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11AutonomyIn Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Pogge (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.The concept of autonomy has assumed increasing importance in contemporary political philosophy. Philosophers such as Rawls, Wolff, Scanlon, Raz and Hurley have employed the concept to ground principles and illuminate issues such as the choice of principles of justice, the justification of political authority, the limits of free speech, the nature of the liberal state and the justification of democracy.
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33Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (2). 1994.
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44Special Supplement: The XYY Controversy: Researching Violence and GeneticsHastings Center Report 10 (4): 1. 1980.
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5Offense to Others: The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law (review)Philosophical Review 98 (2): 239-242. 1989.
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On Democracy: Towards a Transformation of American Society (review)Philosophical Review 93 (4): 623-626. 1984.
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94In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff (review)Journal of Philosophy 68 (18): 561-567. 1971.
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4Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied EthicsHastings Center Report 20 (3): 42. 1990.Book reviewed in this article: Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics. By David Lamb.
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3Philosophic ExplanationsHastings Center Report 12 (2): 41. 1982.Book reviewed in this article: Philosophic Explanations. By Robert Nozick.
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17Dangerous Ground?Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics (review)Hastings Center Report 20 (3): 42-43. 2012.Book reviewed in this article: Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics. By David Lamb.
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6Tracking Nozick (review)Hastings Center Report 12 (2): 41. 1982.Book reviewed in this article: Philosophic Explanations. By Robert Nozick.
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15Case Studies in Bioethics: Can Convicts Consent to Castration?Hastings Center Report 5 (5): 17. 1975.
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113Determinism, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility (edited book)Prentice-Hall. 1970.Of liberty and necessity, by D. Hume.--The doctrine of necessity examined, by C. S. Peirce.--Determinism in history, by E. Nagel.--Some arguments for free will, by T. Reid.--Has the self free will? by C. A. Campbell.--Dialogue on free will, by L. de Valla.--Can the will be caused? by C. Ginet.--Free will, by G. E. Moore.--A modal muddle, by S. N. Thomas.--Determinism, indeterminism, and libertarianism, by C. D. Broad.--An empirical disproof of determinism? by K. Lehrer.--Free will, praise and bl…Read more
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98Equal Respect and the Enforcement of MoralitySocial Philosophy and Policy 7 (2): 180. 1990.In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the question of when, if ever, the state may use coercion to enforce majority views about what types of conduct are right or wrong, noble or base, decent or indecent. Such interest has been generated by both political and philosophibal pressures. In recent political history, controversies over such issues as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, textbooks in schools, new reproductive technologies such as surrogate parenting and in vitro fertili…Read more
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3The limits of the criminal lawIn John Deigh & David Dolinko (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of the Criminal Law, Oxford University Press. pp. 3-16. 2011.
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146Contractualism and the normativity of principlesEthics 112 (3): 471-482. 2002.This is a study of the question of whether moral principles, as justified by a contractualist scheme, such as Scanlon's, are binding on persons, i.e., give them reasons to act in accordance with such principles. I argue that for those agents who meet the motivational conditions that Scanlon lays down, i.e., those who seek to reach agreement with others on principles that are not rejectable, such principles are binding. But on those who do not meet the motivational condition the principles are no…Read more
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