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Record W4409203615 · doi:10.1080/13698230.2025.2489243

Reflections on political theory: a response to my interlocutors

2025· article· en· W4409203615 on OpenAlex
Joseph H. Carens

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Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical theory and Gramsci
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsEpistemologySociologyPolitical scienceLaw and economicsLawPhilosophy

Abstract

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In this essay, Joseph Carens responds to the other articles, primarily by exploring methodological issues. In particular, he argues that what appear to be disagreements between the other authors and him are often really differences in the questions they are asking and in the presuppositions they are adopting. He contends that this is especially clear with regard to the pieces by Tom Malleson and Jim Johnson, both of which address questions about egalitarian political economy and the uses of markets. He endorses Arash Abizadeh’s defence of an open borders view, simply noting a difference in their theoretical approaches. He unpacks Sarah Song’s objection to the analogy he drew between feudal privilege and the advantages enjoyed by people in rich states today, showing why it is unclear whether he and she really disagree. He argues that Rainer Bauböck’s action-guiding approach to political theory is an alternative to his own approach that has its own disadvantages and limitations. He agrees with Courtney Jung’s argument that the foreseeable effects of climate change on mobility do not undermine his open borders argument. He concludes by expressing deep appreciation for the ways in which the article by Simone Chambers and the one by Kiran Banerjee and Abe Singer bring into view the complexities and challenges entailed by the practice of political theory.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.026
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.924
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.026
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.085
GPT teacher head0.484
Teacher spread0.400 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it