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239Reply to Critics (Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory)SGIR Review 4 (1-2): 78-100. 2021.hese are replies to my critics at at Society for German Idealism and Romanticism (SGIR) Author-Meets-Critics session, Pacific APA 2021. Published version of the full symposium is available on SGIR Review's homepage.
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231Review: Hay, Carol, Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism: Resisting Oppression (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 11 (05): 10-11. 2013.
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228Locke on PropertyIn Jessica Gordon-Roth & Shelley Weinberg (eds.), The Lockean Mind, Routledge. 2021.This paper critiques Locke’s account of private property. After sketching its basic principles as well as how contemporary Lockeans have developed them, I argue that this account doesn’t and cannot work philosophically. The main problem is that the account requires the determination of objective value of resources in historical time, but this doesn’t exist. I conclude that the ultimate philosophical failure of this tremendously influential kind of account does not entail that it is valueless. Ra…Read more
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227Asha Bhandary's Freedom to Care— A Kantian Care Engagement (review)Dialogue 62 (2): 247-260. 2023.RésuméCette analyse situe la théorie du soin d'Asha Bhandary, telle que définie dans Freedom to Care, dans l'histoire de la philosophie, note certaines caractéristiques distinctives de la théorie qui font clairement évoluer la tradition de la théorie du soin, et soulève des énigmes et des questions concernant des éléments spécifiques de la théorie. Mes remarques portent principalement sur la première partie du livre et sur les quatre sujets suivants : (1) les racines rawlsiennes de la théorie de…Read more
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214Kant on PropertyIn Andrew Stephenson & Anil Gomes (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Kant, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.This paper provides an entrance into central discussions regarding Kant’s account of property. The first section shows how Kant engages and transforms important, related proposals from Hobbes and Locke as well as how the ‘libertarian’ and ‘liberal republican’ interpretive traditions differ in their readings on these points. Since Kantian theories for a long time didn’t focus on Kant’s Doctrine of Right but instead followed Rawls’s lead by developing Kantian theories grounded on Kant’s (meta-) et…Read more
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211Kant and the EnvironmentStudi Kantiani 35. 2022.Published in Studi Kantiani, XXXV: 27-48, 2022. The lack of due attention to the environment in the (Kantian) Western analytic philosophical canon is, this paper starts by arguing, puzzling and disturbing. Exploring reasons why and how philosophy lost its way regarding the environment, as well as the question of how to envision better ideals within a Kantian framework, is the topic of Part 1. I set the stage by drawing on relevant ideas from the work of Hannah Arendt before turning to Kantian sc…Read more
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203Kantian AutonomyEncyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. 2022.Overview over some core themes re: Kantian autonomy.
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199A Kantian Account of TraumaKantian Review (4): 1-19. 2022.In our societies today, the prevalence of serious, untreated trauma means that we cannot reliably expect to receive or give unconditional love, understood as love which functions within a normative framework to protect each and all of us as having dignity. Serious, untreated trauma makes unconditional love, so understood, unreliable because each time the pattern of the psychological damage (trauma) is triggered in the traumatized person, in the wrongdoers, or in the bystanders, their behaviour e…Read more
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196A Kantian Theory of IntersectionalityIn Dignity, Freedom and Justice, Springer. forthcoming.Kimberlé Crenshaw arrived at her famous phrase “intersectionality” by carefully thinking through speeches and writings given to us by early Black feminists, such as like Sojourner Truth and Anna J. Cooper. In this paper, I expand on this groundbreaking work in two somewhat surprising ways. First, I bring the ideas of these early Black feminists together with important, related proposals from W.E.B. Du Bois, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, and Simone de Beauvoir. Second, I relate these works to central…Read more
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182(G.A. Cohen's) Rescuing Justice and Equality—A Critical EngagementSocial Philosophy Today 26 175-189. 2010.This paper engages G. A. Cohen's "Rescuing Justice and Equality." The paper was originally written as a part of the NASSP (North American Society for Social Philosophy) Book Award session in 2008.
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173Review: Byrd, Sharon and Hruschka, Joachim, Kant's Doctrine of Right (review)Jurisprudence 2 (2): 547-559. 2011.
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153Review: Ellis, Elizabeth, Kant's Political Theory: Interpretations and Applications (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2013 (22): 10-11. 2013.
