Uwe Steinhoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uwe Steinhoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uwe |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinhoff |
| SIGNATURE | STEINHOFF U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5805-6945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Case against compulsory vaccination
Arguments for mandatory or compulsory vaccination must justify the coercive infringement of bodily integrity via the injection of chemicals that permanently affect a body’s inner constitution. Four arguments are considered. The allegedly libertarian argument declares unvaccinated persons a threat; accordingly, vaccination could take the form of justifiable defence of self and others. This argument conflates material and statistical threats. The h…
Border Coercion and ‘Democratic Legitimacy’
When may soldiers participate in war
I shall argue that in some wars both sides are (as a collective) justified, that is, they can both satisfy valid jus ad bellum requirements. Moreover, in some wars – but not in all – the individual soldiers on the unjustified side (i.e. on the side without jus ad bellum ) may nevertheless kill soldiers (and also civilians as a side-effect) on the justified side, even if the enemy soldiers always abide by jus in bello constraints. The reason for t…
Against Equal Respect and Concern, Equal Rights, and Egalitarian Impartiality
This chapter argues that the often-heard claim that all serious present-day political philosophers are in some fundamental sense egalitarians is wrong. It also rejects the claim that the methods currently used in political philosophy presuppose basic equality. It further argues that there is no universal duty “of equal respect and concern,” no duty of the state to respect all citizens equally, and no equality of rights or worth; and that appeals …
Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth?
In present-day political and moral philosophy the idea that all persons are in some way moral equals is an almost universal premise, with its defenders often claiming that philosophical positions that reject the principle of equal respect and concern do not deserve to be taken seriously. This has led to relatively few attempts to clarify, or indeed justify, 'basic equality' and the principle of equal respect and concern. Such clarification and ju…
Stephen Kershnar, Gratitude Toward Veterans
Why We Shouldn’t Reject Conflicts
On the Ethics of Torture
The Uselessness of Rawls's 'Ideal Theory'
The Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas seeks to defend the Enlightenment and with it an "emphatical", "uncurtailed" conception of reason against the post-modern critique of reason on the one hand, and against so-called scientism (which would include critical rationalism and the greater part of analytical philosophy) on the other. His objection to the former is that it is self-contradictory and politically defeatist; his objection to the latter is that, thanks to a stan…
Benbaji on Killing in War and ‘The War Convention’
Yitzhak Benbaji defends the view that soldiers on both the 'just' and the 'unjust' side in a war have the same liberty right to kill one another, because soldiers have 'tacitly accepted' the egalitarian laws of war and thereby waived their moral rights not to be attacked. I argue that soldiers on the 'just' side have not accepted the egalitarian laws of war; even if they had, they would not thereby have waived their moral rights not to be attacke…
Debate
Kritik der kommunikativen Rationalität
Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende und detaillierte Darstellung und Analyse der kommunikationstheoretischen Philosophie von Jürgen Habermas und Karl-Otto Apel. Es zeichnet deren langen Argumentationsgang von einer Analyse von Sprechakten bis hin zu einer Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats genau und klar nach und unterzieht ihn in jedem seiner Schritte einer rigorosen Kritik. Zu den Stationen der Studie gehören unter and…
Truth vs. Rorty
In his article ‘Is Truth a Goal of Enquiry?’ Rorty claims that the difference between truth and justification makes no difference to practice. His argument for this is that assessment of truth and assessment of justification are the same activity. This argument is insufficient, for the difference to practice can be found elsewhere. I shall demonstrate that, and also show in which way this difference manifests itself in utility/risk calculations i…
Truth vs. Rorty
In his article ‘Is Truth a Goal of Enquiry?’ Rorty claims that the difference between truth and justification makes no difference to practice. His argument for this is that assessment of truth and assessment of justification are the same activity. This argument is insufficient, for the difference to practice can be found elsewhere. I shall demonstrate that, and also show in which way this difference manifests itself in utility/risk calculations i…
Kritik der kommunikativen Rationalität
Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende und detaillierte Darstellung und Analyse der kommunikationstheoretischen Philosophie von Jürgen Habermas und Karl-Otto Apel. Es zeichnet deren langen Argumentationsgang von einer Analyse von Sprechakten bis hin zu einer Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats genau und klar nach und unterzieht ihn in jedem seiner Schritte einer rigorosen Kritik. Zu den Stationen der Studie gehören unter and…
Debate
The Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas seeks to defend the Enlightenment and with it an "emphatical", "uncurtailed" conception of reason against the post-modern critique of reason on the one hand, and against so-called scientism (which would include critical rationalism and the greater part of analytical philosophy) on the other. His objection to the former is that it is self-contradictory and politically defeatist; his objection to the latter is that, thanks to a stan…
Benbaji on Killing in War and ‘The War Convention’
Yitzhak Benbaji defends the view that soldiers on both the 'just' and the 'unjust' side in a war have the same liberty right to kill one another, because soldiers have 'tacitly accepted' the egalitarian laws of war and thereby waived their moral rights not to be attacked. I argue that soldiers on the 'just' side have not accepted the egalitarian laws of war; even if they had, they would not thereby have waived their moral rights not to be attacke…
On the Ethics of Torture
The Uselessness of Rawls's 'Ideal Theory'
Against Equal Respect and Concern, Equal Rights, and Egalitarian Impartiality
This chapter argues that the often-heard claim that all serious present-day political philosophers are in some fundamental sense egalitarians is wrong. It also rejects the claim that the methods currently used in political philosophy presuppose basic equality. It further argues that there is no universal duty “of equal respect and concern,” no duty of the state to respect all citizens equally, and no equality of rights or worth; and that appeals …
Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth?
In present-day political and moral philosophy the idea that all persons are in some way moral equals is an almost universal premise, with its defenders often claiming that philosophical positions that reject the principle of equal respect and concern do not deserve to be taken seriously. This has led to relatively few attempts to clarify, or indeed justify, 'basic equality' and the principle of equal respect and concern. Such clarification and ju…
Stephen Kershnar, Gratitude Toward Veterans
Why We Shouldn’t Reject Conflicts
When may soldiers participate in war
I shall argue that in some wars both sides are (as a collective) justified, that is, they can both satisfy valid jus ad bellum requirements. Moreover, in some wars – but not in all – the individual soldiers on the unjustified side (i.e. on the side without jus ad bellum ) may nevertheless kill soldiers (and also civilians as a side-effect) on the justified side, even if the enemy soldiers always abide by jus in bello constraints. The reason for t…
Border Coercion and ‘Democratic Legitimacy’
The Case against compulsory vaccination
Arguments for mandatory or compulsory vaccination must justify the coercive infringement of bodily integrity via the injection of chemicals that permanently affect a body’s inner constitution. Four arguments are considered. The allegedly libertarian argument declares unvaccinated persons a threat; accordingly, vaccination could take the form of justifiable defence of self and others. This argument conflates material and statistical threats. The h…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (6 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)