Freedom, Power and Political Morality

TERENCE BALL Professor of Political Science, Arizona State UniversityHUGO ADAM BEDAU Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Tufts UniversityNORBERTO BOBBIO Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Turin, ItalyLUIGI BONANATE Professor of International Relations, University of Turin, ItalyAMEDEO G. CONTE Professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Pavia, ItalyPAOLO DI LUCIA Professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Camerino, ItalyJEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of ChicagoGEORGE KATEB Lecturer in Political Theory, Princeton UniversityTHOMAS POGGE Lecturer in Philosophy, Columbia UniversityHILLEL STEINER Professor of Political Philosophy, University of ManchesterMARK R. WEAVER Professor of Political Science, College of Wooster

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction: I.Carter & M.Ricciardi PART I: NORMATIVE ANALYSIS AND POLITICAL CONCEPTS Felix Oppenheim's Deontics; P.D.Lucia From Hobbes to Oppenheim: Conceptual Reconstruction as Political Engagement; T.Ball Essential Contestability and the Claims of Analysis; M.Ricciardi Freedom and Bivalence; H.Steiner Dimensions of Nomic Freedom; A.G.Conte 'Ought' implies 'Practical Possibility'; I.Carter Clarifying the Science Wars: The Concept of Scientific Authority; M.R.Weaver PART II: POLITICAL MORALITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS On Public Moral Appeal and Identification; J.B.Elshtain 'Anarchical Fallacies': Bentham's Attack on Human Rights; H.A.Bedau Preempting Humanitarian Interventions; T.Pogge Oppenheim's Realism and the Morality of the National Interest;; L.Bonanate Oppenheim and the National Interest; G.Kateb PART III: CODA Oppenheim in Italy: a Memoir; N.Bobbio Afterthoughts; F.E.Oppenheim Bibliography of the Publications of Felix E.Oppenheim Index