising basis for political obligation, has been largely absent from discussions of the revised conception of legitimacy. This paper shows how the principle of fair play can generate legitimate political authority by drawing on a neglect…
Moral grandstanding and political polarization: A multi-study consideration
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk
Conservative Critiques
American sociologist Robert Nisbet once described conservatives and libertarians as “uneasy cousins.” The description is apt. While sharing a family resemblance and many of the same political rivals, conservatism and libertarianism are fundamentally at odds. This chapter explains why this is so from the conservative perspective. It surveys the starting points and major themes of conservatism and libertarianism. It identifies what conservatives an…
Moral grandstanding, narcissism, and self-reported responses to the Covid-19 crisis
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)