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14Rawls and American political traditionsJournal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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3From Philosophical Theology to Democratic TheoryIn Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.This essay that takes up Rawls's journey from philosophical theology through moral philosophy to democratic theory and political philosophy and pauses at, to reflect on, a few significant points early in the journey. It aims to provide a sense of some of Rawls's important early concerns and commitments that structure or at least cast significant shadows over his later work in political philosophy, A Theory of Justice and subsequent works. According to Rawl, moral philosophers construct theoretic…Read more
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8Political Authority and Human RightsIn Rex Martin & David A. Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell. 2006-01-01.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Basic Human Rights: Rawls's List Basic Human Rights: Their Nature and Function Basic Human Rights: A Rawlsian Justification Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes.
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6Introduction: Reading Rawls's the Law of PeoplesIn Rex Martin & David A. Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell. 2006-01-01.This chapter contains section titled: Background John Rawls History of The Law of Peoples Rawls's Law of Peoples The Importance of The Law of Peoples and its Reception How the Book is Organized Some Areas Still to Be Addressed Notes.
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1Pears: Hume's System: An Examination of the First Book of His Treatise (review)Auslegung 18 179-187. 1992.
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When the good alone isn't good enoughIn Roger Crisp (ed.), Griffin on Human Rights, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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1Public political reason : still not wide enoughIn Sarah Roberts-Cady & Jon Mandle (eds.), John Rawls: Debating the Major Questions, Oup Usa. 2020.
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5Coercion and the State (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2008.A signal feature of legal and political institutions is that they exercise coercive power. The essays in this volume examine institutional coercion with the aim of trying to understand its nature, justification and limits. Included are essays that take a fresh look at perennial questions. Leading scholars from philosophy, political science and law examine these and related questions shedding new light on an apparently inescapable feature of political and legal life: Coercion.
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9Rawls, law-making and liberal democratic toleration: from Theory to Political Liberalism to The Law of PeoplesJurisprudence 12 (1): 17-46. 2020.In this essay I situate Rawls’s conception of liberal democratic toleration within the account of political and law-making activity undertaken by free equals that he develops across his three main...
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4Accommodating PluralismThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 41 214-219. 1998.This paper examines the general neutrality principle of Rawls’ liberalism and then tests that principle against accommodationist intuitions and sympathies in cases concerning the non-neutral effects of a system of compulsory education on particular social groups.
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13Book ReviewsJ. Patrick Dobel,. Public Integrity. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. 260. $38.00 (review)Ethics 112 (3): 607-610. 2002.
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18Book ReviewVincent Samar,. Justifying Judgment: Practicing Law and Philosophy.Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp. 307. $40.00 (review)Ethics 112 (1): 180-182. 2001.
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11Human Rights: the Hard Questions (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A burgeoning human rights movement followed, yielding many treaties and new international institutions and shaping the constitutions and laws of many states. Yet human rights continue to be contested politically and legally and there is substantial philosophical and theoretical debate over their foundations and implications. In this volume distinguished philosophers, political scientists, international…Read more
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1Justice, Pluralism, and Social Stability: The Political Philosophy of John RawlsDissertation, University of Kansas. 1997.John Rawls now presents and defends his theory of "justice as fairness" as a form of "political liberalism." Focusing on Political Liberalism , this dissertation critically examines the main features of Rawls's recent work in liberal political philosophy. ;Chapter One first introduces "justice as fairness," drawing on Rawls's A Theory of Justice . It then introduces Rawls's more recent work as responsive to the fact that in his 1971 presentation of "justice as fairness" he assumed a degree of mo…Read more
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The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Liberal State by Jeff SpinnerAuslegung 25 (1): 92-100. 2002.
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29Creating citizens: Political education and liberal democracyAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (3). 2001.Book Information Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy. By Eamonn Callan. Oxford University Press. New York. 1997. Pp. viii + 262. Hardback, £25.00.
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26Relativism, self-determination and human rightsIn Deen Chatterjee (ed.), Democracy in a Global World, Rowman&littlefield. 2008.
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15Three Human Rights AgendasCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 19 (2). 2006.In this paper I distinguish between three conceptions of human rights and thus three human rights agendas. Each is compatible with the others, but distinguishing each from the others has important theoretical and practical advantages. The first conception concerns those human rights tied to natural duties binding all persons to one another independent of and prior to any institutional context and the violation of which would “shock the conscience” of any morally competent person. The second conc…Read more
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64This is an encyclopedia entry (for the IVR Encyclopedia of legal and political philosophy) covering John Rawls. It aims to provide a general but not superficial introduction to Rawls's theory of justice, justice as fairness.
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8Education for citizenship in a pluralist liberal democracyJournal of Value Inquiry 30 (1-2): 25-42. 1996.
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13The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2014.John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic s…Read more
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Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.The chapters in this volume deal with timely issues regarding democracy in theory and in practice in today's globalized world. Authored by leading political philosophers of our time, they appear here for the first time. The essays challenge and defend assumptions about the role of democracy as a viable political and legal institution in response to globalization, keeping in focus the role of rights at the normative foundations of democracy in a pluralistic world
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38Rawls's religion and justice as fairnessHistory of Political Thought 31 (2): 309-344. 2010.The recent posthumous publication of John Rawls's undergraduate thesis 'A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: An Interpretation Based on the Concept of Community' constitutes a welcome opportunity to examine the relationships between Rawls's religious commitments and his political philosophy. In this essay, informed by a complete examination of Rawls's archived papers at Harvard, I set out some of these commitments, trace their development over time, and indicate some of the ways th…Read more
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31On the Human Right to Democracy: Searching for Sense without StiltsJournal of Social Philosophy 43 (2): 177-203. 2012.
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University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleDepartment of Philosophy
Political ScienceDistinguished Professor
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America