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99Douglas Joel Butler 1957-1991Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 65 (5). 1992.APA Memorial Minutes.
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35Explanation 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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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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27Making 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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55Kant 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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246. 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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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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281Force 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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1811. 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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37What 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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62Critical 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
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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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192. The Innate Right of HumanityIn Force and freedom: Kant's legal and political philosophy, Harvard University Press. pp. 30-56. 2009.
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1032Authority and CoercionPhilosophy and Public Affairs 32 (1): 2-35. 2004.I am grateful to Donald Ainslie, Lisa Austin, Michael Blake, Abraham Drassinower, David Dyzenhaus, George Fletcher, Robert Gibbs, Louis-Philippe Hodgson, Sari Kisilevsky, Dennis Klimchuk, Christopher Morris, Scott Shapiro, Horacio Spector, Sergio Tenenbaum, Malcolm Thorburn, Ernest Weinrib, Karen Weisman, and the Editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs for comments, and audiences in the UCLA Philosophy Department and Columbia Law School for their questions.
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39Liberal Justification and the Limits of NeutralityAnalyse & Kritik 14 (1): 3-17. 1992.This paper examines a style of political justification prominent in contemporary liberalism, according to which policies are legitimate only if they can be shown to be acceptable to all. Although this approach is often associated with neutrality about the good life, it is argued that liberalism cannot be neutral about questions of the role of various goods, such as work, play and community. The paper closes by exploring the implications and applicability of this account of justification to conte…Read more
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4John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, Responsibility and Control: a Theory of Moral Responsibility Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (6): 416-418. 1998.
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1Rationality and AlienationCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 15 (n/a): 449. 1989.
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428. Public Right II: Roads to FreedomIn Force and freedom: Kant's legal and political philosophy, Harvard University Press. pp. 232-266. 2009.
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15PrefaceIn Force and freedom: Kant's legal and political philosophy, Harvard University Press. 2009.
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35Strictly Speaking—It Went Without SayingLegal Theory 2 (1): 63-81. 1996.Herbert Simon once observed that watching an ant make its way across the uneven surface of a beach, one can easily be impressed—too impressed—with the foresight and complexity of the ant's internal map of the beach. Simon went on to point out that such an attribution of complexity to the ant makes a serious mistake. Most of the complexity is not in the ant but in the beach. The ant is just complex enough to use the features of the beach to find its way.
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34Law and disagreementPhilosophical Review 110 (4): 611-614. 2001.Author Jeremy Waldron has thoroughly revised thirteen of his most recent essays in order to offer a comprehensive critique of the idea of the judicial review of legislation. He argues that a belief in rights is not the same as a commitment to a Bill of Rights. This book presents legislation by a representative assembly as a form of law making which is especially apt for a society whose members disagree with one another about fundamental issues of principle