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11In Sarah Buss & Lee Overton (eds.), On Frankfurt's Explanation of Respect for People, Mit Press. pp. 299-315. 2002.
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24The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.The question 'Why should I obey the law?' introduces a contemporary puzzle that is as old as philosophy itself. The puzzle is especially troublesome if we think of cases in which breaking the law is not otherwise wrongful, and in which the chances of getting caught are negligible. Philosophers from Socrates to H.L.A. Hart have struggled to give reasoned support to the idea that we do have a general moral duty to obey the law but, more recently, the greater number of learned voices has expressed …Read more
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31Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal TheoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Editors provide a substantive introduction to the history and theories of perfectionism and neutrality, expertly contextualizing the essays and making the collection accessible
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6Speaking With One Voice: On Dworkinian Integrity and CoherenceIn Justine Burley (ed.), Dworkin and His Critics, Blackwell. 2004-01-01.This chapter contains section titled: Acknowledgement.
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5Being in the WorldIn Maximilian De Gaynesford (ed.), Agents and Their Actions, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Responsibility, control and intentions Engaging with the World Responsibility 2 and the Control Principle Responsibility 2 and the domain of secure competence The case of omissions The emerging conception of responsibility 2.
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64Law, Morality, and Society: Essays in Honour of H. L. A. Hart (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1977.Law, Morality and Society Essays in Honour of H.L.A Hart.
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Reasons : explanatory and normativeIn Constantine Sandis (ed.), New essays on the explanation of action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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Agency and luckIn Ulrike Heuer & Gerald R. Lang (eds.), Luck, Value, and Commitment: Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams, Oxford University Press Usa. 2012.
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11Sobre la autoridad e interpretación de las Constituciones: algunas ideas preliminaresProblema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoria Del Derecho 1 (1): 3-72. 2007.The focus of this article is not only the main concerns regarding constitutionalism and specifically the problem of the authority of constitutions and the interpretation of constitutions, with a special emphasis on the authority of the authors of constitutions, the study also deals with the interesting issue of the scope and nature of theories on constitutionalism.Resumen:En este artículo se aborda no sólo la discusión en torno al tema de la autoridad de las Constituciones y la problemática de l…Read more
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Human rights in the emerging world orderIn Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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Why the state?In Nicole Roughan & Andrew Halpin (eds.), In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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45The Roots of Normativity (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2022.Joseph Raz addresses one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. His value-based account is brought to bear on many aspects of the lives of rational beings and their agency, such as their ability to maintain relationships, and to live their lives as social beings with a sense of their identity.
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Human Rights without FoundationsIn Samantha Besson & John Tasioulas (eds.), The philosophy of international law, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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31The paper examines some arguments for and against the view that practical reasons are subject to a participatory condition of some kind. The distinctive constitutive element of participatory conditions is that conduct or attitudes, actual or hypothetical, of people other than those who have a reason, expressing approval or the absence of disapproval of the reason in question, are a condition for the existence of practical reasons, or of large classes of them.
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4Practical Reason and Norms, 2nd editionPrinceton University Press. 1990.Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? All three questions are answered by taking reasons as the basic normative concept, and showing the distinctive role reasons have in every case, thus paving the way to a unified account of normativity. Rules are a structure of reasons to perform the req…Read more
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41On Dancy’s account of practical reasoningPhilosophical Explorations 23 (2): 135-145. 2020.Dancy's main thesis is that the conclusion of practical reasoning is an action, and indeed that makes the reasoning practical. I trace his argument, suggest improvements to its superficial deficien...
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13More Essays in Legal Philosophy: General Assessments of Legal Philosophies (review)Journal of Philosophy 69 (16): 498-501. 1972.
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5Practice of ValueOxford University Press UK. 2003.The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which are presented annually at each of nine universities in the United States and England, are among the most prestigious and notable events of the academic year. This volume inaugurates a new interdisciplinary series of books based on the Tanner Lectures given at the University of California, Berkeley. The series aims to make these distinguished lectures, and the lively debates stimulated by their presentation in Berkeley, available to a broad readership.Th…Read more
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7Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and ActionOxford University Press UK. 1999.Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. These essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. Engaging Reason is a summation of many years of original, compelling, and influential work by a major contemporary philosopher.
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Two Views of the Nature of The Theory of Law: A Partial ComparisonIn Jules L. Coleman (ed.), Hart's Postscript: Essays on the Postscript to `the Concept of Law', Oxford University Press Uk. 2000.
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8Kelsen's Theory of the Basic NormIn Stanley L. Paulson (ed.), Normativity and Norms: Critical Perspectives on Kelsenian Themes, Oxford University Press. 1998.Of all the various doctrines of Kelsen's legal philosophy it is his theory of the basic norm that has attracted most attention and captured the imagination of many scholars. It has acquired enthusiastic devotees as well as confirmed opponents. Both admirers and critics owe much to the obscure way in which Kelsen explains his theory. The obscurity was criticized and led people to suspect that the whole theory is a myth; but it also provided admirers trading on ambiguities with an easy escape from…Read more
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58Instrumental Rationality: A RepriseJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 1 (1): 1-20. 2005.The paper distinguishes between instrumental reasons and instrumental rationality. It argues that instrumental reasons are not reasons to take the means to our ends. It further argues that there is no distinct form of instrumental reasoning or of instrumental rationality. In part the argument proceeds through a sympathetic examination of suggestions made by M. Bratman, J. Broome, and J. Wallace, though the accounts of instrumental rationality offered by the last two are criticised.
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24The Guise of the BadJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 10 (3): 1-15. 2016.My topic is the possibility of acting in the belief that the action is bad and for the reason that it is, as the agent believes, bad. On route, I examine another question – namely whether agents can, without having any relevant false beliefs, perform actions motivated by the badness of those actions. The main worry is the compatibility of action for the sake of the bad with the thesis of the Guise of the Good. The examina-tion is helped by considering the way reason explanations and the more wid…Read more
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52The paper offers a new account of the rule of law, revising my previous view, and criticising some alternatives. It focuses on the rule of law's aim to avoid arbitrary government, and on its relation to the essential functions of government. The rule of law requires that government action will manifest an intention to protect and advance the interests of the governed. As such it is almost a necessary condition for the law's ability to meet other moral demands, and it facilitate coordination and …Read more
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40I first argue that there is no problem about how to justify partialities (though there is a difficulty in justifying impartialities). Then I consider the role of consent in justifying rights and duties, using voluntary associations as a case in which consent has an important but limited role in doing so, a role determined and circumscribed by evaluative considerations. The values explain why consent can bind and bind one to act as one does not wish to do and even as one judges to be ill advised.…Read more
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King's College LondonProfessor (Part-time)
London, London, City of, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Value Theory, Misc |