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93Dews, Dworks, and Poses Decide LochnerContemporary Pragmatism 7 (2): 15-44. 2010.Lochner represents a crucial case in American constitutional law. An investigation of the decision highlights important philosophical aspects of the place of law in a democratic society. Analysis of contemporary stances on Lochner, the actual Lochner opinion (including the dissents by Harlan and Holmes) and how judges following the legal philosophies of John Dewey, Ronald Dworkin and Richard Posner (“Dews,” “Dworks,” and “Poses”) would have decided the case shows that Dewey’s theory of law and d…Read more
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Taking Rorty's Liberal Ironist Seriously: A Portrait of the Circumscribed PoetDissertation, The Claremont Graduate University. 1993.Richard Rorty believes that the combination of ironism and poetic impulse when attached to the public/private distinction, creates an opening for a type of liberalism that satisfies both the urge for individuality and the urge for solidarity. Rorty's antirealistic pragmatism leads to a society functioning very much like our own. This Dissertation dredges out some of the very contentious underlying assumptions of what Rorty feels is a philosophy-less vision. The ironic poet is Rorty's paradigm of…Read more
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69Legal Pragmatism: Banal or Beneficial as a Jurisprudential Position?Essays in Philosophy 3 (2): 14. 2002.
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Oren Ben-Dor, Constitutional Limits and the Public Sphere Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (2): 92-94. 2002.
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10Book Review of Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (review)Education and Culture 28 (1): 9. 2012.
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2Constructing a Pragmatic Conception of Human Rights: The Contribution of T.H. GreenReview Journal of Political Philosophy 7 (2): 103-121. 2009.
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213Seeing Ecology and Seeing as Ecology: On Brereton's Hollywood Utopia and the Anderson's Moving Image TheoryFilm-Philosophy 11 (1): 61-69. 2007.Joseph D. Anderson & Barbara Fisher Anderson Moving Image Theory: Ecological ConsiderationsCarbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.ISBN 0 8093 2599 3253pp.Pat Brereton Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American CinemaBristol: Intellect.ISBN 1 84150117 4270pp
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12Law’s Image of Pragmatism — Another Legal Fiction (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 1 (1): 151-157. 2004.
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21Democratic ExperimentalismBrill Rodopi. 2013.This volume focuses on democratic experimentalism, gathering a collection of original and previously unpublished essays focusing upon its major outlines, as well as specific aspects ¿ both promising and troublesome - of this theoretical approach. Together these essays offer conceptions of democracy and democratic governance that emphasize and highlight experimentalist aspects of pragmatic thought, particularly Deweyan pragmatism, and its relationship to instantiation in concrete social and polit…Read more
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19The Necessity of Understanding Thumos, and the Misuse of Emotion in Modern Political Theory, The Review of Communication, VolThe Review of Communication 2 (2). 2002.
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Oren Ben-Dor, Constitutional Limits and the Public Sphere (review)Philosophy in Review 22 92-94. 2002.
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8InvisiBle manIn Harold Bloom Blake Hobby (ed.), Bloom's Literary Themes: Civil Disobedience, . pp. 163. 2010.
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29Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (review)Education and Culture 28 (1): 87-90. 2012.
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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.
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Emilios Christodoulidis and Scott Veitch, Lethe's Law: Justice, Law and Ethics in Reconciliation Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (4): 263-265. 2002.
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28All 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.
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