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    Climate Change and Justice: A Non-Welfarist Treaty Negotiation Framework
    Ethics, Policy and Environment 18 (2): 123-145. 2015.
    Obstacles to achieving a global climate treaty include disagreements about questions of justice raised by the UNFCCC's principle that countries should respond to climate change by taking cooperative action "in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and their social and economic conditions". Aiming to circumvent such disagreements, Climate Change Justice authors Eric Posner and David Weisbach argue against shaping treaty proposals according to…Read more
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    No Justice in Climate Policy? Broome versus Posner, Weisbach, and Gardiner
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 40 (1): 172-188. 2016.
    The urgent importance of dealing with the climate crisis has led some influential theorists to argue that at least some demands for justice must give way to pragmatic and strategic considerations. These theorists (Cass Sunstein, Eric Posner, and David Weisbach, all academic lawyers, and John Broome, an academic philosopher) contend that the failures of international negotiations and other efforts to change economic policies and practices have shown that moral exhortations are worse than ineffect…Read more
  •  156
    Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (review) (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (4): 531-532. 2010.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political PhilosophyAlyssa R. BernsteinArthur Ripstein. Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy. Cambridge, MA-London: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 399. Cloth, $49.95.This superb, exemplary account of Immanuel Kant’s legal and political philosophy is essential reading not only for Kant scholars, but also for political philosophers and philosophers of law. …Read more
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    Pauline Kleingeld argues that according to Kant it would be wrong to coerce a state into an international federation, due to the wrongness of paternalism. Although I agree that Kant opposes the waging of war as a means to peace, I disagree with Kleingeld's account of the reasons why he would oppose coercing a state into a federation. Since she does not address the broader question of the permissibility of interstate coercion, she does not properly address the narrower question of whether coercio…Read more
  •  47
    Global Feminist Ethics
    with Lynne S. Arnault, Bat-Ami Bar On, Victoria Davion, Marilyn Fischer, Virginia Held, Peter Higgins, Sabrina Hom, Audra King, James L. Nelson, Serena Parekh, April Shaw, and Joan Tronto
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.
    This volume is fourth in the series of annuals created under the auspices of The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory . The topics covered herein_from peacekeeping and terrorism, to sex trafficking and women's paid labor, to poverty and religious fundamentalism_are vital to women and to feminist movements throughout the world
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    Universal human rights in a world of difference - by Brooke A. Ackerly
    Ethics and International Affairs 23 (4): 428-430. 2009.
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    Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory (review)
    Ethics and International Affairs 27 (3): 354-357. 2013.
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    Cosmopolitanism and the Climate Crisis
    Con-Textos Kantianos 1 (10): 84-101. 2019.
    As awareness of global warming has spread during the past couple of decades and developed into the realization that humanity faces an existential threat, a number of more or less Kantian liberal or cosmopolitan moral and political theorists have attempted to address questions of justice raised by the climate crisis. David Held was among the most prolific and influential of them. Here I discuss Held's cosmopolitan perspective on climate governance and consider its bearing on certain recent propos…Read more
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    John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (review)
    Philosophical Inquiry 24 (1-2): 113-116. 2002.
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    John Rawls: The Path to A Theory of Justice by Andrius Gališanka
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 60 (1): 171-173. 2022.
    Although Andrius Gališanka’s well-written book is interesting as a work of psychological and intellectual history based on archival research as well as speculation, and although it has considerable merits, it appears to overreach the limits of the author’s expertise. Since he has published a book on Wittgenstein and normative inquiry, and also an article on game theory in relation to Rawls, he seems well qualified to write chapters 2, 3, and 4, which I found informative and helpful. However, the…Read more
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    Pauline Kleingeld and Marcus Willaschek, in a co-authored article, declare that their purportedly new interpretation of Immanuel Kant's writings on autonomy reveals that his moral philosophy is neither realist nor constructivist. However, as I explain here, John Rawls already occupies the area of intellectual territory to which Kleingeld and Willaschek attempt to lay claim: Rawls interprets Kant's moral philosophy as neither realist, as Kleingeld and Willaschek evidently construe this term, nor …Read more
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    A Human Right to Democracy? Legitimacy and Intervention
    In Rex Martin & David A. Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell. 2006.
    This chapter contains section titled: Basic Human Rights Public Reason Sovereignty and Self‐determination The DNSL Argument and the Minimum Respect‐for‐Justice Condition Adequate Justification Rights of Political Participation Post‐war Nation Building Promoting Political Reform Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes.
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    Human Rights Reconceived: A Defense of Rawls's Law of Peoples
    Dissertation, Harvard University. 2000.
    How can respect for cultural and religious differences be reconciled with the conviction that everyone has basic human rights that must be secured? Should liberal states require that non-liberal states secure human rights, and can they do so without being intolerant and oppressive? Is there a human right to democracy, and should a liberal hold that all states must become modern liberal democracies and may be pressured to reform their traditional practices and institutions? Do human rights includ…Read more
  • International Law and Democracy: A Critique of Kant via Teson
    In Valerio Hrsg V. Rohden, Ricardo Terra & Guido Almeida (eds.), Recht Und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants, . pp. 1--207. 2008.