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397Gilabert on the Feasibility of Global JusticeLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 8 (2): 97-109. 2013.In this article, I discuss the analysis of the feasibility of global justice developed by Pablo Gilabert in his recent book From Global Poverty to Global Equality: A Philosophical Exploration. Gilabert makes many valuable contributions to this topic and I agree with most of his analysis. However, I identify a distinction between strategic justification and moral justification that Gilabert neglects. I show how this distinction is useful in addressing objections to the feasibility of global justi…Read more
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215The moral and political status of childrenPhilosophical Quarterly 54 (216): 490-492. 2004.The book contains original essays by distinguished moral and political philosophers on the topic of the moral and political status of children. It covers the themes of children's rights, parental rights and duties, the family and justice, and civic education.
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210The Stroop task in cognitive researchIn Amy Wenzel & David C. Rubin (eds.), Cognitive Methods and Their Application to Clinical Research, American Psychological Association. pp. 17--40. 2005.
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130Liberal neutrality or liberal tolerance?Law and Philosophy 16 (5). 1997.This paper explores tensions in Ronald Dworkin's liberal theory (and liberalism more generally) about the appropriate relationship of the state to the different conceptions of the good that may be adopted by its citizens. Liberal theory generally supposes that the state must exhibit a kind of impartiality to different conceptions of the good. This impartiality is often thought to be captured by an anti-perfectionist ideal of liberal neutrality. But neutrality is often criticized as an ideal that…Read more
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87Induced processing biases have causal effects on anxietyCognition and Emotion 16 (3): 331-354. 2002.
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78Hypnosis and the control of attention: Where to from here?Consciousness and Cognition 20 (2): 321-324. 2011.Can suggestion, particularly hypnotic suggestion, influence cognition? Addressing this intriguing question experimentally is on the rise in cognitive research, nowhere more prevalently than in the domain of cognitive control and attention. This may well rest on the intuitive connection between hypnotic suggestion and attention, where the hypnotist controls the subject’s attention. Particularly impressive has been the work of Raz and his colleagues demonstrating the modulation and even the comple…Read more
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74The Moral and Political Status of Children (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2002.The book contains original essays by distinguished moral and political philosophers on the topic of the moral and political status of children. It covers the themes of children's rights, parental rights and duties, the family and justice, and civic education.
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65Just Schools and Good Childhoods: Non‐preparatory Dimensions of Educational JusticeJournal of Applied Philosophy 35 (S1): 76-89. 2018.This article offers an account of at least some of the non-preparatory dimensions of education and their significance for a theory of educational justice. I argue that just schools should play a role in facilitating goods of childhood. I also defend an egalitarian view about the access children should have in school to the resources and opportunities associated with the non-preparatory dimensions of education.
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64Liberal equality and the affective familyIn David Archard & Colin M. Macleod (eds.), The Moral and Political Status of Children, Oxford University Press. pp. 212--230. 2002.Inequalities that arise because of the influence of arbitrary factors of social or natural contingency, as opposed to choices, are unjust. But whilst liberals wish to preserve and protect the affective family, parental partiality to their own children can result in an inequality that is unjust on account of it being attributable to arbitrary factors. Children's access to resources and opportunities should not be significantly determined by parental entitlement to resources. Justice requires not …Read more
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64Toleration, children and educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 42 (1): 9-21. 2010.The paper explores challenges for the interpretation of the ideal toleration that arise in educational contexts involving children. It offers an account of how a respect-based conception of toleration can help to resolve controversies about the accommodation and response to diversity that arise in schools.
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58Manipulation of Attention at Study Affects an Explicit but Not an Implicit Test of MemoryConsciousness and Cognition 5 (1-2): 165-175. 1995.We investigated the impact of attention during encoding on later retrieval. During study, participants read some words aloud and named the print color of other words aloud . Then one of two memory tests was administered. The explicit test—recognition—required conscious recollection of whether a word was studied. Previously read words were recognized more accurately than were previously color named words. This contrasted sharply with performance on the implicit test—repetition priming in lexical …Read more
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57If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? G. A. Cohen. Harvard University Press, 2000, xi + 233 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 18 (2): 351-385. 2002.
