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2026
In this chapter, the editors briefly describe the rationale for examining the civic learning assessment landscape. They provide an overview of the volume, summarizing the contents of each section. They conclude by discussing the potential benefits of a...
Invigorating civic education to prepare learners for active participation in democracy requires that we define and assess what constitutes civic readiness. This chapter describes the efforts of the Democratic Knowledge Project to design an assessment...
The laws of war, in most accounts, rest on two central premises: (1) they are “humanitarian,” designed to protect individuals, and (2) they have been so since at least the aftermath of World War II. This Article undercuts that narrative. Contrary to...
Egalitarianism and prioritarianism are competing views about the ethics of distribution. Both views have wide scopes of concern. But, writing in this journal, Michael Otsuka has discovered a case that seems to show an interesting asymmetry between the...
2025
An ecological epistemology arguing that epistemic agents, communities, and environments adapt to one another to generate evolving understandings of the world.
Mainstream epistemology focuses on static states. In Epistemic Ecology, Catherine Elgin adopts a...
Euthanasia and assisted suicide on the sole basis of a mental disorder like depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, or PTSD, might well be one of society and medicine’s most significant contemporary developments. Permitted in a few countries like the...
This anthology is dedicated to Immanuel Kant as a genuinely political thinker. Based on the observation that Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy still receives far more attention than his political philosophy, the book aims to shed some light on...
Utilitarianism directs us to act in ways that impartially maximize welfare or utility or at least aim to do that. Some find this view highly compelling. Others object that it has intuitively repugnant results, that it condones evildoing and injustice...
An athlete has faith in her unathletic partner to run a marathon, a teacher has faith in her currently poor-performing students to improve in the future, and your friend has faith in you to succeed in the difficult project that you have been pursuing...