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15Philosophical 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
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21Law as a Democratic Means: Deweyan Jurisprudence and Democratic ExperimentalismContemporary Pragmatism 9 (2): 241-254. 2012.
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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
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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
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45Law, 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.
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12Thomas 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
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27From Social Contract Theory to Sociable Contract TheoryContemporary Pragmatism 11 (2): 1-17. 2014.
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58Blackness is Noir: Flory's Philosophical Investigation of the Black Noir Genre in Film (review)Film-Philosophy 14 (1): 332-336. 2010.
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1Posner's Problem with Moral PhilosophyThe University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 7 325-343. 2000.
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Where Is the Civil in the Invisible Man's Disobedience?In Harold Bloom Blake Hobby (ed.), Bloom's Literary Themes: Civil Disobedience, . 2010.
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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
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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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68Legal Pragmatism: Banal or Beneficial as a Jurisprudential Position?Essays in Philosophy 3 (2): 14. 2002.
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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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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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