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3Autonomy and Self Respect By Thomas E. HillJr. Cambridge University Press, 1991, 218 pp., £27.50, £9.95 paper (review)Philosophy 67 (262): 561-563. 1992.
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8Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Justice and DevelopmentPhilosophical Books 28 (1): 45-46. 1987.
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33Forgiveness and revenge by Trudy Govier London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 205+X, £14.99 (review)Philosophy 79 (1): 146-149. 2004.
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38Defending the bad against the worse: Education and democracyStudies in Philosophy and Education 12 (1): 21-31. 1993.Recent writings in philosophy of education have expressed pessimism about the possibility of educating students to think for themselves. Similarly, recent writings in political philosophy have expressed pessimism about the possibility of attaining democracy. In this paper, I suggest that such pessimism is premature and may be alleviated, if not removed, by interpreting both educational enlightenment and the democratic ideal as processes, rather than end states. They are, moreover, processes whic…Read more
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10Democratic Dirty HandsIn Karl Marker, Annette Schmitt & Jürgen Sirsch (eds.), Demokratie und Entscheidung. Beiträge zur Analytischen Politischen Theorie, Springer. pp. 169-179. 2018.There is widespread agreement that politics calls for dirty hands in general, and for secrecy and duplicity in particular. The claim is, of course, most famously made by Machiavelli in The Prince, but it is also to be found in Book 3 of Plato’s Republic. However, in arguing that politics calls for duplicity, neither Plato nor Machiavelli was writing about democratic societies, and we might therefore wonder whether, in democratic societies, the problem of dirty hands should be differently underst…Read more
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1Other Human Beings By David Cockburn London: Macmillan, 1990, 240 pp., £40.00 (review)Philosophy 66 (258): 529-531. 1991.
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7Bernard Williams, Shame and Necessity , pp.254. ISBN 0-520-08046-7. £18.50 (review)Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 13 (1-2): 104-118. 1994.
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88Book ReviewsAnna Elisabetta. Galeotti, Toleration as Recognition.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 242. $60.00 (review)Ethics 113 (3): 699-702. 2003.
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37Book Review: Why Tolerate Religion? by Brian LeiterWhy Tolerate Religion? By LeiterBrian, Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 187 + xv (review)Political Theory 41 (5): 766-769. 2013.
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2Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics By Christine Battersby The Women's Press, 1989, viii + 161 pp., £12.95 (review)Philosophy 65 (254): 525-526. 1990.
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11All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men: justifying higher educationJournal of Philosophy of Education 26 (2): 173-182. 1992.This article addresses the question‘What is the justification of higher education in modern society?’ It takes issue with writers such as Alasdair Macintyre and Allan Bloom, who argue that the fragmentation of value characteristic of modernity has undermined the possibility of providing a coherent justification of higher education. Against MacIntyre and Bloom, I argue that we should understand education as a means of developing reflective consciousness in students, and that that will require fra…Read more
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38All the King's horses and all the King's men: Justifying higher educationJournal of Philosophy of Education 26 (2). 1992.ABSTRACT This article addresses the question‘What is the justification of higher education in modern society?’ It takes issue with writers such as Alasdair Macintyre and Allan Bloom, who argue that the fragmentation of value characteristic of modernity has undermined the possibility of providing a coherent justification of higher education. Against MacIntyre and Bloom, I argue that we should understand education as a means of developing reflective consciousness in students, and that that will re…Read more
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3A Theory of Value and Obligation By Robin Attfield Croom Helm, 1987, 262 pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 63 (245): 406-407. 1988.
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IntroductionIn John Horton & Susan Mendus (eds.), Aspects of Toleration: Philosophical Studies, Methuen. 1985.
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142On toleration (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1987.Is toleration a requirement of morality or a dictate of prudence? What limits are there to toleration? What is required of us if we are to promote a truly tolerant society? These themes--the grounds, limits, and requirements of toleration--are central to this book, which presents the W.B. Morrell Memorial Lectures on Toleration, given in 1986 at the University of York. Covering a wide range of practical and theoretical issues, the contributors--including F.A. Hayek, Maurice Cranston, and Karl Po…Read more
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1Bernard Williams, Shame and Necessity (California and Oxford: University of California Press, 1993), pp.254. ISBN 0-520-08046-7. £18.50 (review)Polis 13 (1-2): 104-118. 1994.
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125Aspects of toleration: philosophical studies (edited book)Methuen. 1985.Introduction JOHN HORTON AND SUSAN MENDUS The essays in this volume are concerned with the theoretical and conceptual issues involved in the idea of ...
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1032After Macintyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair Macintyre (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 1994.After MacIntyre contains original essays by leading moral and political philosophers who assess both the merits and limitations of Alasdair MacIntyre's work. Among the themes explored here are MacIntyre's historical arguments about the sources of the failure of modernity; the validity and relevance of his attempt to reinstate the ideas of Aristotle and Aquinas as central to any satisfactory moral understanding; the effectiveness of his critique of modern liberalism; and the adequacy of key conce…Read more
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12Review of Russell Hardin: Morality within the limits of reason (review)Ethics 101 (1): 183-185. 1990.
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19Contingency in Political PhilosophyPhilosophia 45 (2): 477-486. 2017.The paper examines John Horton’s realist political theory, in particular his critique of John Rawls’s “high” or “liberal moralism”, and seeks to determine the extent to which, together with Horton, we would have reasons to leave Rawls’s and other Rawlsian accounts behind. The paper argues that some of the insights of Horton’s realism are mistaken, whereas many of those which are not mistaken are compatible with liberal moralism correctly understood. The argument is also formulated in terms of co…Read more