A Methodological Turn in Political Philosophy : Making Political Philosophy More Scientific?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.publicreason.ro/articol/135" target="_blank" >https://www.publicreason.ro/articol/135</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Methodological Turn in Political Philosophy : Making Political Philosophy More Scientific?

Original language description

The emergence of the first literature concerning the methodology of political philosophy, which we have witnessed over the last decade, indicates a general methodological shift within the discipline. This shift can be interpreted as a sign of the ongoing adjustment of political philosophy to the domain of science that had already begun when analytical political philosophy incorporated from logical positivism the premise of the unity of method of science and philosophy. The urge to have an epistemic source of justification for normative political theories lead analytical political philosophy to the development of various methodological frameworks from among which reflective equilibrium became the most influential one and nowadays it is being considered as the most widely used method in the contemporary political philosophy overall. Reflective equilibrium aims to provide knowledge that falls into the same category as scientific knowledge; however, it can also lead to various normative distortions resulting in the elimination of metaphysics, meta-ethics and religious claims from the normative part of political philosophical theorising. These normative distortions not only can result in epistemically wrong conclusions; above all, they implicitly affirm the normative propositions of political conceptions of liberalism. Hence, the prevalence and uncritical use of reflective equilibrium might narrow the topical scope and undermine the reflective and critical role of the discipline of political philosophy itself.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-11091S" target="_blank" >GA19-11091S: Beyond Public Reason? Critiques and Defences of the Liberal Agenda of Public Justification</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Public Reason

ISSN

2065-7285

e-ISSN

2065-8958

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

77-92

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090714026