•  3
    Mill's Utilitarianism: Critical Essays (edited book)
    with F. R. Berger, David O. Brink, D. G. Brown, Amy Gutmann, Peter Railton, J. O. Urmson, and Henry R. West
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1997.
    John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism continues to serve as a rich source of moral and theoretical insight. This collection of articles by top scholars offers fresh interpretations of Mill's ideas about happiness, moral obligation, justice, and rights. Applying contemporary philosophical insights, the articles challenge the conventional readings of Mill, and, in the process, contribute to a deeper understanding of utilitarian theory as well as the complexity of moral life
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    El argumento de la subdeterminación establece que las personas de ciencia pueden utilizar valores políticos para orientar la investigación, pero no proporciona criterios para distinguir entre una orientación legítima y una ilegítima. Este artículo provee tales criterios. El análisis de los confusos argumentos contra la ciencia cargada de valores revela el criterio fundamental de la orientación ilegítima: cuando los juicios de valor operan orientando la investigación a una conclusión predetermina…Read more
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    This book brings together a team of leading theorists to address the question 'What is the right measure of justice?' Some contributors, following Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, argue that we should focus on capabilities, or what people are able to do and to be. Others, following John Rawls, argue for focussing on social primary goods, the goods which society produces and which people can use. Still others see both views as incomplete and complementary to one another. Their essays evaluate the…Read more
  •  386
    The Fundamental Disagreement between Luck Egalitarians and Relational Egalitarians
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40 (S1): 1-23. 2010.
    Much contemporary egalitarian theorizing is broadly divided between luck egalitarians, such as G. A. Cohen, Richard Arneson, and John Roemer, and relational egalitarians, such as John Rawls, Samuel Scheffler, Josh Cohen, and me. The two camps disagree about how to conceive of equality: as an equal distribution of non-relational goods among individuals, or as a kind of social relation between persons - an equality of authority, status, or standing.This disagreement generates a second, about when …Read more
  •  83
    The Epistemology of Democracy
    Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 3 (1): 8-22. 2006.
    This paper investigates the epistemic powers of democratic institutions through an assessment of three epistemic models of democracy: the Condorcet Jury Theorem, the Diversity Trumps Ability Theorem, and Dewey's experimentalist model. Dewey's model is superior to the others in its ability to model the epistemic functions of three constitutive features of democracy: the epistemic diversity of participants, the interaction of voting with discussion, and feedback mechanisms such as periodic electio…Read more
  •  88
    What is the proper role of politics in higher education? Many policies and reforms in the academy, from affirmative action and a multicultural curriculum to racial and sexual harassment codes and movements to change pedagogical styles, seek justice for oppressed groups in society. They understand justice to require a comprehensive equality of membership: individuals belonging to different groups should have equal access to educational opportunities; their interests and cultures should be taken e…Read more
  •  138
    Moral heuristics: Rigid rules or flexible inputs in moral deliberation?
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (4): 544-545. 2005.
    Sunstein represents moral heuristics as rigid rules that lead us to jump to moral conclusions, and contrasts them with reflective moral deliberation, which he represents as independent of heuristics and capable of supplanting them. Following John Dewey's psychology of moral judgment, I argue that successful moral deliberation does not supplant moral heuristics but uses them flexibly as inputs to deliberation. Many of the flaws in moral judgment that Sunstein attributes to heuristics reflect inst…Read more
  •  303
    I—Elizabeth Anderson: Expanding the Egalitarian Toolbox: Equality and Bureaucracy
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 82 (1): 139-160. 2008.
    Many problems of inequality in developing countries resist treatment by formal egalitarian policies. To deal with these problems, we must shift from a distributive to a relational conception of equality, founded on opposition to social hierarchy. Yet the production of many goods requires the coordination of wills by means of commands. In these cases, egalitarians must seek to tame rather than abolish hierarchy. I argue that bureaucracy offers important constraints on command hierarchies that hel…Read more
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    How Should Egalitarians Cope with Market Risks?
    Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9 (1): 239-270. 2008.
    Individuals in capitalist societies are increasingly exposed to market risks. Luck egalitarian theories, which advocate neutralizing the influence of luck on distribution, fail to cope with this problem, because they focus on the wrong kinds of distributive constraints. Rules of distributive justice can specify (1) acceptable procedures for allocating goods, (2) the range of acceptable variations in distributive outcomes, or (3) which individuals should have which goods, according to individual …Read more
  •  10
    Epistemología de la Democracia
    with Blas Radi
    Las Torres de Lucca: Revista Internacional de Filosofía Política 11 (1): 117-127. 2022.
    Este trabajo investiga las capacidades epistémicas de las instituciones democráticas a través de una evaluación de tres modelos epistémicos de democracia: el Teorema del Jurado de Condorcet, el Teorema ‘Diversidad supera Habilidad’ y el modelo experimentalista de Dewey. El modelo de Dewey es superior a los demás en su capacidad de modelar las funciones epistémicas de tres características constitutivas de la democracia: la diversidad epistémica de los participantes, la interacción de la votación …Read more
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Anita Allen, Erik A. Anderson, David Archard, Marcus Arvan, Linda Barclay, Marcia Baron, Daniel Bar-Tal, Debra Bergoffen, and Alyssa Bernstein
    Journal of Social Philosophy 42 (4): 341-345. 2011.
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    Outlaws
    The Good Society 23 (1): 103-113. 2014.
    In this article, I argue that mass incarceration belongs to a category of social status interventions by which the modern state either withholds the ordinary protections and benefits of the law from outlawed groups or subjects them to private punishment based on their mere membership in those groups. In the US these groups include immigrants and resident Latinos, the homeless, the poor and poor blacks, sex workers, and ex-convicts. Outlawry is a fundamentally anti-democratic practice that cannot…Read more
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    What is the point of equality
    Ethics 109 (2): 287-337. 1999.
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    Interview by Simon Cushing
    with Simon Cushing
    Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics (Philosophical Profiles). 2014.
    Simon Cushing conducted the following interview with Elizabeth Anderson on 18 June 2014.
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    Book Review (review)
    Economics and Philosophy 10 (2): 182-189. 1994.
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    Recent Thinking about Sexual Harassment: A Review Essay
    Philosophy and Public Affairs 34 (3): 284-312. 2006.
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    Equality and freedom in the workplace: Recovering republican insights
    Social Philosophy and Policy 31 (2): 48-69. 2015.
    "The terms do not have to be spelled out, because they have been set not by a meeting of minds of the parties, but by a default baseline defined by corporate, property, and employment law that establishes the legal parameters for the constitution of capitalist firms." p. 2
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    Inequality Reexamined, Amartya Sen (review)
    Economics and Philosophy 11 (1): 182-189. 1995.
  •  7
    No Title available: Reviews
    Economics and Philosophy 11 (1): 182-189. 1995.
  •  2
    The Democratic University: The Role of Justice in Knowledge Production
    In Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), The Just Society, Cambridge University Press. pp. 186--219. 1995.
  •  69
    Book Review: Free Market Fairness (review)
    Political Theory 41 (1): 163-166. 2013.
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    Review: Values, Risks, and Market Norms (review)
    Philosophy and Public Affairs 17 (1). 1988.
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    Responsible public policy making in a technological society must rely on complex scientific reasoning. Given that ordinary citizens cannot directly assess such reasoning, does this call the democratic legitimacy of technical public policies in question? It does not, provided citizens can make reliable second-order assessments of the consensus of trustworthy scientific experts. I develop criteria for lay assessment of scientific testimony and demonstrate, in the case of claims about anthropogenic…Read more