In my doctoral and early postdoctoral work, I was interested in understanding when a political proposal counts as “feasible” and why. This took me into thinking about the distinction between ideal and non-ideal normative theory (2010a), and into developing a non-binary account of political feasibility that could accommodate both hard and soft kinds of constraints…
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Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘Review of Peter Corning’s The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature’, Biology & Philosophy (Vol. 27, Iss. 2, 2012, pp. 313-320).
Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘Cosmopolitan Global Justice: Brock v. The Feasibility Sceptic‘, Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric (Issue 4, 2011).
Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘Ideal Theory: A Reply to Valentini.’ Journal of Political Philosophy (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2010, pp. 357-368).Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘Feasibility Constraints and the Cosmopolitan Vision: Empirical Reasons for Choosing Justice Over Humanity.’ Questioning Cosmopolitanism, ed. Stan van Hooft and Wim Vandekerhove. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest, and the…
Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘Review of Larry Alexander’s Crime and Culpability’, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy (Vol. 35, 2010, pp. 152-158).
