Lowe's Defence of Constitutionalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10691645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric T Olson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 210 |
| Pages | 92-95 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9213.00299 |
| OpenAlex | W2118218872 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Constitutionalism says that qualitatively different objects can be made of the same matter at once. Critics claim that we should expect such objects to be qualitatively indistinguishable. E.J. Lowe thinks this complaint is based on the false assumption that differences in the way things are at a time must always be grounded in how things are at that time, and that we can answer it by pointing out that different kinds of coinciding objects are subject to different composition principles. I argue that he is mistaken on both counts
Complaint · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Subject matter · Computer Science · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |