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99Normative consent and authorityIn Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, Routledge. 2018.
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92Prime justiceIn Kevin Vallier & Michael Weber (eds.), Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates, Oup Usa. 2017.
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121Replies to criticsPhilosophical Studies 178 (7): 2439-2472. 2020.I offer replies to critical comments on my book, Utopophobia: On the Limits of Political Philosophy, in four pieces appearing in the same issue of this journal.
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46Precis of Utopophobia: on the limits (if any) of political philosophyPhilosophical Studies 178 (7): 2359-2364. 2020.
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21Justificatory Liberalism: An Essay on Epistemology and Political TheoryPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (3): 821-825. 1996.
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24Review of James Fishkin: The Dialogue of Justice: Toward a Self-Reflective Society (review)Ethics 105 (1): 186-188. 1994.
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55Utopophobia: On the Limits (If Any) of Political PhilosophyPrinceton University Press. 2019.A leading political theorist’s groundbreaking defense of ideal conceptions of justice in political philosophy Throughout the history of political philosophy and politics, there has been continual debate about the roles of idealism versus realism. For contemporary political philosophy, this debate manifests in notions of ideal theory versus nonideal theory. Nonideal thinkers shift their focus from theorizing about full social justice, asking instead which feasible institutional and political chan…Read more
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DemocracyIn Frank Jackson & Michael Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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27What is circumstantial about justice?Social Philosophy and Policy 33 (1-2): 292-311. 2016.:Does social justice lose all application in the condition in which people are morally flawless? The answer, I will argue, is that it does not — justice might still have application. This is one lesson of my broader thesis in this paper, that there is a variety of conditions we would all regard as highly idealistic and unrealistic which are, nevertheless, not beyond justice. The idea of “circumstances of justice” developed especially by Hume and Rawls may seem to point in a more realistic direct…Read more
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98On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy, by Philip Pettit: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, xii + 347, $24.99 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (4): 799-802. 2014.
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31Book ReviewsRobert E. Goodin, Reflective Democracy.New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 320. $46.79Ethics 115 (3): 609-614. 2005.
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3Book ReviewsSamuel Freeman,, ed. Cambridge Companion to Rawls.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 598. $65.00 ; $24.00 (review)Ethics 114 (3): 608-615. 2004.
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44Book ReviewsCass Sunstein,. Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 296. $35.00 ; $15.95 (review)Ethics 113 (4): 911-914. 2003.
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147The Ideal, the Neighborhood, and the Status Quo: Gaus on the Uses of JusticeEthics 127 (4): 912-928. 2017.
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37Debate: Liberalism, Equality, and Fraternity in Cohen’s Critique of RawlsJournal of Political Philosophy 6 (1): 99-112. 2002.
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1Review of James Fishkin: The Dialogue of Justice: Toward a Self-Reflective Society (review)Ethics 105 (1): 186-188. 1994.
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159What's So Rickety? Richardson's Non‐Epistemic DemocracyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (1): 204-204. 2007.
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12Sex, Preference, and Family: Essays on Law and Nature (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 1997.In this timely, provocative volume, essayists including Susan Moller Okin, Catherine A. MacKinnon, Cass Sunstein, Martha Minow, William Galston, and Sara McLanahan argue positions on sexuality, on the family, and on the proper role of law in these areas.
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148The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2012.This volume includes 22 new pieces by leaders in the field on both perennial and emerging topics of keen interest to contemporary political philosophers.
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5Controversy has recently erupted, at least in a recent story in the Independent, over the question of whether Brown's Philosophy Department has been inappropriately exclusionary of courses in other departments, of diverse philosophical traditions, and of non-white philosophers. These are questions well worth asking, although the article's critical stance requires some scrutiny. It is worth supplementing the article with some information that might help students think about whether they ought to …Read more
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112Reply to WiensEuropean Journal of Political Theory 15 (3): 353-362. 2016.In Human Nature and the Limits of Political Philosophy, I argued that justice might require things of people that they cannot bring themselves to do. A central step was to argue that this does not entail an inability to ‘do’ the putatively required thing. David Wiens challenges that argument of mine, and this piece is my reply.
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44:Cambridge Companion to RawlsEthics 114 (3): 608-615. 2004.John Rawls is the most significant and influential philosopher and moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political science, economics and other social disciplines. In this exciting collection of new essays, many of the world's leading political and moral theorists discuss the full range of Rawls's contribution to the concepts of political and economic justice, democracy, li…Read more
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1191Opinion leaders, independence, and Condorcet's Jury TheoremTheory and Decision 36 (2): 131-162. 1994.
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433Liberal associationism and the rights of statesSocial Philosophy and Policy 30 (1-2): 425-449. 2013.It is often argued that if one holds a liberal political philosophy about individual rights against the state and the community, then one cannot consistently say that a state that violates those principles is owed the right of noninterference. How could the rights of the collective trump the rights of individuals in a liberal view? I believe that this debate calls for more reflection, on the relation between liberalism and individualism. I will sketch a conception of liberalism in which there is…Read more
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12Review of Steven Shiffrin: The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance. (review)Ethics 102 (4): 871-874. 1992.
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26Democracy (edited book)Blackwell. 2001.Democracy brings together some of the most sophisticated thinking on democratic theory in one concise volume. Written by experts in the field, these contemporary readings are distinctively philosophical, but will appeal to students in historical, empirical, legal, or policy- oriented disciplines which deal with democratic theory.