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12Review of Kent Greenawalt: Private Consciences and Public Reasons (review)Ethics 107 (2): 358-361. 1997.
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115Normative consent and authorityIn Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, Routledge. 2018.
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117Prime justiceIn Kevin Vallier & Michael Weber (eds.), Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates, Oup Usa. 2017.
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130Replies 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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51Precis of Utopophobia: on the limits (if any) of political philosophyPhilosophical Studies 178 (7): 2359-2364. 2020.
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25Justificatory Liberalism: An Essay on Epistemology and Political TheoryPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (3): 821-825. 1996.
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25Review of James Fishkin: The Dialogue of Justice: Toward a Self-Reflective Society (review)Ethics 105 (1): 186-188. 1994.
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66Utopophobia: 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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33What 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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123On 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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32Book ReviewsRobert E. Goodin, Reflective Democracy.New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 320. $46.79Ethics 115 (3): 609-614. 2005.
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6Book 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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47Book 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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163The Ideal, the Neighborhood, and the Status Quo: Gaus on the Uses of JusticeEthics 127 (4): 912-928. 2017.
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41Debate: 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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180What's So Rickety? Richardson's Non‐Epistemic DemocracyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (1): 204-204. 2007.
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13Sex, 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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1672The survival of egalitarian justice in John Rawls's political liberalismJournal of Political Philosophy 4 (1). 1996.
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974Debate: On Christiano's the constitution of equalityJournal of Political Philosophy 17 (2): 241-252. 2009.No Abstract
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10On Sunstein's InfotopiaTheoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 56 (120): 14-29. 2009.Sunstein argues that democratic theory has recently rested its normative claims on a vast but empirically uninformed optimism about the ability of collective deliberation to lead to morally and rationally better decisions. Once that question is considered empirically, he argues, deliberation turns out to be mixed at best, and a disaster at worst. I want to suggest that Sunstein exaggerates the claims of the deliberative democrats, and interprets the empirical literature against deliberation in a…Read more
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26What's So Rickety? Richardson's Non‐Epistemic DemocracyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (1): 204-204. 2007.
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984Introduction: Epistemic approaches to democracyEpisteme 5 (1). 2008.The papers published in this special issue can fairly be unified under the heading “Epistemic Democracy,” but there is more variety among them than this might indicate. They exhibit the broad range of ways in which epistemological considerations are figuring in contemporary philosophical discussions of democracy. The authors range from young and promising to established and distinguished. I'd like to introduce a few of the issues that run through the papers, sprinkling references to the actual p…Read more
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14The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and HabermasPolitical Theory 20 (4): 694-697. 1992.