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24Review essay: Mr. Smith does not go to WashingtonPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 37 (3): 366-386. 2007.A recent spate of books on the life and legacy of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, notably Steven B. Smith's Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, and Judaism , suggests a desperate effort to salvage Strauss and the Straussian school of political philosophy from the wreckage of American neoconservatism. Although a number of these works are quite thoughtful and helpfully counter many of the more extreme (and uglier) charges made concerning the meaning of Straussianism and its political…Read more
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17Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to EwingBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (6): 1223-1226. 2012.No abstract
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13Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual BiographyCambridge University Press. 2004.Henry Sidgwick was one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork The Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. He also wrote on economics, politics, education and literature. He was deeply involved in the founding of the first college for women at the University of Cambridge. He was also much concerned with the sexual politics of his close friend John Addington Symonds, a pioneer of gay studies. T…Read more
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17Review of Philip ironside's: The social and political thought of Bertrand Russell (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (2): 267-278. 1996.
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14Pragmatist in Chief: Further Reflections on the Pragmatism of Barack ObamaContemporary Pragmatism 8 (2): 7-15. 2011.Although U.S. President Barack Obama has often sounded the rhetorical notes of a certain type of philosophical pragmatism, his actual policies during his presidency have to date failed to address in adequate fashion the structural inequalities that seriously compromise the American democratic potential. Thus, from the perspective of a Deweyan democratic pragmatism, which could readily side with Occupy Wall Street and related movements, the Obama presidency has yet to prove that it is truly commi…Read more
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68Sidgwick's FeminismUtilitas 12 (3): 379. 2000.Henry Sidgwick shared many of the feminist concerns of John Stuart Mill and was an active reformer in the cause of higher education for women, but his feminism has never received the attention it deserves and he has in recent times been criticized for promulgating a masculinist epistemology. This essay is a prolegomenon to a comprehensive account of Sidgwick's feminism, briefly setting out various elements of his views on epistemology, equality, gender, and sexuality in order to provide some ini…Read more
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Late Modern British EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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42The Cosmos of Duty: Henry Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics by Roger CrispJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (3): 510-511. 2016.The career of Oxford philosopher Roger Crisp has produced a wonderfully rich yield of elegant, lucid philosophizing that combines in a rare mix historical erudition and brilliant, creative, and highly interdisciplinary ethical argument. Crisp is steeped in Aristotle and Mill, W. D. Ross and Derek Parfit, but his deepest source of inspiration is by his own admission the Victorian era Cambridge philosopher Henry Sidgwick, author of the famous Methods of Ethics. Although Sidgwick has been regarded …Read more
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Ross Harrison, ed., Henry Sidgwick. Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. 109 (review)Philosophy in Review 22 (2): 118-120. 2002.
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14Bertrand Russell in ethics and politics, philosophy and powerPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (3): 317-321. 1996.
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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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7Mill 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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24SidgwickIn 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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80Mill 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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