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    Rawls and American political traditions
    Journal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.
    Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
  • Rawls's Law of Peoples (edited book)
    with Rex Martin
    Blackwell. 2006-01-01.
  • From Philosophical Theology to Democratic Theory
    In Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Wiley. 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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    Political Authority and Human Rights
    In Rex Martin & David A. Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell. 2006.
    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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    Introduction: Reading Rawls's the Law of Peoples
    with Rex Martin
    In Rex Martin & David A. Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell. 2006.
    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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    Coercion 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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    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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    Accommodating Pluralism
    The 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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    Human 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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    An Internationalist Conception of Human Rights
    Philosophical Forum 36 (4): 367-397. 2005.
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    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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    Creating citizens: Political education and liberal democracy
    Australasian 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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    The Rawls Lexicon (edited book)
    with Jon Mandle
    Cambridge University Press. forthcoming.
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    Book Review: Justice, Luck and Knowledge (review)
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 4 (1): 137-140. 2007.
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    Rushing to revolution? A second look at globalization and justice
    Economics and Philosophy 22 (1): 125-137. 2006.
    In Globalization and Justice, Kai Nielsen brings his distinctive and passionate voice and considerable philosophical abilities to one of the pressing issues of our time: Is justice possible in our increasingly globalized world? Nielsen argues that it is, though the demands of justice are great, the challenges substantial, and the odds very long. Without a clear philosophical understanding of justice and a firm and focused political will, Nielsen maintains, we are likely to have globalization wit…Read more
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    Justice and the Tutelary State
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (1): 97-122. 2002.
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    A Just Global Economy: In Defense of Rawls
    The Journal of Ethics 11 (2): 193-236. 2007.
    In The Law of Peoples, John Rawls does not discuss justice and the global economy at great length or in great detail. What he does say has not been well-received. The prevailing view seems to be that what Rawls says in The Law of Peoples regarding global economic justice is both inconsistent with and a betrayal of his own liberal egalitarian commitments, an unexpected and unacceptable defense of the status quo. This view is, I think, mistaken. Rawls’s position on global or international economic…Read more
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    Human 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, internationa…Read more
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    When Good Alone Isn’t Enough
    Social Theory and Practice 35 (4): 623-647. 2009.
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    Human Rights and Liberal Toleration
    Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 23 (2): 287-317. 2010.
    Offers, by way of systematic reconstruction of Rawls's Law of Peoples, a principled view of human rights and liberal toleration.
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