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12Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept of universal human rights. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement, and limits, concluding that shared rights help to constitute a universal human community, which supports local customs and separate state sovereignty. The eleven contributors to this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives…Read more
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9Human Dignity, Individual Liberty, And the Free Market IdealSocial Philosophy Today 16 113-123. 2000.Taking for granted that there is a strong connection between respect far human dignity and endorsement of institutional arrangements that protect individual liberty, I ask whether this can be cited in support of a free market approach to the organization of the economy. The answer, it might seem, must be Yes. Prominent defenders of a free market system commonly assume that an important part of the rationale for the free market is that it protects individual liberty. Appearances are misleading, h…Read more
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12Rawls's Narrow Doctrine of Human RightsIn Rex Martin & David A. Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell. 2006-01-01.This chapter contains section titled: Rawls and Human Rights Minimalism State Sovereignty and the Role of Human Rights Rawls's Political Liberalism and the Doctrine of Human Rights in LoP The Importance of the Role in LoP of Rawls's Narrow Doctrine of Human Rights Rawls's Arguments for the Narrow Doctrine ldquo;Ideal” and “Non‐ideal” Theory in LoP Strategies for the International Enforcement of Respect for Human Rights Conclusion Notes.
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31Human Dignity, Individual Liberty, And the Free Market IdealSocial Philosophy Today 16 113-123. 2000.Taking for granted that there is a strong connection between respect far human dignity and endorsement of institutional arrangements that protect individual liberty, I ask whether this can be cited in support of a free market approach to the organization of the economy. The answer, it might seem, must be Yes. Prominent defenders of a free market system commonly assume that an important part of the rationale for the free market is that it protects individual liberty. Appearances are misleading, h…Read more
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5Instrumental Rationality and the Instrumental DoctrineThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 44 144-149. 1998.In opposition to the instrumental doctrine of rationality, I argue that the rationality of the end served by a strategy is a necessary condition of the rationality of the strategy itself: means to ends cannot be rational unless the ends are rational. First, I explore cases-involving ‘proximate’ ends — where even instrumentalists must concede that the rationality of a strategy presupposes the rationality of the end it serves. Second, I draw attention to the counter-intuitive consequences — in cas…Read more
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3First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosophical parts of his theological system. It is argued that despite the apparent simplicity in his interest in _the _‘question of being’, Tillich in fact conceives of the ontological enterprise in a number of radically different ways in different contexts. Much of Professor Macleod’s work is devoted to t…Read more
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34Promises and Promissory Obligations [or When Is There No Obligation to Keep a Promise?]Journal of Social Philosophy 50 (4): 577-596. 2019.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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1Privacy: Concept, Value, Right?In Mark Navin & Ann Cudd (eds.), Core Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Privacy, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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Human Rights, Distributive Justice, and ImmigrationIn Win-Chiat Lee & Ann Cudd (eds.), Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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22Rawls' Theory of JusticeDialogue 13 (1): 139-159. 1974.Rawls' main aim in A Theory of Justice is to provide a viable alternative to the utilitarianism which has dominated so much modern moral philosophy. Although philosophers have long recognised the difficulties in the way of acceptance of a utilitarian account of judgments of justice, they have often responded by seeking merely to reformulate the principle of utility. Other philosophers, with a juster appreciation of the seriousness of these difficulties, have been prepared to reject utilitarianis…Read more
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20The Right to Vote, Democracy, and the Electoral SystemSocial Philosophy Today 21 111-124. 2005.Under the first-past-the-post electoral system that is still deeply entrenched in such democracies as Canada and the United States, it is not at all uncommon in a provincial, state, or federal election for there to be a striking lack of correspondence between the share of the seats a political party is able to win and its share of the popular vote. From the standpoint of the democratic ideal what is morally unacceptable about this system is that the right to vote it confers on members of the ele…Read more
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58Universal Human Rights and Cultural DiversitySocial Philosophy Today 24 13-26. 2008.I argue that a reasonably comprehensive doctrine of human rights can be reconciled with at least a good deal of diversity in cultural belief and practice. The reconciliation cannot be achieved by trying to show that there is in fact a cross-cultural consensus about the existence of human rights, partly because no valid inference to the normative status of human rights can be drawn from the existence of such a consensus. However, by highlighting the premises rather than the conclusions of normati…Read more
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29The Voluntary Transactions Principle and the Free Market IdealSocial Philosophy Today 27 31-46. 2011.
