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98Neutralizing PerfectionDialogue 38 (1): 45-62. 1999.RÉSUMÉ: Je maintiens dans cet essai que l'argument développé par Thomas Hurka sur la base de son perfectionnisme aristotélicien en faveur d'une forme modérée de perfectionnisme d'État échoue. Je tente de démontrer que son perfectionnisme sousdétermine les types d'activités que l'État aurait à promouvoir afin de réaliser les valeurs perfectionnistes qu'il défend. Je soutiens également que Hurka opère avec une conception caricaturale de la doctrine de la neutralité libérale. Selon lui, l'État libé…Read more
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Democracy and deliberation (Value-pluralism in modern society)Archives de Philosophie 63 (3): 405-421. 2000.
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166How Democratic is Civil Disobedience?Criminal Law and Philosophy 10 (4): 707-720. 2016.In her book, Conscience and Conviction, Kimberley Brownlee argues that there is nothing undemocratic about the robust, primary right to civil disobedience that she devotes most of her argument to defending. To the contrary, she holds that there is nothing paternalistic about civil disobedients opposing the will of democratic majorities, because, inter alia, democratic majorities cannot claim particular epistemic superiority, and because there are flaws inherent to democratic procedures that civi…Read more
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30Can parity of self-esteem serve as the basis of the principle of linguistic territoriality?Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 18 (2): 199-211. 2015.
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30The Justification of Political LiberalismPacific Philosophical Quarterly 75 (3-4): 165-185. 1994.I outline Rawls's theory of justification, highlighting its philosophical and pragmatic conditions. I argue that the theory has remained essentially unchanged since his earliest methodological writings, and that his recent writings have sought to show how "justice as fairness" can satisfy these conditions, given Rawls's new construal of the "fact of pluralism" which theories of justice designed for modern Western liberal democracies must address. I argue that neither Rawls's revised conception o…Read more
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25Perfectionism Versus Neutrality in Public Health: The Case of Advanced Maternal AgeAmerican Journal of Bioethics 15 (11): 49-50. 2015.
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69Questions in Contemporary Medicine and the Philosophy of Charles Taylor: An IntroductionJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 36 (4): 329-334. 2011.This article provides an introduction to the articles in this theme issue. This collection examines epistemological, ontological, moral and political questions in medicine in light of the philosophical ideas of Charles Taylor. A synthesis of Taylor's relevant work is presented. Taylor has argued for a conception of the human sciences that regards human life as meaningful–deriving meaning from surrounding horizons of significance. An overview of the interdisciplinary articles in this issue is pre…Read more
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1Joseph Raz, Engaging Reason. On the Theory of Value and Action Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (6): 439-442. 2002.
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6GA Cohen, If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (6): 405-407. 2000.
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2Toward a Proceduralist Theory of SecessionCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 13 (2): 251-262. 2000.Substantive theorists of secession face a problem explaining why the international community ought on their view to withhold recognition from secessions which involve a loss in terms of the substantive criteria they privilege; this is so because the normal electoral politics giving rise to such a loss should not in their opinion meet with any adverse international reaction. The substantive theory of David Miller uses criteria for the legitimacy of secessions which give rise to strangely amoral c…Read more
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85National PartialityThe Monist 82 (3): 516-541. 1999.Recent defenders of nationalism have pointed to the fact that most people feel that their obligations towards their compatriots are either more numerous or more stringent than those which bind them to people from other countries. They point to this fact as evidence that something is seriously amiss with the universalism which allegedly underpins liberal theory. That people believe quite strongly that they have such special obligations is taken as a datum for which different theories of justice m…Read more
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63How Should Political Philosophers Think of Health?Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 36 (4): 424-435. 2011.The political philosophy of health care has been characterized by considerable conceptual inflation in recent years. First, the concept of health that lies at its core has come to encompass ever-increasing aspects of individuals’ existences. And second, the emergence of the public health perspective has increased the range of resources relevant to health equity. This expansion has not been without cost. The decision to include more rather than less within the ambit of "health" is ultimately a mo…Read more
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9Review of Alain Renaut, Qu'est-Ce Qu'un Peuple Libre?: Libéralisme Ou Républicanisme (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (1). 2007.
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Joseph Raz, Engaging Reason. On the Theory of Value and Action (review)Philosophy in Review 22 439-442. 2002.
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2G.A. Cohen, If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? (review)Philosophy in Review 20 405-407. 2000.
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177Éthique et politique : IntroductionLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 7 (3): 5-6. 2012.
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42Bernard Williams, L'éthique et les limites de la philosophie, traduit de l'anglais par Marie-Anne Lescourret, Paris, Gallimard, 1990.Bernard Williams, L'éthique et les limites de la philosophie, traduit de l'anglais par Marie-Anne Lescourret, Paris, Gallimard, 1990 (review)Philosophiques 20 (1): 232-235. 1993.
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86On the possibility of principled moral compromiseCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 16 (4): 537-556. 2013.No abstract
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141Licensing Parents to Protect Our Children?Ethics and Social Welfare 6 (2): 195-205. 2012.In this paper we re-examine Hugh LaFollette's proposal that the state carefully determine the eligibility and suitability of prospective parents before granting them a ?license to parent?. Assuming a prima facie case for licensing parents grounded in our duty to promote the welfare of the child, we offer several considerations that complicate LaFollette's radical proposal. We suggest that LaFollette can only escape these problems by revising his proposal in a way that renders the license effecti…Read more