Pablo Magaña
Biographic Data
| ID | 4631763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Magaña |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Magaña |
| SIGNATURE | MAGAÑA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1888-0857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sentientist Political Liberalism
This paper introduces sentientist political liberalism . Elaborating on the fundamental ideas in John Rawls's political liberalism, we propose that the scheme of fair social cooperation among persons should be understood as embedded within a broader system of social coexistence between persons and other sentient beings. This prompts a revision of the original position: We add a second phase in which participants, acting as trustees for animals, d…
A democratic argument for animal uplifting
Nonhuman animals are unable to exert any direct control over the functioning of democratic institutions –the decisions of which, nevertheless, have a pervasive impact on their lives. Their interests are therefore likelier to be set back or unfairly discounted, and their choices are more vulnerable to arbitrary interference. Because of this, some authors have suggested that we ought to redesign our political institutions so that they are more resp…
Relational equality and the status of animals
Intergenerational Subjection
Can the dead subject later generations to their will? Legal and political philosophers have long worried about this question. But some have recently argued that subjection between generations that do not overlap is impossible. Against these views, we offer an account of this kind of subjection and the conditions under which it may occur—the Mediated Subjection View. On this view, legal subjection between nonoverlapping generations occurs when pas…
Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw
Political realism and ideology critique have, as of late, sparked renewed interest within Anglophone political philosophy. Contemporary political philosophy, realists complain, has become excessively grounded in moral philosophy—a branch, some say, of applied ethics (Bernard Williams 2005; Geuss 2008; Rossi and Sleat 2014; Sleat 2018). The latter, in turn, contend that political philosophers should spend greater effort analyzing how ideologies le…
Atribución e inclusión en el sistema representativo
En este artículo ofrezco dos comentarios a El sistema representativo de Felipe Rey. En primer lugar, defiendo que el enfoque sistémico desarrollado por Rey permite dar cuenta de un modo teóricamente elegante de una propuesta con creciente repercusión académica, social y política: la representación política de las generaciones futuras y los animales. Al mismo tiempo, sugiero que reconocer la posibilidad de representar genuinamente a estos dos grup…
(Not So) Happy Cows
‘Happy cow messages’ are instances of commercial speech by the animal industry which, by action or by omission, mislead consumers about the harmful effects that the industry has for non‐human animals, the environment, or human health. Despite their ubiquity, happy cow messages have received little philosophical scrutiny. This article aims to call attention to this form of speech, and to make the case for its restriction. To do so we first concept…
Idealization, animals, and democracy
Philosophical theorizing on democracy typically assumes away the existence of nonhuman animals – even though animals are systematically affected by democratic decisions in morally relevant ways. This paper inspects under which circumstances, if at all, this omission can be justified. First, I distinguish between two possible explanations of this neglect: (i) that animals are neglected by democratic theorists due to speciesist biases, according to…
The Demos of the democratic firm
Despite growing interest in workplace democracy, the question whether nonworker stakeholders, like suppliers and local communities, warrant inclusion in the governance of democratic companies, as workers do, has been largely neglected. We inspect this question by leaning on the boundary problem in democratic theory. We first argue that the question of who warrants inclusion in democratic workplaces is best addressed by examining why workplace dem…
Animals in the order of public reason
The Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory
How should political power and influence be allocated in democratic systems? That is, roughly, the core of the boundary problem in democratic theory. As of late, some authors have begun paying increased attention to the methodological aspects of this dispute. This paper attempts to make a twofold contribution to this ‘methodological turn’. On the one hand, it identifies and analyzes five desiderata of a successful principle of democratic inclusio…
Representing posterity
Can future generations be represented politically? In this paper I elaborate and discuss two relatively underexplored challenges. According to the first challenge, trying to represent future generations could have perverse consequences, as the rhetoric of representation might be used to resist demands for more ambitious forms of inclusion, or to legitimize decisions that have not in fact adequately represented all affected interests. According to…
The Political Representation of Nonhuman Animals
This article provides a survey of the emerging debate on the political representation of nonhuman animals. In Section 1, I identify some of the reasons why the interests of animals are often disregarded in policy-making, and present two arguments why these interests should be considered. In Section 2, I introduce four institutional proposals that have been discussed in the relevant literature. Section 3 attempts to make explicit the underlying lo…
Nonhuman animals and the all affected interests principle
Some authors have suggested that the All Affected Interests Principle, an influential principle of political inclusion, requires that animals have their interests politically represented. In this paper, I provide a systematic formulation, assessment, and defense of this argument, and suggest a middle way between two strategies found in the literature. On the one hand, I argue that applying the All Affected Interests to animals inevitably requires…
Gambling and Impulsivity Traits
Gambling disorder (GD) is a psychiatric condition that was recently recategorized as a non-substance-related addiction in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders. Criminal activity is commonly associated with gambling; however, few empirical studies to date have examined sociodemographic and psychological variables in this population. In this study, we explored criminal behavior history in a sample of consecutively recrui…
The Demos of the democratic firm
Despite growing interest in workplace democracy, the question whether nonworker stakeholders, like suppliers and local communities, warrant inclusion in the governance of democratic companies, as workers do, has been largely neglected. We inspect this question by leaning on the boundary problem in democratic theory. We first argue that the question of who warrants inclusion in democratic workplaces is best addressed by examining why workplace dem…
