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Liberal equality : what, where, and whyIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Hent De Vries and Samuel Weber, eds., Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (1): 9-11. 1999.
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171Critical Notice: John Rawls, The Law of PeoplesCanadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (1): 113-132. 2001.This review essay on John Rawls’s The Law of Peoples focuses on two of its more contentious claims. The first is that international economic justice is secured by a principle of assistance and that a principle of distributive justice will in fact have “unacceptable” results. The other is that certain non-liberal societies, or peoples, fall within the limits of international toleration. The essay evaluates and critiques these claims from a liberal cosmopolitan perspective.
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87Why global justice mattersJournal of Global Ethics 10 (2): 128-134. 2014.Why does global justice as a philosophical inquiry matter? We know that the world is plainly unjust in many ways and we know that something ought to be done about this without, it seems, the need of a theory of global justice. Accordingly, philosophical inquiry into global justice comes across to some as an intellectual luxury that seems disconnected from the real world. I want to suggest, however, that philosophical inquiry into global justice is necessary if we want to address the problems of …Read more
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3Rights, harm, and institutionsIn Alison Jaggar (ed.), Thomas Pogge and His Critics, Polity. 2010.
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507Enforcing Cosmopolitan Justice: the problem of interventionIn Roland Pierik & Wouter Werner (eds.), Cosmopolitanism in Context, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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32Nationalism and CosmopolitanismIn Garrett Wallace Brown & David Held (eds.), The Cosmopolitanism Reader, Polity. pp. 176. 2010.
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174Justice Without Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and PatriotismCambridge University Press. 2004.The cosmopolitan idea of justice is commonly accused of not taking seriously the special ties and commitments of nationality and patriotism. This is because the ideal of impartial egalitarianism, which is central to the cosmopolitan view, seems to be directly opposed to the moral partiality inherent to nationalism and patriotism. In this book, Kok-Chor Tan argues that cosmopolitan justice, properly understood, can accommodate and appreciate nationalist and patriotic commitments, setting limits f…Read more
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44Equality and Special ConcernCanadian Journal of Philosophy 40 (S1): 73-98. 2010.IntroductionThe various special concerns and commitments that individuals ordinarily have, for example towards family members, friends, and possibly compatriots, present an interesting challenge for justice. Justice, after all, is said to be blind and imposes demands on persons that ought to be impartial, at least in some respects, to personal ties and relationships. Yet individual special concerns are obviously of moral importance and are deeply valued by participants in these relationships. Th…Read more
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43Toleration, Diversity, and Global JusticePennsylvania State University Press. 2000.The "comprehensive liberalism" defended in this book offers an alternative to the narrower "political liberalism" associated with the writings of John Rawls. By arguing against making tolerance as fundamental a value as individual autonomy, and extending the reach of liberalism to global society, it opens the way for dealing more adequately with problems of human rights and economic inequality in a world of cultural pluralism.
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757The Contours of Toleration: A Relational AccountIn Manuel Knoll, Stephen Snyder & Nurdane Şimşek (eds.), New Perspectives on Distributive Justice: Deep Disagreements, Pluralism, and the Problem of Consensus, De Gruyter. pp. 385-402. 2018.I outline what I call a relational account of toleration. This relational account helps explain the apparent paradox of toleration in that it involves two competing moral stances, of acceptance and disapproval, towards the tolerated. It also helps clarify the way toleration is a normative ideal, and not a position one is forced into out of the practical need to accommodate or accept. Specifically, toleration is recommended out of respect for that which the tolerant agent also disapproves of. Thi…Read more
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5Poverty and global distributive justiceIn Duncan Bell (ed.), Ethics and World Politics, Oxford University Press. pp. 256--73. 2010.
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