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153Universality and Accommodating Differences: Religious, Racial, Sexual, GenderedIn Mark Timmons & Sorin Baiasu (eds.), The Kantian Mind, Routledge. 2024.An enduring source of skepticism towards Kant’s practical philosophy is his deep conviction that morality must be understood in terms of universality. Whether we look to Kant’s fundamental moral principle (the Categorical Imperative) or to his fundamental principle of right (the Universal Principle of Right), universality lies at the core of the analyses. A central worry of his critics is that by making universality the bedrock of morality in these ways, Kant fails to appreciate the importance o…Read more
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150NozickIn Cambridge Rawls Lexicon. pp. 561-564. 2015.Short lexicon entry on the Rawls-Nozick discussions.
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131Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian TheoryOxford University Press. 2020.Sex, Love, and Gender is the first volume to present a comprehensive philosophical theory that brings together all of Kant's practical philosophy — found across his works on ethics, justice, anthropology, history, and religion — and provide a critique of emotionally healthy and morally permissible sexual, loving, gendered being. By rethinking Kant's work on human nature and making space for sex, love, and gender within his moral accounts of freedom, the book shows how, despite his austere and ev…Read more
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113Review: Saurette, Paul, The Kantian Imperative: Humiliation, Common Sense, Politics (review)University of Toronto Quarterly 76 (1): 305-307. 2007.
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101Responding to Ann Cahill, Alice MacLachlan, and Jordan PascoeEstudos Kantianos 11 (1): 175-188. 2023.This is my AMC response to my critics Ann Cahill, Alice MacLachlan, and Jordan Pascoe in Estudos Kantianos 11(1) 2023.
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88Coercion and the StateJurisprudence 2 (2): 547-559. 2011.Intentions, Blame, and Contractualism: A review of Tim Scanlon, Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame by Jussi Suikkanen
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75Patriotism, Poverty, and Global Justice: A Kantian Engagement with Pauline Kleingeld's Kant and CosmopolitanismKantian Review 19 (2): 251-266. 2014.In this article I critically engage some of the philosophical ideas Kleingeld presents in Kant and Cosmopolitanism, namely patriotism, poverty and global justice. Against Kleingeld, I propose, first, that perhaps democracy is less important and affectionate love more so to both Kant himself as well as to an account that can successfully refute a Bernard Williams style objection to Kantian patriotism; second, that guaranteeing unconditional poverty relief for all its citizens is constitutive of t…Read more
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73واردن، هلگا (۱۴۰۱). جستارهایی در اخلاق و فلسفه سیاسی کانت. ترجمه علی پیرحیاتی. نشر نقد فرهنگ (edited book)Naghd-e Farhang Publications. forthcoming.This is an anthology that is coming out in Farsi. Table of Contents (in English): 1. (2021). “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy.” The Cambridge Kant Lexicon, ed. Julian Wuerth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 691-695. 2. (2010). “Kant and Lying to the Murderer at the Door . . . One More Time: Kant’s Legal Philosophy and Lies to Murderers and Nazis.” The Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 41(4), pp. 403-421. 3. (2006). “Kant and Dependency Relations: Kant on the State’s Righ…Read more
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72Otfried Höffe’s Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace (review)Symposium 12 (1): 168-174. 2008.
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68This is a public philosophy article that aims to make available an idea about abortion from my Sex, Love, and Gender book.
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46Traumatized Heroes: Living with WrongdoingPublic Seminar. 2024.This is a public philosophy piece that explores some questions around heroes, trauma, and wrongdoing.
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37Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice—Some Kantian RejoindersSocial Philosophy Today 27 217-232. 2011.
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23Review of Jan Narveson, James P. Sterba, Are Liberty and Equality Compatible? (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (8). 2010.
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15Review: Guyer, Paul, Kant (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (2). 2007.of Paul Guyer, (from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews).
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11Diversity and Unity An Attempt at Drawing a Justifiable LineArchiv für Rechts- Und Sozialphilosophie 94 (1): 1-25. 2008.This paper argues with Kant that the only justifiable basis for a legal system is an innate right to freedom, which is defined as the right to be subject only to universal law and not to the arbitrary choices of others. Since rightful interaction is possible only within public institutional frameworks, we cannot respect one another's innate right to freedom simply by interacting as virtuous individuals or as just states. In fact, only public authorities can have coercive authority, the rightfuln…Read more
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University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignDepartment of Philosophy
Department of Women And Gender Studies
Department of Political ScienceProfessor