Stephen White Research Articles

Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers: An Edited Translation by Stephen White

Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers: An Edited Translation by Stephen White

Ethical Consumerism, Democratic Values, and Justice

Philosophy & Public AffairsVolume 49, Issue 3 p. 237-274 Original Article Ethical Consumerism, Democratic Values, and Justice Brian Berkey, Corresponding Author bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu orcid.org/0000-0002-4527-027X Search for more papers by this author Brian Berkey, Corresponding Author bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu orcid.org/0000-0002-4527-027X Search for more papers by this author First published: 27 May 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/papa.12191 This paper has been influenced, in different ways, by three wonderful philosophers who sadly passed away recently, all much too young. The first is Waheed Hussain, whose important work has given shape to the debates to which this paper aims to contribute. I never got the chance to speak with Waheed about this paper in particular, but I was fortunate enough to meet him on a couple of occasions, and to benefit from his sharp wit and penetrating intellect. The second is Stephen White, with whom I had a very helpful discussion at the 2020 Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. And the third is Rachelle Bascara, who attended a talk that I gave on a very early draft of the paper at the Association for Social and Political Philosophy in 2016, and with whom I had an extremely helpful discussion afterwards. I am also grateful to audiences at the 2016 International Conference on Economic Philosophy, the 2016 Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, the 2016 Society for Applied Philosophy Conference, the 2016 North American Society for Social Philosophy Conference, the 2017 Transatlantic Normative Business Ethics Workshop, the 2020 Workshop on Morals, Markets, and Market-Based Societies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, the 2021 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, and the Penn Normative Philosophy Group. Caleb Pickard provided excellent comments at the Boulder Workshop, as did Amanda Greene at the Eastern APA. For very helpful written comments, I am grateful to Craig Agule, Justin Bernstein, Ewan Kingston, Amy Sepinwall, and two anonymous Associate Editors for this journal. I have also benefitted from discussions with Sahar Akhtar, Eilidh Beaton, Amy Berg, Sandrine Blanc, David Boonin, Jason Brennan, Vince Buccola, Adam Burgos, Chetan Cetty, Lee-Ann Chae, Rutger Claasen, Nico Cornell, Geert Demuijnck, Tom Donaldson, Ryan Doody, David Faraci, Brian Feinstein, Harrison Frye, Mike Gadomski, Axel Gosseries, Mark Hanin, Nicole Hassoun, Lisa Herzog, Rob Hughes, Peter Jaworski, Julian Jonker, Errol Lord, Emily McGill, Susan Sauvé Meyer, Tom Mulligan, Pierre-Yves Néron, Eric Orts, Govind Persad, Alexander Reese, Eric Sampson, Amanda Shanor, Patrick Taylor Smith, Alan Strudler, Preston Werner, Florian Wettstein, and Youngbin Yoon. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume49, Issue3Summer 2021Pages 237-274 RelatedInformation

How We Came to Understand the "Tumultuous Chemical Heterogeneity" of the Lipid Bilayer Membrane.

The path to our modern understanding of the structure of the lipid bilayer membrane is a long one that can be traced from today perhaps as far back as Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century. Here, I provide a personal account of one of the important steps in that path, the description of the "Complete Structure" of a hydrated, fluid phase dioleoyl phosphatidylcholine bilayer by the joint refinement of neutron and X-ray diffraction data by Stephen White and his colleagues.

Response to Stephen White’s review of Imagined Sovereignties: The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age

Response to Stephen White’s review of Imagined Sovereignties: The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age

Responsible Belief, Influence, and Control: Response to Stephen White

I reply to Stephen White’s criticisms of my Influence View. First, I reply to his worry that my Appraisal Account of responsibility cannot make sense of doxastic responsibility. Then, I discuss in detail his stolen painting case and argue that the Influence View can make sense of it. Next, I discuss various other cases that are meant to show that acting in accordance with one’s beliefs does not render one blameless. I argue that in these cases, even though the subjects act in accordance with their own beliefs, there is plenty of reason to think that at some previous point in time they violated certain intellectual obligations that led to them to hold those beliefs. Even on a radically subjective account of responsibility, then, we can perfectly well hold these people responsible for their beliefs. I go on to defend the idea that reasons-responsiveness will not do for doxastic responsibility: we need influence on our beliefs as well. Thus, doxastic compatibilism or rationalism is untenable. Subsequently, I defend my earlier claim that there is a crucial difference between beliefs and actions in that actions are often subject to the will, whereas beliefs are not. Finally, I respond to White’s worry that if one has a subjective epistemic obligation just because one believes that certain actions are epistemically bad, some people will have a wide range of absurd epistemic obligations, such as the obligation to listen to Infowars.

