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14Protecting Freedom of Religion in the Secular AgeIn Jacob Levy, Jocelyn Maclure & Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 197-206. 2020.
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82Republicanism and Global JusticeEuropean Journal of Political Theory 9 (1): 48-69. 2010.The republican tradition seems to have a blind spot about global justice. It has had little to say about pressing international issues such as world poverty or global inequalities. According to the old, if apocryphal, adage: extra rempublicam nulla justitia. Some may doubt that distributive justice is the primary virtue of republican institutions; and at any rate most would agree that republican values have traditionally been realized in the polis not in the cosmopolis. The article sketches a re…Read more
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11On the Parity between Secular and Religious ReasonsSocial Theory and Practice 47 (3): 575-587. 2021.The contributors to this Special Issue all suggest that Christianity is compatible with political liberalism. In this paper, I first illuminate the grounds of this compatibility. I then focus on one distinctive—yet unexplored—premise of the compatibility argument. This is the thought that religious and secular reasons are essentially on a par, in terms of their contribution to public reasoning. I critically examine Christopher Eberle’s claim that, as their epistemological status is equivalent, b…Read more
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12IntroductionCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (2): 228-234. 2023.Recent decades have seen a dramatic transformation in the mode of governing, with government increasingly outsourced to a network of private actors, spanning education, prisons, regulation, arbitration, the military, and access to healthcare and welfare. Chiara Cordelli’s The Privatized State probes the ethical and philosophical questions raised by this transformation, and develops a distinctive account of the wrong of privatization: that a privatized government cannot be a legitimate government…Read more
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14Conversation avec Cécile LabordeThéoRèmes 15. 2019.1. La philosophie politique contemporaine : en français et en anglais François Boucher (FB) : Votre travail semble habité par une volonté d'établir des ponts entre la pensée politique française et anglo-américaine. Cette volonté est déjà visible dans votre ouvrage de 2000, Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France (1900-1925), qui compare les penseurs pluralistes du début XXe en France et en Angleterre. Elle est également au cœur de Critical Republicanism, The Hijab Controversy an...
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31Reply to Quong, Patten, Miller and WaldronCriminal Law and Philosophy 15 (1): 105-118. 2020.This is a reply to four critics of my book Liberalism’s Religion: Jonathan Quong, Alan Patten, David Miller and Jeremy Waldron, whose essays have been published in a Special Issue of Criminal Law and Philosophy.
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15Can Religious Establishment be Liberal Enough? 1Studies in Christian Ethics 33 (2): 215-223. 2020.In this article, I aim to do two things. I offer an assessment of religious establishment according to liberal standards. I then ask how this analysis bears on Nigel Biggar’s defence of Anglican establishment. I argue that only some features of Anglican establishment are compatible with the liberal standard of what I call minimal secularism.
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22Three cheers for liberal modestyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (1): 119-135. 2020.
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28Intelligibility, Moral Loss and InjusticeJournal of Applied Philosophy 36 (5): 727-736. 2019.In Liberalism's Religion, I analyse the specific conception of religion that liberalism relies upon. I argue that the concept of religion should be disaggregated into its normatively salient features. When deciding whether to avert undue impingements on religious observances, or to avoid any untoward support of such observances, liberal states should not deal with ‘religion’ as such but, rather, with relevant dimensions of religious phenomena. States should avoid religious entanglement when ‘rel…Read more
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125. State Sovereignty And Freedom Of AssociationIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 160-196. 2017.
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29Liberalism’s Religion (edited book)Harvard University Press. 2017.Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the law, requiring both special protection and special containment. But recently this idea that religion requires a legal exception has come under fire from those who argue that religion is no different from any other conception of the good, and the state should treat all such conceptions according to principles of neutrality and equal liberty. Cécile Laborde agrees with much of this liberal egalitarian critique, but she argues that…Read more
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162. Liberal Egalitarianism And The Exemptions PuzzleIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 42-68. 2017.
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136. Disaggregating Religion In Freedom Of Religion: Individual Exemptions And Liberal JusticeIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 197-238. 2017.
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103. Liberal Egalitarianism And The State Neutrality PuzzleIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 69-110. 2017.
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91. Liberal Egalitarianism And The Critique Of ReligionIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 13-41. 2017.
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174. Disaggregating Religion In Nonestablishment Of Religion: Defending Minimal SecularismIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 113-159. 2017.
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35Three cheers for liberal modestyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (1): 119-135. 2020.
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81Why Tolerate Conscience?Criminal Law and Philosophy 1-21. forthcoming.In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter argues against the special legal status of religion, claiming that religion should not be the only ground for exemptions to the law and that this form of protection should be, in principle, available for the claims of secular conscience as well. However, in the last chapter of his book, he objects to a universal regime of exemptions for both religious and secular claims of conscience, highlighting the practical and moral flaws associated with it. We believ…Read more
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21The Reception of John Rawls in EuropeEuropean Journal of Political Theory 1 (2): 133-146. 2002.The study of the reception of Rawls in Europe provides some insights into the persistence or erosion of national and European traditions of political thought since the 1970s. It notably allows us to test the relevance of the divide between `analytical' and `Continental' philosophy, and to measure the impact on political thought of the `liberal' turn of the 1980s. Reception should be seen not a process of absorption but as one of dialogue. The reception of Rawls can be approached along six axes o…Read more
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12Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy (edited book)oxford university press. 2016.Until now, there has been no direct and extensive engagement with the category of religion from liberal political philosophy. Over the last thirty years or so, liberals have tended to analyze religion under proximate categories such as 'conceptions of the good' or 'culture'. US constitutional lawyers and French political theorists both tackled the category of religion head-on but neither of these specialized national discourses found their way into mainstream liberal political philosophy. This i…Read more
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56Equal liberty, nonestablishment, and religious freedomLegal Theory 20 (1): 52-77. 2014.Egalitarian theories of religious freedom deny that religion is entitled to special treatment in law above and beyond that granted to comparable beliefs and practices. The most detailed and influential defense of such an approach is Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence Sager's Religious Freedom and the Constitution (2007). In this essay I develop, elucidate, and show the limits of the strategy adopted by Eisgruber and Sager. The strategy requires that religion be analogized with other beliefs and …Read more
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277The culture(s) of the republic: Nationalism and multiculturalism in French republican thoughtPolitical Theory 29 (5): 716-735. 2001.
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