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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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25Book Review:The Quality of Life. Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen (review)Ethics 105 (1): 198-. 1994.
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34Gewirth: Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and CommunityRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.As one of the most important ethicists to emerge since the Second World War, Alan Gewirth continues to influence philosophical debates concerning morality. In this ground-breaking book, Gewirth's neo-Kantianism, and the communitarian problems discussed, form a dialogue on the foundation of moral theory. Themes of agent-centered constraints, the formal structure of theories, and the relationship between freedom and duty are examined along with such new perspectives as feminism, the Stoics, and Sa…Read more
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60Book Review:Liberalism, Community, and Culture. Will Kymlicka (review)Ethics 103 (1): 152-. 1992.
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10Nine commentators: A brief responseJournal of Social Philosophy 22 (3): 100-118. 1991.So much of the work that we do as philosophers is published without much critical commentary from our colleagues. Only rarely do we have the chance to improve our work through the extensive critical analysis of our colleagues. That is why I am very grateful to have this opportunity to benefit from the valuable critical analysis that the contributors to this volume have directed at my practical reconciliation argument for making people just. While in this brief response I cannot hope to discuss a…Read more
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53Skeptical theism and the challenge of atheismInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 85 (2): 173-191. 2019.Skeptical theists hold that we should be skeptical about our ability to know the reasons that God would have for permitting evil, at least in particular cases. They argue for their view by setting aside actions that are wrong in themselves and focusing their attention on actions that are purportedly right or wrong simply in terms of their consequences. However, I argue in this paper that once skeptical theists are led to take into account actions that are wrong in themselves, as they must, they …Read more
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33Hills , Alison . The Beloved Self: Morality and the Challenge from Egoism .Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+266. $55.00 (cloth) (review)Ethics 121 (3): 661-664. 2011.
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83Book ReviewsLiam Murphy,, and Thomas Nagel,. The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice.New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. ix+228. $25.00 (review)Ethics 114 (3): 628-631. 2004.
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10Response to Narveson on the Refugees ProblemInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 31 (1): 89-92. 2017.
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11Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers (edited book)Oup Usa. 2001.This a collection of contemporary popular and scholarly writing on the subject of sexual harassment. The book is designed to clarify and enrich understanding of a topic that in recent years, especially in the United States, has been the subject of contentious debate in the media, the law, and the academy. The book's variety of political analysis, legal theory, philosophical debate, multicultural and international perspectives, regulatory documents, and Supreme Court case law is unprecedented in …Read more
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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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18A Biocentrist Strikes BackEnvironmental Ethics 20 (4): 361-376. 1998.Biocentrists are criticized for being biased in favor of the human species, for basing their view on an ecology that is now widely challenged, and for failing to reasonably distinguish the life that they claim has intrinsic value from the animate and inanimate things that they claim lack intrinsic value. In this paper, I show how biocentrism can be defended against these three criticisms, thus permitting biocentrists to justifiably appropriate the salutation, “Let the life force be with you.”
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25Comments on Pell’s “The Nature of Claims About Race and the Debate Over Racial Preferences”International Journal of Applied Philosophy 18 (1): 27-33. 2004.In my comments on Mr. Pell’s paper, I consider the premises of his argument against diversity affirmative action showing how these premises can be either reasonably rejected or reformulated so that what remains from his argument is a set of premises that supports, or at least is consistent with, a defense of diversity affirmative action.
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40The Triumph of Practice over Theory in EthicsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 19 (2): 265-269. 2005.In this introduction, I summarize the main themes of my book, particularly those that my critics have focused on in their papers that follow. I also argue that I could not have reached the conclusions that I have if I hadn’t employed a peacemaking rather than a warmaking way of doing philosophy. I provide a characterization of a peacemaking way of doing philosophy and show how the conclusions of my book depend on doing philosophy in that way.
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