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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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45Special 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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1On Democracy: Towards a Transformation of American Society (review)Philosophical Review 93 (4): 623-626. 1984.
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95In 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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116Determinism, 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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115Physician-Assisted Death: The State of the DebateIn Bonnie Steinbock (ed.), The Oxford handbook of bioethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.The essential outlines of the debate over voluntary euthanasia have not changed very much since Glanville Williams and Yale Kamisar debated the issues almost fifty years ago. On the one hand, there is an appeal to considerations of autonomy and the relief of suffering: individuals should be able to choose the timing and mode of their dying and they should not have to suffer from pain and other modes of indignity such as incontinence, paralysis, muscular wastage, and mental deterioration. So far …Read more
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