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3Review of Milton Fisk: Ethics and society: a Marxist interpretation of value (review)Ethics 93 (2): 391-392. 1983.
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3Morality and Self-InterestPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (2): 525-531. 1999.Kurt Baier’s The Rational and the Moral Order, is the long-awaited sequel to his The Moral Point of View. Like the earlier work, Baier’s new book provides a characterization and defense of morality. It begins with a general account of reason, moves on to a detailed account of practical reason which includes an important distinction between “self-anchored” and “society-anchored” reasons. Morality is then characterized and defended as a system of society-anchored reasons. To illustrate its practic…Read more
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2Liberalism and the challenge of communitarianismIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: A Moral Conception of the Good A Conception of the Good with Positive Rights A Conception of the Good Requiring Socialist Equality A Partial Rather than a Complete Conception of the Good Acknowledgment Notes Bibliography.
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2Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?Cambridge University Press. 2010.Are the political ideals of liberty and equality compatible? This question is of central and continuing importance in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and welfare economics. In this book, two distinguished philosophers take up the debate. Jan Narveson argues that a political ideal of negative liberty is incompatible with any substantive ideal of equality, while James P. Sterba argues that Narveson's own ideal of negative liberty is compatible, and in fact leads to the requirements of a su…Read more
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2The Varieties of LibertyPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 588-593. 1988.
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1Toulmin to RawlsIn Robert J. Cavalier, James Gouinlock & James P. Sterba (eds.), Ethics in the history of western philosophy, St. Martin's Press. pp. 399--420. 1989.
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1A Defense of Diversity Affirmative ActionIn Tom L. Beauchamp, Norman E. Bowie & Denis Gordon Arnold (eds.), Ethical Theory and Business, Pearson/prentice Hall. pp. 212. 2008.
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1Review of Will Kymlicka: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (review)Ethics 103 (1): 152-154. 1992.
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Comments on Pell's the nature of claims about race and the debate over racial preferencesInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 18 (1): 27-33. 2004.
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Liberty & Equality: No Dogs or Philosophers AllowedDVD. forthcoming.Is political discourse an impotent spectator to the ongoing exercise of political power? Can we ever resolve the tensions between the political values of liberty and equality? With Drew Arrowood, Lawrence Hatab, and James Sterba
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JusticeIn Andrew Dobson & Robyn Eckersley (eds.), Political theory and the ecological challenge, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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Towards Reconciliation in Ethics'In Hugh LaFollette - (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, Blackwell. pp. 420--41. 2000.
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Political philosophyIn Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2--718. 1999.
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Moral Approaches to Nuclear Strategy: A Critical EvaluationCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 12 (n/a): 75. 1986.
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Liberty & Equality: DvdMilk Bottle Productions. 2002.Is political discourse an impotent spectator to the ongoing exercise of political power? Can we ever resolve the tensions between the political values of liberty and equality? With Drew Arrowood, Lawrence Hatab, and James Sterba
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