What role should (non-normative) facts such as people's confined generosity and scarcity of resources play in the normative theorising of political philosophers? The chapters in this book investigate different aspects of this broad question.

Theresa Scavenius, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Planning, University of Aalborg, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, PhD, Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Introduction

Theresa Scavenius and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

1. Fact-sensitive political theory

Theresa Scavenius

2. Towards a democracy-centred ethics

Annabelle Lever

3. Facts, norms, and dignity

Pablo Gilabert

4. Kant and the critique of the ethics-first approach to politics

Christian F. Rostbøll

5. What Mr. Spock told the earthlings: the aims of political philosophy, action-guidingness and fact-dependency

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

6. The role of interpretation of existing practice in normative political argument

Sune Lægaard

7. How practices do not matter

Eva Erman and Niklas Möller