Abstract Alison Gopnik makes a compelling case for care as matter of social responsibility. A politics care, however, must address who has the authority to determine content not just pays it. The most attractive ideological vision combines extensive redistribution with pluralistic recognition many different arrangements through which is provided.

This paper uses a political opportunity approach for studying the relationship of minority groups to the political community in Britain. The argument is made that the British Race Relations approach established in the 1960s, has had an important effect which still shapes the patterns of political mobilisation and contention by different minority groups today. Original data on political claims-m...

In highland Nepal, just as in many other regions of South Asia, multiple indigenous healing traditions and a variety of traditional curing specialists co-exist in a pluralistic cultural environment. It is argued that the interaction of diverse medical traditions is a particular aspect of the more general tendency toward the accretion and super-imposition of cultural traits which has been a comm...

This paper uses a political opportunity approach for studying the relationship of minority groups to the political community in Britain. The argument is made that the British Race Relations approach established in the 1960s, has had an important effect which still shapes the patterns of political mobilisation and contention by different minority groups today. Original data on political claims-m...

Although Habermas’ sophisticated conception of constitutional patriotism successfully avoids the charge of trying to ground patriotism in a set of principles that is too thin and abstract to sustain a real sense of solidarity and belonging, his optimism regarding the prospect in modern pluralist societies of building a genuinely shared political culture is misplaced. The march of modernisation ...

According to ontological pluralism, there are different modes of being — different ways to exist. The view has been thought dead for a long time, destroyed by the Quinean doctrine that to be is to be needed as the value of a variable bound by an existential quantifier. Announcements of its death were premature. Ontological pluralism is consistent with the Quinean doctrine if there are multiple ...

Buddhism currently enjoys the reputation of being one of the leading voices in a chorus that sings the praises of religious tolerance and perhaps even of pluralism. It is open to question, however, whether this reputation is deserved. The purpose of the present article is to examine whether the teachings of classical Buddhism have a contribution to make to the jubilation over religious pluralis...