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Conventionalism as an adequate basis for policy-relevant IR the / Chernoff, Fred

Chernoff, Fred	Journal Article
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2009.

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This article considers three factual observations about the history of the study of International Relations and examines how well several different metatheories of IR can account for them. The three facts are, first, that there has been persisting disagreement between supporters of contending theoretical approaches; second, that there have been occasional cases in which opposing scholars have converged on certain conclusions; and third, that the field of IR was intended by its founders to have some bearing on policy and some capacity to help change the world. The article contrasts several well-known philosophical principles on which metatheories have been based. The article concludes that all three challenges can be met by only one such metatheory, which I term `causal conventionalism', based in part on principles developed a century ago by Pierre Duhem.

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Democratic Peace ; International Relations - Case Studies ; Conventionalism ; Duhem ; Metatheory

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Defending immanent critique / Sabia, Dan

Sabia, Dan	Journal Article
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2010.

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This article develops, illustrates, and defends a conception of immanent critique. Immanent critique is construed as a form of hermeneutical practice and second-order political and normative criticism. The common charge that immanent critique is a form of philosophical conventionalism necessarily committed to value relativism and to the rejection of transcultural and cosmopolitan norms is denied. But immanent critique insists that meaningful and potentially efficacious criticism must be connected to relevant criteria and understandings internal to the culture or social order at which the criticism is directed. The complaint that this demand will likely limit political and moral criticism is also denied, and the ability of immanent critique to develop from convention unconventional thinking is defended and demonstrated.

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Human Rights ; Social Change ; Slavery ; Conventionalism ; Hermeneutics ; Immanent Critique ;
Immanent Criticism

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