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42The politics of religious freedomPhilosophy and Social Criticism 43 (6): 551-570. 2017.The aim of this article is to consider the prospects of a liberal conception of religious freedom in some Muslim-majority states. Part I offers a brief sketch of three approaches to religious freedom that inform my view. Part II then presents a liberal framework for religious toleration that draws ideas from Rainer Forst’s Toleration in Conflict, as well as some perennial themes in classical liberal thought. I briefly examine three case studies in Part III: the Turkish Republic; the Arab Spring …Read more
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11Proceduralism and Justification in Habermas’s Discourse EthicsPhilosophy Today 46 (3): 300-312. 2002.
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1Larry Alexander, Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression? Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (5): 313-315. 2006.
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50Democratic Equality and Corporate Political SpeechPublic Affairs Quarterly 27 137-156. 2013.This paper examines some of the ways that equality in political status is threatened by corporate political speech. I offer a critique of Citizens United v Federal Election Commission which emphasizes a democratic equality approach to law and politics.
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38Rights without dignity?: Some critical reflections on Habermas’s procedural model of law and democracyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 27 (3): 21-40. 2001.I argue that Habermas’s proposed system of rights fails to offer an adequate account of the relation between rights and moral injury. In providing a non-moral justification for rights, Habermas’s functional-normative argument excludes the moral intuition that persons are worthy of being protected from a class of injurious actions (i.e. false imprisonment, religious persecution). Habermas does offer clearly stated reasons for his proposed normative, yet non-moral foundation for a legitimate legal…Read more
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56Justice in education and religious freedomSocial Philosophy and Policy 31 (1): 276-294. 2014.This essay examines religious freedom in the context of education policy. I defend an approach that serves the aims of both religious freedom and adequate education requirements. The permissive view of religious exemptions endorsed in American law sometimes lends support to objectionable education policies. The alternative I defend opposes granting exemptions to education policy, religious or otherwise, when doing so will deprive students of an education that permits entry to higher education or…Read more
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35Cosmopolitanism as a Moral ImperativePhilosophy in the Contemporary World 9 (2): 41-47. 2002.In this paper I consider and respond to two arguments against cosmopolitanism, the membership needs argument and the preferential treatment argument. I argue that if there are reasonable grounds for endorsing universal norms such as human rights, then there are no reasonable grounds for rejecting moral cosmopolitanism.
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23The Paradox of Wealth and Poverty (review)International Studies in Philosophy 37 (4): 151-152. 2005.
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102Public reason and the moral foundation of liberalismJournal of Moral Philosophy 1 (3): 311-331. 2004.moral foundation of liberalism can be defended in one of three ways: (1) as a conception one accepts as a result of one’s affirmation of political liberalism, (2) as a conception one must affirm as a presupposition for political liberalism, or (3) as a philosophical truth about practical reason and persons. The first option makes it impossible to distinguish a moral consensus from a modus vivendi . The second renders the moral foundation of liberalism dogmatic because it affirms a moral foundati…Read more
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