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12Review of Kent Greenawalt: Private Consciences and Public Reasons (review)Ethics 107 (2): 358-361. 1997.
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105Normative consent and authorityIn Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, Routledge. 2018.
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106Prime justiceIn Kevin Vallier & Michael Weber (eds.), Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates, Oup Usa. 2017.
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125Replies 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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47Precis 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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25Review of James Fishkin: The Dialogue of Justice: Toward a Self-Reflective Society (review)Ethics 105 (1): 186-188. 1994.
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59Utopophobia: 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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28What 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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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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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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149The 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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162What'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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295On Sunstein's InfotopiaTheoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 56 (119): 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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23Legislative Intent and Other Essays on Law, Politics and MoralityPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 605. 1995.Gerald MacCallum taught philosophy at the University of Wisconsin from 1961 until 1977. The stroke he suffered in that year prevented him from further teaching. He continued to write, even through the crippling effects of a second stroke, until his death in 1987. His final project was the Prentice Hall Foundations in Philosophy book, Political Philosophy. The present collection brings together papers, published and unpublished, spanning his writing career. I hope in this short space to convey so…Read more
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1873Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political PhilosophyPhilosophy and Public Affairs 39 (3): 207-237. 2011.
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146What Good Is It? Unrealistic Political Theory and the Value of Intellectual WorkAnalyse & Kritik 33 (2): 395-416. 2011.Suppose justice depends on some very unlikely good behavior. In that case the true (or correct, or best) theory of justice might have no practical value. But then, what good would it be? I consider analogies with science and mathematics in order to test various ways of tying their the value of intellectual work to practice, though I argue that these fail. If their value, or that of some political theory, is not practical then what is good about them? As for political theory, I consider the quest…Read more
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278Democratic Authority: A Philosophical FrameworkPrinceton University Press. 2008.Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no expertise? Many theories of democracy answer by appealing to the intrinsic value of democratic procedure, leaving aside whether it makes good decisions. In Democratic Authority, David Estlund offers a groundbreaking alternative based on the idea that democratic authority and legitimacy must depend partly on democracy's tendency to make good decisions.Just as with verdicts in jury trials, Es…Read more
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1162The insularity of the reasonable: Why political liberalism must admit the truthEthics 108 (2): 252-275. 1998.
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20Book Review:Private Consciences and Public Reasons. Kent Greenawalt (review)Ethics 107 (2): 358-. 1997.