MLA Commons | Titus Stahl | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/titusstahl/activity/ Activity feed for Titus Stahl. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:25:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 058e2abcfeac6f645a7b56c681f427ff Titus Stahl's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1934685/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:31:38 -0500 0 873cf8fb5e6d679ce7ce8af487c998c0 Titus Stahl deposited Oppressive Forms of Life in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887449/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:58 -0400 Rahel Jaeggi argues that forms of life ought to be the main reference point for a critical theory of society because the internal normative structure of life forms allows for immanent critique. In this article, I extend her model by systematically considering the possibility of oppressive forms of life. Oppressive forms of life are clusters of…[Read more]

]]> 0 9edb3033c06b883016857a2f3c7eccf6 Titus Stahl deposited Social Norms and Obligation: Rescuing the Joint Commitment Account in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887448/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:47 -0400 In Morality and Socially Constructed Norms, Laura Valentini argues that moral obligations to respect social norms can be explained without invoking the concept of ‘joint commitment.’ Her resulting account is, in one important sense, individualistic, and therefore struggles to account for widely held intuitions about the normative significance of…[Read more]

]]> 0 873134b93ed15d09c9fc5085512ef70a Titus Stahl deposited Oppressive Forms of Life https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887392/ Tue, 28 May 2024 14:33:36 -0400 Rahel Jaeggi argues that forms of life ought to be the main reference point for a critical theory of society because the internal normative structure of life forms allows for immanent critique. In this article, I extend her model by systematically considering the possibility of oppressive forms of life. Oppressive forms of life are clusters of…[Read more]

]]> 0 66e4d517a62cc839bc9459c41d43c6d2 Titus Stahl deposited Social Norms and Obligation: Rescuing the Joint Commitment Account https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887391/ Tue, 28 May 2024 14:29:35 -0400 In Morality and Socially Constructed Norms, Laura Valentini argues that moral obligations to respect social norms can be explained without invoking the concept of ‘joint commitment.’ Her resulting account is, in one important sense, individualistic, and therefore struggles to account for widely held intuitions about the normative significance of…[Read more]

]]> 0 26f47c9d61b50954023ed32a747cd50a Titus Stahl deposited Data Autonomy and Academic Freedom https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876533/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:14:25 -0500 The increasing dependence of universities on Big Tech platforms not only raises issues of privacy and cost. It also affects academic freedom. This value requires academic communities to remain in control of the shape of their own communicative infrastructure. If they are committed to academic freedom, universities cannot cede this control to Big Tech.

]]> 0 a4ece0f4dc3801a9eb12c9fa8be4486f Titus Stahl deposited Social Structure and Epistemic Privilege. Reconstructing Lukács’s Standpoint Theory in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868772/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 03:00:39 -0500 Lukács is widely recognized as being the first critical theorist to have explicitly developed the idea of a “standpoint theory”. According to such a theory, members of oppressed groups enjoy an epistemic privilege regarding the nature of their oppression. However, there is no agreement regarding what precise argument Lukács offers for his claim…[Read more]

]]> 0 70e91bfc0c0bc2ecc93132924a77253d Titus Stahl's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868691/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 14:13:19 -0500 0 cb9c3aa8fdd0de7900e6fe6ace4b2779 Titus Stahl deposited Social Structure and Epistemic Privilege. Reconstructing Lukács’s Standpoint Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868689/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 14:11:35 -0500 Lukács is widely recognized as being the first critical theorist to have explicitly developed the idea of a “standpoint theory”. According to such a theory, members of oppressed groups enjoy an epistemic privilege regarding the nature of their oppression. However, there is no agreement regarding what precise argument Lukács offers for his claim…[Read more]

]]> 0 c37f5b9f8f8958f918b95287858da6ff Titus Stahl's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860344/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:43:17 -0400 0 9116303a006272b418cd170cc955ac66 Titus Stahl deposited Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimension in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852465/ Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:23:45 -0400 “Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a conception of what our most important political values require by reference to an imagined ideal state of affairs and that we must therefore, to some extent, engage in utopian thinking. Critical theorists, from Marx and the Frankfurt School, have tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 05d62e8f238723c5737240e091dc81b1 Titus Stahl deposited Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimension in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852464/ Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:23:39 -0400 “Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a conception of what our most important political values require by reference to an imagined ideal state of affairs and that we must therefore, to some extent, engage in utopian thinking. Critical theorists, from Marx and the Frankfurt School, have tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8df079b9c95f52ca7f183668163486a Titus Stahl deposited Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimension https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852387/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 06:34:22 -0400 “Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a conception of what our most important political values require by reference to an imagined ideal state of affairs and that we must therefore, to some extent, engage in utopian thinking. Critical theorists, from Marx and the Frankfurt School, have tra…[Read more]

