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3Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (5): 343-346. 1994.
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8Mill on Nationality (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (4): 567-568. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.4 (2003) 567-568 [Access article in PDF] Georgios Varouxakis. Mill on Nationality. New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. ix + 169. Cloth $80.00. Georgios Varouxakis is a leader in the new generation of Mill scholars, and his work is exciting and provocative. Well-versed in recent debates over nationalism, colonialism, orientalism, and racism, he aims to address rather than avoid questions about Mill's…Read more
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1Kenneth Blackwell and Harry Ruja, A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (2): 80-83. 1995.
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5Voice, gender, sex: Pragmatism old and newPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (2): 206-206. 1999.
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26SidgwickIn Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2013.This chapter discusses the life and ethical philosophy of Henry Sidgwick. His masterpiece, The Methods of Ethics, first published in 1874, marks the culmination of the classical and nontheological utilitarian tradition, which took ‘the greatest happiness’ as the fundamental normative demand. Sidgwick was also a reformer who always advocated education as the crucial issue for historical progress, in ethics, economics, politics, and other areas. His practical ethics, often only indirectly utilitar…Read more
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85Mill and Sidgwick, imperialism and racismUtilitas 19 (1): 104-130. 2007.This essay is in effect something of a self-review of my book Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe and of the volume, co-edited with Georgios Varouxakis, Utilitarianism and Empire . My chief concern here is to go beyond those earlier works in underscoring the arbitrariness of the dominant contextualist and reconstructive historical accounts of J. S. Mill and Henry Sidgwick on the subjects of race and racism. The forms of racism are many, and simple historical accuracy suggests that both Mill and …Read more
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18Introduction: Bertrand Russell in ethics and politics, the vicissitudes of growth and powerPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (2): 157-161. 1996.
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176The methods of J. B. SchneewindUtilitas 16 (2): 146-167. 2004.J. B. Schneewind's Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy was the single best philosophical commentary on Henry Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics produced in the twentieth century. Although Schneewind was primarily concerned to read Sidgwick's ethical theory in its historical context, as reflecting the controversies generated by such figures as J. S. Mill, F. D. Maurice, and William Whewell, his reading also ended up being highly neo-Kantian, reflecting various Rawlsian priorities. As valua…Read more
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82Comment: The Private and Its Problems—Pragmatism, Pragmatist Feminism, and HomophobiaPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (2): 281-305. 1999.The pragmatist revival of recent decades has in some respects obscured the radical emancipatory potential of Deweyan pragmatism. The author suggests that neo-pragmatists such as Richard Rorty have too often failed to grasp the ways in which Dewey's notion of social intelligence was bound up with the case for participatory democracy, and that recent efforts to bring out the potential of pragmatism for supporting certain forms of feminist and gay critical theory make for a more compelling reconstr…Read more
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9Nicholas Capaldi, John Stuart Mill: A Biography:John Stuart Mill: A BiographyEthics 115 (3): 601-605. 2005.
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Kenneth Blackwell and Harry Ruja, A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell (review)Philosophy in Review 15 80-83. 1995.
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32Essays on Henry Sidgwick (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1992.The dominant moral philosophy of nineteenth-century Britain was utilitarianism, beginning with Bentham and ending with Sidgwick. Though once overshadowed by his immediate predecessors in that tradition, Sidgwick is now regarded as a figure of great importance in the history of moral philosophy. Indeed his masterpiece, The Methods of Ethics, has been described by John Rawls as the 'most philosophically profound' of the classical utilitarian works. In this volume a distinguished group of philosoph…Read more
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57Review essay: John Rawls's last wordPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (1): 107-114. 2009.Although no one can deny the profound importance of John Rawls's work in political philosophy, which covered both an original theory of justice and extensive work and teaching on the history of moral and political philosophy, we are now at the point where his contributions more clearly suggest certain historical limitations. Such topics as gender justice, racial justice, and environmental justice figured in Rawls's work only belatedly and in less than satisfactory ways. Surely the wide influence…Read more
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34British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing, by Hurka, Thomas: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. xiv+ 310, £30Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (3): 611-614. 2016.
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