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2257Globalizing Democracy and Human RightsCambridge University Press. 2004.In her 2004 book Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, that is to say of finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions. The book develops a framework for expanding participation in crossborder decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights and introducing a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. Reinterpreting the idea of universali…Read more
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418Contemporary legal conceptions of property and their implications for democracyJournal of Philosophy 77 (11): 716-729. 1980.
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174Do Cosmopolitan Ethics and Cosmopolitan Democracy Imply Each Other?In Stan van Hooft & Wim Vandekerckhove (eds.), Questioning Cosmopolitanism, Springer. pp. 153--166. 2010.
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151Rethinking Democracy:Freedom and Social Co-operation in Politics, Economy, and SocietyCambridge University press. 1988.In this book, Carol Gould offers a fundamental reconsideration of the theory of democracy, arguing that democratic decision-making should apply not only to politics but also to economic and social life. Professor Gould redefines traditional concepts of freedom and social equality, and proposes a principle of Equal Positive Freedom in which individual freedom and social co-operation are seen to be compatible. Reformulating basic conceptions of property, authority, economic justice and human right…Read more
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141Structuring global democracy: Political communities, universal human rights, and transnational representationMetaphilosophy 40 (1): 24-41. 2009.Abstract: The emergence of cross-border communities and transnational associations requires new ways of thinking about the norms involved in democracy in a globalized world. Given the significance of human rights fulfillment, including social and economic rights, I argue here for giving weight to the claims of political communities while also recognizing the need for input by distant others into the decisions of global governance institutions that affect them. I develop two criteria for addressi…Read more
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91Coercion, care, and corporations: Omissions and commissions in Thomas Pogge's political philosophyJournal of Global Ethics 3 (3). 2007.This article argues that Thomas Pogge's important theory of global justice does not adequately appreciate the relation between interactional and institutional accounts of human rights, along with the important normative role of care and solidarity in the context of globalization. It also suggests that more attention needs to be given critically to the actions of global corporations and positively to introducing democratic accountability into the institutions of global governance. The article goe…Read more
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84Here is the first book to present Karl Marx as one of the great systematic philosophers, a man who went beyond the traditional bounds of the discipline to work out a philosophical system in terms of a concrete social theory and politico-economic critique. Basing her work on the Grundrisse (probably Marx's most systematic work and only translated into English for the first time in 1973), Gould argues that Marx was engaged in a single enterprise throughout his works, specifically the construction …Read more
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77Recognition in Redistribution: Care and Diversity in Global JusticeSouthern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 91-103. 2008.
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75Constructivism and Practice: Toward a Historical EpistemologyRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.Over the past several decades, philosophers have grown to recognize the role played by frameworks and models in the construction of human knowledge. Further, they have paid increasing attention to the origins of knowing processes in social and historical contexts of human practical activities, and to social transformation of the frameworks over time. In a series of original essays by prominent philosophers, Constructivism and Practice advances the understanding of the role of construction and mo…Read more
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54Self-determination beyond sovereignty: Relating transnational democracy to local autonomyJournal of Social Philosophy 37 (1). 2006.
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54Solidarity and the problem of structural injustice in healthcareBioethics 32 (9): 541-552. 2018.The concept of solidarity has recently come to prominence in the healthcare literature, addressing the motivation for taking seriously the shared vulnerabilities and medical needs of compatriots and for acting to help them meet these needs. In a recent book, Prainsack and Buyx take solidarity as a commitment to bear costs to assist others regarded as similar, with implications for governing health databases, personalized medicine, and organ donation. More broadly, solidarity has been understood …Read more
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50New Paradigms in Professional EthicsProfessional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 1 (1-2): 143-154. 1992.
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46A Reply to My CriticsRadical Philosophy Today 4 277-291. 2006.In response to critical discussions of her Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights by William McBride, Omar Dahbour, Kory Schaff, and David Schweickart, Gould grants that globalization and U.S. Empire are intertwined, but she argues that this does not refute that global and transnational interconnections and networks are developing that are in need of substantive democracy. Gould further seeks to clarify two main interpretive misunderstandings of her critics. First, even though she rejects “all a…Read more
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45Global Democratic Transformation and the InternetSocial Philosophy Today 22 73-88. 2006.This paper begins with two cases pertaining to the internet in an effort to identify some of the difficult normative issues and some of the new directions in using the Internet to facilitate democratic participation, particularly in transnational contexts. Can the Internet be used in ways that advance democracy globally both within nation-states that lack it and in newly transnational ways? Can it contribute to strengthening not only democratic procedures of majority rule, periodic elections, an…Read more
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42Does Stakeholder Theory Require Democratic Management?Business and Professional Ethics Journal 21 (1): 3-20. 2002.
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40Protecting Democracy by Extending It: Democratic Management ReconsideredJournal of Social Philosophy 50 (4): 513-535. 2019.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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33Approaching Global Justice through Human Rights: Elements of Theory and PracticeThe Journal of Ethics 9 55-79. 2005.
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32Rethinking Democracy:Freedom and Social Co-operation in Politics, Economy, and SocietyCambridge University Press. 1988.In this book, Carol Gould offers a fundamental reconsideration of the theory of democracy, arguing that democratic decision-making should apply not only to politics but also to economic and social life. Professor Gould redefines traditional concepts of freedom and social equality, and proposes a principle of Equal Positive Freedom in which individual freedom and social co-operation are seen to be compatible. Reformulating basic conceptions of property, authority, economic justice and human right…Read more
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30How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and BioethicsJournal of Applied Philosophy 36 (2): 173-191. 2019.Traditional conceptions of informed consent seem difficult or even impossible to apply to new technologies like biobanks, big data, or GMOs, where vast numbers of people are potentially affected, and where consequences and risks are indeterminate or even unforeseeable. Likewise, the principle has come under strain with the appropriation and monetisation of personal information on digital platforms. Over time, it has largely been reduced to bare assent to formalistic legal agreements. To address …Read more
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24Social Ontology and the Crisis in the Foundation of Valuesder 16. Weltkongress Für Philosophie 2 578-584. 1983.This paper ist addressed to the contemporary crisis in the foundation of values. I argue that the justification of norms and values cannot be provided either by positivist approaches which derive from models of objective scientific explanation or by phenomenological approaches based on subjective intentionality. I propose a new approach to the justification of norms and values which I call social ontology. Such an approach sees values as having their foundation in the nature of human action and …Read more
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