]]> 0 940dd597e894946c927c87ffd8c7ef5d Titus Stahl's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824403/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:38:17 -0500 0 adfb62c72f767dd30b5ed16a9201f5c3 Titus Stahl's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823547/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 19:42:10 -0500 0 f6ede0c5a8b663acb5d5f3222d710d72 Titus Stahl's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821176/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 07:46:56 -0500 0 b4f0a21a90a6626085a4ded35f1c881b Titus Stahl replied to the topic Linking to social media on profile in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests https://hcommons.org/groups/feedback-and-feature-requests-1178560936/forum/topic/linking-to-social-media-on-profile/#post-62832 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:50:09 -0500 I would like to add Mastodon to that list (especially as there is now a humcommons server). If the link would include the rel=”me” attribute, it would even show up as verified on Mastodon (see https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/). Thanks!

]]> 0 6e47438592784aff38ce5b78d3b0dfe2 Titus Stahl deposited What (if anything) is ideological about ideal theory? in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785273/ Thu, 30 Jun 2022 02:23:38 -0400 It is sometimes argued that ideal theories in political philosophy are a form of ideology. This article examines arguments building on the work of Charles Mills and Raymond Geuss for the claim that ideal theories are cognitively distorting belief systems that have the effect of stabilizing unjust social arrangements. I argue that Mills and Geuss…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bc92ec57f216c84137cce9954fea705 Titus Stahl deposited What (if anything) is ideological about ideal theory? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785197/ Wed, 29 Jun 2022 07:03:03 -0400 It is sometimes argued that ideal theories in political philosophy are a form of ideology. This article examines arguments building on the work of Charles Mills and Raymond Geuss for the claim that ideal theories are cognitively distorting belief systems that have the effect of stabilizing unjust social arrangements. I argue that Mills and Geuss…[Read more]

]]> 0 e31d10e8cefb687be57c482ba3f5457d Titus Stahl deposited Privacy in Public: A Democratic Defense https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682899/ Sat, 04 Apr 2020 08:24:40 -0400 Traditional arguments for privacy in public suggest that intentionally public activities, such as political speech, do not deserve privacy protection. In this article, I develop a new argument for the view that surveillance of intentionally public activities should be limited to protect the specific good that this context provides, namely…[Read more]

]]> 0 33767e7e092e24851112185380c64d03 Titus Stahl deposited Privatheitsrechte und politische Öffentlichkeit https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1667331/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:54:24 -0400 Der Zusammenhang zwischen dem Recht auf Privatheit und dem Recht auf demokratische Selbstbestimmung wird oft so verstanden, dass Privatheitsrechte lediglich instrumentellen Wert für demokratische Partizipation haben und alleine in der Möglichkeit bestehen, sich von der Teilnahme an der Öffentlichkeit zurückzuziehen. Ich stelle in meinem Bei…[Read more]

]]> 0 a16d1e23beb439e859f943c25b85461a Titus Stahl's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633657/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:58:06 -0500 0 e94e963bbc55cde42d1f541481068500 Titus Stahl deposited Fundamental Hope and Practical Identity in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593168/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 05:46:28 -0500 This article considers the question ‘What makes hope rational?’ We take Adrienne
Martin’s recent incorporation analysis of hope as representative of a tradition that views the
rationality of hope as a matter of instrumental reasons. Against this tradition, we argue that
an important subset of hope, ‘fundamental hope’, is not governed by instru…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0a63ade42aa996569c8c200c2073095 Titus Stahl deposited Fundamental Hope and Practical Identity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593021/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:48:48 -0500 This article considers the question ‘What makes hope rational?’ We take Adrienne
Martin’s recent incorporation analysis of hope as representative of a tradition that views the
rationality of hope as a matter of instrumental reasons. Against this tradition, we argue that
an important subset of hope, ‘fundamental hope’, is not governed by instru…[Read more]

]]> 0 06545c69f7bd9258b829b6d6ddefac8f Titus Stahl deposited Collective Responsibility for Oppression in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577457/ Fri, 04 Aug 2017 01:00:10 -0400 Many contemporary forms of oppression are not primarily the result of formally organized collective action nor are they an unintended outcome of a combination of individual actions. This raises the question of collective responsibility. I argue that we can only determine who is responsible for oppression if we understand oppression as a matter of…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6f0e680b978214e060b5ddc2baf85be Titus Stahl deposited Collective Responsibility for Oppression https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577318/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:38:42 -0400 Many contemporary forms of oppression are not primarily the result of formally organized collective action nor are they an unintended outcome of a combination of individual actions. This raises the question of collective responsibility. I argue that we can only determine who is responsible for oppression if we understand oppression as a matter of…[Read more]

