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<p>Nonideal theory and critical theory are two approaches to social critique. Nonideal theory has become increasingly popular in post-Rawlsian political philosophy over the last 15 years (for an overview, see Valentini <span>2012</span>). It is a broad church, but is often thought to be motivated by a dissatisfaction with ideal theory's lack of practical relevance (Swift <span>2008</span>, 368). Issues that have preoccupied proponents of nonideal theory are partial compliance (see Rawls <span>1971</span>, 8–9; Cullity <span>2004</span>; Chahboun <span>2015</span>), or the question of how to translate principles of justice into concrete policy recommendations (see, among others, Phillips <span>1985</span>; Robeyns <span>2008</span>). Critical theory, on the other hand, is often associated with the Frankfurt School (see Held <span>1980</span>; Gordon, Hammer, and Honneth <span>2019</span>), but also refers, more broadly, to work done by critical race theorists and feminist scholars (Mills <span>1997</span>; Haslanger <span>2021</span>). It shares with nonideal theory an orientation to real-world circumstances and a commitment to being relevant to action in the face of those circumstances. In the light of this, it is surprising that the relationship between nonideal theory and critical theory has not received more attention in the literature, for instance in the way that the relation between realism and nonideal theory has (for discussions of the latter see Cozzaglio and Favara <span>2022</span>; Favara <span>2022</span>; Sleat <span>2016</span>; Rossi and Sleat <span>2014</span>). This special issue seeks to fill this gap. The four contributions, while each developing a distinct understanding of this relationship, all agree that critical theory offers important insights which could strengthen the real-world relevance of the nonideal theory enterprise.</p><p>The first contribution “Should nonideal theory rely on ideal theory? Lessons from the Frankfurt School,” by Kristina Lepold, addresses the question posed in the title that has been the subject of some debate among nonideal theorists. Drawing inspiration from the Frankfurt School, Lepold argues that if nonideal theory relies on ideal theory to identify injustices, it is a matter of chance whether nonideal theory can help members of the social world to understand the injustices they face. This, however, should give nonideal theorists pause for thought, for the ability of nonideal theory to successfully guide collective action to overcome injustice depends on its ability to contribute to such self-reflection. Lepold concludes by suggesting that nonideal theory should not rely on ideal theory, if it does not want to risk having no practical relevance.</p><p>In the second contribution, “Non-ideal theory and critical theory and their relationship to standpoint theory,” Hilkje Hänel demonstrates that there is a methodological overlap between critical theory and some variants of nonideal theory when it
非理想理论和批判理论是社会批判的两种途径。在过去的15年里,非理想理论在后罗尔斯政治哲学中变得越来越流行(概述,参见Valentini 2012)。这是一个广泛的教会,但通常被认为是由对理想理论缺乏实际相关性的不满所激发的(Swift 2008, 368)。非理想理论的支持者所关注的问题是部分服从(见罗尔斯1971,8-9;Cullity 2004;Chahboun 2015),或者如何将正义原则转化为具体政策建议的问题(见Phillips 1985;Robeyns 2008)。另一方面,批判理论经常与法兰克福学派联系在一起(见Held 1980;Gordon, Hammer, and Honneth 2019),但更广泛地说,也指的是批判性种族理论家和女权主义学者所做的工作(Mills 1997;Haslanger 2021)。它和非理想理论一样,都有对现实世界环境的导向,以及在面对这些环境时与行动相关的承诺。鉴于此,令人惊讶的是,非理想理论与批判理论之间的关系在文献中没有受到更多的关注,例如,现实主义与非理想理论之间的关系(关于后者的讨论见Cozzaglio和Favara 2022;Favara 2022;Sleat 2016;Rossi and Sleat 2014)。本期特刊试图填补这一空白。这四篇文章虽然各自对这种关系有不同的理解,但都认为批判理论提供了重要的见解,可以加强非理想理论事业的现实相关性。第一个贡献是非理想理论应该依赖于理想理论吗?Kristina leold的《法兰克福学派的教训》(Lessons from the Frankfurt School)回答了题目中提出的问题,这个问题一直是非理想理论家争论的主题。从法兰克福学派得到启发,利波德认为,如果非理想理论依赖于理想理论来识别不公正,那么非理想理论能否帮助社会成员理解他们所面临的不公正,这是一个偶然的问题。然而,这应该让非理想理论家停下来思考,因为非理想理论成功指导集体行动克服不公正的能力取决于它有助于这种自我反思的能力。利波德总结道,如果非理想理论不想冒失去实际意义的风险,它就不应该依赖于理想理论。在第二篇论文“非理想理论与批判理论及其与立场理论的关系”中,Hilkje Hänel证明,在分析社会现实时,批判理论与非理想理论的一些变体之间存在方法论上的重叠。两者都致力于立场理论,即假设一个人的社会地位与知识获取有关。这种方法论上的共性意味着非理想理论和批判理论面临着类似的挑战:批判的立场永远只是一种潜在的,而不是一种既定的,这Hänel称之为“意识形态问题”。这个问题可以通过利用批判理论的核心理论资源来解决,即意识形态批判。在他的论文《批判理论、理想理论和概念工程》中,Andrea Sangiovanni也提出了类似的观点。他认为,所有的社会和政治哲学都应该成为批判理论,因为它是从我们所处的当前社会实践开始理论化的。这是因为,关于规范概念(如自由或正义)的争论,只有通过理解它们在其中发挥作用的实际背景,才能解决。我们需要问的不是先验,而是哪个概念在给定的环境中最有用或最合适,或者哪个概念最能捕捉到一组社会实践的基本特征。在最后一篇文章《超越非理想:为什么批判理论需要乌托邦维度》中,提图斯·斯塔尔考察了马克思、阿多诺等人反对理想或乌托邦理论化的核心论点。这些论点的本质是,政治理论家无法在非理想条件下设想理想的事态,因为后者严重限制了他们的认知、想象和概念能力。但斯塔尔认为,这些论点大多是不令人信服的,并表明批判理论是如何内在的,从当前社会及其矛盾出发,同时构建可以指导集体行动的临时理想状态。作者声明无利益冲突。
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<p>The lack of diversity in philosophy has been of particular concern to the profession in recent years, and much has been done in response to track, interpret, and remedy this longstanding problem. Contributing to that ongoing effort, this special issue opens new avenues for theoretical reflection and practical transformation. Together, the papers investigate the factors that contribute to the discipline's persistent lack of diversity, including common assumptions, ordinary practices, and customary arrangements that are often taken for granted in the profession and tend to remain unquestioned. Each paper explores in a distinctive way the dynamics of exclusion that structure philosophy's institutional life while suggesting specific measures and concrete actions to address these issues and to effectively bring about greater diversity.</p><p>The aspiration that “philosophy should be among the most diverse of the academic disciplines, not among the least diverse” (Schwitzgebel, <span>2020</span>) may arise from appreciating that injustice, whether stemming from epistemic, social, institutional, or practical obstacles, is preventing full or equal participation in the discipline. In addition, a substantive diversity of social backgrounds and philosophical approaches among participants seems essential to both realizing and guaranteeing the open-ended, open-minded, and critical project that philosophy aspires to be. Yet recognizing this to be the case in theory is often at odds with deeply held forms of practice.