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    Thom Brooks and the ‘Systematic’ Reading of Hegel
    Hegel Bulletin 33 (2): 16-22. 2012.
    Hegel was a systematic philosopher, who grounded his system on a speculative logic. But his greatest philosophical contributions lie in his reflections on human culture: ethics, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, religion and the philosophy of history. This fact poses a problem for anyone who accepts it and then attempts to provide a philosophical discussion of Hegel's thought with the aim of making it available to a later age.There can be no doubt that any authentic treatment of Hegel…Read more
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    Unjust Exploitation
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 54 (S1): 92-108. 2016.
    Is exploitation always unjust? Is it by definition unjust? If we answer both these questions negatively, as I do, then we need to ask: when is exploitation unjust and when is it not? Exploitation is the use of a vulnerability for the exploiter's ends. This is sometimes morally wrong, even when it is not unjust. But it is unjust when it violates the exploited person's rightful freedom. When is labor for hire exploitative? Whenever the terms of the labor contract permit either the employer or the …Read more
  •  81
    Propaganda and Democracy
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 31 (3): 381-394. 2016.
    We are surrounded by communication of many kinds whose aim is to persuade rather to convince, to manipulate rather than to reason. Advertising and much public discourse is like this. How should we react to this fact? Perhaps even more importantly: What does this fact mean about modern society? Not all persuasion is regrettable or to be disapproved. Not all persuasion is propaganda. And perhaps not even all propaganda is necessarily bad. This last point was the focus of a controversy between W. E…Read more
  •  8
    Kant (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 323-325. 2003.
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    Kant and the right to lie reviewed essay: On a supposed right to lie from philanthropy, by Inmanuel Kant
    Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Del Norte 15 96-117. 2011.
    Kant’s strict views on lying have been regularly cited as a reason for thinking there is something fundamentally wrong with Kantian ethics. Some of Kant’s statements here seem so excessive that most Kantians who have dealt with the topic have tried to distance themselves from them, usually claiming that they do not follow from Kant’s own principles. In this chapter, I will do a little of that, partly by questioning whether the famous example of the “murderer at the door” really fits the principl…Read more
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    Sources of the Self
    Philosophical Review 101 (3): 621. 1992.
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    Karl Marx
    Philosophical Review 92 (2): 258. 1983.
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    Creating the Kingdom of Ends
    Philosophical Review 107 (4): 607. 1998.
    This book follows hard upon Korsgaard's The Sources of Normativity. Both present the author's influential version of a Kantian theory of normative ethics and metaethics. Whereas The Sources of Normativity was a systematic investigation of "normativity" written as a single unit, the present volume is a collection of previously published papers, some of them already well known and much discussed, dating between 1983 and 1993. By the nature of the case, one might expect less thematic unity in this …Read more
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    Hegel’s Ethical Thought
    Cambridge University Press. 1990.
    This important new study offers a powerful exposition of the ethical theory underlying Hegel's philosophy of society, politics, and history. Professor Woodshows how Hegel applies his theory to such topics as human rights, the justification of legal punishment, criteria of moral responsibility, and the authority of individual conscience. The book includes a critical discussion of Hegel's treatment of other moral philosophers, provides an account of the controversial concept of 'ethical life', and…Read more
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    L'immoralisme de Marx
    Cahiers Philosophiques 140 (1): 82-100. 2014.
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    Kant and Religion
    Cambridge University Press. 2020.
    This masterful work on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant's treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil, and the moral grounds for faith in God. Kant and Religion works to deepen our understanding of religion's place and meaning within the history of human culture, touching on Kant's philosophical stance regarding theoretical, moral, political, and religious matters. Wood's breadth of knowledge of Kant's corpus, philosophical sharpness, and depth of re…Read more
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    Critique of Pure Reason (edited book)
    with Paul Guyer
    Cambridge University Press. 1998.
    This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple and direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the translation displays an unprecedented philosophical and textual sophistication that will enlighten Kant scholars as well. This translation recreates as far as possible a text with the same interpretative nuances and richness as the original. The …Read more
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    Kant’s Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 56 (3): 633-634. 2003.
    Allison begins this book by observing that although the eighteenth century is often called the “age of reason,” it has also been called the “century of taste.” There is a clear enough connection, however, between the two names, for anyone with eyes open enough to see it. For the phenomenon of taste—of likings and dislikings conforming to sharable standards, and invited or sought from others precisely for the sake of sharing them universally—was recognized by eighteenth-century rationalists, and …Read more
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    Reply
    Hegel Bulletin 13 (1): 34-50. 1992.
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    Drive, Desire and Volition in Fichte
    In Sally Sedgwick & Dina Emundts (eds.), Begehren / Desire, De Gruyter. pp. 75-96. 2018.
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    Interview: Ernst Gombrich
    with Ernst Gombrich, Hayden White, Theodore M. Brown, David I. Grossvogel, and Robert Matthews
    Diacritics 1 (2): 47. 1971.
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    4. Philosophy: Enlightenment Apology, Enlightenment Critique
    In Anne Applebaum (ed.), What is Philosophy?, Yale University Press. pp. 96-120. 2001.
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    _Now in a new, affordable edition with updated notes, a superbly readable translation of Kant’s classic work_ This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant’s conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This new edition of Kant’s work provides a fresh translation that is uniquely faithful to the German original and more fully annotated than any …Read more
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    Formulas of the Moral Law
    Cambridge University Press. 2017.
    This Element defends a reading of Kant's formulas of the moral law in Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. It disputes a long tradition concerning what the first formula attempts to do. The Element also expounds the Formulas of Humanity, Autonomy and the Realm of Ends, arguing that it is only the Formula of Humanity from which Kant derives general duties, and that it is only the third formula that represents a complete and definitive statement of the moral principle as Kant derives it in the…Read more
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    Kant’s Ethical Thought (review)
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 62 (4): 758-759. 1999.
  • Marx on Right and Justice: A Reply to Husami
    with Jinping Lin
    Modern Philosophy 1 40-49. 2009.
    Wood reiterated his previous papers of view - "For Marx, economic, trade or social system of justice or not depends on its mode of production with the established relationship" that Hussami the "justice is not only determined by the mode of production and determined by class position, "the view attributed to Marx is a misconception that Marx was a capitalist from the standards of justice to go after the critique of capitalist society, it is a misreading of Marx's text. In his view, Marx's critiq…Read more
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    Fichte’s Philosophical Revolution
    Philosophical Topics 19 (2): 1-28. 1991.
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    Snapshot: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
    The Philosophers' Magazine 75 67-69. 2016.