]]> 0 a466245e76551dd0392d7bd9862bcb81 Titus Stahl deposited Hope (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1564174/ Thu, 09 Mar 2017 18:53:14 -0500 Discussions of hope can be found throughout the history of philosophy and across all Western philosophical traditions, even though philosophy has traditionally not paid the same attention to hope as it has to attitudes like belief and desire. However, even though hope has historically only rarely been discussed systematically—with important e…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab92f591fbb2a851be4743104aa82d69 Titus Stahl deposited Hope (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1564160/ Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:22:12 -0500 Discussions of hope can be found throughout the history of philosophy and across all Western philosophical traditions, even though philosophy has traditionally not paid the same attention to hope as it has to attitudes like belief and desire. However, even though hope has historically only rarely been discussed systematically—with important e…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc6c87d6321ae9febfbb2d0e692a370e Titus Stahl deposited Jenseits der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit: Anerkennung und sozialer Fortschritt in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1563340/ Mon, 27 Feb 2017 01:00:01 -0500 Eine gerechte Verteilung von Gütern reicht nicht aus, um eine Gesellschaft gerecht zu machen. Gerechtigkeitstheorien müssen auch die sozialen Beziehungen in den Blick nehmen: Wirkliche soziale Gerechtigkeit herrscht erst, wenn es Institutionen gibt, die uns die Chance einräumen, soziale Anerkennung zu erfahren.

]]> 0 9b8b62c282750273a2eb934e43941cd1 Titus Stahl deposited Jenseits der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit: Anerkennung und sozialer Fortschritt in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1563339/ Mon, 27 Feb 2017 01:00:00 -0500 Eine gerechte Verteilung von Gütern reicht nicht aus, um eine Gesellschaft gerecht zu machen. Gerechtigkeitstheorien müssen auch die sozialen Beziehungen in den Blick nehmen: Wirkliche soziale Gerechtigkeit herrscht erst, wenn es Institutionen gibt, die uns die Chance einräumen, soziale Anerkennung zu erfahren.

]]> 0 9f0059e19cfc5bddacee5a41998262b7 Titus Stahl deposited Jenseits der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit: Anerkennung und sozialer Fortschritt https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1563296/ Sun, 26 Feb 2017 10:40:31 -0500 Eine gerechte Verteilung von Gütern reicht nicht aus, um eine Gesellschaft gerecht zu machen. Gerechtigkeitstheorien müssen auch die sozialen Beziehungen in den Blick nehmen: Wirkliche soziale Gerechtigkeit herrscht erst, wenn es Institutionen gibt, die uns die Chance einräumen, soziale Anerkennung zu erfahren.

]]> 0 9f96e1e74ad046630cd453021bed60f2 Titus Stahl replied to the topic Sort publication list in profile according to categories in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests https://hcommons.org/groups/feedback-and-feature-requests-1178560936/forum/topic/sort-publication-list-in-profile-according-to-categories/#post-2467 Sun, 26 Feb 2017 10:31:08 -0500 This is awesome – thank you so much!

]]> 0 8611a2d565225c9f75ac204807541677 Titus Stahl replied to the topic Sort publication list in profile according to categories in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests https://hcommons.org/groups/feedback-and-feature-requests-1178560936/forum/topic/sort-publication-list-in-profile-according-to-categories/#post-2411 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:15:30 -0500 That’s also a good suggestion. In any case, this is what keeps me at this moment from uploading more documents to my profile. I have a lot of syllabi that I’d like to share, but if they’re mixed in between publications, I am afraid that this will just confuse visitors to my profile.

]]> 0 87f4069357dc58d01928e51b62ba7b74 Titus Stahl deposited Criticizing Social Reality from Within: Haslanger on Race, Gender, and Ideology in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554502/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:12:21 -0500 A critical discussion of the account of social externalism and ideology critique in Sally Haslanger’s “Resisting Reality.”

]]> 0 2cfeac555f498abf40f457999cbacadd Titus Stahl deposited Welt der Werte - Die Auflösung des Dualismus von Wert und Natur in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554501/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:12:21 -0500 A chapter giving an overview over the theory of value in the work of John McDowell and issues related to it.

]]> 0 283b0a97848bf64f025411daf76aef4a Titus Stahl deposited Criticizing Social Reality from Within: Haslanger on Race, Gender, and Ideology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554447/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 12:49:54 -0500 A critical discussion of the account of social externalism and ideology critique in Sally Haslanger’s “Resisting Reality.”

]]> 0 519c260b71105d02ab80cc6dd7ff11e2 Titus Stahl deposited Welt der Werte - Die Auflösung des Dualismus von Wert und Natur https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554445/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 12:39:09 -0500 A chapter giving an overview over the theory of value in the work of John McDowell and issues related to it.

