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40Taking drugs seriously: liberal paternalism and the rationality of preferencesPublic Affairs Quarterly 4 (1): 17-31. 1990.
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39Review of Debra Satz, Rob Reich (eds.), The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (11). 2009.
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31Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2016.This work offers a timely philosophical analysis of interrelated normative questions concerning immigration and citizenship in relation to the global context of multiple nation states. In it, philosophers and scholars from the social sciences address both fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy as well as specific issues concerning policy. Topics covered in this volume include: the concept and the role of citizenship, the equal rights and representation of citizens, general moral…Read more
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29Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and PoliticsPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 611. 1995.
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29Sporting Metaphors: Competition and the Ethos of CapitalismJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 34 (1): 52-67. 2007.No abstract
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26Feminist Morality (review)Philosophical Review 104 (4): 611-613. 1995.Virginia Held argues that feminism has a distinct contribution to make to morality, one that will transform theory and society by beginning from the experiences of women and children. Her main thesis is that the mother-child relation should be taken as the primary moral relation and the model, at least initially, for all other relations in society. She spends the first four of the ten chapters of this book arguing for the distinctness of feminist moral theory; then chapters 5-7, chapter 10, and …Read more
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25Missionary PositionsHypatia 20 (4): 164-182. 2005.Postcolonial feminist scholars have described some Western feminist activism as imperialistic, drawing a comparison to the work of Christian missionaries from the West, who aided in the project of colonization and assimilation of non-Western cultures to Western ideas and practices. This comparison challenges feminists who advocate global human rights ideals or objective appraisals of social practices, in effect charging them with neocolonialism. This essay defends work on behalf of universal hum…Read more
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23Beyond economic man: Feminist theory and economicsHistory of European Ideas 21 (1): 137-138. 1995.
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22Preference, rationality, and democratic theoryIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Introduction Structural Problems with Democracy as Mechanism of Social Choice Reasons to Override Individual Preferences Should Individual Preference Determine Social Decisions? Conclusion Notes Bibliography.
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17Book Review:Understanding Action: An Essay on Reasons. Frederic Schick (review)Ethics 103 (3): 570-. 1993.
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14Book ReviewsDavid Boonin,. A Defense of Abortion.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 350. $27.99Ethics 116 (4): 781-785. 2006.
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13Review of Marilyn Friedman (ed.), Women and Citizenship (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (4). 2006.
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11Missionary PositionsHypatia 20 (4): 164-182. 2000.Postcolonial feminist scholars have described some Western feminist activism as imperialistic, drawing a comparison to the work of Christian missionaries from the West, who aided in the project of colonization and assimilation of non-Western cultures to Western ideas and practices. This comparison challenges feminists who advocate global human rights ideals or objective appraisals of social practices, in effect charging them with neocolonialism. This essay defends work on behalf of universal hum…Read more
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9Review of Allan Gibbard's "Wise Choices, Apt Feelings"
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5Varieties of Feminist Liberalism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.The essays in this volume present versions of feminism that are explicitly liberal, or versions of liberalism that are explicitly feminist. By bringing together some of the most respected and well-known scholars in mainstream political philosophy today, Amy R. Baehr challenges the reader to reconsider the dominant view that liberalism and feminism are 'incompatible.'
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1Peter Vallentyne, ed., Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (4): 299-301. 1992.
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1Common Knowledge and the Theory of InteractionDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1988.The dissertation examines the concept and current theory of common knowledge, with special emphasis on its significance for interaction. I begin by examining the rational choice theory of interaction more broadly, arguing for specific desiderata of the model. I then discuss the current rational choice model of interaction, which is non-cooperative game theory, and argue that common knowledge is an essential assumption on which game theoretic explanations of interaction hinge. Game theory's accou…Read more
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IntroductionIn Win-Chiat Lee & Ann Cudd (eds.), Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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