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1The Moral Consequences of the End of ArtIn Vladimir Marchenkov (ed.), Between Histories: Whence and Whither Contemporary Art, Hampton Press. pp. 13-24. 2014.
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276Kai Nielsen’s Political Philosophy: A Critical Introduction and OverviewIn David Rondel & Alex Sager (eds.), Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: The Political Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, University of Calgary Press. 2012.An overview of Kai Nielsen's philosophy focusing on his contributions to metaphilosophy and a critical theory based on wide reflective equilibrium, global justice, and egalitarianism.
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167Review of G.A. Cohen's Rescuing Justice and Equality (review)Review of Metaphysics 64 (1): 137-139. 2010.
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256Anti-authoritarianism, Meliorism, and Cultural Politics: On the Deweyan Deposit in Rorty’s Pragmatism.Pragmatism Today 2 (1): 56-67. 2011.
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27Review of The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2014.This book, one of the most recent in Cambridge University Press's large and growing companion series, provides a well-rounded overview of American pragmatism's beginnings, its "revival" in the mid to late twentieth century, and some of the ways in which it might be "put to work" in addressing questions about aesthetics, politics, religion, law, and education. The volume begins with an introduction by editor Alan Malachowski, which helpfully sets out American pragmatism's "orientation," a few of …Read more
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415Equality, luck, and pragmatismJournal of Speculative Philosophy 21 (2). 2007.In this paper I describe how Kant’s idea about the impossibility of moral luck has come to influence, via Rawls, recent writings in egalitarian theory. I argue that this influence has been detrimental for the study of equality. Further, I claim that the major deficiencies of this post-Rawlsian egalitarianism (nicely described by Elizabeth Anderson’s title “luck egalitarianism) are both effectively critiqued and corrected by the understanding of equality and its value located in John Dewey’s wri…Read more
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39Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: The Political Philosophy of Kai Nielsen (edited book)University of Calgary Press. 2012.Kai Nielsen is one of Canada’s most distinguished political philosophers. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has published more than 400 papers in political philosophy, ethics, meta-philosophy, and philosophy of religion. He has engaged much of the best work in Anglophone political philosophy, shedding light on many of the central debates and controversies of our time but throughout has remained a unique voice on the political left. _ Pessimism of the Intellect _presents a thoughtful collect…Read more
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399On Rorty's Evangelical MetaphilosophyPhilosophy and Rhetoric 44 (2): 150-170. 2011.I have spent 40 years looking for a coherent and convincing way of formulating my worries about what, if anything, philosophy is good for. Richard Rorty had an unusually avid interest in metaphilosophy. Again and again he would return to questions about the practical uses (if any) to which philosophy might be put, about philosophy's role in intellectual culture, about what philosophy is or might become. His answers to these questions were famously negative: philosophy's practical uses are few, i…Read more
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121Review of Alex Zakaras, Individuality and Mass Democracy: Mill, Emerson, and the Burdens of Citizenship. (review)Review of Politics 72 (4): 738-740. 2010.
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50Deweyan Democracy DefendedSouthwest Philosophy Review 28 (1): 197-207. 2012.This paper defends Deweyan democracy against the attack levelled against it by Robert Talisse. The problem with Talisse’s critique, I argue, is that Rawlsian concerns about reasonable pluralism are a propos only for political theories of justice ⎯ for theories, that is, that make definitive pronouncements about, or offer principled limits to, the coercive power of the state ⎯ and Deweyan democracy is not (or is not centrally) a theory of justice in this respect. My argument, in short, is that o…Read more
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256The Continuing Relevance of John Dewey (review)Education and Culture 30 (2): 103-105. 2014.The Continuing Relevance of John Dewey: Reflections on Aesthetics, Morality, Science, and Society
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428Egalitarians, sufficientarians, and mathematicians: a critical notice of Harry Frankfurt’s On InequalityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (2): 145-162. 2016.This critical notice provides an overview of Harry Frankfurt’s On Inequality and assesses whether Frankfurt is right to argue that equality is merely formal and empty. I counter-argue that egalitarianism, properly tweaked and circumscribed, can be defended against Frankfurt’s repudiation. After surveying the main arguments in Frankfurt’s book, I argue that whatever plausibility the ‘doctrine of sufficiency’ defended by Frankfurt may have, it does not strike a fatal blow against egalitarianism. T…Read more
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