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9The Politics of Belonging: Nationalism, Liberalism, and Pluralism (edited book)Lexington Books. 2004.The Politics of Belonging represents an innovative collaboration between political theorists and political scientists for the purposes of investigating the liberal and pluralistic traditions of nationalism. Alain Dieckhoff introduces an indispensable collection of work for anyone dealing with questions of identity, ethnicity, and nationalism
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1Deliberative Democracy in Practice (edited book)UBC Press. 2010.Deliberative democracy is a dominant paradigm in normative political philosophy. Deliberative democrats want politics to be more than a clash of contending interests, and they believe political decisions should emerge from reasoned dialogue among citizens. But can these ideals be realized in complex and unjust societies? Deliberative Democracy in Practice brings together leading scholars who explore debates in deliberative democratic theory in four areas of practice: education, constitutions and…Read more
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20Reading Onora o’Neill (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Onora O’Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O’Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissio…Read more
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14Two Conceptions of Public PhilosophyIn Dimitrios Karmis & Jocelyn Maclure (eds.), Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: The Public Philosophy of James Tully, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 25-40. 2023.
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4Motivating the Global DemosIn Ronald Tinnevelt & Helder De Schutter (eds.), Global Democracy and Exclusion, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction On the “Naturalness” of National Partiality What Cosmopolitans Might Learn from Nationalist Community Building Community Building Through Instrumental Appeals to Morality Conclusion Acknowledgments References.
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8Citizenship and PluralismIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Conclusion Notes Bibliography.
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7Liberalism and Language Policy in “Mere Number Cases”In Yael Peled & Daniel M. Weinstock (eds.), Language Ethics, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 178-201. 2020.
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9Charles Taylor: A Biographical SketchIn Jacob Levy, Jocelyn Maclure & Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 3-18. 2020.
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26Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor (edited book)McGill-Queen's University Press. 2020.There are few philosophical questions to which Charles Taylor has not devoted his attention. His work has made powerful contributions to our understanding of action, language, and mind. He has had a lasting impact on our understanding of the way in which the social sciences should be practised, taking an interpretive stance in opposition to dominant positivist methodologies. Taylor's powerful critiques of atomist versions of liberalism have redefined the agenda of political philosophers. He has …Read more
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43On the Complementarity of the Ages of LifeJournal of Applied Philosophy 35 (S1): 47-59. 2018.In a pair of influential papers, Tamar Schapiro argues that childhood is a ‘predicament’, in that children lack stable characters that allow them to be subjects of ascriptions of moral responsibility. Comparing childhood to the political ‘state of nature’, Schapiro holds that childhood is a stage of life from which agents must be liberated. I argue that the comparison to the state of nature gives rise to the implication that ‘instantaneous adulthood’ would be a desirable state. Canvassing the na…Read more
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20Democracy and/or Consent: A Comment on Carol Gould's ‘How Democracy Can Inform Consent’Journal of Applied Philosophy 36 (2): 198-204. 2019.
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119Conscientious Refusal and Health Professionals: Does Religion Make a Difference?Bioethics 28 (1): 8-15. 2013.Freedom of Conscience and Freedom of Religion should be taken to protect two distinct sets of moral considerations. The former protects the ability of the agent to reflect critically upon the moral and political issues that arise in her society generally, and in her professional life more specifically. The latter protects the individual's ability to achieve secure membership in a set of practices and rituals that have as a moral function to inscribe her life in a temporally extended narrative. O…Read more
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15A justification of health policy federalismBioethics 35 (8): 744-751. 2021.The apportionment of responsibility for health policy within multi‐level states should be sensitive to a number of conflicting normative pressures, some of which militate for placing decision‐making authority at the higher reaches of policy‐making structures, while others would seem to require placing them lower down this structure. The principle of subsidiarity is a structural principle that addresses in a manner that is neutral with respect to these values a way of addressing the conflicting c…Read more
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38A Harm Reduction Approach to the Ethical Management of the COVID-19 PandemicPublic Health Ethics 13 (2): 166-175. 2020.The post-confinement phase of the COVID-19 pandemic will require that governments navigate more complex ethical questions than had occurred in the initial, ‘curve-flattening’ phase, and that will occur when the pandemic is in the past. By looking at the unavoidable harms involved in the confinement and quarantine methods employed during the initial phase of the pandemic, we can develop a harm reduction approach to managing the phase during which society will be gradually reopened in a context of…Read more
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38Political legitimacy and research ethicsBioethics 33 (3): 312-318. 2018.In democratic theory, “legitimacy” refers to the set of conditions that must be in place in order for the claims to authority of somebody to be deemed appropriate, and for their claims to compliance to be warranted. Though criteria of legitimacy have been elaborated in the context of democratic states, there is no reason for them not to be drawn up, with appropriate amendments, for other kinds of authority structures. This paper examines the claims to authority made over researchers by internati…Read more
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79End-of-Life Decision-Making in Canada: The Report by the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on End-of-Life Decision-MakingBioethics 25 (s1): 1-73. 2011.ABSTRACTThis report on end‐of‐life decision‐making in Canada was produced by an international expert panel and commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada. It consists of five chapters.Chapter 1 reviews what is known about end‐of‐life care and opinions about assisted dying in Canada.Chapter 2 reviews the legal status quo in Canada with regard to various forms of assisted death.Chapter 3 reviews ethical issues pertaining to assisted death. The analysis is grounded in core values central to Canada…Read more
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27Are Immunity Licenses Just?American Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 172-174. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 172-174.
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20Otfried Höffe, Principes du droit, , Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 1993Philosophiques 23 (1): 196-198. 1996.
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22Allen Buchanan, Secession : The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec, Boulder, Westview Press, 1991.Allen Buchanan, Secession : The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec, Boulder, Westview Press, 1991Philosophiques 20 (1): 228-231. 1993.
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76Toward a Hermeneutical Conception of Medicine: A Conversation with Charles TaylorJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 36 (4): 436-445. 2011.
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104Philosophy in an age of pluralism: the philosophy of Charles Taylor in question (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1994.This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor's work and a major contribution to leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary moral and political philosophers: in an era of specialisation he is one of the few thinkers who has developed a comprehensive philosophy which speaks to the conditions of the modern world in a way that is compelling to specialists in various di…Read more
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43Multiculturalism as Harm ReductionRes Publica 29 (4): 611-627. 2023.Multicultural theory and practice have in recent years been subjected to substantial criticism. While some of these criticisms can be dismissed as grounded in discriminatory attitudes, others are less easily swept aside, as they are underwritten by values that multiculturalists tend to affirm. A harm reduction approach, that recognizes that reasonable citizens can disagree about some multicultural practices while at the same time acknowledging that attempts at prohibition are either exceedingly …Read more