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20Sécurité et démocratiePhilosophiques 29 (2): 351-370. 2002.La recherche de la sécurité comme objet de politique publique exige que des compromis soient faits avec d’autres buts légitimes de politique publique , et que des limites soient imposées à certains droits individuels. Comment penser de manière systématique au type de compromis que les membres d’une démocratie seraient disposés à effectuer, et aux coûts qu’ils seraient prêts à assumer en termes de droits ? Adaptant une proposition faite par Ronald Dworkin pour penser ce type de question dans le c…Read more
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20The graying of Berlin (review)Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 11 (4): 481-501. 1997.In Isaiah Berlin, John Gray interprets Berlin as having made value pluralism the basis of an anti‐rationalist, “agonistic” liberalism. Gray argues that Berlin's value pluralism actually stands in tension with his liberalism, and that a whole‐hearted affirmation of value pluralism should have led him to reject the claim that liberal institutions are morally superior. But Berlin's pluralism is more moderate than that ascribed to him by Gray, in that it does not allow for diminishing the value of l…Read more
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20Reading Onora o’Neill (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Onora O’Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O’Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissio…Read more
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20Book 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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19Global justice, global institutions (edited book)University of Calgary Press. 2007.Defining the principles of justice that ought to govern the global economic and political sphere is one of the most urgent tasks that contemporary political philosophers face. But they must also contribute to working through the institutional implications of these principles. How might principles of global justice be realized? Must the institutions that aim to implement them be transnational, or can global justice be attained within the context of the state system? Can institutions of democratic…Read more
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19Fausse route : Le chemin vers le pluralisme politique passe-t-il par le pluralisme axiologique?Archives de Philosophie du Droit 49 185-197. 2005.Pour certains philosophes pluralistes politiques, accepter la thèse de pluralisme des valeurs entraîne le rejet de l’autonomie libérale en faveur d’une forme de libéralisme fondée sur l’idéal de la tolérance. Cette idée est fausse. D’abord le pluralisme des valeurs partage avec le relativisme la difficulté inhérente à toute tentative de tirer une conclusion normative d’une thèse descriptive. Chercher à soutenir l’argument en comblant les prémisses manquantes montre que le pluralisme des valeurs …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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18Democracy and/or Consent: A Comment on Carol Gould's ‘How Democracy Can Inform Consent’Journal of Applied Philosophy 36 (2): 198-204. 2019.
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18Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights, Alan Patten , 344 pp., $45 cloth $29.95 paperEthics and International Affairs 30 (2): 278-281. 2016.
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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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15Corruption in adversarial systems: The case of democracySocial Philosophy and Policy 35 (2): 221-241. 2018.
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15A justification of health policy federalismBioethics 35 (8): 744-751. 2021.The apportionment of responsibility for health policy within multi‐level states should be sensitive to a number of conflicting normative pressures, some of which militate for placing decision‐making authority at the higher reaches of policy‐making structures, while others would seem to require placing them lower down this structure. The principle of subsidiarity is a structural principle that addresses in a manner that is neutral with respect to these values a way of addressing the conflicting c…Read more
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14Just Talk?Dialogue 37 (1): 107-116. 1998.One of the most prominent themes of recent political philosophy, at least in the English-speaking world, has been the challenge which the cultural and moral diversity of modern Western societies poses for traditional liberal theories of justice. Given that these theories, in their classical formulations, either ignored the issue of social heterogeneity, or operated on the tacit assumption that the societies to which they would be applied were essentially homogeneous, what changes should a new ap…Read more
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14Two Conceptions of Public PhilosophyIn Dimitrios Karmis & Jocelyn Maclure (eds.), Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: The Public Philosophy of James Tully, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 25-40. 2023.
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136 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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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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11Language 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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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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8Charles Taylor: A Biographical SketchIn Jacob Levy, Jocelyn Maclure & Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 3-18. 2020.