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49The Right to Vote, Democracy, and the Electoral SystemSocial Philosophy Today 21 111-124. 2005.Under the first-past-the-post electoral system that is still deeply entrenched in such democracies as Canada and the United States, it is not at all uncommon in a provincial, state, or federal election for there to be a striking lack of correspondence between the share of the seats a political party is able to win and its share of the popular vote. From the standpoint of the democratic ideal what is morally unacceptable about this system is that the right to vote it confers on members of the ele…Read more
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13Terrorism and the Root Causes ArgumentSocial Philosophy Today 20 97-108. 2004.Without attempting a full-scale definition of “terrorism,” I assume that terrorist acts are politically motivated, that the political goals of terrorists are both diverse and a “mixed bag,” that terrorist acts inflict deliberate harm on innocent civilians, and that they are therefore to be condemned even when the goals they ostensibly serve are defensible goals. The various versions of the “root causes” argument seek to explain the phenomenon of terrorism, not to justify it. Nevertheless, anti-t…Read more
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12Universal Human Rights and Cultural DiversitySocial Philosophy Today 24 13-26. 2008.I argue that a reasonably comprehensive doctrine of human rights can be reconciled with at least a good deal of diversity in cultural belief and practice. The reconciliation cannot be achieved by trying to show that there is in fact a cross-cultural consensus about the existence of human rights, partly because no valid inference to the normative status of human rights can be drawn from the existence of such a consensus. However, by highlighting the premises rather than the conclusions of normati…Read more
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10The Voluntary Transactions Principle and the Free Market IdealSocial Philosophy Today 27 31-46. 2011.
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18The Voluntary Transactions Principle and the Free Market IdealSocial Philosophy Today 27 31-46. 2011.
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29Terrorism and the Root Causes ArgumentSocial Philosophy Today 20 97-108. 2004.Without attempting a full-scale definition of “terrorism,” I assume (for the purposes of the argument of the paper) (1) that terrorist acts are politically motivated, (2) that the political goals of terrorists are both diverse and (morally) a “mixed bag,” (3) that terrorist acts inflict deliberate harm on innocent civilians, and (4) that they are therefore to be condemned even when the goals they ostensibly serve are defensible goals. The various versions of the “root causes” argument seek to ex…Read more
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10The Voluntary Transactions Principle and the Free Market IdealSocial Philosophy Today 27 31-46. 2011.
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15The Voluntary Transactions Principle and the Free Market IdealSocial Philosophy Today 27 31-46. 2011.
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J. Roland Pennock And John W. Chapman, Eds., Markets And Justice (review)Philosophy in Review 11 54-57. 1991.
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15Globalization, Markets, and the Ideal of Economic FreedomJournal of Social Philosophy 36 (2): 143-158. 2005.
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43Rule-Utilitarianism and Hume's Theory of JusticeHume Studies 7 (1): 74-84. 1981.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:74. RULE-UTILITARIANISM AND HUME'S THEORY OF JUSTICE One of the striking features of Hume's theory of justice is the narrowness of the range of judgments it is designed to illumine. For Hume the paradigms of judgments of justice are judgments about particular actions, not judgments about laws or institutions or states of affairs. Moreover, the characterization of actions as just or unjust is possible according to Hume only in a certa…Read more
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1J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, eds., Markets and Justice Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (1): 54-57. 1991.
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20Free markets and democracy: Clashing ideals in a globalizing world?Journal of Social Philosophy 37 (1). 2006.
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40Rights and Recognition: The Case of Human RightsJournal of Social Philosophy 44 (1): 51-73. 2013.
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