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1445The Politics of Envy: Outlaw Emotions in Capitalist SocietiesIn Sara Protasi (ed.), The Moral Psychology of Envy, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.
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28Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-Owning DemocracyOxford University Press USA. 2016.The first book length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens is uniquely placed to meet the demands of justice. Arguing from a basis in liberal-republican principles, this expanded conception of the economic structure of society contextualizes the market to make its transactions fair. The author shows that a property-owning democracy structures economic incentives such that the domination of one agen…Read more
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19Freeman on Property-Owning DemocracyPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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46Full Employment, Unconditional Basic Income and the Keynesian Critique of Rentier CapitalismBasic Income Studies 15 (1). 2020.This paper compares and contrasts the basic income proposal with the alternative policy proposal of the state acting as employer of last resort. Two versions of the UBI proposal are distinguished: one is hard to differentiate from expanded welfare state provision. Van Parijs’s proposal is radical enough to qualify as major egalitarian revision to capitalism. However, while it removes from a capitalist class the power to determine the terms on which others labour, it leaves this class in place an…Read more
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17Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-Owning DemocracyOxford University Press. 2016.The first book-length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals, argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens is uniquely placed to meet the demands of justice. Arguing from a basis in liberal-republican principles, this expanded conception of the economic structure of society contextualizes the market to make its transactions fair. It shows that a property-owning democracy structures economic incentives such that the domination of one agent by an…Read more
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Richard Moran’s Authority and Estrangement develops a compelling explanation of the characteristic features of self-knowledge that involve the use of ‘I’ as subject. Such knowledge is immediate in the sense of non-inferential, is not evidentially grounded and is epistemically authoritative.1 A&E develops its distinctive explanation while also offering accounts of other features of self-knowledge that are often overlooked, such as the centrality of self-knowledge characterised in this way to the …Read more
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41Adrian Moore’s paper continues the development of a radical re-interpretation of Kant’s practical philosophy initiated by his Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty. [Moore, 2003] I have discussed elsewhere why it seems to me that Moore’s work, taken as a composite with that of his co-symposiasts today Philip Stratton-Lake and Burt Louden, adds up to a comprehensive and radical re-assessment of the contemporary significance of Kant’s practical philosophy which moral philosophers generally ought no…Read more
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223Kant, McDowell and the Theory of ConsciousnessEuropean Journal of Philosophy 5 (3): 283-305. 2002.This paper examines some of the central arguments of John McDowell's Mind and World, particularly his treatment of the Kantian themes of the spontaneity of thought and of the nature of self-consciousness. It is argued that in so far as McDowell departs from Kant, his position becomes less plausible in three respects. First, the space of reason is identified with the space of responsible and critical freedom in a way that runs together issues about synthesis below the level of concepts and at the…Read more
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109Reasonable Partiality and the Agent’s Point of ViewEthical Theory and Moral Practice 8 (1-2): 25-43. 2005.It is argued that reasonable partiality allows an agent to attach value to particular objects of attachment via recognition of the value of the holding of that relation between agent and object. The reasonableness of partiality is ensured by a background context set by the agent's virtues, notably justice. It is argued that reasonable partiality is the only view that is compatible with our best account of the nature of self-knowledge. That account rules out any instrumental relationship between …Read more
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6Introduction: Consciousness in historical perspectivePhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2 (3): 159-159. 2003.
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38Fellow-feeling and the moral life * by Joseph Duke FilonowiczAnalysis 69 (4): 789-791. 2009.This monograph is a systematic defence of the views of key figures in the 18th-century sentimentalist tradition. It aims to explain, to borrow Thomas Nagel's phrase, the very possibility of altruism in a way that engages with contemporary meta-ethics. The details of the account are primarily taken from the work of Francis Hutcheson, although the work of Shaftesbury also receives extended consideration. The author argues that the basis of our admiration for disinterested altruism is simply an inn…Read more
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G Priest's Beyond The Limits Of Thought (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 34 80-82. 1996.
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14Internal governance imperatives for universitiesAfrican Journal of Business Ethics 4 (1): 25. 2014.
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Alienation, objectification, and the primacy of virtueIn Jonathan Webber (ed.), Reading Sartre: On Phenomenology and Existentialism, Routledge. 2010.
