Competing Approaches to Political Philosophy

Abstract

The last decade or so has seen several attempts to propose new and wide-reaching methods of doing political philosophy. These include comparative political theory, contextualism, practice-dependence, avant-garde political theory, normative behaviourism, and various forms of both ideal and non-ideal theory. The aim of this panel is to bring together several accounts of a variety of competing approaches to the subject in order to pick apart their differences and evaluate their merits. Doing so will, amongst other things, help us work out how many methods our subject might have, how compatible they are with each other, and how much we even need such broad accounts in order to pursue our core business of justifying political principles.

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