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    Toleration, Children and Education
    Educational 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.
  •  14
    Making Moral Judgements and Giving Reasons (review)
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 263-289. 2001.
  •  1
    Liberalism, Justice and Markets
    Dissertation, 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
  •  216
    The moral and political status of children
    Philosophical 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.
  •  407
    Gilabert on the Feasibility of Global Justice
    Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 8 (2): 97-109. 2013.
    In this article, I discuss the analysis of the feasibility of global justice developed by Pablo Gilabert in his recent book From Global Poverty to Global Equality: A Philosophical Exploration. Gilabert makes many valuable contributions to this topic and I agree with most of his analysis. However, I identify a distinction between strategic justification and moral justification that Gilabert neglects. I show how this distinction is useful in addressing objections to the feasibility of global justi…Read more
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    Are implicit and explicit tests differentially sensitive to item-specific versus relational information
    with John N. Bassili
    In S. Lewandowsky, J. M. Dunn & K. Kirsner (eds.), Implicit Memory: Theoretical Issues, Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 159--172. 1989.
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    This important new study presents a systematic and definitive critique of Ronald Dworkin's highly influential theory of liberal equality. Focusing on the connection Dworkin attempts to establish between economic markets and liberal egalitarian political morality, the study examines his contention that markets have an indispensable role to play in the articulation of liberal ideals of distributive justice, individual liberty, and state neutrality. Subjecting the central tenents of this theory to …Read more
  •  25
    Is 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.
  •  12
    Discovering and training the components of intelligence
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (4): 597-598. 1980.
  •  92
    Induced processing biases have causal effects on anxiety
    with Andrew Mathews
    Cognition and Emotion 16 (3): 331-354. 2002.
  •  1
    Children and Political Theory (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2002.
  •  57
    Making 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.
  •  41
    Justice, Educational Equality, and Sufficiency
    Canadian 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
  •  79
    Hypnosis 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
  •  35
    Anxiety-linked expectancy bias across the adult lifespan
    with Shari A. Steinman, Frederick L. Smyth, Romola S. Bucks, and Bethany A. Teachman
    Cognition and Emotion 27 (2): 345-355. 2013.
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    Examining attentional biases underlying trait anxiety in younger and older adults
    with Melissa M. Burgess, Cindy M. Cabeleira, Isabel Cabrera, and Romola S. Bucks
    Cognition and Emotion 28 (1): 84-97. 2014.
  •  69
    Toleration, children and education
    Educational 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.
  •  132
    Liberal 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
  •  40
    Emotion Regulation and the Cognitive-Experimental Approach to Emotional Dysfunction
    with Romola S. Bucks
    Emotion 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
  •  74
    The Moral and Political Status of Children (edited book)
    with David Archard and Colin M. Macleod
    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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    Judging in Good Faith
    Philosophical Review 103 (3): 559. 1994.