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56Ross Harrison , Henry Sidgwick, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. vi + 122Utilitas 14 (2): 263. 2002.
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112Obama's political philosophy: Pragmatism, politics, and the university of chicagoPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (2): 127-173. 2009.In early work, I argued that Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, often represented, in his political speeches and writings, a form of philosophical pragmatism with special relations to the University of Chicago and its reform tradition. That form of pragmatism, especially evident in the work of such early figures as John Dewey and Jane Addams, and such later figures as Saul Alinsky, Abner Mikva, David Greenstone, Richard Rorty, Danielle Allen, and Cass Sunstein, contributed gr…Read more
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63Eye of the Universe: Henry Sidgwick and the Problem PublicUtilitas 14 (2): 155-188. 2002.Henry Sidgwick has gone down in the history of philosophy as both the great, classical utilitarian moral theorist who authoredThe Methods of Ethics, and an outstanding exemplar of intellectual honesty and integrity, one whose personal virtues were inseparable from his philosophical strengths and method. Yet this construction of Sidgwick the philosopher has been based on a too limited understanding of Sidgwick's casuistry and leading practical ethical concerns. As his friendship with John Addingt…Read more
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28Review 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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15Henry 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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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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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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71Sidgwick'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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15Pragmatist 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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Late Modern British EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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44The 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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14Bertrand Russell in ethics and politics, philosophy and powerPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (3): 317-321. 1996.
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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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