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59Fair equality of opportunity and the gendered division of laborPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 107 (1): 283-289. 2023.
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25The Morality of Defensive Force: Replies to Christie, Hecht, and ParryJournal of Moral Philosophy 20 (5-6): 461-482. 2023.This article offers a brief synopsis of some of the main claims from The Morality of Defensive Force, and replies to the symposium contributions of Lars Christie, Lisa Hecht, and Jonathan Parry.
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25On the Idea of Public ReasonIn Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.The idea of public reason is at the center of John Rawls's political philosophy. Public reason is a standard by which we measure laws and political institutions. This chapter discusses the practice of public reason, the moral basis of public reason, and the challenge posed by religious critics of public reason. It provides three possible answers to the question: What is the moral basis for endorsing this particular conception of democratic politics – public reason? It is Rawlsian concept of just…Read more
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49Debate: Legitimate injustice: A response to WellmanJournal of Political Philosophy 31 (2): 222-232. 2023.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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44The Morality of Defensive Force: Replies to Otsuka, Frowe, Fabre, and BurriCriminal Law and Philosophy 16 (3): 555-574. 2022.
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17On Flanigan’s Pharmaceutical FreedomHEC Forum 34 (3): 257-268. 2022.This paper discusses Jessica Flanigan’s book, _Pharmaceutical Freedom_. The paper advances two main claims. First, the paper argues that, despite what Flanigan claims, there is a coherent way to endorse the Doctrine of Informed Consent while resisting the view that there is a right to self-medicate. Second, the paper argues that Flanigan is committed to a more radical conclusion than she acknowledges in the book; namely, that under some conditions it is morally permissible for people to take med…Read more
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18The Morality of Defensive ForceOxford University Press. 2020.When is it morally permissible to engage in self-defense or the defense of others? Jonathan Quong gives an original philosophical account of the central moral principles that should regulate the use of defensive force. The morality of defensive force needs to be understood in the context of a more general account of justice and moral rights.
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44On Laborde’s LiberalismCriminal Law and Philosophy 15 (1): 47-59. 2019.This paper discusses Cécile Laborde’s book, Liberalism’s Religion. First, I pose some questions about how Laborde’s central proposal—disaggregating religion—is meant to solve the two most serious challenges that she argues confront existing liberal egalitarian theories. Second, I respond to some of the objections Laborde presses against my conception of political liberalism. Third, I argue that Laborde is mistaken in adopting accessibility as the appropriate standard for reasons within public ju…Read more
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258Liberalism Without Perfection: Replies to Gaus, Colburn, Chan, and BocchiolaPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 2 (1): 51-79. 2012.This paper offers replies to the contributors of a symposium on Jonathan Quong's book, Liberalism Without Perfection (2011).
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67Proportionality, Liability, and Defensive HarmPhilosophy and Public Affairs 43 (2): 144-173. 2015.
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19Tan, Kok-Chor. Justice, Institutions, and Luck: The Site, Ground, and Scope of Equality.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 208. $55.00 (review)Ethics 124 (2): 440-444. 2014.
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64Liberalism Without Perfection. A PrécisPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 2 (1). 2012.download
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94Political liberalism without scepticismRatio 20 (3). 2007.Political liberalism famously requires that fundamental political matters should not be decided by reference to any controversial moral, religious or philosophical doctrines over which reasonable people disagree. This means we, as citizens, must abstain from relying on what we believe to be the whole truth when debating or voting on fundamental political matters. Many critics of political liberalism contend that this requirement to abstain from relying on our views about the good life commits po…Read more
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224What is the point of public reason?Philosophical Studies 170 (3): 545-553. 2014.Jerry Gaus is the most important philosopher of public reason since John Rawls. His path-breaking work on this topic has deeply influenced a large group of moral and political philosophers, a group to which I happily belong. In this short paper I examine one feature of the account developed in his incredibly rich and illuminating book, The Order of Public Reason.Gaus (2011), cited hereafter as OPR. I argue Gaus’s theory struggles to resolve a crucial question: how can we be confident that public…Read more
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38Liberalism without perfection: Replies to Lister, Kulenovic, Zoffoli, Zelic, and BaccariniFilozofija I Društvo 25 (1): 96-122. 2014.nema
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47Review: Kok-Chor Tan, Justice, Institutions, and Luck: The Site, Ground, and Scope of Equality (review)Philosophical Explorations. forthcoming.
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83Liberalism Without PerfectionOxford University Press. 2010.Liberalism without Perfection offers an introduction to the debate between liberal perfectionism and political liberalism. This book is a new account and defence of Rawlsian political liberalism, one of the most discussed, but widely misunderstood and criticized theories in contemporary political theory.
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22Symposium on Settlement, Borders, and ViolencePolitics, Philosophy and Economics 16 (4): 349-350. 2017.
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5Chandran Kukathas, The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (5): 347-349. 2003.
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148Justice Beyond EqualitySocial Theory and Practice 36 (2): 315-340. 2010.This essay reviews G.A. Cohen’s final major work, Rescuing Justice and Equality. In the book, Cohen challenges the Rawlsian account of the content and the concept of justice. This essay offers a summary of Cohen’s main arguments, and develops objections to several of those arguments, particularly Cohen’s claim that his proposed egalitarian ethos is not vulnerable to a well-known trilemma (liberty, equality, efficiency) that might be pressed against it. The essay’s final section offers critical r…Read more
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198Contractualism, reciprocity, and egalitarian justicePolitics, Philosophy and Economics 6 (1): 75-105. 2007.Can contractualism yield a suitably egalitarian conception of social justice? G.A. Cohen has forcefully argued that it cannot - that one cannot be both a contractualist and an egalitarian. Cohen presents a number of arguments to this effect, the particular target of which is John Rawls’s version of contractualism. In this article, I show that, contra Cohen, the Rawlsian model of contractualism, and the ideal of reciprocity on which it relies, can coherently yield egalitarian principles of distri…Read more
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30Are Identity Claims Bad for Deliberative Democracy?Contemporary Political Theory 1 (3): 307-327. 2002.Identity claims are a common feature of political debate in many Western democracies. Cultural, linguistic, and religious minorities often defend or attack particular political proposals by appealing to the effect the proposal will have on their group's identity. Is this form of reasoning compatible with the normative ideal of deliberative democracy? This article examines and refutes two powerful arguments recently advanced in the literature which suggest the answer is no. First, there is the pu…Read more
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170Left-Libertarianism: Rawlsian Not Luck EgalitarianJournal of Political Philosophy 19 (1): 64-89. 2010.
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133Disagreement, asymmetry, and liberal legitimacyPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 4 (3): 301-330. 2005.Reasonable people disagree deeply about the nature of the good life. But reasonable people also disagree fundamentally about principles of justice. If this is true, then why does political liberalism permit the state to act on reasons of justice, but not for reasons grounded in conceptions of the good life? There appears to be an indefensible asymmetry in the way political liberalism treats disagreements about justice and disagreements about the good life. This is the asymmetry objection to poli…Read more
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12Introduction to the Symposium on Fabre’s Cosmopolitan WarLaw and Philosophy 33 (3): 265-280. 2014.
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