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30Luck Libertarianism? A Critique of Tan’s Institutional ViewSouthwest Philosophy Review 31 (1): 187-196. 2015.
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22Can Peircean Epistemic Perfectionists Bid Farewell to Deweyan Democracy?Contemporary Pragmatism 6 (2): 165-183. 2009.There is a tension between Robert Talisse's rejection of Deweyan democracy and his project of formulating a workable Peircean conception of democracy. If he follows Rawls in taking reasonable pluralism to be a permanent condition, then his Peircean conception of democracy is undermined. But, if he does not commit to the permanence of reasonable pluralism, then his rejection of Deweyan democracy is problematic. Since he chooses the latter interpretation, Talisse must bite the bullet and recognize…Read more
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74Well-Being: Reality's RoleJournal of the American Philosophical Association 2 (3): 456-68. 2016.A familiar objection to mental state theories of well-being proceeds as follows: Describe a good life. Contrast it with one identical in mental respects, but lacking a connection to reality. Then observe that mental state theories of well-being implausibly hold both lives in equal esteem. Conclude that such views are false. Here we argue this objection fails. There are two ways reality may be thought to matter for well-being. We want to contribute to reality, and we want our experience of the wo…Read more
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32David Kaspar: Intuitionism: Bloomsbury: London, 2012 Pp. 214. $28.00 (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (5): 1093-1094. 2013.
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25Leviathans Restrained: International Politics for Artificial PersonsHobbes Studies 28 (2): 149-174. 2015.This essay challenges the analogy argument. The analogy argument aims to show that the international domain satisfies the conditions of a Hobbesian state of nature: There fails to be a super-sovereign to keep all in awe, and hence, like persons in the state of nature, sovereigns are in a war every sovereign against every sovereign. By turning to Hobbes’ account of authorization, however, we see that subjects are under no obligation to obey a sovereign’s commands when doing so would contradict th…Read more
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42From Epistemic Democracy to Epistemic MulticulturalismSouthwest Philosophy Review 27 (1): 175-184. 2011.
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397From Town-Halls to Wikis: Exploring Wikipedia's Implications for Deliberative DemocracyJournal of Public Deliberation 6 (2). 2010.This essay examines the implications Wikipedia holds for theories of deliberative democracy. It argues that while similar in some respects, the mode of interaction within Wikipedia represents a distinctive form of “collaborative editing” that departs from many of the qualities traditionally associated with face-to-face deliberation. This online mode of interaction overcomes many of the problems that distort face-to-face deliberations. By mitigating problems that arise in deliberative practice, s…Read more
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35Expectations and the Limits of Legal ValidityUtilitas 27 (3): 263-278. 2015.Drawing on the work of Jeremy Bentham, we can forward a parity thesis concerning formal and substantive legal invalidity. Formal and substantive invalidity are, according to this thesis, traceable to the same source, namely, the sovereign's inability to adjust expectations to motivate obedience. The parity thesis, if defensible, has great appeal for positivists. Explaining why contradictory or contrary mandates yield invalidity is unproblematic. But providing an account of content-based invalidi…Read more
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