Nonhuman animals and the all affected interests principle
Some authors have suggested that the All Affected Interests Principle, an influential principle of political inclusion, requires that animals have their interests politically represented. In this paper, I provide a systematic formulation, assessment, and defense of this argument, and suggest a middle way between two strategies found in the literature. On the one hand, I argue that applying the All Affected Interests to animals inevitably requires…
Gambling and Impulsivity Traits
Gambling disorder (GD) is a psychiatric condition that was recently recategorized as a non-substance-related addiction in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders. Criminal activity is commonly associated with gambling; however, few empirical studies to date have examined sociodemographic and psychological variables in this population. In this study, we explored criminal behavior history in a sample of consecutively recrui…
The Political Representation of Nonhuman Animals
This article provides a survey of the emerging debate on the political representation of nonhuman animals. In Section 1, I identify some of the reasons why the interests of animals are often disregarded in policy-making, and present two arguments why these interests should be considered. In Section 2, I introduce four institutional proposals that have been discussed in the relevant literature. Section 3 attempts to make explicit the underlying lo…
Nonhuman animals and the all affected interests principle
Some authors have suggested that the All Affected Interests Principle, an influential principle of political inclusion, requires that animals have their interests politically represented. In this paper, I provide a systematic formulation, assessment, and defense of this argument, and suggest a middle way between two strategies found in the literature. On the one hand, I argue that applying the All Affected Interests to animals inevitably requires…
Animals in the order of public reason
The Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory
How should political power and influence be allocated in democratic systems? That is, roughly, the core of the boundary problem in democratic theory. As of late, some authors have begun paying increased attention to the methodological aspects of this dispute. This paper attempts to make a twofold contribution to this ‘methodological turn’. On the one hand, it identifies and analyzes five desiderata of a successful principle of democratic inclusio…
Representing posterity
Can future generations be represented politically? In this paper I elaborate and discuss two relatively underexplored challenges. According to the first challenge, trying to represent future generations could have perverse consequences, as the rhetoric of representation might be used to resist demands for more ambitious forms of inclusion, or to legitimize decisions that have not in fact adequately represented all affected interests. According to…
Atribución e inclusión en el sistema representativo
En este artículo ofrezco dos comentarios a El sistema representativo de Felipe Rey. En primer lugar, defiendo que el enfoque sistémico desarrollado por Rey permite dar cuenta de un modo teóricamente elegante de una propuesta con creciente repercusión académica, social y política: la representación política de las generaciones futuras y los animales. Al mismo tiempo, sugiero que reconocer la posibilidad de representar genuinamente a estos dos grup…
(Not So) Happy Cows
‘Happy cow messages’ are instances of commercial speech by the animal industry which, by action or by omission, mislead consumers about the harmful effects that the industry has for non‐human animals, the environment, or human health. Despite their ubiquity, happy cow messages have received little philosophical scrutiny. This article aims to call attention to this form of speech, and to make the case for its restriction. To do so we first concept…
Idealization, animals, and democracy
Philosophical theorizing on democracy typically assumes away the existence of nonhuman animals – even though animals are systematically affected by democratic decisions in morally relevant ways. This paper inspects under which circumstances, if at all, this omission can be justified. First, I distinguish between two possible explanations of this neglect: (i) that animals are neglected by democratic theorists due to speciesist biases, according to…
The Demos of the democratic firm
Despite growing interest in workplace democracy, the question whether nonworker stakeholders, like suppliers and local communities, warrant inclusion in the governance of democratic companies, as workers do, has been largely neglected. We inspect this question by leaning on the boundary problem in democratic theory. We first argue that the question of who warrants inclusion in democratic workplaces is best addressed by examining why workplace dem…
Intergenerational Subjection
Can the dead subject later generations to their will? Legal and political philosophers have long worried about this question. But some have recently argued that subjection between generations that do not overlap is impossible. Against these views, we offer an account of this kind of subjection and the conditions under which it may occur—the Mediated Subjection View. On this view, legal subjection between nonoverlapping generations occurs when pas…
Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw
Political realism and ideology critique have, as of late, sparked renewed interest within Anglophone political philosophy. Contemporary political philosophy, realists complain, has become excessively grounded in moral philosophy—a branch, some say, of applied ethics (Bernard Williams 2005; Geuss 2008; Rossi and Sleat 2014; Sleat 2018). The latter, in turn, contend that political philosophers should spend greater effort analyzing how ideologies le…
Sentientist Political Liberalism
This paper introduces sentientist political liberalism . Elaborating on the fundamental ideas in John Rawls's political liberalism, we propose that the scheme of fair social cooperation among persons should be understood as embedded within a broader system of social coexistence between persons and other sentient beings. This prompts a revision of the original position: We add a second phase in which participants, acting as trustees for animals, d…
A democratic argument for animal uplifting
Nonhuman animals are unable to exert any direct control over the functioning of democratic institutions –the decisions of which, nevertheless, have a pervasive impact on their lives. Their interests are therefore likelier to be set back or unfairly discounted, and their choices are more vulnerable to arbitrary interference. Because of this, some authors have suggested that we ought to redesign our political institutions so that they are more resp…
Relational equality and the status of animals
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