J P Messina
Biographic Data
| ID | 461378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J P Messina |
| GIVEN NAMES | J P |
| FAMILY NAME | Messina |
| SIGNATURE | MESSINA J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0214-5022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Private Censorship: A Reply To Friedland’s “Caveat Censor”
The open society and the future of political philosophy
This paper defends traditional political philosophy against the challenges Gaus leverages against it in The Open Society and Its Complexities. Granting Gaus that consensus on the principles of political philosophy is not forthcoming and that complexity undermines many of our most ambitious reform efforts, the paper argues that much work remains for political philosophy as it has been practiced for centuries. This is for three reasons. First, Gaus…
Private Censorship
Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things spoken or written. During the red scare, they were the hushed response to chilling state-sponsored watch-lists and employer-supported blacklists designed to ensure victory against communism. Again…
New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech
The postulate of private right and Kant’s semi-historical principles of property
Whereas several commentators have held that Kant’s argument for the postulate of private right fails insofar as it begs the question, I argue here that this criticism misses the mark. Critics have erroneously supposed that the postulate is designed to secure a right to a system of private property. In fact, Kant’s ambitions were more modest: to show that someone (be it an individual, a community, or a state) must be capable of enjoying dominion o…
Resistance at the Border: Kantian Political Theory and the Refugee Crisis
On a certain orthodox Kantian view, when states violate migrants' rights to enter a foreign country , citizens of that country must comply with the laws and refrain from helping them gain access. After all, (i) philanthropic efforts are strictly subordinated to questions of right, and (ii) an important precondition of right is recognition of the state's authority to determine what counts as right in practice. Moreover, because the state has a man…
Reasonable Pluralism about Desert-Presupposing Moral Responsibility: A Conditional Defense
Kant’s Provisionality Thesis
I argue that Kant’s mature political philosophy entails the provisionality thesis. The provisionality thesis asserts that in a world like ours, populated with beings sufficiently like us, acquired rights (rights to external objects of choice, including property, sovereignty and territory) are necessarily provisional. I motivate the standard view, which restricts the notion of provisional right to the state of nature and the transition from the st…
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Kant’s Provisionality Thesis
I argue that Kant’s mature political philosophy entails the provisionality thesis. The provisionality thesis asserts that in a world like ours, populated with beings sufficiently like us, acquired rights (rights to external objects of choice, including property, sovereignty and territory) are necessarily provisional. I motivate the standard view, which restricts the notion of provisional right to the state of nature and the transition from the st…
Reasonable Pluralism about Desert-Presupposing Moral Responsibility: A Conditional Defense
The postulate of private right and Kant’s semi-historical principles of property
Whereas several commentators have held that Kant’s argument for the postulate of private right fails insofar as it begs the question, I argue here that this criticism misses the mark. Critics have erroneously supposed that the postulate is designed to secure a right to a system of private property. In fact, Kant’s ambitions were more modest: to show that someone (be it an individual, a community, or a state) must be capable of enjoying dominion o…
Resistance at the Border: Kantian Political Theory and the Refugee Crisis
On a certain orthodox Kantian view, when states violate migrants' rights to enter a foreign country , citizens of that country must comply with the laws and refrain from helping them gain access. After all, (i) philanthropic efforts are strictly subordinated to questions of right, and (ii) an important precondition of right is recognition of the state's authority to determine what counts as right in practice. Moreover, because the state has a man…
New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech
Private Censorship
Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things spoken or written. During the red scare, they were the hushed response to chilling state-sponsored watch-lists and employer-supported blacklists designed to ensure victory against communism. Again…
Private Censorship: A Reply To Friedland’s “Caveat Censor”
The open society and the future of political philosophy
This paper defends traditional political philosophy against the challenges Gaus leverages against it in The Open Society and Its Complexities. Granting Gaus that consensus on the principles of political philosophy is not forthcoming and that complexity undermines many of our most ambitious reform efforts, the paper argues that much work remains for political philosophy as it has been practiced for centuries. This is for three reasons. First, Gaus…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Censorship (2 works)