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43Equality and family values: conflict or harmony?Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (3): 301-313. 2018.This paper provides a critical commentary on the claim advanced by Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift in their book Family Values: The Ethics of Parent–Child Relationships that there is an ineliminable conflict between relationship goods and fair equality of opportunity. I argue there need be no conflict between family values and equality of opportunity in a suitably non-hierarchical society. I also argue that the idea that equality of opportunity might be served by abolishing the family is mistaken…Read more
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58Just Schools and Good Childhoods: Non‐preparatory Dimensions of Educational JusticeJournal of Applied Philosophy 35 (S1): 76-89. 2018.This article offers an account of at least some of the non-preparatory dimensions of education and their significance for a theory of educational justice. I argue that just schools should play a role in facilitating goods of childhood. I also defend an egalitarian view about the access children should have in school to the resources and opportunities associated with the non-preparatory dimensions of education.
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24Liberal Neutrality Or Liberal Tolerance?Law and Philosophy 16 (5): 529-559. 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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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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217The 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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25Is memory caught in the mesh?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1): 30-30. 1997.Can memory be cast as a system that meshes events to actions? This commentary considers the concepts of mesh versus association, arguing that thus far the distinction is inadequate. However, the goal of shifting to an action-based view of memory has merit, most notably in emphasizing memory as a skill and in focusing on processes as opposed to structures.
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12Discovering and training the components of intelligenceBehavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (4): 597-598. 1980.
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34Enhanced probing of attentional bias: The independence of anxiety-linked selectivity in attentional engagement with and disengagement from negative informationCognition and Emotion 28 (7): 1287-1302. 2014.
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92Induced processing biases have causal effects on anxietyCognition and Emotion 16 (3): 331-354. 2002.
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44Making Moral Judgements and Giving Reasons (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 263-289. 2001.This essay provides a critical notice of T.M. Scanlon's book _What We Owe to Each Other. Special attention is given to assessing the success of Scanlon's theory of practical rationality as it provides a basis for his account of value and his contractualist moral theory.
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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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80Hypnosis 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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105Liberal 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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75The 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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60Manipulation 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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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |