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10Silverstein on egoism and universalizabilityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 47 (3). 1969.This Article does not have an abstract
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10Future people and usIn Richard I. Sikora & Brian M. Barry (eds.), Obligations to Future Generations, White Horse Press. pp. 38--60. 1978.
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10In the Interest of the Governed: A Study in Bentham's Philosophy of Utility and Law (review)Philosophical Review 84 (3): 422. 1975.
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7Discussion: Must We Choose between Chandran Kukathas's 'Two Constructions of Libertarianism'?Libertarian Papers 1 22. 2009.Kukathas, in “Two Constructions of Libertarianism,” concludes that “the choice confronting libertarians is an invidious one. … The Federation of Liberty can, in principle, turn out to contain no communities of that federation which actually value or respect liberty; and even slavery might have a lawful place within it. The Union of Liberty, on the other hand, can, in principle turn out to be society ruled by a strong authority with little respect for dissenting moral traditions, including some s…Read more
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6McDonald and McDougal, Pride and Gain, and Justice: Comment on a Criticism of GauthierDialogue 27 (3): 503-. 1988.David Gauthier's impressive new book, Morals by Agreement, attempts to resuscitate something like Lockean natural rights on an essentially Hobbesian basis—a project eminently worth doing, if it can be done. Hubin and Lambeth offer some interesting criticisms of his project, and as they also raise some fundamental questions about the character and derivation of rights, it is important to see whether those criticisms hold up. I wish to comment on the one I think to be most crucial.
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5Rights and UtilitarianismCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 5 (n/a): 137-160. 1979.Few questions about utilitarianism have been more vexed than that of its relation to rights. It is commonplace to hold that there are nonutilitarian rights, rights not founded on considerations of utility. And it is even thought that the very notion of rights is inherently incapable of being significantly employed within the utilitarian framework. In the present paper, I wish to consider both of these matters. I propose to give reasons—mostly not really new—for rejecting the stronger, conceptual…Read more
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2Violence and warIn Tom L. Beauchamp & Tom Regan (eds.), Matters of Life and Death, Temple University Press. 1980.
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2Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?Cambridge University Press. 2010.Are the political ideals of liberty and equality compatible? This question is of central and continuing importance in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and welfare economics. In this book, two distinguished philosophers take up the debate. Jan Narveson argues that a political ideal of negative liberty is incompatible with any substantive ideal of equality, while James P. Sterba argues that Narveson's own ideal of negative liberty is compatible, and in fact leads to the requirements of a su…Read more
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2Have We A Right to Non-discrimination?In D. Poff & W. Waluchow (eds.), Business Ethics in Canada, Prentice Hall. pp. 183-199. 1987.
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2Why Care about Liberty?Philosophic Exchange 38 (1). 2008.This is the age of the welfare state. The general assumption is that something is amiss if governments do not provide benefits to its people. Since these benefits are funded by coercive taxation, this implies that those who are taxed are morally required to pay for benefits for others. This paper argues that this assumption is mistaken. Like the founders of the American republic, I argue that government should protect individual liberty, not provide benefits to the needy.
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2The Right to be Old and the Right to Have Young: Some Conundrums About Aging PopulationsTulane Studies in Philosophy 31 183-217. 1982.
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1That old‐time religion: Reply to HerzogCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 5 (4): 573-582. 1991.
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University of WaterlooDepartment of Philosophy
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |