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29The Idea of Popular Sovereignty Two Hundred Years After BastilleSocial Philosophy Today 3 119-137. 1990.
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Moral educationIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), Encyclopedia of ethics, Routledge. pp. 1127--1131. 1992.
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114Education as a Social Right in a Diverse SocietyJournal of Philosophy of Education 43 (1): 45-56. 2009.The aim of this article is to outline the basis for a comprehensive account of educational rights. It begins by acknowledging the difficulties posed by diversity, and defends a conception of universal human rights that limits parental educational discretion. Against the backdrop of the literature of public reason and fair equality of opportunity, it sketches arguments for the existence of rights to education of some specific kinds. Those rights, and associated educational purposes, are systemati…Read more
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46A Causal Theory of NegligenceSocial Philosophy Today 7 111-124. 1992.The aim of this paper is to outline a novel rationale for the negligence standard of liability in tort law. On this view, the negligence standard has a causal character which is seldom recognized, but which was recognized by Aristotle, who first formulated the standard. The proposed rationale is extracted from its Aristotelian roots and presented as an alternative to the two others which have been discussed in recent years, both of which are widely regarded as flawed.
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Pragmatist philosophy of educationIn Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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44Judgment and the aims of educationSocial Philosophy and Policy 31 (1): 36-59. 2014.The aim of this paper is to revive a tradition of educational thought that identifies good judgment as the highest aim of education. It identifies sharply opposed manifestations of this tradition in the works of Aristotle and Locke, and uses these as points of departure in defending and exploring the tradition. The defense rests on the claims that the basic aim of educational institutions should be to enable people to live well and that good judgment is essential to living well. The relations…Read more
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72Book Symposium: Harry Brighouse, School Choice and Social JusticeStudies in Philosophy and Education 20 (5): 387-421. 2001.
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Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Moral Psychology, Misc |
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Education, Misc |