Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics

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 RevolutionsKimberley Brownlee: On the Urgency of Kick-starting a Moral Revolution to Save OurselvesKwame Anthony Appiah: Making Change2. AI and DemocracyHélène Landemore: Can Artificial Intelligence Bring Deliberation to the Masses?Philip Pettit: The Two Roles of Deliberation in Democracy3. Trust and the Rule of LawThomas W. Simpson: Trust and the Rule of LawOnora O'Neill: Cultures of Trust and the Rule of Law4. Taking ResponsibilityPauline Sliwa: Taking Responsibility Pamela Hieronymi: Taking Responsibility, Defensiveness, and the Blame Game5. PraiseZoë Johnson King: What Are We Praiseworthy For?Susan Wolf: Understanding Praise6. BlameJames Edwards: What Can We Say to Each Other?Alison Hills: Standing to Blame: Can it Be Defended?7. ReasonablenessHasan Dindjer: The Reasonable and the JustifiedThomas Scanlon: Varieties of Reasonableness8. DutyNicolas Cornell: Looking and SeeingJeremy Waldron: On Duty9. Political ObligationAshwini Vasanthakumar: Pluralism in Political ObligationNancy L. Rosenblum: All Our Imperatives10. Justice and EqualityGina Schouten: Distributive Egalitarianism as Aspirational JusticeSamuel Scheffler: Relational Equality and Pluralism about Justice11. Justice and GroupsRobin Dembroff: The Metaphysics of InjusticeSally Haslanger: Social Systems and Intersectional Oppression12. DominationLori Watson: On DominationCatharine A. MacKinnon: Of Domination and its Ending13. PornographyKate Greasley: Pornography and the Limits of Speech Act AnalysisRae Langton: Pornography: 'Enacting' or 'Eroticising' Women s Subordination?14. Law and IntentionsBrian Flanagan: Intentional Legislation: What Makes a Text a Statute?Michael Bratman: Intentions, Procedures, and Social Rules15. ArgumentationLuís Duarte d'Almeida: Arguing A ContrarioJohn Horty: A Contrario Argument and Default Reasoning

Busy practitioners are unlikely to have time to ponder such abstract issues, let alone wade through almost 600 pages of academic writing. But for those missing their days studying jurisprudence, or who are attracted to considering or writing more theoretically on legal issues, this book will be of interest.