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1Jean Hampton, Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition (review)Philosophy in Review 8 94-96. 1988.
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18For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism Martha Nussbaum and respondents Boston: Beacon Press, 1996, viii + 154 pp., $15.00 paper (review)Dialogue 37 (4): 851-. 1998.
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207. Public Right I: Giving Laws to OurselvesIn Force and freedom: Kant's legal and political philosophy, Harvard University Press. pp. 182-231. 2009.
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38Explanation and EmpathyReview of Metaphysics 40 (3). 1987.I WISH to defend the claim that imagining what it would be like to be in "someone else's shoes" can serve to explain that person's actions. This commonsense view has considerable plausibility, but requires clarification to be philosophically defensible; discussions of explanation often assume that understanding requires a theory of the thing understood. If understanding requires a theory, then however much imagining what it would be like to be in another person's situation might sooth one's curi…Read more
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28Making the World Safe for LiberalismDialogue 32 (2): 309-. 1993.‘Liberal’ is still a term of abuse in US presidential politics and certain academic circles. But gone for now are the days when liberals were saddled with responsibility for (depending on who was making the accusation) crime, promiscuity or crass concern with material wealth. Instead, competing political visions increasingly do battle for the right to carry the liberal banner.
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256. Three Defects in the State of NatureIn Force and freedom: Kant's legal and political philosophy, Harvard University Press. pp. 145-181. 2009.
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56Kant on law and justiceIn Thomas E. Hill (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 1-29. 2009.
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55In one of the few widely discussed passages in the Doctrine of Right, Kant makes the surprising claim that a shipwrecked sailor who dislodges another from a plank that will support only one of them is "culpable, but not punishable." Many commentators regard this passage as a sort of smoking gun that shows that, in extremis, Kant resorts to the very sort of empirical and consequentialist reasoning that he claims to do without.2 My aim in this paper is to defend his analysis, by showing both that …Read more
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1911. Public Right V: Revolution and the Right of Human Beings as SuchIn Force and freedom: Kant's legal and political philosophy, Harvard University Press. pp. 325-354. 2009.
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289Force and freedom: Kant's legal and political philosophyHarvard University Press. 2009.In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant's thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant's political philosophy. In addition to providing a clear and coherent statement of the most misunderstood of Kant's ideas, Ripstein also shows that Kant's views remain conceptually powerful and morally appealing today.
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143. Private Right I: Acquired RightsIn Force and freedom: Kant's legal and political philosophy, Harvard University Press. pp. 57-85. 2009.
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23What Can Philosophy Teach Us About Multiculturalism? (review)Dialogue 36 (3): 607-614. 1997.Multiculturalism is an increasingly important topic for philosophers, largely because of the practical problems posed by diversity. Traditional political philosophy had little to say about cultural difference, taking the existence of a shared language and culture pretty much for granted. The multicultural societies of the contemporary world make such assumptions untenable. Traditional questions of fairness and sovereignty find hard cases in such policy issues as immigration, education, criminal …Read more
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63Critical noticeCanadian Journal of Philosophy 40 (4): 669-699. 2010.The 2008 meltdown in global capital markets has led to a renewed interest in questions of economic distribution. Many people suggest that the motives, incentive structures, and institutions in place were inadequate and, for the first time in a generation, public debate is animated by arguments about the need for greater equality. G.A. Cohen's new book resonates with many of the themes of these debates; he advocates a more thoroughgoing equality, even more thoroughgoing than that demanded by John…Read more