Joseph Carens: Between Aliens and Citizens

Matthias Hoesch studied philosophy in Muenster, Salamanca and Groningen. For his PhD thesis on Kant’s philosophy of history, he received a grant by the academic scholarship foundation Cusanuswerk. Since 2013, he is postdoc researcher in the Cluster of Excellence „Religion and Politics“ (Muenster). His research interests include political philosophy in the modern era, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the moral philosophy of Derek Parfit, migration ethics and the justification of territorial rights. In 2016, he won the prize question "Which and how many refugees should we admit?" of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy. Since 2016, he is fellow in the promotion program for junior scholars "The Young ZiF". Nadine Mooren studied Philosophy, English and Classical philology at the University of Cologne. She received her M.A. at the University of Cologne and her Ph.D. at the WWU Muenster. Since 2016, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Philosophy in Muenster. She works mainly in the areas of Practical Philosophy, Ethics and the philosophy of German Idealism as well as Left Hegelianism. She has written a book on Hegel’s conception of philosophy and religion: Hegel und die Religion (2018). Her current research interests include the philosophy of aging and old age.

• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Between Aliens and Citizens. An Outline of Joseph Carens’s Political Philosophy.- Part II: Lecture.- Chapter 2.- Immigration, Philosophy, and Political Realities. Part III: Living together in societies shaped by migration.- Chapter 3. Preserving Culture? On the Moral Foundations of a Contested Political Aim.- Chapter 4. Limits of Tolerance. A Theory of Prohibiting Cultural and Religious Practices illustrated by the Example of Muslim Minorities.- Chapter 5. Voting Rights for Residents? Revisiting Carens’s Citizenship Rights.- Chapter 6. Time, Membership, and Citizenship.- Part IV: Methodological Interjections.- Chapter 7.- Hypotheticals and Real Cases. A Metaphilosophical Investigation of Joseph Carens’s Methodology.- Chapter 8. Changing Theory or Practice? The logical structure of the contextual approach.- Part V. The Ethics of Immigration Admissions.- Chapter 9. Obligatory Admission in the Light of Post-Colonialism.- Chapter 10. Carens’s Cantilever Argument: Global Freedom of Movement, Logical Necessity and the Burden of Proof.- Chapter 11. The Open Borders Claim in a Nonideal World.- Chapter 12. Equality, Moral Incentives, and Open Borders. An Attempt to Connect the Strands of Joseph Carens’s Utopian Thinking.- Part VI: Replies.- Chapter 13. Replies to My Interlocutors.