Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity

by Baghramian,Maria

• ISBN13: 9780415227148
• ISBN10: 0415227143
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-01-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversityis the first volume to open the window on philosophical pluralism and link pluralist themes in philosophy and politics. It advances recent debates on political pluralism in a range of essays that challenge or defend the association of liberalism and pluralism. The volume is divided into three parts: an investigation of the philosophical sources of pluralism, including an essay on William James; the value of pluralism and liberalism, discussing the compatibility of these ideas; and an investigation of difference in pluralism, with writing on women, ethnocultural, and the public-private distinction.

Author Biography

Maria Baghramian teaches in the Department of Philosophy, University College Dublin Raphael Cohen-Almagor is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication, University of Haifa John Gray was educated at Oxford. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1976-1998. In 1996 he was made Professor of Politics at Oxford. Since 1998 he has been Professor of European Thought at the LSE Iseult Honohan teaches historical and normative political theory in the Department of Politics, University College Dublin Attracta Ingram is Professor of Politics at University College Dublin Will Kymlicka is currently a Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, and a recurrent visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies programme at the Central European University in Budapest Susan Mendus is Professor of Politics and Director of the Morrell Studies in Toleration programme at the University of York Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago James R. O'Shea is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University College Dublin Philip Pettit is Professor of Social and Political Theory, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University and a regular Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York Jonathan Riley is Professor in the Murphy Institute of Political Economy, Tulane University Jonathan Wolff is a Professor of Philosophy at University College London

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Foreword	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(14)
Maria Baghramian
Attracta Ingram
PART I Philosophical sources of pluralism	15	(68)
Sources of pluralism in William James	17	(27)
James R. O'Shea
On the plurality of conceptual schemes	44	(16)
Maria Baghramian
A sensible perspectivism	60	(23)
Philip Pettit
PART II Value pluralism and liberalism	83	(94)
Where pluralists and liberals part company	85	(18)
John Gray
Pluralism and scepticism in a disenchanted world	103	(17)
Susan Mendus
Crooked timber and liberal culture	120	(36)
Jonathan Riley
Dealing with difference: the republican public-private distinction	156	(21)
Iseult Honohan
PART III Accommodating pluralism	177	(74)
Political obligation: a pluralistic approach	179	(18)
Jonathan Wolff
Women and cultural universals	197	(31)
Martha Nussbaum
Ethnocultural minorities in liberal democracies	228	(23)
Will Kymlicka
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Bibliography	251	(12)
Index	263