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14Rawls and American political traditionsJournal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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4From 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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9Political 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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6Coercion 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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10Rawls, 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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12Human 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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109Reciprocity and Reasonable Disagreement: From Liberal to Democratic LegitimacyPhilosophical Studies 132 (2): 243-291. 2007.At the center of Rawls’s work post-1980 is the question of how legitimate coercive state action is possible in a liberal democracy under conditions of reasonable disagreement. And at the heart of Rawls’s answer to this question is his liberal principle of legitimacy. In this paper I argue that once we attend carefully to the depth and range of reasonable disagreement, Rawls’s liberal principle of legitimacy turns out to be either wildly utopian or simply toothless, depending on how one reads the…Read more
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37Justice and the Global Economy in Rawls’s the Law of PeoplesSouthwest Philosophy Review 20 (1): 241-255. 2004.
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40A right to health care? Participatory politics, progressive policy, and the price of loose languageTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 37 (4): 323-342. 2016.This article begins by clarifying and noting various limitations on the universal reach of the human right to health care under positive international law. It then argues that irrespective of the human right to health care established by positive international law, any system of positive international law capable of generating legal duties with prima facie moral force necessarily presupposes a universal moral human right to health care. But the language used in contemporary human rights document…Read more
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644The structural diversity of historical injusticesJournal of Social Philosophy 37 (3). 2006.Driven by a sharp increase in claims for reparations, reparative justice has become a topic of academic debate. To some extent this debate has been marred by a failure to realize the complexity of reparative justice. In this essay we try to amend this shortcoming. We do this by developing a taxonomy of different kinds of wrongs that can underwrite claims to reparations. We identify four kinds of wrongs: entitlement violations, unjust exclusions from an otherwise acceptable system of entitlements…Read more
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37William Talbott’s Which Rights Should be Universal? (review)Human Rights Review 9 (2): 181-191. 2008.In this review essay, I first set out and then subject to criticism the main claims advanced by William Talbott in his excellent recent book, “Which Rights Should be Universal?”. Talbott offers a conception of basic universal human rights as the minimally necessary and sufficient conditions to political legitimacy. I argue that his conception is at once too robustly liberal and democratic and too inattentive to key features of the rule of law to play this role. I suggest that John Rawls’s concep…Read more
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36Human Rights: Institutions and AgendasPublic Affairs Quarterly 22 (4): 409-433. 2008.Distinguishes and shows how one can coherently affirm distinct human rights agendas rooted in distinct conceptions of human rights, each with its own normative aim and institutional and discursive field of application.
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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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University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleDepartment of Philosophy
Political ScienceDistinguished Professor
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America