Is it Enough to Just Say No to Nazis? Comments on Stephen White’s A Democratic Bearing

In this paper I pose two questions for Stephen White and his aspirational model of citizenship. The first is to ask what ethical sources do citizens need to oppose the presence of Nazis in our public sphere. The second is to question White’s deep suspicion of foundationalism and theism as sources of an open and democratic bearing and indeed as sources from which we can build strong opposition to Nazis.

Committed critical theory

In this article, I comment on Stephen White’s version of critical theory as presented in A Democratic Bearing. I specifically focus on his version of the “colonization thesis” and the social analysis this leads to. I also scrutinize his normative framework, especially the claim of non-foundationalism and the difference between his view and Kantian discourse theory.

Peter Jupp, Douglas Davies, Hilary Grainger, Gordon Raeburn and Stephen White, Cremation in Modern Scotland: History, Architecture and the Law

Peter Jupp, Douglas Davies, Hilary Grainger, Gordon Raeburn and Stephen White, <i>Cremation in Modern Scotland: History, Architecture and the Law</i>

Giving and Receiving Counsel: Forging Political Culture in Western French and Anglo‐Norman Assemblies

HistoryVolume 102, Issue 353 p. 787-807 Article Giving and Receiving Counsel: Forging Political Culture in Western French and Anglo-Norman Assemblies RICHARD E. BARTON, RICHARD E. BARTON University of North Carolina at GreensboroSearch for more papers by this author RICHARD E. BARTON, RICHARD E. BARTON University of North Carolina at GreensboroSearch for more papers by this author First published: 20 December 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12515Citations: 2 An early version of this essay was presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2010. My thoughts benefited then from the comments of Paul Hyams, Stephen White and William Miller. I also owe much to the vibrant discussion of political culture held during the Manchester Symposium in July 2016, and especially to the editorial expertise of Kathryn Dutton. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume102, Issue353Special Issue: Political Culture c.800-c.1200December 2017Pages 787-807 RelatedInformation

Obituary – Gila Zur

In June 2017 our colleague on the editorial board, Gila Zur, passed away. Gila was appointed to the board several years ago to represent her part of the world and to review papers for the journal as well as publishing articles. The following is from colleagues in Israel and the US. Gila Zur was born in 1958 in Israel. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, and her Masters of Science degree in Animal Sciences at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1989 she graduated from the newly established Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Subsequently she acted as staff clinician at the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, handling clinical dermatology cases and teaching students at all levels. In addition she served on various committees of the school, including the Ethics and Teaching committees. She spent 1998-1999 as a post-doctoral fellow with the dermatology service at the U.C. Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in California. In 2006 she was awarded the Lecturer degree. In 2009 she was board-certified as a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Dermatology (DipECVD). During her prolific career which tragically ended prematurely due to cancer, she completed a number of workshops and participated in several congresses focused on veterinary dermatology. She published more than 20 articles in peer reviewed journals, including Veterinary Dermatology. Her dedication is best characterized by the letter her student wrote to her family following her passing away: Her teaching was characterized by efforts to convey the most up to date material in the clearest way. We hope that we have absorbed at least some of her wide knowledge and her attitude towards animals. She will be remembered as one of the cornerstones of veterinary medicine in Israel. She passed away in June 2017 after a long period of sickness which she bore with exemplary courage. She left behind a husband, four children and many grieving colleagues and students. She is sorely missed. Daniel Elad, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gila studied at UC Davis, USA with Stephen White and colleagues and they wrote: Gila spent a year with us at UC Davis, 1998-1999. We recall her as a genuine individual with a keen intellect and a kind heart. She was always quick with a warm supportive hug when you saw her at a meeting and we also recall her as a devoted mother and wife. We thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with Gila on several publications, and we all admired her perseverance in her successful pursuit of ECVD board certification. She will be missed. Stephen D. White, Catherine A. Outerbridge, Candace A. Sousa On behalf of the editorial board we offer our sympathy and condolences to Gila's family.

