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141I Will If You Will: Leveraged Enhancements and Distributive JusticeIn Brian Feltham & John Cottingham (eds.), Partiality and Impartiality: Morality, Special Relationships, and the Wider World, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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429The place of self-interest and the role of power in deliberative democracyJournal of Political Philosophy 18 (1): 64-100. 2009.No Abstract
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2972Debate: Liberalism, equality, and fraternity in Cohen's critique of RawlsJournal of Political Philosophy 6 (1). 1998.
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290On 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 The present collection brings together papers, published and unpublished, spanning his writing career.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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1851Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political PhilosophyPhilosophy and Public Affairs 39 (3): 207-237. 2011.
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141What 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