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Guillery, Daniel (2021) The concept of feasibility : a multivocal account. Res Publica, 27 . pp. 491-507. doi:10.1007/s11158-020-09497-7
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11158-020-09497-7
Abstract
A common objection to a proposal or theory in political philosophy is that it is not feasible to realise what it calls for. This is commonly taken to be sufficient to reject a proposal or theory: feasibility, on this common view, operates as a straightforward constraint on moral and political theory, whatever is not feasible is simply ruled out. This paper seeks to understand what we mean when we say that some proposal or outcome is or is not feasible. It will argue that no single binary definition can be given. Rather, there is a whole range of possible specifications of the term ‘feasible’, each of which selects a range of facts of the world to hold fixed. No single one of these possible specifications, though, is obviously privileged as giving the appropriate understanding of ‘feasibility’ tout court. The upshot of my account of feasibility, then, will be that the common view of feasibility as a straightforward constraint cannot be maintained: in order to reject a moral theory, it will not be sufficient simply to say that it is not feasible.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Political science -- Philosophy , Feasibility studies, Idealism , Political realism | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Res Publica | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1356-4765 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | August 2021 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 27 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 491-507 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11158-020-09497-7 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||
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