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Isaiah Berlin's Pluralist Thought and Liberalism: A Re-Reading and Contrast with John RawlsDissertation, Mcgill University (Canada). 2002.This dissertation argues that Isaiah Berlin and John Rawls can be seen as seminal contributors to two quite distinct revivals of political theory in the latter half of the twentieth century. It suggests that coming to grips with the different underlying character of these revivals and writers is important to understanding political theory and liberalism today. However, while the importance Berlin's of Berlin's work is increasingly recognized, there remain puzzling controversies concerning its ov…Read more
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4"Frontiers of Diversity critically examines the explanatory and normative power of pluralism in contemporary philosophy, politics, economics and culture. Based on the papers presented at the "First Global Conference on Critical Issues in Pluralism" at Mansfield College, Oxford, it brings together for the first time essays examining pluralism's impact, both positive and negative, in each of these critical domains. These essays exhibit something of the fertility of the concept of pluralism, not on…Read more
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26Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada Charles Blattberg Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003, 160 pp., $65.00 (review)Dialogue 44 (4): 784-. 2005.
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13Michael Ignatieff,The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of TerrorPolitics and Ethics Review 1 (1): 103-106. 2005.
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43Upholding the Principle of Distinction in Counter-Terrorist Operations: A DialogueJournal of Military Ethics 9 (1): 3-22. 2010.
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13Re-Visiting Berlin: Why Two Liberties are Better than OnePolitics and Ethics Review 1 (2): 138-157. 2005.
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15Learning to Live with Drones: Answering Jeremy Waldron and the Neutralist CritiqueJournal of Military Ethics 14 (2): 128-145. 2015.ABSTRACTAmong the most forceful and provocative criticisms that have been leveled at US drone strikes against alleged terrorists far from conventional battlefields has been Jeremy Waldron's charge that they cannot be justified in terms of a neutral principle that most reasonable people would accept. In essence, Waldron asks ‘whether we are comfortable with [such a norm] in the hands of our enemies’. He thinks most people will say ‘no’ and that this is a reason not to embrace a permissive norm in…Read more
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5Michael Ignatieff, The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of TerrorJournal of International Political Theory 1 103-106. 2005.
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11Does justice stand alone?Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 18 (1): 57-73. 2015.
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1Re-Visiting Berlin: Why Two Liberties are Better than OneJournal of International Political Theory 1 138-157. 2005.
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39Lukes’s Three-Dimensional Model of Power Redux (review)Social Theory and Practice 33 (3): 489-500. 2007.
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54Terminating Terror
The Legality, Ethics and Effectiveness of Targeting TerroristsTheoria 54 (114): 1-27. 2007.In the ongoing war on terror both the American and Israeli governments have resorted to a policy of ‘targeting terrorists’. In essence, both governments authorize their military or intelligence services to kill specific ‘terrorists’ who they believe mortally threaten citizens and cannot otherwise be neutralized. President Bush calls this ‘sudden justice’ and the Israeli government ‘targeted killing’ but their critics speak of ‘assassination’, ‘liquidation’ or ‘extra-judicial killing’. Since 11 S…Read more -
3Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for CanadaCharles Blattberg Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003, 160 pp., $65.00 (review)Dialogue 44 (4): 784-786. 2005.
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24Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for CanadaCharles Blattberg Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003, 160 pp., $65.00 (review)Dialogue 44 (4): 784-786. 2005.
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1Lukes’s Three-Dimensional Model of Power Redux (review)Social Theory and Practice 33 (3): 489-500. 2007.
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6Terminating Terror The Legality, Ethics and Effectiveness of Targeting TerroristsTheoria 54 (114): 1-27. 2007.In the ongoing war on terror both the American and Israeli governments have resorted to a policy of ‘targeting terrorists’. In essence, both governments authorize their military or intelligence services to kill specific ‘terrorists’ who they believe mortally threaten citizens and cannot otherwise be neutralized. President Bush calls this ‘sudden justice’ and the Israeli government ‘targeted killing’ but their critics speak of ‘assassination’, ‘liquidation’ or ‘extra-judicial killing’. Since 11 S…Read more
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University of Massachusetts, DartmouthRegular Faculty
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |