Making political philosophy public: the role of empirical inquiry

Baderin, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7207-8825 (2025) Making political philosophy public: the role of empirical inquiry. Public Humanities. ISSN 2977-0173 doi: 10.1017/pub.2025.10074

Abstract/Summary

The drive for greater public engagement and the turn to social science: each is an important and welcome movement in contemporary political philosophy. However, the relationship between these two boundary-crossing endeavours is not simple or obvious. I suggest that political philosophers have sometimes been too quick to assume that empirically-sensitivity and publicness go together; and I identify some ways in which these features can diverge and even compete. More positively, I go on to outline a modestly public role for political philosophy that is facilitated by in-depth engagement with diverse forms of social scientific evidence.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/124880
Identification Number/DOI	10.1017/pub.2025.10074
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Politics, Economics and International Relations > Politics and International Relations
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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