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17Toleration, Children and EducationEducational Philosophy and Theory 42 (1): 9-21. 2010.The paper explores challenges for the interpretation of the ideal toleration that arise in educational contexts involving children. It offers an account of how a respect‐based conception of toleration can help to resolve controversies about the accommodation and response to diversity that arise in schools.
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14Making Moral Judgements and Giving Reasons (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 263-289. 2001.
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1Liberalism, Justice and MarketsDissertation, Cornell University. 1993.This dissertation examines Ronald Dworkin's liberal theory of political morality. According to Dworkin, liberalism must be conceived as a species of egalitarianism. It provides an interpretation of what is held to be the most fundamental demand of political morality, namely that individuals be regarded as equal moral persons and as entitled consequently to equal concern and respect. I evaluate Dworkin's interpretation of egalitarianism, particularly as this exhibits itself in his theory of equal…Read more
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216The moral and political status of childrenPhilosophical Quarterly 54 (216): 490-492. 2004.The book contains original essays by distinguished moral and political philosophers on the topic of the moral and political status of children. It covers the themes of children's rights, parental rights and duties, the family and justice, and civic education.
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41Justice, Educational Equality, and SufficiencyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 40 (S1): 151-175. 2010.Among the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of condition among the people. (de Tocqueville 1990, 7)There are significant inequalities in the lives of America's children, including inequalities in the education that these children receive. These educational inequalities include not only disparities in funding per pupil but also in class size, teacher qualification, and resources such as books, l…Read more
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79Hypnosis and the control of attention: Where to from here?Consciousness and Cognition 20 (2): 321-324. 2011.Can suggestion, particularly hypnotic suggestion, influence cognition? Addressing this intriguing question experimentally is on the rise in cognitive research, nowhere more prevalently than in the domain of cognitive control and attention. This may well rest on the intuitive connection between hypnotic suggestion and attention, where the hypnotist controls the subject’s attention. Particularly impressive has been the work of Raz and his colleagues demonstrating the modulation and even the comple…Read more
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35Anxiety-linked expectancy bias across the adult lifespanCognition and Emotion 27 (2): 345-355. 2013.
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36Examining attentional biases underlying trait anxiety in younger and older adultsCognition and Emotion 28 (1): 84-97. 2014.
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69Toleration, children and educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 42 (1): 9-21. 2010.The paper explores challenges for the interpretation of the ideal toleration that arise in educational contexts involving children. It offers an account of how a respect-based conception of toleration can help to resolve controversies about the accommodation and response to diversity that arise in schools.
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132Liberal neutrality or liberal tolerance?Law and Philosophy 16 (5). 1997.This paper explores tensions in Ronald Dworkin's liberal theory (and liberalism more generally) about the appropriate relationship of the state to the different conceptions of the good that may be adopted by its citizens. Liberal theory generally supposes that the state must exhibit a kind of impartiality to different conceptions of the good. This impartiality is often thought to be captured by an anti-perfectionist ideal of liberal neutrality. But neutrality is often criticized as an ideal that…Read more
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58If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? G. A. Cohen. Harvard University Press, 2000, xi + 233 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 18 (2): 351-385. 2002.
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40Emotion Regulation and the Cognitive-Experimental Approach to Emotional DysfunctionEmotion Review 3 (1): 62-73. 2011.Since the 1980s, there has been a steady growth of interest in the psychological mechanisms that regulate normal emotional experience. In this same period, cognitive-experimental researchers have sought to delineate the information processing biases that characterize emotional disorders. Exciting potential synergies exist between these two areas of investigation. In this article, we consider ways in which reciprocal benefits could be gained by the constructive transfer of theoretical ideas and m…Read more
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24Anxiety-linked task performance: Dissociating the influence of restricted working memory capacity and increased investment of effortCognition and Emotion 23 (4): 753-781. 2009.No abstract
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46Biased attentional engagement with, and disengagement from, negative information: Independent cognitive pathways to anxiety vulnerability?Cognition and Emotion 28 (2): 245-259. 2014.
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74The Moral and Political Status of Children (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2002.The book contains original essays by distinguished moral and political philosophers on the topic of the moral and political status of children. It covers the themes of children's rights, parental rights and duties, the family and justice, and civic education.
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13Robert S. Taylor, Reconstructing Rawls: The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 32 (2): 149-150. 2012.
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33How Priming Affects Two Speeded Implicit Tests of Remembering: Naming Colors versus Reading WordsConsciousness and Cognition 5 (1-2): 73-90. 1995.Three experiments investigated two timed implicit tests of memory—word reading and color naming. Using the study–test procedure, Experiments 1 and 2 showed that studied words caused reliable facilitation in word reading but no interference in color naming relative to unstudied words. Indeed, there was a small amount of facilitation in color naming as well. Experiment 3 further explored the color naming task by alternating shorter study and test intervals and adding control trials consisting of l…Read more
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59Manipulation of Attention at Study Affects an Explicit but Not an Implicit Test of MemoryConsciousness and Cognition 5 (1-2): 165-175. 1995.We investigated the impact of attention during encoding on later retrieval. During study, participants read some words aloud and named the print color of other words aloud . Then one of two memory tests was administered. The explicit test—recognition—required conscious recollection of whether a word was studied. Previously read words were recognized more accurately than were previously color named words. This contrasted sharply with performance on the implicit test—repetition priming in lexical …Read more
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211The Stroop task in cognitive researchIn Amy Wenzel & David C. Rubin (eds.), Cognitive Methods and Their Application to Clinical Research, American Psychological Association. pp. 17--40. 2005.
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Laurence Thomas, The Family and the Political Self Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 27 (4): 302-304. 2007.
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26Justice and equality (edited book)University of Calgary Press. 2010.Equality is a fundamental but contested facet of justice. There are competing views about how the basic egalitarian character of justice should be conceptualized and about what practical implications ideals of equality have for the evaluation of political institutions, laws, and social practices. This volume brings together the reflections of some of today's leading political philosophers on the basic character and practical significance of equality as an ideal of justice. The topics explored ar…Read more
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58Freedom as non-domination and educational justiceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 18 (4): 456-469. 2015.
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25Putting retrieval-induced forgetting in context: An inhibition-free, context-based accountPsychological Review 120 (4): 852-872. 2013.
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33Brief report negative selectivity effects and emotional selectivity effects in anxiety: Differential attentional correlates of state and trait variablesCognition and Emotion 18 (5): 711-720. 2004.
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26The Nature of Children's Well-being: Theory and Practice (edited book)Springer. 2014.This book presents new findings that deal with different facets of the well-being of children and their relevance to the proper treatment of children. The well-being of children is considered against the background of a wide variety of legal, political, medical, educational and familial perspectives. The book addresses diverse issues from a range of disciplinary perspectives using a variety of methods. It has three major sections with the essays in each section loosely organized about a common g…Read more
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19Rational Woman: A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy 2nd editionContemporary Political Theory 2 (3): 383-385. 2003.
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