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20Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change PolicyOxford University Press. 2021."Although the task of formulating an appropriate policy response to the problem of anthropogenic climate change is one that raises a number of very difficult normative issues, environmental ethicists have not played an influential role in government deliberations. This is primarily due to their rejection of many of the assumptions that structure the debates over policy. This book offers a philosophical defense of these assumptions, in order to overcome the major conceptual barriers to the partic…Read more
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19Business Ethics Quarterly: Business Ethics and the Theory of the FirmBusiness Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 144-145. 2008.
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18Ethical Issues in Physician Billing Under Fee-For-Service PlansJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 45 (1): 86-104. 2020.Medical ethics has become an important and recognized component of physician training. There is one area, however, in which medical students receive little guidance. There is practically no discussion of the financial aspects of medical practice. My objective in this paper is to initiate a discussion about the moral dimension of physician billing practices. I argue that physicians should expand their conception of professional responsibility in order to recognize that their moral obligations tow…Read more
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15The Transcendental Necessity of MoralityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (2): 378-395. 2003.David Gauthier tries to defend morality by showing that rational agents would choose to adopt a fundamental choice disposition that permits them to cooperate in prisoner's dilemmas. In this paper, I argue that Gauthier, rather than trying to work out a prudential justification for his favored choice disposition, should opt for a transcendental justification. I argue that the disposition in question is the product of socialization, not rational choice. However, only agents who are socialized in s…Read more
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13Response to NarvesonDialogue 42 (2): 373-. 2003.I would like to start by thanking Jan Narveson for his time and for the attention that he has shown to my book, The Efficient Society. As someone with broadly left-wing sympathies, I am acutely aware of the lamentable tendency that leftists have of spending their time arguing exclusively with the people who are closest to them on the political spectrum. I have always hoped to avoid that trap. Thus it has been extremely gratifying to see my book provoke unsolicited critical response from, among o…Read more
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13Review essay : Habermas and speech-act theory: Maeve Cooke, Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994) (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 21 (4): 141-147. 1995.
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12In Our Best Interest: A Defense of Paternalism, Jason Hanna. Oxford University Press, 2018, xiii + 271 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 36 (2): 307-312. 2020.
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12Business Ethics Quarterly: Business Ethics and the Theory of the FirmBusiness Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 436-437. 2008.
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10Rational Choice with Deontic ConstraintsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 361-388. 2001.Anyone who has ever lived with roommates understands the Hobbesian state of nature implicitly. People sharing accommodations quickly discover that buying groceries, doing the dishes, sweeping the floor, and a thousand other household tasks, are all prisoner's dilemmas waiting to happen. For instance, if food is purchased communally, it gives everyone an incentive to overconsume. Individuals also have an incentive to buy expensive items that the others are unlikely to want. As a result, everyone'…Read more
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10Book Reviews : William Outhwaite, Habermas: A Critical Introduction. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1994. Pp. 194. $14.50 (paper), $35.00 (cloth). Demetrius Teigas, Knowledge and Hermeneutic Understanding: A Study of the Habermas-Gadamer Debate. Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA, 1995. Pp. 225. $39.50 (cloth (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (4): 567-572. 1996.
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10Why a UBI Will Never Be High EnoughJournal of Applied Philosophy 41 (2): 289-305. 2024.Schemes to replace traditional welfare programmes with a universal basic income (UBI) are sometimes presented as a way to reduce overall economic inequality. But because they lower the implicit marginal taxation rate of individuals entering the workforce, they have the effect of increasing economic inequality between those who opt out of the workforce and those who choose to participate. This article examines the effect that an increase in this income gap can be expected to have on the perceived…Read more
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8Response to NarvesonDialogue 42 (2): 373-378. 2003.I would like to start by thanking Jan Narveson for his time and for the attention that he has shown to my book, The Efficient Society. As someone with broadly left-wing sympathies, I am acutely aware of the lamentable tendency that leftists have of spending their time arguing exclusively with the people who are closest to them on the political spectrum. I have always hoped to avoid that trap. Thus it has been extremely gratifying to see my book provoke unsolicited critical response from, among o…Read more
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6Christopher Morris and Arthur Ripstein, eds., Practical Rationality and Preference: Essays for David Gauthier Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (3): 206-208. 2002.
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6An Explicitative Conception of Moral TheoryIn Jacob Levy, Jocelyn Maclure & Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 160-181. 2020.
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5Why a UBI Will Never Be High EnoughJournal of Applied Philosophy 41 (2): 289-305. 2024.Schemes to replace traditional welfare programmes with a universal basic income (UBI) are sometimes presented as a way to reduce overall economic inequality. But because they lower the implicit marginal taxation rate of individuals entering the workforce, they have the effect of increasing economic inequality between those who opt out of the workforce and those who choose to participate. This article examines the effect that an increase in this income gap can be expected to have on the perceived…Read more
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3VSerge-Christophe Kolm, Justice and Equity Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (2): 113-115. 1999.
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3John Roemer, Theories of Distributive Justice Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (2): 124-126. 1997.
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3Christopher McMahon, Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (1): 53-56. 2003.
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2On the Scope of Egalitarian JusticeLes Ateliers de L’Ethique 1 (1): 21-41. 2006.It is not clear whether the social contract is supposed to merely supplement the unequal gains that individuals are able to make through the exercise of their natural endowments with a set of equal gains secured through social cooperation, or whether the social contract must also compensate individuals for the effects of these natural inequalities, so that they literally become all equal. The issue concerns, in effect, whether natural inequality falls within the scope of egalitarian justice. I t…Read more
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1Jürgen HabermasIn John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Transcendental Arguments The Linguistic Turn Differences From Apel.
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1Christopher McMahon, Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning (review)Philosophy in Review 23 53-56. 2003.
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Thorstein Veblen and American social criticismIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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The contribution of economics to business ethicsIn Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis & Alexei M. Marcoux (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics, Routledge. 2018.
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Justice : transcendental not metaphysicalIn James Gordon Finlayson & Fabian Freyenhagen (eds.), Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, Rouledge. 2010.
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Rawls on Global Justice: A DefenceIn Daniel M. Weinstock (ed.), Global Justice, Global Institutions, University of Calgary Press. pp. 31--193. 2007.
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