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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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16Rawls, 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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3Nondomination 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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10Collective 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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