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514Perfectionist Liberalism and Political LiberalismPhilosophy and Public Affairs 39 (1): 3-45. 2011.
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54Four Paradigms of Philosophical PoliticsThe Monist 83 (4): 465-490. 2000.“It is no chance matter we are discussing,” said Plato’s Socrates, “but how one should live.” All the major ancient Greek and Roman traditions of philosophy held that it was no mere academic discipline, but an art of living, a study whose aim included the improvement of conduct. All held, in addition, that philosophy, properly practiced and properly integrated into the public life of a community, would improve the practice of political life. That public role was not the only role they saw for ph…Read more
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34Responses (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2): 473-486. 2004.I am extremely grateful to these three fine philosophers for spending time on my arguments and for the valuable questions they pose. I feel that I am very lucky to have commentators whose views and writings on this topic I admire, and with whose ideas I have engaged before with pleasure and profit.
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273The capabilities of people with cognitive disabilitiesMetaphilosophy 40 (3-4): 331-351. 2009.People with cognitive disabilities are equal citizens, and law ought to show respect for them as full equals. To do so, law must provide such people with equal entitlements to medical care, housing, and other economic needs. But law must also go further, providing people with disabilities truly equal access to education, even when that is costly and involves considerable change in current methods of instruction. The central theme of this essay is what is required in order to give such people pol…Read more
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271Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global ConnectionStudies in Philosophy and Education 21 (4/5): 289-303. 2002.Higher education makes an importantcontribution to citizenship. In the UnitedStates, the required portion of the ``liberalarts education'' in colleges and universitiescan be reformed so as to equip students for thechallenges of global citizenship. The paperadvocates focusing on three abilities: theSocratic ability to critize one's owntraditions and to carry on an argument on termsof mutual respect for reason; (2) the abilityto think as a citizen of the whole world, notjust some local region or g…Read more
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102A discussion with Martha Nussbaum on â Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global Connection âStudies in Philosophy and Education 21 (4/5): 305-311. 2002.
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61The transfiguration of everyday lifeMetaphilosophy 25 (4): 238-261. 1994.After more than forty years I still warmly recall the edifying conversations that I had in the episcopal palace in Bergamo with my revered bishop. Msgr. Radini Tedeschi. About the persons in the Vatican, from the Holy Father downwards, there was never an expression that was not respectful, no, never. But as for women or their shape or what concerned them, no word was ever spoken. It was as if there were no women in the world. This absolute silence, this lack of any familiarity with regard to the…Read more
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119Moral Expertise?: Constitutional Narratives and Philosophical ArgumentMetaphilosophy 33 (5): 502-520. 2002.Using the bench trial of Colorado’s Amendment 2 as an example, this article focuses on the more general question of expert testimony in moral philosophy. It argues that there is indeed expertise in moral philosophy but argues against admitting such expert testimony in cases dealing with what John Rawls terms “constitutional essentials” and ‘matters of basic justice.” Developing the idea of public reason inherent in the Rawlsian concept of political liberalism, the article argues that philosopher…Read more
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96Political Animals: Luck, Love and DignityMetaphilosophy 29 (4): 273-287. 1998.Human beings are both needy and dignified. How should we think about the relationship between our neediness and our worth? Card argues well that our vulnerability to luck is intertwined in the very conditions of moral agency. We can see the merit of her approach even more clearly by turning to some difficulties the Stoics have in preserving dignity while removing vulnerability. Stoicism does, however, help us to sort through the difficulties involved as we try to combine love of particular peopl…Read more
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Part V: Some silences in Humanity. The foundations of humanity / Roger Crisp ; Bystanders to poverty / Peter Singer ; Compassion : human and animalIn N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen & Jeff McMahan (eds.), Ethics and humanity: themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Glover, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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28Compassion : Human and animalIn N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen & Jeff McMahan (eds.), Ethics and humanity: themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Glover, Oxford University Press. pp. 202--226. 2010.
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43The challenge of gender justiceIn Reiko Gotoh & Paul Dumouchel (eds.), Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen, Cambridge University Press. pp. 94. 2009.
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3Stoic laughter : a reading of Seneca's apocolocyntosisIn Shadi Bartsch & David Wray (eds.), Seneca and the self, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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1JusticeIn Astra Taylor (ed.), Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers, New Press. 2009.
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3Tagore, Dewey, and the imminent demise of liberal educationIn Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of education, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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11Perceptive equilibrium : literary theory and ethical theoryIn Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.This chapter contains sections titled: The Absence of the Ethical Reflective Equilibrium Straightness and Surprise Perception and Method Perception and Love Literary Theory and Ethical Theory.
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Ethics of narrationIn Peter Gratton & John Panteleimon Manoussakis (eds.), Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge, Northwestern University Press. 2007.
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19Human dignity and political entitlementsIn Adam Schulman (ed.), Human dignity and bioethics: essays commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics, [president's Council On Bioethics. 2008.
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Golden rule arguments : A missing thought?In Kim Chong Chong, Sor-Hoon Tan & C. L. Ten (eds.), The moral circle and the self: Chinese and Western approaches, Open Court. 2003.
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118Women and the law of peoplesPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 1 (3): 283-306. 2002.John Rawls argues, in The Law of Peoples , that a principle of toleration requires the international community to respect `decent hierarchical societies' that obey certain minimal human rights norms. In this article, I question that line of argument, using women's inequality as a lens. I show that Rawls's principle would require us to treat the very same practices of the very same entity differently if it happens to set up as an independent nation rather than a state within a nation, and I criti…Read more
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"Where the dark feelings hold sway" : running to musicIn Michael W. Austin (ed.), Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.
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195Symposium on Amartya Sen's philosophy: 5 adaptive preferences and women's optionsEconomics and Philosophy 17 (1): 67-88. 2001.Any defense of universal norms involves drawing distinctions among the many things people actually desire. If it is to have any content at all, it will say that some objects of desire are more central than others for political purposes, more indispensable to a human being's quality of life. Any wise such approach will go even further, holding that some existing preferences are actually bad bases for social policy. The list of Central Human Capabilities that forms the core of my political project…Read more