]]> 0 8f0253356cfbf9333d48e08726fd8a27 Titus Stahl deposited Soziale Gerechtigkeit und institutionelle Macht in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554410/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:00:02 -0500 This paper argues that liberal theories of justice cannot satisfactorily deal with institutional power. They set out to compare different institutional structures based on criteria which presume an institution-independent ontology of rights and goods. But as soon as it is acknowledged that many properties of goods and rights which are normatively…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb0a9ed711a57e9d699d36e99ec5d617 Titus Stahl deposited Syllabus: Power, Oppression and Justice (2016) in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554409/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:00:02 -0500 This is a syllabus for my MA course “Power, Oppression and Justice”, taught at the University of Groningen in 2016.

]]> 0 45261920e20e1f0a69b7334a2b6d7cfe Titus Stahl deposited What is Immanent Critique? in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554408/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:00:02 -0500 This working paper examines the notion of “immanent critique”, a central methodological commitment of critical theories of society. In the first part, I distinguish immanent critique – a critique which reconstructs norms immanent in a social practice which point beyond the normative self-understanding of its members – from both external and…[Read more]

]]> 0 45261920e20e1f0a69b7334a2b6d7cfe Titus Stahl deposited What is Immanent Critique? in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554407/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:00:02 -0500 This working paper examines the notion of “immanent critique”, a central methodological commitment of critical theories of society. In the first part, I distinguish immanent critique – a critique which reconstructs norms immanent in a social practice which point beyond the normative self-understanding of its members – from both external and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ea0a4bbc0bf0997bbc71b8ee8da0c6f Titus Stahl deposited Verdinglichung als Pathologie zweiter Ordnung in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554406/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:00:02 -0500 Although the critique of reification is a core commitment of critical theories, there is no widely accepted account of its normative foundation. In Lukács’s original analysis, this foundation is provided by a strong concept of practice which is, however, not acceptable from a contemporary point of view. I argue that the systematic character of re…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ea0a4bbc0bf0997bbc71b8ee8da0c6f Titus Stahl deposited Verdinglichung als Pathologie zweiter Ordnung in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554405/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:00:02 -0500 Although the critique of reification is a core commitment of critical theories, there is no widely accepted account of its normative foundation. In Lukács’s original analysis, this foundation is provided by a strong concept of practice which is, however, not acceptable from a contemporary point of view. I argue that the systematic character of re…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0da1bb4182cd9addbb928a6f458889a Titus Stahl deposited Ideologiekritik in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554233/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 01:00:07 -0500 Artikel „Ideologiekritik“ (erscheint in Quante, Michael; Schweikard, David: Marx-Handbuch. Metzler: 2015, S. 238–252)

]]> 0 6942bc12c5b33508d62a121832d72b26 Titus Stahl deposited Social and Political Philosophy Minor Course 2016 in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554232/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 01:00:07 -0500 This is my syllabus for a minor course – an introduction to social and political philosophy at the University of Groningen.

]]> 0 0282099d65815668b349236f821f7dd1 Titus Stahl deposited Social and Political Philosophy Honours Course 2016 in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554231/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 01:00:07 -0500 This is a syllabus for a social and political philosophy course for Honours students, taught in 2016 at the University of Groningen

]]> 0 c9c4c6eb125133a83a3010afc30b149e Titus Stahl deposited Indiscriminate mass surveillance and the public sphere in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554230/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 01:00:06 -0500 Recent disclosures suggest that many governments apply indiscriminate mass surveillance technologies that allow them to capture and store a massive amount of communications data belonging to citizens and non-citizens alike. This article argues that traditional liberal critiques of government surveillance that center on an individual right to…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc6968de1827e2e4b8353766dc5e9fb7 Titus Stahl deposited Habermas and the Project of Immanent Critique in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554229/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 01:00:06 -0500 According to Jürgen Habermas, his Theory of Communicative Action offers a new account of the normative foundations of critical theory. Habermas’ motivating insight is that neither a transcendental nor a metaphysical solution to the problem of normativity, nor a merely hermeneutic reconstruction of historically given norms, is sufficient to cl…[Read more]

]]> 0 6052c84eed1e04cac829fdaf8f020f8a Titus Stahl deposited Syllabus: Power, Oppression and Justice (2016) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553995/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:38:05 -0500 This is a syllabus for my MA course “Power, Oppression and Justice”, taught at the University of Groningen in 2016.

]]> 0 d3284efee937b2be402e954a376a727c Titus Stahl started the topic Add language field to uploads in CORE in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests https://hcommons.org/groups/feedback-and-feature-requests-1178560936/forum/topic/add-language-field-to-uploads-in-core/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:27:25 -0500 Not all publications are in English. It would be great if CORE recorded the language of the uploaded document as one of the metadata fields.

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