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Ripstein on Kant on revolutionIn Sari Kisilevsky & Martin Jay Stone (eds.), Freedom and Force: Essays on Kant’s Legal Philosophy, Bloomsbury. 2017.
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The ethics of compromiseIn Christian F. Rostbøll & Theresa Scavenius (eds.), Compromise and Disagreement in Contemporary Political Theory, Routledge. 2017.
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The political ethics of bilingual educationIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education, Routledge. 2023.
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The political ethics of bilingual educationIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education, Routledge. 2023.
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156 Value Pluralism, Autonomy, and TolerationIn Melissa S. Williams (ed.), Moral Universalism and Pluralism: Nomos Xlix, New York University Press. pp. 125-148. 2022.
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31Disagreement, Unenforceability, and Harm ReductionHealth Care Analysis 28 (4): 314-323. 2020.Talk of harm reduction has expanded horizontally, to apply to an ever-widening range of policy domains, and vertically, becoming part of official legal and political discourse. This expansion calls for philosophical theorization. What is the best way in which to characterize harm reduction? Does it represent a distinctive ethical position? How is it best morally justified, and what are its moral limits? I distinguish two varieties of harm reduction. One of them, technocratic harm reduction, is p…Read more
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45Natural Law and Public Reason in Kant’s Political PhilosophyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 26 (3): 389-411. 1996.My intention in this essay will be to explore the role that consent-based arguments perform in Kant's political and legal philosophy. I want to uncover the extent to which Kant considered that the legitimacy of the State and of its laws depends upon the outcome of intersubjective deliberation. Commentators have divided over the following question: Is Kant best viewed as a member of the social contract tradition, according to which the legitimacy of the state and of the laws it promulgates derive…Read more
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19Should We Change How We Vote?: Evaluating Canada's Electoral System (edited book)Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.. 2017.An evaluation of the current electoral system in response to calls for its reform.
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14Language Ethics (edited book)McGill-Queen's University Press. 2020.Language is central to political philosophy, yet until now there has been little in the way of a common framework capable of bridging disciplines that share an interest in language, power, and ethics. Studies are predominantly carried out in isolated disciplinary silos - notably linguistics, philosophy, political science, public administration, and education. This volume proposes a new vision for understanding the political ethics of language, particularly in linguistically diverse societies, an…Read more
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12Partisanship and Political Obligation: Some Sceptical ThoughtsRes Publica 25 (4): 475-486. 2019.In Partisanship and Political Liberalism in Diverse Societies, Matteo Bonotti argues that the problem of political obligation can be solved for at least a sub-set of citizens, namely, for political partisans. Bonotti claims that the benefits that accrue to partisans in virtue of a principle of fair play warrant their observing a duty to obey the law. In this paper, I first point to the strength of the argument: it purports to generate a duty of all partisans to obey all laws, not just laws to do…Read more
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16Corruption in adversarial systems: The case of democracySocial Philosophy and Policy 35 (2): 221-241. 2018.
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22Book ReviewsKwame Anthony Appiah,. The Ethics of Identity.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+358 (review)Ethics 117 (1): 119-123. 2006.
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16Book ReviewsKatrin Flikschuh,. Kant and Modern Political Philosophy.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x+216. $55.00 (review)Ethics 112 (4): 820-824. 2002.
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62Dissidents and Innocents: Hard Cases for a Political Philosophy of BoycottsJournal of Applied Philosophy 36 (4): 560-574. 2018.In this article, I distinguish boycotts from other kinds of superficially similar types of actions, and argue that boycotts involve at least coordinated activity on the part of the members of a group to abstain on moral grounds from otherwise normal interaction with the members of another group. Boycotts in their minimal forms do not face high justificatory hurdles, since they involve the exercise of freedom of speech, along with the exercise by members of the boycotting group of basic rights an…Read more
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40For a political philosophy of parent–child relationshipsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (3): 351-365. 2018.
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7À propos de The Practice of Liberal Pluralism de William Galston : un dialogue avec l’auteurLes Ateliers de L’Ethique 1 (1): 112-127. 2006.The publication of "The Practice of Liberal Pluralism" by Willam Galston has appeared as an event of first importance regarding contemporary theory about the relation between pluralism and liberalism. William Galston’s theory has had a visible evolution: in "Liberal Purposes", the main object is a critique of neutralism and a defence of perfectionist liberalism, whereas "Liberal Pluralism" main concern was to draw the limits of state intervention. This evolution is the object of numerous questio…Read more
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264Beyond Objective and Subjective: Assessing the Legitimacy of Religious Claims to AccommodationLes Ateliers de L’Ethique 6 (2): 155-175. 2011.There are at present two ways in which to evaluate religiously-based claims to accommodation in the legal context. The first, objective approach holds that these claims should be grounded in « facts of the matter » about the religions in question. The second, subjective approach, is grounded in an appreciation by the courts of the sincerity of the claimant. The first approach has the advantage of accounting for the difference between two constitutional principles : freedom of conscience on the o…Read more
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236The political ethics of healthLes Ateliers de L’Ethique 5 (1): 105-118. 2010.This paper seeks to provide an overview of some of the main areas of debate that have emerged in recent years at the interface between theories of justice and health care. First, the paper consi- ders various positions as to what the index of justice with respect to health ought to be. It warns on practical and principled grounds against conceptual inflation of the notion of "health" as it appears in theories of distributive justice. Second, it considers how various standards according to which …Read more
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68Compromise, pluralism, and deliberationCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20 (5): 636-655. 2017.