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32Kant’s Doctrine of the SelfKant Studien 75 (1-4): 55-64. 1984.I argue that, Pace bennett, Strawson and others, The paralogisms chapter of the "first critique" does not present a theory of personal identity. In particular, It is not an attempt to answer hume's questions in the 'of personal identity' chapter of the "treatise". Kant shows why hume's search for a continuing self is misguided, But his aim is to warn against inflating the conclusions of the paralogisms, Not to present a theory of personal identity
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31The Serpent and the DovePhilosophy 63 (245). 1988.In his essay ‘The Simple Art of Murder’, Raymond Chandler describes the world of the American detective story as ‘a world in which gangsters can rule nations and almost rule cities, in which hotels and apartment houses and celebrated restaurants are owned by men who made their money out of brothels, in which a screen star can be the fingerman for a mob, and the nice man down the hall is a boss of the numbers racket; a world where a judge with a cellar full of bootleg liquor can send a man to jai…Read more
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29VII*—Liberty and AutonomyProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 87 (1): 107-120. 1987.Susan Mendus; VII*—Liberty and Autonomy, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 87, Issue 1, 1 June 1987, Pages 107–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristo.
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29Humility By Norvin Richards Temple University Press, 1992, 240pp., $37.95 (review)Philosophy 68 (266): 568-. 1993.
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28Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth CenturyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (3): 258-260. 1990.
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27Liberty and AutonomyProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 87. 1987.Susan Mendus; VII*—Liberty and Autonomy, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 87, Issue 1, 1 June 1987, Pages 107–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristo.
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24The Community of Rights By Gewirth Alan University of Chicago, 1996, 380pp.,£ 31.95 (review)Philosophy 72 (282): 609-. 1997.
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23Liberal ManRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 26 45-57. 1989.I begin with two quotations: one from Anthony Crosland's Socialism Now, the other from Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. Crosland says:experience shows that only a small minority of the population wish to participate [in politics]. I repeat what I have often said—the majority prefer to lead a full family life and cultivate their gardens. And a good thing too … we do not necessarily want a busy, bustling society in which everyone is politically active and fussing around in an interfer…Read more
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23The magic in the pronoun myIn Matt Matravers (ed.), Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Frank Cass. pp. 33-52. 2002.In What We Owe to Each Other, T.M. Scanlon says that any acceptable moral teory must answer what he calls the priority question: the question of why moral value should takes priority over other values, such as the values of love and friendship. In this essay I discuss Scanlon's answer to the priority question and contrast it with the answer offered by Christine Korsgaard in Sources of Normativity. I argue that each account contains important insights but that neither is completely satisfactory. …Read more
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22Tragedy, Moral Conflict, and LiberalismRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 40 191-201. 1996.The central question of this paper is how modern liberal political theory can understand and make sense of value pluralism and the conflicts upon which it is premissed. It is a commonplace that liberalism was born out of conflict, and has been partly characterised ever since as a series of attempts to accommodate it within the framework of the nation state . However, it is also true that liberals have proposed many different routes to the resolution, or containment, of conflict, and these differ…Read more
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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
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19Feminism and emotion: readings in moral and political philosophySt. Martin's Press. 2000.This book combines the insights of enlightenment thinking and feminist theory to explore the significance of love in modern philosophy. The author argues for the importance of emotion in general, and love in particular, to moral and political philosophy, pointing out that some of the central philosophers of the enlightment were committed to a moralized conception of love. However, she believes that feminism's insights arise not from its attribution of special and distinctive qualities to women, …Read more
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19Autonomy and Self Respect By Thomas E. Hill Jr. Cambridge University Press, 1991, 218 pp., £27.50, £9.95 paper (review)Philosophy 67 (262): 561-. 1992.
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16Hare and Critics: Essays on Moral Thinking with comments by R. M. Hare Edited by Douglas Seanor and N. Fotion Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, viii + 307 pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 64 (248): 269-. 1989.
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15Other Human Beings By David Cockburn London: Macmillan, 1990, 240 pp., £40.00 (review)Philosophy 66 (258): 529-. 1991.
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15Toleration and Recognition: education in a multicultural societyJournal of Philosophy of Education 29 (2): 191-201. 1995.Susan Mendus; Toleration and Recognition: education in a multicultural society, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 29, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 191–2.
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13The Passage of Nature By Dorothy Emmet London: Macmillan, 1992, 136 pp., £29.50 (review)Philosophy 68 (265): 412-. 1993.
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12Book Review:Morality Within the Limits of Reason. Russell Hardin (review)Ethics 101 (1): 183-. 1990.
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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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12The magic in the pronoun ‘My’Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5 (2): 33-52. 2002.
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12The Politics of Toleration in Modern Life (edited book)Duke University Press. 2000.In _The Politics of Toleration in Modern Life _Susan Mendus gathers a group of distinguished public figures—philosophers, historians, lawyers, and religious leaders—to reflect on a core issue within contemporary political debate. At the close of a century that will be remembered for its two world wars and its eruptions of genocide, the contributors examine the importance of an insistence on tolerance and the dangers of its lack, both historically and in the present day. How can toleration be fos…Read more
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11A Theory of Value and Obligation By Robin Attfield Croom Helm, 1987, 262 pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 63 (245): 406-. 1988.
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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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11Life’s Ethical SymphonyJournal of Philosophy of Education 42 (2): 201-218. 2008.Most modern moral theories are impartialist in character. They perceive the demands of morality as standing in opposition to partial concerns and acting as constraints upon them. In this paper I argue that our partial concerns in general, and our love and concern for others in particular, are not ultimately at odds with the demands of morality, impartially understood, but are the necessary preconditions of our being motivated by impartial morality. If we are to care about morality, we must first…Read more