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7A 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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18Desire 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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6Habermas 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 Graham Macdonald & Cynthia Macdonald (eds.), Emergence in mind, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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16Preserving 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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103The Republican Law of Peoples: A RestatementIn Barbara Buckinx, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys & Timothy Waligore (eds.), Domination and Global Political Justice: Conceptual, Historical and Institutional Perspectives, Routledge. 2014.
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86Democracy 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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A Theory of Freedom: From the Psychology to the Politics of AgencyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2): 498-501. 2005.
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3Responsibility IncorporatedNetherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 38 (2): 90-117. 2007.Incorporated groups include businesses, universities, churches and the like. Organized to act as single centers of agency, they also routinely satisfy the three conditions that make an agent fit to be held responsible: they face significant choices, can recognize the relative value of different options, and are able to choose in sensitivity to such values. But is it redundant to hold a corporate agent responsible for something, when certain members are also held responsible for the individual pa…Read more
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