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Ethics without transcendenceIn Fran O'Rourke & Patrick Masterson (eds.), Ciphers of transcendence: essays in philosophy of religion in honour of Patrick Masterson, Irish Academic Press. 2019.
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The general will, the common good, and a democracy of standardsIn Yiftah Elazar & Geneviève Rousselière (eds.), Republicanism and the Future of Democracy, Cambridge University Press. 2019.
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21My Three SelvesPhilosophy 95 (3): 363-389. 2020.Having a self means being able think of myself under a certain profile that that is me: that is who I am, that is how I am. But if I raise the question as to who or how I am, there are three salient profiles in which I can cast myself, three selves with which we can identify. I can see myself just as an agent identified over time by the linkages between my experiences, my attitudes and my actions. I can see myself as the persona that I invite others to rely on and that, if sincere, I internalize…Read more
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35The statePrinceton University Press. 2023.In this work, the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking to offers major new accounts of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how justice serves as a measure of the success of a state, and the way it should operate in relation to its citizens and other people.
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55On Three Dogmas of NormativityJournal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2): 205-210. 2023.Ruth Chang argues against three dogmas of normativity. Her argument, as least about the first two, is defensible, but defensible on a naturalistic account of normativity that she may not find congenial.
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Consciousness and the frustrations of physicalismIn Ian Ravenscroft (ed.), Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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Causation in the Philosophy of MindIn Andy Clark & P. J. R. Millican (eds.), Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 2, Clarendon Press. 1990.
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5Causation in the Philosophy of MindIn Andy Clark & Peter Millican (eds.), Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume Ii, Clarendon Press. 1990.
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426The Prisoner's Dilemma and Social Theory: An Overview of Some IssuesPolitics (Currently Australian Journal of Political Science) 20 1-11. 1985.
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873Program explanation: A general perspectiveAnalysis 50 (2): 107-17. 1990.Some properties are causally relevant for a certain effect, others are not. In this paper we describe a problem for our understanding of this notion and then offer a solution in terms of the notion of a program explanation
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40A hard choice for TomaselloBehavioral and Brain Sciences 43. 2020.Michael Tomasello explains the human sense of obligation by the role it plays in negotiating practices of acting jointly and the commitments they underwrite. He draws in his work on two models of joint action, one from Michael Bratman, the other from Margaret Gilbert. But Bratman's makes the explanation too difficult to succeed, and Gilbert's makes it too easy.
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384Desire Beyond BeliefAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (1): 77-92. 2004.David Lewis [1988; 1996] canvases an anti-Humean thesis about mental states: that the rational agent desires something to the extent that he or she believes it to be good. Lewis offers and refutes a decision-theoretic formulation of it, the 'Desire-as-Belief Thesis'. Other authors have since added further negative results in the spirit of Lewis's. We explore ways of being anti-Humean that evade all these negative results. We begin by providing background on evidential decision theory and on Lewi…Read more
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25Habermas on Truth and JusticeRoyal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 14 207-228. 1982.The problem which motivates this paper bears on the relationship between Marxism and morality. It is not the well-established question of whether the Marxist's commitments undermine an attachment to ethical standards, but the more neglected query as to whether they allow the espousal of political ideals. The study and assessment of political ideals is pursued nowadays under the title of theory of justice, the aim of such theory being to provide a criterion for distinguishing just patterns of soc…Read more
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1Rationality, Reasoning and Group AgencyIn Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Emergence in Mind, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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119Preserving Republican Freedom: A Reply to SimpsonPhilosophy and Public Affairs 46 (4): 363-383. 2018.Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 363-383, Fall 2018.
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2Husserl and Phenomenology, by Edo PivčevićJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 2 (1): 95-97. 1971.
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20Readings in Existential Phenomenology, edited by Nathaniel Lawrence and Daniel O'ConnorJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 1 (1): 95-96. 1970.
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4Explanation in the Behavioural Sciences: Confrontations.Edited by Robert Borger and Frank CioffiJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 4 (3): 278-281. 1973.
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488The Republican Law of Peoples: A RestatementIn Barbara Buckinx, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys & Timothy Waligore (eds.), Domination and Global Political Justice, Routledge. 2015.
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425Democracy Before, In, and After SchumpeterCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 29 (4): 492-504. 2017.The classical model of democracy that Schumpeter criticizes is manufactured out of a variety of earlier ideas, not those of any one thinker or even one school of thought. His critique of the central ideals by which he defines the model--those of the common will and the common good--remains persuasive. People's preferences are too messy and too manipulable to allow us to think that mass democracy can promote those ideals, as he defines them. Should we endorse his purely electoral model of democra…Read more
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