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21Punishment as Societal DefensePhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (2): 548-550. 1999.
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20The Utilitarianism (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 2001.This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's _Utilitarianism_ includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.
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17Health Care and the 'Deserving Poor'Hastings Center Report 13 (1): 9-12. 1983.The idea that some poor persons "deserve" to be helped while others do not has long been influential in the USA. In the nineteenth century, "paupers" were relegated to poorhouse and subjected to onerous conditions for relief, while the blind, the deaf-mute, and others were helped in much less humiliating ways. A similar distinction underlay the categories of the comprehensive social Security Act of 1935; and its continuation has motivated various attempts to revise the welfare system by redrawin…Read more
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16On event-identityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 52 (1). 1974.This Article does not have an abstract
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14DesertPrinceton University Press. 1987.The description for this book, Desert, will be forthcoming.
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14Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary ReadingsCengage Learning. 1999.[TofC cont.] Social ideals: Justice, A utilitarian theory of justice / J.S. Mill, Egalitarianism with changed motivation / G. Cohen; Equality, Multidimensional equality / M. Walzer, Equality of capacity / A. Sen; Liberty, rights, property, and self-ownership, A defense of the primacy of liberty rights / L. Lomasky, Atomism and the primacy of rights / C. Taylor -- Social institutions: Education, Educating about familial values / W. Galston, For vouchers and parental choice / M. Friedman; Family, …Read more
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10Correction to: How Wild the West? Reply to Coates and SwensonThe Journal of Ethics 27 (2): 149-149. 2023.
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9Me, You, Us: EssaysOup Usa. 2017.Me, You, Us addresses a range of issues in moral and political philosophy and moral psychology, but are unified by their starkly individualistic view of the moral subject. They challenge recent tendencies to conceptualize normative issues in terms of relationships, collectivities, and social meanings.
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9A Wild West of the MindOxford University Press. 2021.This book addresses two main topics—first, the morality of thought and, second, what’s involved in having a free mind. It connects these topics by arguing that to have a free mind, a person must be willing to follow his thoughts wherever they lead, and that this just isn’t possible if the person thinks that some thoughts are morally off limits. The book therefore defends the unpopular position that it is not morally wrong to have even the nastiest of attitudes, the most biased of beliefs, or the…Read more
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7Effort and imaginationIn Serena Olsaretti (ed.), Desert and Justice, Clarendon Press. pp. 205--217. 2003.Serena Olsaretti brings together new essays by leading moral and political philosophers on the nature of desert and justice, their relations with each other and with other values.
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4Approximate Justice: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal PhilosophyRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1997.In this engaging and provocative book, Sher explores the normative moral and social problems that arise from living in a decidedly non-ideal world_a world that contains immorality, evil, and injustice, and in which resources are often inadequate. Sher confronts difficult issues surrounding preferential treatment and equal opportunity, compensatory justice and punishment, the allocation of goods, and moral compromise
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1Equality for InegalitariansCambridge University Press. 2014.This book offers a new and compelling account of distributive justice and its relation to choice. Unlike luck egalitarians, who treat unchosen differences in people's circumstances as sources of unjust inequality to be overcome, Sher views such differences as pervasive and unavoidable features of the human situation. Appealing to an original account of what makes us moral equals, he argues that our interest in successfully negotiating life's ever-shifting contingencies is more basic than our int…Read more
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Why we are moral equalsIn Uwe Steinhoff (ed.), Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth?: On 'Basic Equality' and Equal Respect and Concern, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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