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    Why Deliberative Democracy is Different
    with Amy Gutmann
    Social Philosophy and Policy 17 (1): 161. 2000.
    In modern pluralist societies, political disagreement often reflects moral disagreement, as citizens with conflicting perspectives on fundamental values debate the laws that govern their public life. Any satisfactory theory of democracy must provide a way of dealing with this moral disagreement. A fundamental problem confronting all democratic theorists is to find a morally justifiable way of making binding collective decisions in the face of continuing moral conflict
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    Deliberative democracy beyond process
    with Amy Gutmann
    Journal of Political Philosophy 10 (2). 2002.
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    Representing future generations: political presentism and democratic trusteeship
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 13 (1): 17-37. 2010.
    Democracy is prone to what may be called presentism – a bias in the laws in favor of present over future generations. I identify the characteristics of democracies that lead to presentism, and examine the reasons that make it a serious problem. Then I consider why conventional theories are not adequate to deal with it, and develop a more satisfactory alternative approach, which I call democratic trusteeship. Present generations can represent future generations by acting as trustees of the democr…Read more
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    Hume's Skepticism
    Dissertation, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. 1998.
    David Hume has traditionally been regarded as a skeptic, perhaps the most formidable in the history of Western philosophy. Since the publication of Norman Kemp Smith's Philosophy of David Hume in 1941, however, there has been an increasing tendency to downplay the skeptical dimension of Hume's philosophy, in some cases to the point of denying that Hume is a serious skeptic, or even a skeptic at all. Much of the motivation for a nonskeptical reading of Hume comes from recognition of his endorseme…Read more
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    Why Deliberative Democracy?
    with Amy Gutmann
    Princeton University Press. 2004.
    The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy?, they move the debate forward beyond their influential book, Democracy and Disagreement.What exactly is deliberative democracy? Why is it more defensible than its rivals? By offe…Read more
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    The Mindsets of Political Compromise
    with Amy Gutmann
    Perspectives on Politics 8 (4): 1125-1143. 2010.
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    In this important collection of essays Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. He suggests that we should stop thinking so much about public ethics in terms of individual vices and start thinking about it more in terms of institutional vices. Combining theory and practice with many concrete examples and proposals for reform, these essays could be used in courses in applied ethics or political theory and will …Read more
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    6. The Moral Foundations of Truth Commissions
    with Amy Gutmann
    In Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 160-188. 2000.
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    Previous Works Jointly Authored by Amy Gutmann & Dennis Thompson
    with Amy Gutmann
    In Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 209-210. 2004.
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    1. What Deliberative Democracy Means
    with Amy Gutmann
    In Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-63. 2004.
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    Democratic theory and global society
    Journal of Political Philosophy 7 (2). 1999.
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    Political Ethics
    In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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    Power and Resistance: Perpetuating and Challenging Capitalist Exploitation
    Contemporary Political Theory 6 (1): 4-23. 2007.
    Although oppressive social practices like capitalism are often portrayed as static, totalizing social 'structures' with 'logics' and 'imperatives' that must be accommodated politically and economically, such portrayals are problematic both theoretically and politically. They rest on determinist and essentialist conceptions of social practices, and they curtail the scope of politics, government regulation, and human action and creativity. Fortunately, social practices can instead be conceptualize…Read more
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    Truth versus Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions (edited book)
    with Robert I. Rotberg
    Princeton University Press. 2000.
    "This book discusses the vast and complex range of choices in between blanket amnesty and total accountability through criminal justice, and does so with ...
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    The institutional turn in professional ethics
    Ethics and Behavior 9 (2). 1999.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    4. Why Deliberative Democracy Is Different
    with Amy Gutmann
    In Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 125-138. 2004.
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    2. Moral Conflict and Political Consensus
    with Amy Gutmann
    In Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 64-94. 2004.
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    Pourquoi la démocratie délibérative est-elle différente ?
    with Amy Gutmann
    Philosophiques 29 (2): 193-214. 2002.
    Tous les théoriciens de la démocratie ont à confronter le problème fondamental qui consiste à trouver une façon moralement justifiable de prendre des décisions collectives contraignantes face à des désaccords moraux persistants. Une théorie délibérative de la démocratie nous fournit l’approche la mieux défendable de ce problème parce qu’elle laisse ouverte la possibilité que les valeurs morales exprimées par un large éventail de théories puissent être justifiables. Le principe fondamental de not…Read more
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    3. Deliberative Democracy beyond Process
    with Amy Gutmann
    In Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. pp. 95-124. 2004.
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    Democratic Theory and Global Society
    Journal of Political Philosophy 7 (2): 111-125. 1999.
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    Democracy and Disagreement
    with Amy Gutmann
    Ethics 108 (3): 607-610. 1996.
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    Conflicts of Interest
    with E. Emmanuel
    In Ezekiel J. Emanuel (ed.), The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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    Contents
    with Amy Gutmann
    In Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. 2004.
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    Preface
    with Amy Gutmann
    In Dennis Thompson & Amy Gutmann (eds.), Why Deliberative Democracy?, Princeton University Press. 2004.
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    Deliberative Democracy Beyond Process
    with Amy Gutmann
    In James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett (eds.), Debating Deliberative Democracy, Blackwell. 2003.
    Why Reciprocity Requires Deliberation Why Reciprocity Requires Substantive Principles Why the Principles should be Morally Provisional Why the Principles should be Politically Provisional When Moral and Political Judgments Conflict Notes.