Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the program for the 9th annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy (October 14-16, 2021) in Tucson, AZ has now been posted on the OSPP website: Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy | Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy (arizona.edu)

We would be very grateful were you to forward this to any colleagues who might be interested in attending the workshop,  » …Read more

We are very pleased to have Jonathan Quong commenting on Simon May’s “Why Strict Compliance?” A reminder you can find Simon’s paper open access here. Here now is Jonathan:

I learned a lot from Simon’s excellent paper, and I hope it will become a focal point for discussion of ideal theory.  » …Read more

How can Rawlsian ideal theory’s strict compliance assumption be warranted when so many problems of injustice arise precisely because many people fail to comply with their moral obligations? A standard answer is that the assumption is necessary to define the ideal society that should serve as the telos for political decision making: we should respond to injustice by moving towards that distant society as best we can.  » …Read more