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62Reason Without Reasons: A Critique of Alan Gewirth's Moral PhilosophySouthern Journal of Philosophy 34 (3): 301-315. 2010.
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10Contents Versus Existence-Conditions: A Brief Reply to John MorssAmerican Journal of Jurisprudence 53 (1): 101-103. 2008.
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28Of final things: Morality as one of the ultimate determinants of legal validity (review)Law and Philosophy 24 (1): 47-97. 2004.
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52Crime, punishment, and responsibility: the jurisprudence of Antony Duff (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.This volume collects essays by leading criminal law theorists to explore the principal themes in his work.
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42Michael Moore on Torture, Morality, and LawRatio Juris 25 (4): 472-495. 2012.During the past few decades, Michael Moore has written incisively on an array of matters concerning the relationships between law and morality. While reflecting on those relationships, he has plumbed the nature of morality itself in impressive depth. Among the topics which he has addressed, the problem of torture has been prominent and controversial. It is a problem, moreover, that has led to some of his most searching enquiries into the character of moral obligations. In the present essay I tak…Read more
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In Defense of Legal Positivism: Law without TrimmingsPhilosophical Quarterly 50 (200): 422-425. 2000.
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72The Quality of FreedomOxford University Press. 2008.In his provocative book Matthew Kramer offers a systematic theory of freedom that challenges most of the other major contemporary treatments of the topic.
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38Freedom, unfreedom and Skinner's HobbesJournal of Political Philosophy 9 (2). 2001.In an array of writings stretching over the better part of two decades, Quentin Skinner has repeatedly challenged the modern conception of negative liberty developed by Isaiah Berlin and many other theorists. He has sought to draw attention to some once vibrant but now largely peripheral traditions of thought—especially the civic‐republican or neo‐Roman tradition—in order to highlight what he sees as the limitedness and inadequacies of the currently dominant ways of thinking about freedom. The p…Read more
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76Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical EnquiryOxford University Press. 2014.The morality of interrogational torture has been the subject of heated debate in recent years. In explaining why torture is morally wrong, Kramer engages in deep philosophical reflections on the nature of morality and on moral conflicts
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26Review of Arthur Ripstein (ed.), Ronald Dworkin (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (1). 2008.
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Consistency is hardly ever enough: reflections on Hillel Steiner's methodologyIn Stephen De Wijze, Matthew H. Kramer & Ian Carter (eds.), Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice: Themes and Challenges, Routledge. 2009.
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87No Better Reasons: A Reply to Alan GewirthSouthern Journal of Philosophy 36 (1): 131-139. 2010.Alan Gewirth has propounded a moral theory which commits him to the view that prescriptions can appropriately be addressed to people who have neither any moral reasons nor any prudential reasons to follow the prescriptions. We highlight the strangeness of Gewirth's position and then show that it undermines his attempt to come up with a supreme moral principle
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1340In Defense of HartIn Wil Waluchow & Stefan Sciaraffa (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of the Nature of Law, Oxford University Press. pp. 22. 2013.In Legality Scott Shapiro seeks to provide the motivation for the development of his own elaborate account of law by undertaking a critique of H.L.A. Hart's jurisprudential theory. Hart maintained that every legal system is underlain by a rule of recognition through which officials of the system identify the norms that belong to the system as laws. Shapiro argues that Hart's remarks on the rule of recognition are confused and that his model of lawis consequently untenable. Shapiro contends that …Read more