-
29Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (review)Education and Culture 28 (1): 87-90. 2012.
-
40Sen’s The Idea of Justice: Back to the (Pragmatic) FutureContemporary Pragmatism 7 (2): 219-229. 2010.Sen argues that Rawls’ political theory suffers from the flaw of “institutional fundamentalism.” In response, he develops an alternate theory of justice that does not rely upon contractarian premises. I argue that Sen’s theory largely maps on to the insights of classic pragmatist thought. Further, the pragmatic tradition can help critique and supplement Sen’s project.
-
Emilios Christodoulidis and Scott Veitch, Lethe's Law: Justice, Law and Ethics in Reconciliation Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (4): 263-265. 2002.
-
34All Rights Are AffirmativeRadical Philosophy Review 4 (1-2): 95-101. 2001.Popular images of rights almost always emphasize their protective qualities. But who is really protected? In this paper it is argued that contemporary rights talk, because of faulty underlying assumptions, systematically favors prejudice and big property interests. Further, once the mistaken assumptions are surrendered, and it is realized that all rights are affirmative, a less systematically misleading debate can be created within the realm of rights discourse.
-
Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach: Political Criticism and the Burden of ProofInternational Journal of Politics and Ethics 1 (1): 71-86. 2001.
-
16Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations: Essays for a Bold New WorldLexington Books. 2013.Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations bridges the gap between philosophical pragmatism and international relations, two disciplinary perspectives that together shed light on how to advance the study and conduct of foreign affairs. Authors in this collection discuss a broad range of issues, from policy relevance to peacekeeping operations, with an eye to understanding how this distinctly American philosophy, pragmatism, can improve both international relations research and foreign …Read more
-
21Law as a Democratic Means: Deweyan Jurisprudence and Democratic ExperimentalismContemporary Pragmatism 9 (2): 241-254. 2012.
-
112Democracy and Law: Situating Law within John Dewey's Democratic VisionEtica & Politica 12 (1): 256-280. 2010.In this paper I argue that John Dewey developed a philosophy of law that follows directly from his conception of democracy. Indeed, under Dewey’s theory an understanding of law can only follow from an accurate understanding of the social and political context within which it functions. This has important implications for the form law takes within democ- ratic society. The paper will explore these implications through a comparison of Dewey’s claims with those of Richard Posner and Ronald Dworkin;…Read more
-
67There are Peoples and There are Peoples: A Critique of Rawls' Law of PeoplesFlorida Philosophical Review 1 (2): 1-24. 2001.In this paper, I aim to show that the arguments offered and conclusions at which Rawls aims in his book, The Law of Peoples, are telling as to the intellectual legitimacy of his larger theoretical project. To show this I first investigate how (1) non-liberal peoples fit within the limitations Rawls describes in The Law of Peoples and (2) how liberal peoples would react to such rules. I argue from the answers to these questions to the further conclusion that by spreading the principles and tools …Read more
-
46Law, Pragmatism and Constitutional Interpretation: From Information Exclusion to Information ProductionPragmatism Today 3 (1): 39-57. 2012.Through an analysis of the US Supreme Court's case Heller this paper argues that legal process can be pragmatically reconceptualized so as to create information necessary to decide complex social issues. This is in contrast to other more standard conceptions of law as more emphasizing what information ought to be excluded.
-
13Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland _Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis_ Arnold: London 2002 ISBN 0 340 76206 3 (PB) x + 309 pp
-
28From Social Contract Theory to Sociable Contract TheoryContemporary Pragmatism 11 (2): 1-17. 2014.
-
59Blackness is Noir: Flory's Philosophical Investigation of the Black Noir Genre in Film (review)Film-Philosophy 14 (1): 332-336. 2010.
-
1Posner's Problem with Moral PhilosophyThe University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 7 325-343. 2000.
-
Where Is the Civil in the Invisible Man's Disobedience?In Harold Bloom Blake Hobby (ed.), Bloom's Literary Themes: Civil Disobedience, . 2010.
-
67Rorty, the first amendment and antirealism: Is reliance upon truth viewpoint-based speech regulation?Journal of Moral Philosophy 1 (1): 69-88. 2004.In this article I investigate the implications of antirealism, as characterized by Richard Rorty, for First Amendment jurisprudence under the United States Constitution. It is hoped that the implications, while played out in the context of a specific tradition, will have more universal application. In Section 1, Rortys pragmatic antirealism is briefly outlined. In Section 2, some effects of the elimination of the concept of truth for First Amendment jurisprudence are investigated. Section 3 a…Read more
Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America