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15Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life–Robert B. PippinPhilosophical Quarterly 61 (242): 192-196. 2011.No abstract available
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60Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal StatePhilosophical Quarterly 43 (173): 566. 1993.
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46Parents' consent to the post-mortem removal and retention of organsJournal of Applied Philosophy 18 (3). 2001.Parents of children who died following complex heart surgery have recently discovered that organs were removed and retained in post-m
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50Gratitude and good governmentRes Publica 8 (1): 1-20. 2002.I attempt to show that it is notphilosophically incompetent to ground politicalobligation in feelings of gratitude. But theargument needs to be stated carefully.Gratitude must be distinguished fromreciprocity. It applies only to good governmentwhich provides benefits to citizens for whichthey ought to feel grateful. It applies only tocitizens who accept that their feelings ofgratitude are properly demonstrated by anacceptance on their part of the duties ofcitizenship. It does not apply to citize…Read more
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32Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present (review)Contemporary Political Theory 4 (1): 87-90. 2005.
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55Political Obligation: A Critical IntroductionRoutledge. 2009.Political obligation is concerned with the clash between the individual's claim to self-governance and the right of the state to claim obedience.
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26Hegel on the Justification of PunishmentProceedings of the Hegel Society of America 15 125-145. 2001.
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34Good Samaritans and Good GovernmentProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 112 (2pt2): 161-178. 2012.In this paper I review and provide a qualified defence of Samaritanism—Christopher Heath Wellman's novel approach to the old-fashioned problem of political obligation. I outline Wellman's theory, clarifying the details, and defend an amended version against a variety of objections concerning, successively, an alleged conflation of duties of care and beneficence, a difficulty concerning the distinction of perfect and imperfect duties, a problem deriving from the 'particularity requirement', and r…Read more
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4Reality and Reason, Dialectic and the Theory of KnowledgePhilosophical Books 27 (3): 167-170. 1986.
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Jeremy Waldron, "The Right to Private Property" (review)Philosophical Quarterly 40 (58): 116. 1990.
Dudley Knowles
(1947 - 2014)
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |