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114Promise as practice reasonActa Analytica 23 (4): 287-318. 2008.To promise someone to do something is to commit oneself to that person to do that thing, but what does that commitment consist of? Some think a promissory commitment is an obligation to do what’s promised, and that while promising practices facilitate the creation of promissory obligations, they are not essential to them. I favor the broadly Humean view in which, when it comes to promises (and so promissory obligations), practices are of the essence. I propose the Practice Reason Account of prom…Read more
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101Act and Principle ContractualismUtilitas 23 (3): 288-315. 2011.Unrejectability is the property shared by things no one could reasonably reject. Following the lead of T. M. Scanlon, modern contractualists hold Principle Contractualism: An act is obligatory when conformity to unrejectable principles requires its performance. This article entertains Act Contractualism: An act is obligatory when its performance is unrejectable. The article hypothesizes that Principle Contractualism owes its initial plausibility to the assumption that following it somehow realiz…Read more
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95Tort law and corrective justiceLaw and Philosophy 22 (1): 21-73. 2003.This article offers a refutation of the corrective justice interpretation of tort law – the view that it is essentially a system of corrective justice. It introduces a distinction between primary and secondary tort duties and claims that tort law is best understood as the union of its primary and secondary duties. It then advances two independent criticisms of the corrective justice interpretation. The article first argues that primary tort duties have nothing fundamentally to do with corrective…Read more
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80Marmor on the Arbitrariness of Constitutive ConventionsJurisprudence 2 (2): 441-506. 2011.Comment on Joseph Raz, From Normativity to Responsibility
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62Promises and Agreements: Philosophical Essays (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.This volume, which comprises sixteen original contributions, is the first collection of philosophical papers on promises and agreements - topics enjoying a renaissance in social, moral, and legal philosophy.
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49Book Review: Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 3 (2): 244-249. 2006.Reason and Value collects fifteen brand-new papers by leading contemporary philosophers on themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz. The subtlety and power of Raz's reflections on ethical topics--including especially his explorations of the connections between practical reason and the theory of value--make his writings a fertile source for anyone working in this area. The volume honors Raz's accomplishments in the area of ethical theorizing, and will contribute to an enhanced appreciation …Read more
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34The first virtue of the law courts and the first virtue of the lawLegal Theory 13 (2): 101-128. 2007.Justice, you might think, is the first virtue of the law. After all, we call our judges justices, the administration of law the administration of justice, and the government's legal department the Justice Department. We should reject this Priority of Justice for the Law in favor of the more moderate Priority of Justice for the Courts, the view that justice is the first virtue of the law courts. Under its comparative conception, justice is distinguishable by its concern with the relative position…Read more
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25Grading PunishmentsLaw and Philosophy 22 (1): 1-19. 2003.This article offers arefutation of the corrective justiceinterpretation of tort law – the view that itis essentially a system of corrective justice. It introduces a distinction between primary andsecondary tort duties and claims that tort lawis best understood as the union of its primaryand secondary duties. It then advances twoindependent criticisms of the correctivejustice interpretation. The article firstargues that primary tort duties have nothingfundamentally to do with corrective justice a…Read more
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15Tort Law and Corrective JusticeLaw and Philosophy 22 (1): 21-73. 2003.This article offers arefutation of the corrective justiceinterpretation of tort law – the view that itis essentially a system of corrective justice. It introduces a distinction between primary andsecondary tort duties and claims that tort lawis best understood as the union of its primaryand secondary duties. It then advances twoindependent criticisms of the correctivejustice interpretation. The article firstargues that primary tort duties have nothingfundamentally to do with corrective justice a…Read more
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11Contractual liability and voluntary undertakingsOxford Journal of Legal Studies 20 (2): 205-220. 2000.Developments in contract law over the past century have led to the proliferation of interpretive theories according to which contract law is no longer a sui generisi legal branch. It is widely accepted that if there is a sui generis contractual obligation, it must somehow be based on the wills of the parties. But a new orthodoxy in contract theory claims that the role of the will of the parties in contract law has been progressively shrinking due to judicial doctrines within the law of contract …Read more
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Review article : raz on the social dependence of valuesIn Thom Brooks (ed.), Law and Legal Theory, Brill. 2013.
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Bar-Ilan University, Ramat GanDepartment of Philosophy & ReligionOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Social and Political Philosophy |