Beyond Pluralism: Foucault's Strategic Counter to Heterosexist Categories

Pluralism in the Ayurvedic System of Medicine*

This paper, tries to establish the pluralism within one particular system of medicine, namely the Ayurvedic system. Herein we find not only a multitude of approaches to medical treatment - originating from it's subtle nosological categories. Rather more, the same subtleness in nosology works effectively into the sector of preservation of health and prevention of diseases. The author would like ...

Don’t practice what you preach

Heterodox economists, most notably Tony Lawson, have come under suspicion of not being true pluralists, but ‘strategic pluralists’ or ‘paradigm warriors’. But should an advocate of pluralism be a pluralist himself? Though this assertion sounds like a truism, I argue against it. More specifically, this paper clarifies the notion of pluralism by introducing an often neglected but crucial distinct...

Foucault's Move beyond the Theoretical

Normative Pluralism in Indonesia: Regions, Religions, and Ethnicities

A number of prominent political theorists recently have tried to expand the reach of their approaches beyond Western liberalism and beyond Western democracies by critically examining notions of justice, multiculturalism, and what Parekh (2000) calls 'moral monism.' In his late writings, John Rawls (Rawls 1999) asked, albeit in a footnote, whether Islamic norms could enter into political debates...

Can a reductionist be a pluralist?

Pluralism is often put forth as a counter-position to reductionism. In this essay, I argue that reductionism and pluralism are in fact consistent. I propose that there are several potential goals for reductions and that the proper form of a reduction should be considered in tandem with the goal that it aims to achieve. This insight provides a basis for clarifying what version(s) of reductionism...