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9Chapter Six. Sincerity and Institutional ValuesIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 182-224. 2015.
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448Wrongful Life, Procreative Responsibility, and the Significance of HarmLegal Theory 5 (2): 117-148. 1999.
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417Race, Labor, and the Fair Equality of Opportunity PrincipleFordham Law Review 1643-1675 (2004) 72 (5): 1643-1675. 2004.
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294Immoral, Conflicting, and Redundant PromisesIn R. Jay Wallace, Rahul Kumar & Samuel Freeman (eds.), Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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410Paternalism, Unconscionability Doctrine, and AccommodationPhilosophy and Public Affairs 29 (3): 205-250. 2000.The unconscionability doctrine in contract law enables a court to decline to enforce a contract whose terms are seriously one-sided, exploitative, or otherwise manifestly unfair. It is often criticized for being paternalist. The essay argues that the characterization of unconscionability doctrine as paternalist reflects common but misleading thought about paternalism and obscures more important issues about autonomy and social connection. The defense responds to another criticism: that unconscio…Read more
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26Are Contracts Promises? (pre-publication version)In Andrei Marmor (ed.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law, Routledge. 2012.
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3IndexIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 225-234. 2015.
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8Chapter Five. Accommodation, Equality, and the LiarIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 157-181. 2015.
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631The Incentives Argument for Intellectual Property ProtectionIn A. Gosseries, A. Marciano & A. Strowel (eds.), Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice, Palgrave Mcmillan. 2008.
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11Developments in the Law–DNA Evidence and the Criminal DefenseHarvard Law Review 108 (1): 1557-1582. 1995.
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51Chapter Three. A Thinker-Based Approach to Freedom of SpeechIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 79-115. 2015.
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36Caution about character ideals and capital punishment: A reply to SorellCriminal Justice Ethics 21 (2): 35-39. 2002.
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16Inducing Moral Deliberation: On the Occasional Virtues of FogHarvard Law Review 123 (5): 1214-1246. 2010.
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125Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the LawPrinceton University Press. 2014.To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render reliable communication possible, a demand that, Seana Shiffrin argues, yields a prohibition against lying and requires protection for free speech. This book makes a distinctive philosophical argument for the wrong of the lie and provides an original account of its difference from the wrong of deception.…Read more
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31Chapter Four. Lying and Freedom of SpeechIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 116-156. 2015.
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979The Story of West Virginia Board of Education v. BarnetteIn Michael Dorf (ed.), Constitutional Law Stories, 2nd ed., Foundation Press. 2009.
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453Egalitarianism, Choice-Sensitivity, and AccommodationIn Philip Pettit (ed.), Reason and Value: Themes from the Work of Joseph Raz, Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 270--302. 2004.
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39Promising, Intimate Relationships, and ConventionalismPhilosophical Review 117 (4): 481-524. 2008.The power to promise is morally fundamental and does not, at its foundation, derive from moral principles that govern our use of conventions. Of course, many features of promising have conventional components—including which words, gestures, or conditions of silence create commitments. What is really at issue between conventionalists and nonconventionalists is whether the basic moral relation of promissory commitment derives from the moral principles that govern our use of social conventions.Oth…Read more
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9Chapter Two. Duress and Moral ProgressIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. pp. 47-78. 2015.
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7AcknowledgmentsIn Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, Princeton University Press. 2015.
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476Intellectual PropertyIn Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Pogge (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2007.Intellectual property theory grapples with intriguing questions about the political and personal significance of our mental labour and creativity, the metaphysics of art and expression, the justifications for private property, and conflicts between property and free expression rights. This chapter begins with an introduction to the nature of intellectual property, comparing intellectual property to physical property. It continues with an overview of some arguments for, and criticisms of, the leg…Read more
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