</p><p>Indeed, it has been striking to us as guest editors how otherwise typical, perfectly ordinary editorial processes may come at a cost both for marginally situated individuals and the profession as a whole, resulting in our finding the same sorts of faces, body-minds, and perspectives in the room or on the page. There are telling experiences among those who had taken the time, care, and energy to write and revise papers for this special issue, only to withdraw them later in response to reviewers' comments; or in response to the need to strategically and carefully ration their time and energy as they navigated the kind of precarious employment that falls so hard on those without the material or social capital to cushion their career aspirations. It is important to note that our observations do not apply to this journal specifically; nor do they seek to impugn any reviewer's or editor's intentions or character. Rather, the observations that follow reflect more structural issues. We know that the notorious yet all-too-common gatekeeping question “how is this paper philosophy?,” which captures what Kristie Dotson (<span>2012</span>) has called the culture of justification, is one that looms large in the experience of underrepresented groups in philosophy, who report being repeatedly and disproportionately asked to justify the relevance of their research questions and approaches, and thereby arguably their very presence in the field (more on thi
{"title":"Introduction for special issue on “Excellence, diversity, and the philosophy exception”","authors":"Fiona Jenkins, Amandine Catala","doi":"10.1111/josp.12588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12588","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The lack of diversity in philosophy has been of particular concern to the profession in recent years, and much has been done in response to track, interpret, and remedy this longstanding problem. Contributing to that ongoing effort, this special issue opens new avenues for theoretical reflection and practical transformation. Together, the papers investigate the factors that contribute to the discipline's persistent lack of diversity, including common assumptions, ordinary practices, and customary arrangements that are often taken for granted in the profession and tend to remain unquestioned. Each paper explores in a distinctive way the dynamics of exclusion that structure philosophy's institutional life while suggesting specific measures and concrete actions to address these issues and to effectively bring about greater diversity.</p><p>The aspiration that “philosophy should be among the most diverse of the academic disciplines, not among the least diverse” (Schwitzgebel, <span>2020</span>) may arise from appreciating that injustice, whether stemming from epistemic, social, institutional, or practical obstacles, is preventing full or equal participation in the discipline. In addition, a substantive diversity of social backgrounds and philosophical approaches among participants seems essential to both realizing and guaranteeing the open-ended, open-minded, and critical project that philosophy aspires to be. Yet recognizing this to be the case in theory is often at odds with deeply held forms of practice.</p><p>Indeed, it has been striking to us as guest editors how otherwise typical, perfectly ordinary editorial processes may come at a cost both for marginally situated individuals and the profession as a whole, resulting in our finding the same sorts of faces, body-minds, and perspectives in the room or on the page. There are telling experiences among those who had taken the time, care, and energy to write and revise papers for this special issue, only to withdraw them later in response to reviewers' comments; or in response to the need to strategically and carefully ration their time and energy as they navigated the kind of precarious employment that falls so hard on those without the material or social capital to cushion their career aspirations. It is important to note that our observations do not apply to this journal specifically; nor do they seek to impugn any reviewer's or editor's intentions or character. Rather, the observations that follow reflect more structural issues. We know that the notorious yet all-too-common gatekeeping question “how is this paper philosophy?,” which captures what Kristie Dotson (<span>2012</span>) has called the culture of justification, is one that looms large in the experience of underrepresented groups in philosophy, who report being repeatedly and disproportionately asked to justify the relevance of their research questions and approaches, and thereby arguably their very presence in the field (more on thi","PeriodicalId":46756,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Philosophy","volume":"55 3","pages":"360-367"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josp.12588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Property as power: A theory of representation","authors":"Rutger Claassen","doi":"10.1111/josp.12587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12587","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46756,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Philosophy","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142221667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy","authors":"Andreas T. Schmidt","doi":"10.1111/josp.12586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46756,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Philosophy","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141949490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reparations after species extinctions: An account of reparative interspecies justice","authors":"Anna Wienhues, Alfonso Donoso","doi":"10.1111/josp.12584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12584","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46756,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Philosophy","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141949489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}