Norms—that is, specifications of what we ought to do—play a critical role in the study of informal argumentation, as they do in studies of judgment, decisionmaking and reasoning more generally.

Stephen Darwall and R. Jay Wallace have independently argued that morality is essentially interpersonal by appealing to necessary connections between morality and responsibility. According to Darwall, ...

Stephen Sachs has a new article on SSRN, Originalism as a Theory of Legal Change: Originalism is usually defended as a theory of interpretation. This Article presents a different view. Originalism ...

Political theory and political philosophy are disciplines that interrogate the fundamental principles underlying political life, ranging from the nature and legitimacy of power to the evaluation of ...