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56Making Moral Judgements and Giving Reasons: Critical Notice of (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 263-289. 2001.This essay provides a critical notice of T.M. Scanlon's book _What We Owe to Each Other. Special attention is given to assessing the success of Scanlon's theory of practical rationality as it provides a basis for his account of value and his contractualist moral theory.
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56Freedom as non-domination and educational justiceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 18 (4): 456-469. 2015.
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44Book ReviewsAndrew Levine,. Rethinking Liberal Equality from a “Utopian” Point of View. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x + 140. $32.50 (review)Ethics 111 (2): 429-432. 2001.
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44Biased attentional engagement with, and disengagement from, negative information: Independent cognitive pathways to anxiety vulnerability?Cognition and Emotion 28 (2): 245-259. 2014.
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40Hypnotic control of attention in the stroop task: A historical footnoteConsciousness and Cognition 12 (3): 347-353. 2003.have recently provided a compelling demonstration of enhanced attentional control under post-hypnotic suggestion. Using the classic color-word interference paradigm, in which the task is to ignore a word and to name the color in which it is printed (e.g., RED in green, say ''green''), they gave a post-hypnotic instruction to participants that they would be unable to read. This eliminated Stroop interference in high suggestibility participants but did not alter interference in low suggestibility …Read more
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40Justice, Educational Equality, and SufficiencyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 40 (S1): 151-175. 2010.Among the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of condition among the people. (de Tocqueville 1990, 7)There are significant inequalities in the lives of America's children, including inequalities in the education that these children receive. These educational inequalities include not only disparities in funding per pupil but also in class size, teacher qualification, and resources such as books, l…Read more
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40Equality and family values: conflict or harmony?Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (3): 301-313. 2018.This paper provides a critical commentary on the claim advanced by Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift in their book Family Values: The Ethics of Parent–Child Relationships that there is an ineliminable conflict between relationship goods and fair equality of opportunity. I argue there need be no conflict between family values and equality of opportunity in a suitably non-hierarchical society. I also argue that the idea that equality of opportunity might be served by abolishing the family is mistaken…Read more
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37Questions of Judgement: Determining What's Right F. H. Low-Beer Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995, 217 pp (review)Dialogue 37 (2): 424-. 1998.
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37Emotion Regulation and the Cognitive-Experimental Approach to Emotional DysfunctionEmotion Review 3 (1): 62-73. 2011.Since the 1980s, there has been a steady growth of interest in the psychological mechanisms that regulate normal emotional experience. In this same period, cognitive-experimental researchers have sought to delineate the information processing biases that characterize emotional disorders. Exciting potential synergies exist between these two areas of investigation. In this article, we consider ways in which reciprocal benefits could be gained by the constructive transfer of theoretical ideas and m…Read more
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32Respecting children and children’s dignityIn Children's Well-Being, . pp. 141-156. 2015.The concept of human dignity has remained surprisingly absent from philosophical discussions about the ethics of childhood so far. Likewise, children as a group are mostly neglected in the ongoing discourse on human dignity. In this paper, we attempt to close this double gap by showing that there is, first, a meaningful way to speak of children’s dignity, and that, second, considering children as a group can be illuminating for dignity theorists in general. After an analysis of the reasons why t…Read more
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32Enhanced probing of attentional bias: The independence of anxiety-linked selectivity in attentional engagement with and disengagement from negative informationCognition and Emotion 28 (7): 1287-1302. 2014.
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32How Priming Affects Two Speeded Implicit Tests of Remembering: Naming Colors versus Reading WordsConsciousness and Cognition 5 (1-2): 73-90. 1995.Three experiments investigated two timed implicit tests of memory—word reading and color naming. Using the study–test procedure, Experiments 1 and 2 showed that studied words caused reliable facilitation in word reading but no interference in color naming relative to unstudied words. Indeed, there was a small amount of facilitation in color naming as well. Experiment 3 further explored the color naming task by alternating shorter study and test intervals and adding control trials consisting of l…Read more
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