What is the point of ideology critique? Prominent Anglo-American philosophers recently
proposed novel arguments for the view that ideology critique is moral critique, and …

Conceptual Engineering (CE) is thought to be generally aimed at ameliorating deficient
concepts. In this paper, we challenge this assumption: we argue that CE is frequently …

Do salient normative claims about politics require moral premises? Political moralists think
they do, political realists think they do not. We defend the viability of realism in a two …

In this article I defend a new argument against moralist theories of legitimacy and in favour of
realist theories. Moralist theories, I argue, are vulnerable to ideological and wishful thinking …

This introductory chapter gives an overview of the debate on realism in political theory and
sets out two themes that are particularly important for this debate: the role of practice in …

This article challenges the association between realist methodology and ideals of
legitimacy. Many who seek a more “realistic” or “political” approach to political theory …

Political realists claim that politics should be regulated by a distinctive political normativity,
one that does not rely on external, pre-political moral standards. It is in this sense that they …

Is democracy a realistic political ideal? This article historically recovers and normatively
assesses Machiavelli's intuition that democratic institutions are realistically desirable in …

Among the variety of 'new'ideology critiques that have appeared over the past few years,
there is one that claims a certain sort of realism (Aytac and Rossi Forthcoming; Prinz and …

This article has an analytical and a constructive aim. The former consists in providing a
taxonomy of the different ways progress can be defined, according to two variables: whether …