Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics

New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. It showcases three generations of scholars--from newly minted professors to some of today's most distinguished thinkers. Consisting of fifteen conversations, pairs of chapters dedicated to a single topic, the volume provides intergenerational and multidisciplinary perspectives on aspects of our social world. Each conversation comprises a first paper by a scholar who sets the topic, followed by a second paper by a scholar of a different generation, and usually a different discipline, who offers further insight or commentary. Each conversation thus provides two sets of original thoughts about a matter of lively current interest and interdisciplinary significance. Topics investigated include moral revolutions, AI and democracy, trust and the rule of law, responsibility, praise and blame, reasonableness, duty, political obligation, justice and equality, justice and intersectionality, domination, pornography, intentions in the law, and legal argumentation. Written in clear prose, the volume is accessible by philosophers, lawyers, political theorists, and beyond.

Ruth Chang, University of Oxford,Amia Srinivasan, University of Oxford

Ruth Chang is the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. She holds a JD in law from Harvard and a DPhil. in philosophy from Oxford. Her research focusses on values, normativity, conflict, rationality, choice, and agency. She has given lectures or been a consultant at Google, the World Bank, CIA, US Navy, Big Pharma, TellTale Games and many other institutions. Her TED talk about decision-making has over 9 million views. She has written guest essays for popular publications and has been interviewed about her work by newspapers, magazines, and radio and television programmes from around the world. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Amia Srinivasan is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. She holds a BA from Yale and a BPhil and DPhil from Oxford. Her research spans epistemology, political philosophy, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy. She is the author of The Right to Sex (2021), and is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. Her essays on sex, animals, death, the university, technology, anger, politics, and other topics have also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere.

1. Moral Revolutions
On the Urgency of Kick-starting a Moral Revolution to Save Ourselves, Kimberley Brownlee
Making Change, Kwame Anthony Appiah
2. AI and Democracy
Can Artificial Intelligence Bring Deliberation to the Masses?, Hélène Landemore
The Two Roles of Deliberation in Democracy, Philip Pettit
3. Trust and the Rule of Law
Trust and the Rule of Law, Thomas W. Simpson
Cultures of Trust and the Rule of Law, Onora O'Neill
4. Taking Responsibility
Taking Responsibility , Pauline Sliwa
Taking Responsibility, Defensiveness, and the Blame Game, Pamela Hieronymi
5. Praise
What Are We Praiseworthy For?, Zoë Johnson King
Understanding Praise, Susan Wolf
6. Blame
What Can We Say to Each Other?, James Edwards
Standing to Blame: Can it Be Defended?, Alison Hills
7. Reasonableness
The Reasonable and the Justified, Hasan Dindjer
Varieties of Reasonableness, Thomas Scanlon
8. Duty
Looking and Seeing, Nicolas Cornell
On Duty, Jeremy Waldron
9. Political Obligation
Pluralism in Political Obligation, Ashwini Vasanthakumar
All Our Imperatives, Nancy L. Rosenblum
10. Justice and Equality
Distributive Egalitarianism as Aspirational Justice, Gina Schouten
Relational Equality and Pluralism about Justice, Samuel Scheffler
11. Justice and Groups
The Metaphysics of Injustice, Robin Dembroff
Social Systems and Intersectional Oppression, Sally Haslanger
12. Domination
On Domination, Lori Watson
Of Domination and its Ending, Catharine A. MacKinnon
13. Pornography
Pornography and the Limits of Speech Act Analysis, Kate Greasley
Pornography: 'Enacting' or 'Eroticising' Women s Subordination?, Rae Langton
14. Law and Intentions
Intentional Legislation: What Makes a Text a Statute?, Brian Flanagan
Intentions, Procedures, and Social Rules, Michael Bratman
15. Argumentation
Arguing A Contrario, Luís Duarte d'Almeida
A Contrario Argument and Default Reasoning, John Horty