White innocence in the Black Mediterranean: hospitality and the erasure of history

Themes of loss, grief, and vulnerability have come to occupy an increasingly central position in contemporary poststructuralist and feminist theory. Thinkers such as Judith Butler and Stephen White have argued that grief has the capacity to access or stage a commonality that eludes politics and on which a new cosmopolitan ethics can be built. Focusing on the role of grief in recent pro-refugee activism in Europe, this article argues that these ethical perspectives contribute to an ideological formation that disconnects connected histories and that turns questions of responsibility, guilt, restitution, repentance, and structural reform into matters of empathy, generosity, and hospitality. The result is a veil of ignorance which, while not precisely Rawlsian, allows the European subject to re-constitute itself as ‘ethical’ and ‘good’, innocent of its imperialist histories and present complicities.

Is Charles Taylor (Still) a Weak Ontologist?

In this paper, I critically discuss Charles Taylor’s employment of the concept of ontology by shining a spotlight on a shift in emphasis from an anthropocentric to a non-anthropocentric viewpoint in his more recent writings on ontology. I also argue that Stephen White’s characterization of Taylor’s ‘weak’ ontology, while revealing, only partly explains Taylor’s position, as White’s interpretation leaves no room for the metaphysical thrust in Taylor’s thought. Drawing attention to a Taylor left out of White’s Taylor, I ultimately seek to show why Taylor’s distinctive mode of argumentation is not consonant with White’s weak-ontological approach.

Book Review: Stephen White and Valentina Feklyunina, Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: The Other Europes

Book Review: Stephen White and Valentina Feklyunina, <i>Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: The Other Europes</i>

Identities and foreign policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: the other Europes. By Stephen White and Valentina Feklyunina

Identities and foreign policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: the other Europes. By Stephen White and Valentina Feklyunina

Developments in Russian Politics 8. Eds. Stephen White, Richard Sakwa, and Henry E. Hale. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. xx, 300 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. Maps. $94.95, Hard bound. - Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia. By Samuel A. Greene. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. xii, 276 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Figures. Tables. Index. $29.95, paper.

Developments in Russian Politics 8. Eds. Stephen White, Richard Sakwa, and Henry E. Hale. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. xx, 300 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. Maps. $94.95, Hard bound. - Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia. By Samuel A. Greene. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. xii, 276 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Figures. Tables. Index. $29.95, paper. - No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders. By Ellen Mickiewicz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 255 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Index. $29.95, hard bound. - Volume 75 Issue 2

Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: The Other Europes. By Stephen White and Valentina Feklyunina. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. x, 368 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Tables. $105.00, hard bound.

Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: The Other Europes. By Stephen White and Valentina Feklyunina. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. x, 368 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Tables. $105.00, hard bound. - Volume 75 Issue 2

A critical theory of politics

In this article, I address the various objections raised by Simone Chambers, Stephen White and Lea Ypi concerning my version of a critical theory of politics. I explain the basic assumptions that inform my account of a critique of relations of justification, its particular method and aims.

Tiered Approach: from Plan Into Practice

Tiered Approach: from Plan Into Practice

Editors, reviewers and the work of the editorial board

Editors, reviewers and the work of the editorial board

The knowledge of suffering: On Judith Shklar’s ‘Putting Cruelty First’

Judith Shklar’s dictum, ‘the worst evil of cruelty’, is well known. What this means for her political theory and how such theory is construed are rarely explored. This article maintains that Shklar’s turn towards cruelty/suffering has a specific role in the development of her political argument. It allows her both to curb her long-standing skepticism, and to use it creatively. This is because suffering must be examined from the perspectives of history and philosophy, which produce two sets of knowledge, each limiting the overbearing tendencies of the other. The way Shklar uses the tension between history and philosophy for progressive purposes, and her idea that politics can mediate between history and philosophy, makes her a very contemporary theorist, similar to those who critically engage foundationalism without wanting to dispose of it completely. Approaching Shklar’s ‘Putting Cruelty First’ through her engagement with history and philosophy, and making use of the concepts of ‘realism’ (Bernard Williams) and ‘weak ontology’ (Stephen White) to do so are a more productive route to understanding her dictum than the usual one of examining it through the prism of her ‘liberalism of fear’.