Graduate Student, Philosophy
Thesis Title: Toward a Radical Republican Conception of Power
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Joseph Heath
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My dissertation focuses on the concept of 'Power'. I'm primarily concerned there with two issues: (1) When a power relation exists between agents (or when one agent has power with respect to another), and (2) what makes a power relation between agents relatively acceptable or unacceptable. I argue for a relatively 'radical' answer to the first question: The scope of one agent's power with respect to another agent is not restricted by, for example, what the first agent intends or forsees or by what the first agent is directly responsible for. My argument for these (and other) positions depends on a novel conception of the ontological basis of power relations. I argue for a relatively 'republican' answer to the second question, one that begins with and expands upon the republican ideal of 'Nondomination', or freedom from arbitrary power.
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