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19Group agency and the challenges of repairing historical injusticeCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25 (3): 380-394. 2022.
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17The universal pretensions of cultural rights argumentsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 4 (2): 1-25. 2001.Many of the most popular liberal arguments for cultural rights all note that the world is formed into groups. But in the attempt to universalise these arguments, it is too often assumed that the nation is the most important of these groups. This focus upon the nation ignores the many and varying bases of self?respect. It overlooks the fact that self?respect may be tied to many different kinds of groups. Further, most discussions of cultural rights are fuelled by the experience of particular grou…Read more
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20The limits of liberal integrityCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24 (4): 635-641. 2021.Nili’s important book presents us with an intriguing idea in chapter five. If we see the liberal state as having integrity then that means certain kinds of policies should be prioritized by the state. I cast doubt on this argument by contending that the priorities of liberal integrity are either no different from liberal egalitarianism or are misguided. I also argue that history has little normative force as Nili suggests.
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16Liberalism and Religion: Against CongruenceTheoretical Inquiries in Law 9 (2): 553-572. 2008.I argue here against recent trends in liberal and feminist theory contending that the state should insist that religious groups internalize liberal justice and equality. Doing so dangerously ascribes too much power to the state, and threatens liberty and stability. I argue instead that the liberal state must balance different values. I begin by claiming that while Rawls worries that religious people want to impose their way of life on others, a more accurate concern is that of liberalism imposin…Read more
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33Land, culture and justice: A framework for group rights and recognitionJournal of Political Philosophy 8 (3). 2000.Meet the Sorbs. They are a Slavic people in Germany who number around sixty thousand. They are not mistreated or oppressed by the German government. They live in two German states, but they are interspersed with other Germans. Do the Sorbs deserve special, group rights to help maintain their culture? The recent arguments of many theorists suggest that they do. Iris Marion Young has recently argued that all marginalized groups should have group rights. Avishai Margalit and Moshe Halbertal maintai…Read more
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6Conflict among peoples and common moral groundPolitical Theory 35 (5): 550-597. 2007.Defenders of Aboriginal rights such as James Tully have argued that members of majority populations should allow Aboriginal peoples to argue within their own preferred intellectual frameworks in seeking common moral ground. But how should non-Aboriginal academics react to claims that seem insufficiently critical or even incoherent? This essay argues that there are two reasons to be especially wary of attacking such errors given the historical injustices perpetrated by settler states against Abor…Read more
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1123From Historical to Enduring InjusticePolitical Theory 35 (5): 574-597. 2007.Advocates of remedying historical injustices urge political communities to take responsibility for their past, but their arguments are ambiguous about whether all past injustices need remedy, or just those regarding groups that suffer from current injustice. This ambiguity leaves unanswered the challenge of critics who argue that contemporary injustices matter, not those in the past. I argue instead for a focus on injustices that have roots in the past, and continue to the present day, what I ca…Read more
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24Liberalism, Pluralism, and ReligionIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 25 (2): 369-390. 2012.
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William Galston, Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (2): 105-107. 2003.
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108Hinduism, Christianity, and Liberal Religious TolerationPolitical Theory 33 (1): 28-57. 2005.The Protestant conception of religion as a private matter of conscience organized into voluntary associations informed early liberalism's conception of religion and of religious toleration, assumptions that are still present in contemporary liberalism. In many other religions, however, including Hinduism (the main though not only focus of this article), practice has a much larger role than conscience. Hinduism is not a voluntary association, and the structure of its practices, some of which are …Read more
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13Teaching identity and autonomyJournal of Philosophy of Education 39 (1). 2005.Liberal theorists often link autonomy and identity together, since, these liberals argue, an education that bestows a particular identity on children undermines their autonomy. The charge of schools ought to be to teach children to be open to a variety of identities. Encounters with diversity and cosmopolitanism are good, since they encourage students to think deeply about their own identity, while traditional religions and nationalism seek to impress a particular identity on students. This stan…Read more
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40Difference and diversity in an egalitarian democracyJournal of Political Philosophy 3 (3). 1995.
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38Historical injusticeIn David Estlund (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 319. 2012.
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21Minorities within minorities: equality, rights and diversity (edited book)cambridge university press. 2005.Groups around the world are increasingly successful in maintaining or winning autonomy. However, what happens to individuals within the groups who find that their group discriminates against them? This volume brings together sixteen distinguished scholars who examine the balance between group autonomy and individual rights in relation to conflicts involving gender, religion, culture, and indigenous rights in the national and international sphere.
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13Teaching Identity and AutonomyJournal of Philosophy of Education 39 (1): 141-147. 2005.Liberal theorists often link autonomy and identity together, since, these liberals argue, an education that bestows a particular identity on children undermines their autonomy. The charge of schools ought to be to teach children to be open to a variety of identities. Encounters with diversity and cosmopolitanism are good, since they encourage students to think deeply about their own identity, while traditional religions and nationalism seek to impress a particular identity on students. This stan…Read more
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44Enduring injusticeCambridge University Press. 2012.Governments today often apologize for past injustices and scholars increasingly debate the issue, with many calling for apologies and reparations. Others suggest that what matters are victims of injustice today, not injustices in the past. Spinner-Halev argues that the problem facing some peoples is not just the injustice of the past, but that they still suffer from injustice today. They experience what he calls enduring injustices, and it is likely that these will persist without action to addr…Read more
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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillRegular Faculty
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |