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13Making Moral Judgements and Giving Reasons: Critical Notice of (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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214The 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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30Brief 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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24Putting retrieval-induced forgetting in context: An inhibition-free, context-based accountPsychological Review 120 (4): 852-872. 2013.
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19Rational Woman: A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy 2nd editionContemporary Political Theory 2 (3): 383-385. 2003.
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24The 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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64Liberal equality and the affective familyIn David Archard & Colin M. Macleod (eds.), The Moral and Political Status of Children, Oxford University Press. pp. 212--230. 2002.Inequalities that arise because of the influence of arbitrary factors of social or natural contingency, as opposed to choices, are unjust. But whilst liberals wish to preserve and protect the affective family, parental partiality to their own children can result in an inequality that is unjust on account of it being attributable to arbitrary factors. Children's access to resources and opportunities should not be significantly determined by parental entitlement to resources. Justice requires not …Read more
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21Cross-modal recognition of pictures and descriptions without test-appropriate encodingBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 24 (1): 21-24. 1986.
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21How Victim Sensitivity leads to Uncooperative Behavior via Expectancies of InjusticeFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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17Justice, educational equality, and sufficiencyIn Colin Murray Macleod (ed.), Justice and equality, University of Calgary Press. pp. 151-175. 2010.
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395Gilabert on the Feasibility of Global JusticeLes 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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11Are implicit and explicit tests differentially sensitive to item-specific versus relational informationIn S. Lewandowsky, J. M. Dunn & K. Kirsner (eds.), Implicit Memory: Theoretical Issues, Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 159--172. 1989.
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Samuel Freeman, Justice and the Social Contract: Essays on Rawlsian Political PhilosophyPhilosophy in Review 29 (6): 408. 2009.
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12Liberalism, Justice, and Markets: A Critique of Liberal EqualityOxford University Press UK. 1998.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
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24Is 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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10Discovering and training the components of intelligenceBehavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (4): 597-598. 1980.
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87Induced processing biases have causal effects on anxietyCognition and Emotion 16 (3): 331-354. 2002.
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32Enhanced 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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55Making Moral Judgements and Giving Reasons: Critical Notice of (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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40Justice, 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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78Hypnosis 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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27Anxiety-linked expectancy bias across the adult lifespanCognition and Emotion 27 (2): 345-355. 2013.
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