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18Authority and AutonomyAuthority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and ManagementBusiness Ethics Quarterly 8 (2): 359. 1998.
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7Discourse EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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4Organizations and business ethicsIn Alan R. Malachowski (ed.), Business ethics: critical perspectives on business and management, Routledge. pp. 1--4. 2001.
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60Disagreement about FairnessPhilosophical Topics 38 (2): 91-110. 2010.This essay argues that fairness can be understood as appropriate concession in the context of a cooperative endeavor, and then explores why questions of fairness often give rise to disagreement. A constructivist theory of judgments of fairness is proposed according to which they are grounded, ultimately, in a motivational disposition to make and seek concessions in cooperative contexts when others are similarly disposed. It is argued that when judgments of fairness are interpreted in this way, i…Read more
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Review of Robert C. Solomon: Ethics and excellence: cooperation and integrity in business (review)Ethics 104 (4): 911-913. 1994.
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133Rawls, Reciprocity and the Barely ReasonableUtilitas 26 (1): 1-22. 2014.The concept of the reasonable plays an important role in Rawls's political philosophy, but there has been little systematic investigation of this concept or of the way Rawls employs it. This article distinguishes several different forms of reasonableness and uses them to explore Rawls's political liberalism. The discussion focuses on the idea, found especially in the most recent versions of this theory, of a family of liberal conceptions of justice each of which is regarded by everyone in a poli…Read more
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19Nondomination and normativityPacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (3): 319-327. 2007.In an earlier paper, “The Indeterminacy of Republican Policy,” I argued that in an important class of cases, republican political theory, as formulated by Philip Pettit, does not have determinate implications for policy. Pettit has replied that my argument was based on a conception of freedom as nondomination that is not his own. In the present paper, I explore the two ways of understanding republican freedom. I first suggest that they may not, in the end, be very different. I then note that if …Read more
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84Collective Wisdom and Individual FreedomSouthern Journal of Philosophy 44 (S1): 168-176. 2006.The paper distinguishes two ways of understanding a wise society. A society can be wise by virtue of possessing mostly true evaluative beliefs. Or it can be wise by virtue of employing rational procedures of collective belief formation. If the first possibility involves the society’s being, in Margaret Gilbert’s sense, a plural subject of evaluative beliefs, social wisdom will, as Gilbert says, entail an abridgement of individual freedom. But, this paper argues, if a society’s being wise is unde…Read more
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6Reasonableness and Fairness: A Historical TheoryCambridge University Press. 2016.We all know, or think we know, what it means to say that something is 'reasonable' or 'fair', but what exactly are these concepts and how have they evolved and changed over the course of history? In this book, Christopher McMahon explores reasonableness, fairness, and justice as central concepts of the morality of reciprocal concern. He argues that the basis of this morality evolves as history unfolds, so that forms of interaction that might have been morally acceptable in the past are judged un…Read more
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44Justice and Justification: Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and PracticePhilosophical Review 107 (3): 449. 1998.This book is a collection of essays on various problems arising in connection with John Rawls's theory of justice. Its focus is the method of wide reflective equilibrium. The first half of the book begins with Daniels's well-known essay "Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Theory Acceptance in Ethics" and ends with an excellent discussion of the role of reflective equilibrium in Rawls's Political Liberalism. The essays in the second part discuss justice in health care. They are of interest in their …Read more
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18H.E. Mason, ed., Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory:Moral Dilemmas and Moral TheoryEthics 108 (2): 419-421. 1998.
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94Collective rationality and collective reasoningPhilosophical Studies 116 (2): 153-157. 2003.This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. The first part considers how the two main aspects of cooperation - the choice by a group of a particular cooperative scheme and the decision by each member to contribute to that scheme - can be understood as guided by reason. The second part explores how the activity of reasoning itself can take a cooperative form. The book is distinctive in offering an account of what …Read more
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43:Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and PoliticsEthics 109 (3): 648-650. 1999.Ideals of democratic participation and rational self-government have long informed modern political theory. As a recent elaboration of these ideals, the concept of deliberative democracy is based on the principle that legitimate democracy issues from the public deliberation of citizens. This remarkably fruitful concept has spawned investigations along a number of lines. Areas of inquiry include the nature and value of deliberation, the feasibility and desirability of consensus on contentious iss…Read more
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