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RepublicanismIn Michael Freeden, Lyman Tower Sargent & Marc Stears (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, Oxford University Press. 2013.After presenting the recent republican revival, focusing in particular on the neo-republican school of thought, this chapter assesses the exact nature of the differences between liberalism and republicanism, and notably the republicanism of freedom as non-domination associated with Philip Pettit. Drawing on the tools of ideological analysis, as laid out by Michael Freeden, it shows that some of these disagreements are conceptual; others are normative; and yet others are strategic. In particular,…Read more
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24Protecting 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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56Republicanism 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 (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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16Can 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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25Three cheers for liberal modestyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (1): 119-135. 2020.
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29Intelligibility, 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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30Liberalism’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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146. 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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184. Disaggregating Religion In Nonestablishment Of Religion: Defending Minimal SecularismIn Liberalism’s Religion, Harvard University Press. pp. 113-159. 2017.
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39Three cheers for liberal modestyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (1): 119-135. 2020.
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80Republicanism and Political Theory (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2008.Republicanism and Political Theory is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory. Critically assesses its historical credentials, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals Brings together original contributions from leading international scholars in an interactive way Provides the reader with valuable insight into new debates taking place in republican political theory
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155Critical republicanism: the Hijab controversy and political philosophyOxford University Press. 2008.The first comprehensive analysis of the philosophical issues raised by the hijab controversy in France, this book also conducts a dialogue between contemporary Anglo-American and French political theory and defends a progressive republican solution to so-called multicultural conflicts in contemporary societies. It critically assesses the official republican philosophy of laïcité which purported to justify the 2004 ban on religious signs in schools. Laïcité is shown to encompass a comprehensive t…Read more
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120Secular philosophy and muslim headscarves in schoolsJournal of Political Philosophy 13 (3). 2005.
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21Pluralism and the personality of the state (review)History of European Ideas 23 (2-4): 141-144. 1997.
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