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33L’énigme démocratiquePhilosophiques 40 (2): 351. 2013.Philip Pettit ,Aude Bandini | : La démocratie signifie d’abord et avant toute chose l’idée d’un contrôle populaire, et ce par l’ensemble des moyens possibles. Ces moyens donnent lieu à la légitimité. Mais ces contrôles populaires, du moins tels qu’ils sont entendus dans de nombreuses discussions, ne donnent pas lieu à la légitimité espérée. Les théories de la démocratie ne partagent pas une même conception des choses à ce sujet, ce qui donne lieu à une pluralité d’approches. Dans cet article, l’…Read more
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533Existentialism, quietism, and the role of philosophyIn Brian Leiter (ed.), The Future for Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 304--327. 2004.In this essay I consider the question that divides quetism from existentialism and to defend a particular line on that question. The essay is in three main sections. In the first I set out a view of philosophy under which it grows out of reflection on the views that shape ordinary practice. In the second section I outline a theory as to how exactly practice commits us to such views. And then in the third section I argue on the basis of that account that, notwithstanding serious difficulties, phi…Read more
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How norms become normativeIn Peter Cane (ed.), The Hart-Fuller debate in the twenty-first century, Hart. pp. 227--247. 2010.
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24[Book review] republicanism, a theory of freedom and government (review)In Stephen Everson (ed.), Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 109--1. 1997.
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16Deux sources de la moralitéPhilosophiques 28 (1): 173-203. 2001.Comment chercher à situer, dans l'expérience humaine, les termes ou les concepts moraux ? Autrement dit, où, dans l'expérience, la morale devient-elle saillante pour nous ? C'est par le biais d'une généalogie naturaliste qu'il nous faut envisager la problématique, dans la mesure où nous ne possédons pas un sens moral irréductible par lequel des propriétés morales irréductibles nous seraient connues. Je soutiens que si des sujets intentionnels n'ont nul besoin de disposer de concepts normatifs, i…Read more
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682Corporate Agency -- The Lesson of the Discursive DilemmaIn Marija Jankovic & Kirk Ludwig (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality, Routledge. pp. 249-59. 2018.
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538The Empowering Theory of TrustIn Paul Faulkner & Thomas W. Simpson (eds.), The Philosophy of Trust, Oxford University Press. pp. 14-34. 2017.
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640The Conversable, Responsible CorporationIn Eric Orts & Craig Smith (eds.), The Moral Responsibility of Firms, Oxford University Press. pp. 15-35. 2017.
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406The Program Model, Difference-makers, and the Exclusion ProblemIn Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock & Huw Price (eds.), Making a Difference, Oxford University Press. pp. 232-50. 2017.
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634The Globalized Republican IdealGlobal Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 9 (1): 47-68. 2016.The concept of freedom as non-domination that is associated with neo-republican theory provides a guiding ideal in the global, not just the domestic arena, and does so even on the assumption that there will continue to be many distinct states. It argues for a world in which states do not dominate members of their own people and, considered as a corporate body, no people is dominated by other agencies: not by other states and not, for example, by any international agency or multi-national corpora…Read more
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274Rousseau's DilemmaIn Avi Lifschitz (ed.), Engaging with Rousseau: Reaction and Interpretation From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Cambridge University Press. pp. 168-88. 2016.
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626A Brief History of Liberty--And Its LessonsJournal of Human Development and Capabilities 17 5-21. 2016.
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1Freedom and Other Robustly Demanding GoodsIn Simon Derpmann & David Schweickart (eds.), Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work, Springer. pp. 3-16. 2016.
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434Three Mistakes About DemocracyIn Keith Breen & Allyn Fives (eds.), Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the Public Sphere, Palgrave. pp. 187-199. 2016.
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184The Asymmetry of Good and EvilIn Mark Timmons (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 5, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 15-37. 2015.
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1024The Hard Problem of ResponsibilityIn David Shoemaker (ed.), Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 1, Oxford University Press Uk. 2013.
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350Justice: Social and PoliticalIn David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne & Steven Wall (eds.), Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press. 2015.
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310Reasons and Rationality: The Case of Group AgentsIn Iwao Hirose & Andrew Reisner (eds.), Weighing and Reasoning: Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome, Oxford University Press. 2015.
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208Republicanism Across CulturesIn Jun-Hyeok Kwak & Leigh Jenco (eds.), Republicanism in Northeast Asia, Routledge. 2013.In this paper I focus on how far the republican ideal of freedom as non-domination can and should command allegiance across different cultures. Is the ideal bound to western culture, as its provenance may suggest? Or does it have a hold on the human imagination and sensibility that survives across various cultural and historical divides? I argue, in a deeply unfashionable vein,that it does command a form of universal allegiance. O…Read more
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426Two Fallacies About CorporationsIn Subramanian Rangan (ed.), Performance and Progress: Essays on Capitalism, Business, and Society, Oxford University Press. pp. 379-394. 2015.One of the most important challenges for political theory is to identify the extent to which corporations should be facilitated and restricted in law. By way of background to that challenge, we need to develop a view about the nature and potential of corporations and corporate bodies in general. This chapter discusses two fallacies that we should avoid in this exercise. One, a claim popular among economists, that corporate bodies are not really agents at all. The other, a claim associated with U…Read more
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558Freedom and the State: Nanny or Nightwatchman?Public Health 129 (8): 1055-1060. 2015.There are two rival images often offered of the state. In one the state serves like a nanny to provide for the welfare of its members; in the other it requires people to look after themselves, providing only the service of a night-watchman. But this dichotomy, which is routinely invoked in debates about public health and welfare provision in general, is misleading. What the rival images turn on is not competing pictures of how the state should function in people's lives but competing pictures of…Read more
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279How to Tell if a Group is an AgentIn Jennifer Lackey (ed.), Essays in Collective Epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 97-121. 2014.
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1Three Issues in Social OntologyIn Julie Zahle & Finn Collin (eds.), Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science, Springer. pp. 77-96. 2014.
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567Criminalization in Republican TheoryIn R. A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, S. E. Marshall, Massimo Renzo & Victor Tadros (eds.), Criminalization: The Political Morality of Criminal Law, Oxford University Press. pp. 132-150. 2014.
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412Meritocratic RepresentationIn Daniel A. Bell & Chenyang Li (eds.), The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective, Cambridge University Press. pp. 138-160. 2013.
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348Legitimacy and Justice in Republican PerspectiveCurrent Legal Problems 65 59-82. 2012.Let justice be a feature of the social order imposed by a state and legitimacy a feature of how it is imposed: one that makes the imposition acceptable. This article argues that, so understood, legitimacy is quite a distinct concern from justice; that the core concern is with showing how state coercion is consistent with people’s being free citizens; that this does not require showing that the state exists by consensus or contract; that the best hope of satisfying the concern lies with arguing t…Read more
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