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    Measuring Justice: Primary Goods and Capabilities (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2010.
    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
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    What's Wrong with Tuition‐Free Four‐Year Public College?
    with Kailey Mullane
    Educational Theory 73 (6): 833-859. 2024.
    Advocates of tuition-free four-year public college make the argument for it too easy by asserting that it would be paid for out of taxes on the wealthy. Other uses of the revenues are possible. In this paper, Harry Brighouse and Kailey Mullane establish two criteria for comparing different uses of the revenues: the first criterion is, will the policy increase the overall level of educational goods?, and the second is, will the policy reduce inequalities of educational goods? Here, Brighouse and …Read more
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    Toward a New Socialism
    with Matt Bakker, Frank Bardacke, Johanna Brenner, Chris Dixon, Barbara Epstein, Fred Evans, Ann Ferguson, Milton Fisk, Michael Hames-Garcia, Nancy Holmstrom, Michael W. Howard, Serenella Iovino, Stephanie Luce, Barbara McCloskey, and Eduardo Mendieta
    Lexington Books. 2006.
    Toward a New Socialism offers a critical analysis of capitalism's failings and the imminent need for socialism as an alternative form of government. Dr. Richard Schmitt joins with Dr. Anatole Anton to compile a volume of essays exploring the benefits and consequences of a socialist system as an avenue of increased human solidarity and ethical principle
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    This article looks at Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Jane Laverty’s Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher (2022), specifically considering how Matthews conceptualized philosophy and how he found philosophy in children’s literature.
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    Perpetuating the discipline of philosophy is not the main educational responsibility of philosophers. Instead, it is to equip students with those distinctively philosophical intellectual resources that will serve students in serving the public good through participation in the economy (broadly conceived) and democratic life. Given this responsibility philosophers, individually and collectively, have a duty to take teaching and learning more seriously than they do. The paper offers some confident…Read more
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    This chapter contains sections titled: I Justice in Education II The Comprehensive Ideal III Socioeconomic Segregation and Educational Injustice IV Liberty, Family Values and Justice V Justice without Structural Reform? VI Justice without De‐Segregation? VII Concluding Comment Notes References.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Objections.
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    Family
    with Adam Swift
    In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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    Book Symposium: Harry Brighouse, School Choice and Social Justice
    with Randall Curren, Eamonn Callan, and Walter Feinberg
    Studies in Philosophy and Education 20 (5): 387-421. 2001.
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    Liberal Pluralism
    Philosophical Review 113 (1): 127-129. 2004.
    William Galston has developed a distinctive position within the spectrum of liberal views. His liberalism is comprehensive and pluralistic. But, unlike, say, Joseph Raz’s liberalism, which is also comprehensive and pluralistic, it does not self-consciously privilege one of those plural values to guide our judgments about the political conflicts that will inevitably occur in a pluralistic society.
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    Family values reconsidered: a response
    with Adam Swift
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (3): 385-405. 2018.
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    The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children's upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, telling us why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, and what rights parents should—and should not—have over their children. Harry Brighouse and Adam Sw…Read more
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    Family Ethics and Public Policy: Beyond the Medical Model
    with Adam Swift
    American Journal of Bioethics 18 (11): 56-58. 2018.
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    Educational equality versus educational adequacy: A critique of Anderson and Satz
    with Adam Swift
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (2): 117-128. 2009.
    Some theorists argue that rather than advocating a principle of educational equality as a component of a theory of justice in education, egalitarians should adopt a principle of educational adequacy. This paper looks at two recent attempts to show that adequacy, not equality, constitutes justice in education. It responds to the criticisms of equality by claiming that they are either unsuccessful or merely show that other values are also important, not that equality is not important. It also argu…Read more
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    Democracy and proportionality
    Journal of Political Philosophy 18 (2): 137-155. 2008.
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    Funding Religious Schools
    Philosophy of Education 60 72-75. 2004.
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    Education, Justice, Ideal Theory, and Non-ideal Theory
    Philosophy of Education 70 15-20. 2014.
  • Andrée-Anne Cormier and Harry Brighouse explore the question of whether there are good reasons for schools to try and produce citizens disposed to use, and practiced in, civil discourse and behavior, and if so, what this implies for schools. First, the authors propose an account of the value (and disvalue) of civility, drawing on Cheshire Calhoun’s conception. They argue that civility is good in many circumstances, but not always. In some circumstances, it is neither beneficial nor morally requi…Read more
  • This chapter argues that school should cease to be compulsory at age 16 and that an education resource account (ERA) should be established for students who leave school at that age. The ERA would be sufficient to cover three years of full-time education. It could be linked to inflation and early school leavers could use it in accredited non-profit educational institutions at any later point in their lives. Two sets of arguments are discussed in support of the proposal. The first, building on the…Read more
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    We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve? In Educational Goods, two philosophers and two social scientists address this very question. They begin by broadening the language for talking about educational policy: “educational goods” are the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that children develop for their own ben…Read more
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    Egalitarian Liberals and School Choice
    Politics and Society 24 (4): 457-486. 1996.
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    Strong Gender Egalitarianism
    with Erik Olin Wright
    Politics and Society 36 (3): 360-372. 2008.
    Perhaps the most intractable aspect of gender inequality concerns inequalities within the family around the domestic division of labor, especially over child care and other forms of caregiving. These enduring gender inequalities constitute a significant obstacle to achieving “strong gender egalitarianism”—a structure of social relations in which the division of labor around housework and caregiving within the family and occupational distributions within the public sphere are unaffected by gender…Read more
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    Transitional and Utopian Market Socialism
    Politics and Society 22 (4): 569-584. 1994.