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81Normative consent and authorityIn Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, Routledge. 2018.
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64Prime justiceIn Kevin Vallier & Michael Weber (eds.), Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates, Oup Usa. 2017.
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99Replies 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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40Precis of Utopophobia: on the limits (if any) of political philosophyPhilosophical Studies 178 (7): 2359-2364. 2020.
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15Justificatory Liberalism: An Essay on Epistemology and Political TheoryPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (3): 821-825. 1996.
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22Review of James Fishkin: The Dialogue of Justice: Toward a Self-Reflective Society (review)Ethics 105 (1): 186-188. 1994.
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36Utopophobia: 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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22What 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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90On 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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132The Ideal, the Neighborhood, and the Status Quo: Gaus on the Uses of JusticeEthics 127 (4): 912-928. 2017.
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29Debate: 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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144What's So Rickety? Richardson's Non‐Epistemic DemocracyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (1): 204-204. 2007.
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9Sex, 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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593Jeremy Waldron on law and disagreementPhilosophical Studies 99 (1): 111-128. 2000.Waldron argues that recent treatments of justice have neglected reasonable disagreement about justice itself. So Waldron offers a procedural account of democratic legitimacy, in which contending views of justice can be brought together to arrive at a decision without deciding which one is correct. However, if there is reasonable disagreement about everything, then this includes his preferred account of legitimacy. On the other hand, it is not clear that Waldron is right to count so much disagree…Read more
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556Democratic theoryIn Frank Jackson & Michael Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 208--30. 2005.
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2The Theoretical Interpretation of VotingDissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1986.The present thesis is intended as a contribution toward a Rousseauean theory of democracy. The central problem discussed is how the act of voting must be interpreted in democratic theory. The notion of a theoretical interpretation of voting is discussed in Chapter One. A theory of democracy must include an interpretation of the act of voting if any praise or criticism of democracy is to be possible. The theoretical interpretation is distinct from an empirical account of voting behavior, and also…Read more
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19Book Review:The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance. Steven Shiffrin (review)Ethics 102 (4): 871-. 1992.
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20Introduction: Epistemic Approaches to DemocracyEpisteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 5 (1): 1-4. 2008.
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209The persuasiveness of democratic majoritiesPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 3 (2): 131-142. 2004.Under the assumptions of the standard Condorcet Jury Theorem, majority verdicts are virtually certain to be correct if the competence of voters is greater than one-half, and virtually certain to be incorrect if voter competence is less than one-half. But which is the case? Here we turn the Jury Theorem on its head, to provide one way of addressing that question. The same logic implies that, if the outcome saw 60 percent of voters supporting one proposition and 40 percent the other, then average …Read more
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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