There’s an interesting debate in moral and political philosophy about the nature of, and relationship between, ideal and non-ideal theory. In this paper we discuss whether an analogous distinction can be drawn in philosophy of language. Our conclusion is negative: Even if you think that distinction can be put to work within moral and political philosophy, there’s no useful way to extend it to work that has been done in the philosophy of language
I present a fictional and somewhat unpleasant tutorial. In it a use of the term “ideal political the...
The recent prominence of the ideal/non-ideal debate is largely due to the fact that it offers a voca...
This article provides a conceptual map of the debate on ideal and non-ideal theory. It argues that t...
There’s an interesting debate in moral and political philosophy about the nature of, and relationshi...
According to ordinary language philosophy (OLP), philosophical problems can be solved by investigati...
This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on ...
Proponents of linguistic philosophy hold that all non-empirical philosophical problems can be solved...
The distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory is a tool that can help us understand how to make...
I present two senses in which a political philosophy may be an ideal theory. They are not identified...
In Ideals from a Distance, I defend the practice of idealization within moraland political philosoph...
In Ideals from a Distance, I defend the practice of idealization within moral and political philosop...
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein, 1958), relies on reference to a non-...
This article provides a conceptual map of the debate on ideal and non‐ideal theory. It argues that t...
I present a fictional and somewhat unpleasant tutorial. In it a use of the term “ideal political the...
The recent prominence of the ideal/non-ideal debate is largely due to the fact that it offers a voca...
This article provides a conceptual map of the debate on ideal and non-ideal theory. It argues that t...
There’s an interesting debate in moral and political philosophy about the nature of, and relationshi...
According to ordinary language philosophy (OLP), philosophical problems can be solved by investigati...
This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on ...
Proponents of linguistic philosophy hold that all non-empirical philosophical problems can be solved...
The distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory is a tool that can help us understand how to make...
I present two senses in which a political philosophy may be an ideal theory. They are not identified...
In Ideals from a Distance, I defend the practice of idealization within moraland political philosoph...
In Ideals from a Distance, I defend the practice of idealization within moral and political philosop...
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein, 1958), relies on reference to a non-...
This article provides a conceptual map of the debate on ideal and non‐ideal theory. It argues that t...
I present a fictional and somewhat unpleasant tutorial. In it a use of the term “ideal political the...
The recent prominence of the ideal/non-ideal debate is largely due to the fact that it offers a voca...
This article provides a conceptual map of the debate on ideal and non-ideal theory. It argues that t...