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19Review: Michael Bradie. The secret chain: evolution and ethics. Paul Thompson (ed.). Issues in evolutionary ethics (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2): 317-319. 1996.
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36Virtue ethics and an ethics of care: complementary or in conflict?Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Del Norte 14 132-151. 2011.Este artículo compara y contrasta la ética de la virtud con la del cuidado, a fin de determinar su mutua relación. Se afirma que existe una tradición en la ética de la virtud que enfatiza que la virtud es conocimiento, e igualmente se concentra en el altruismo. No existe oposición entre esta forma de virtud y la ética del cuidado. Además, hay objeciones de principio a generalizar la necesidad de relaciones asimétricas de una ética del cuidado con el caso de la justicia entendida como justicia re…Read more
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6IV*—Values, Reasons and PerspectivesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (1): 61-80. 1997.Alan Thomas; IV*—Values, Reasons and Perspectives, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 97, Issue 1, 1 June 1997, Pages 61–80, https://doi.org/10.111.
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17An adverbial theory of consciousnessPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2 (3): 161-185. 2003.Thomas Nagel's criterion for an acceptable theory of conscious awareness, that it address the question of “what it is like” to be a conscious subject has been misunderstood in the light of an implicit act/object model of conscious awareness. Kant's account of conscious experience is an adverbial theory precisely in the sense that it avoids such an act/object interpretation. An “objectualist” and an “actualist” construal of views of conscious awareness are contrasted. The idea of an adverbial the…Read more
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45This paper argues that there are two compelling intuitions about conscious experience, the absorption intuition and the ubiquity intuition. The former is the claim that conscious experience consists in intentional absorption in its objects; the latter is the claim that conscious experience ubiquitously exhibits a sense that the mental subject is conscious that she is so conscious. These two intuitions are in tension with each other and it seems no single theory of consciousness can respect both.…Read more
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40Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.What determines whether an action is right or wrong? Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader explores for students and researchers the relationship between consequentialist theory and moral rules. Most of the chapters focus on rule consequentialism or on the distinction between act and rule versions of consequentialism. Contributors, among them the leading philosophers in the discipline, suggest ways of assessing whether rule consequentialism could be a satisfactory moral theory. Th…Read more
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27The Demands of Democratic OwnershipAnalyse & Kritik 39 (2): 413-416. 2017.This paper considers an argument that justice as fairness requires liberal socialism as opposed to a property-owning democracy. It analyses the arguments for departing from Rawls’s principled agnosticism over the choice between liberal market socialism and property owning democracy. It questions the extension of Rawls’s fair value guarantee for the political liberties to all liberty and suggests an alternative interpretation of the kind of predistributive egalitarianism represented by a property…Read more
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16Liberal Republicanism, and the Idea of an Egalitarian EthosIn M. O'Neill T. Williamson (ed.), Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 101. 2012.
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95Rawls and political realism: Realistic utopianism or judgement in bad faith?European Journal of Political Theory 16 (3): 304-324. 2017.Political realism criticises the putative abstraction, foundationalism and neglect of the agonistic dimension of political practice in the work of John Rawls. This paper argues that had Rawls not fully specified the implementation of his theory of justice in one particular form of political economy then he would be vulnerable to a realist critique. But he did present such an implementation: a property-owning democracy. An appreciation of Rawls s specificationist method undercuts the realist crit…Read more
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48Prerogatives, Incentives, and Institutionalism: A Reply to Brian BerkeyMind 124 (495): 875-890. 2015.I should begin by thanking Brian Berkey for his thoughtful discussion of my paper. As will be clear from what follows, I think that, in several instances, Berke.
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235Internal Reasons and Contractualist ImpartialityUtilitas 14 (2): 135. 2002.This paper interprets Bernard Williams's claim that all practical reasons must meet the internal reasons constraint. It is argued that this constraint is independent of any substantive Humean claims about reasons and its rationale is a content scepticism about the capacity of pure reason to supply reasons for action. The final sections attempt a positive reconciliation of the internal reasons account with the motivation for external reasons, namely, securing practical objecitivy in the form of a…Read more
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79Beyond Consequentialism, by Paul Hurley (review)Philosophical Quarterly 66 (262): 208-212. 2016.
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