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Fuller, Steve (2022) Symmetry in world-historic perspective : reply to Lynch. Analyse & Kritik, 44 (1). pp. 161-169. doi:10.1515/auk-2022-2022 ISSN 2365-9858.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/auk-2022-2022
Abstract
William Lynch has persistently questioned the politics underlying my appeal to science and technology studies’ flagship symmetry principle. He believes that it licenses the worst features of the ‘post-truth condition’. I respond in two parts, the first facing the future and the second facing the past. In the first part, I argue that the symmetry principle will be crucial in decisions that society will increasingly need to make concerning the inclusion of animals and machines on grounds of sentience, consciousness, intelligence, etc. In the second part, I argue that the symmetry principle has been in fact at the core of the ‘justice as fairness’ idea that has been at the core of both liberal and socialist democracies. Difficulties start once the means of expression and communication are made widely available and the standards of fairness are subject to continual questioning and renegotiation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Symmetry, Democracy , Fascism | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Analyse & Kritik | ||||||
Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | ||||||
ISSN: | 2365-9858 | ||||||
Official Date: | 27 May 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 44 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 161-169 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1515/auk-2022-2022 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 August 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 August 2022 |
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