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It's not just a good idea, it's the law : rationality, force, and changing mindsIn Joshua Nichols (ed.), Legal violence and the limits of the law, Routledge. 2017.
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15The ethics of architectureOxford University Press. 2020.The Ethics of Architecture offers a short and approachable scholarly introduction to a timely question: in a world of increasing population density, how does one construct habitable spaces that promote social goals like health, happiness, environmental friendliness, and justice? What are the special ethical obligations assumed by architects? Because their work creates the basic material conditions that make all other human activity possible, architects and their associates in building enjoy vast…Read more
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12Editorial Introduction to the Topical Issue “Does Public Art Have to Be Bad Art?”Open Philosophy 2 (1): 582-589. 2019.
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11Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the InterfaceMcgill-Queen's University Press. 2019.Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in technology, also known as the Interface, Wish I Were Here draws on philosophical analysis of bored…Read more
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Just Talking: Dialogic Models in Contemporary Justice TheoryDissertation, Yale University. 1991.Some recent philosophical examinations of the question "What is justice?"--a question at least as old as Plato--have made what might be called a dialogic turn. That is, instead of determining original choice options, bases of legal contract, or a calculus for summing preferences , these theories have sought to specify the conversational conditions under which any legitimate set of principles of justice must emerge. The approach offers the immediate advantage of understanding the determination of…Read more
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8Frank's MotelIn Amy Swiffen & Joshua Nichols (eds.), The ends of history: questioning the stakes of historical reason, Routledge. 2013.
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16Two Concepts of PluralismDialogue 37 (2): 375-386. 1998.There are many strands in the thought of Charles Taylor, a gathering of philosophical interests diverse enough to embrace both political theory and philosophy of science, epistemology, and practical ethics, Nietzsche and Donald Davidson. If he has not succeeded in generating any supreme synthesis out of this diversity—if, indeed, he has sometimes finessed the material to fit a bigger picture, as in the controversial details of his grand intellectual history of modern consciousness, Sources of th…Read more
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56Interpretation, dialogue and the just citizenPhilosophy and Social Criticism 19 (2): 115-144. 1993.
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Frank's Motel: Horizontal and Vertical in the Big OtherIn Amy Swiffen & Joshua Nichols (eds.), The ends of history: questioning the stakes of historical reason, Routledge. 2013.
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23Two Concepts of PluralismDialogue 37 (2): 375-. 1998.There are many strands in the thought of Charles Taylor, a gathering of philosophical interests diverse enough to embrace both political theory and philosophy of science, epistemology, and practical ethics, Nietzsche and Donald Davidson. If he has not succeeded in generating any supreme synthesis out of this diversity—if, indeed, he has sometimes finessed the material to fit a bigger picture, as in the controversial details of his grand intellectual history of modern consciousness, Sources of th…Read more
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51The Plain Truth about Common Sense: Skepticism, Metaphysics, and IronyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 9 (3). 1995.
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Phronesis and Political DialoguePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 46 167-182. 1996.
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31Throwing Dice: Luck of the Draw and the Democratic IdealPhaenEx 7 (1): 66-100. 2012.Is democracy a gift economy—that is, one essentially distinct from, and opposed to, reduction to transactional exchanges such as those typical in a market economy? Beginning with a case study of success, this paper considers the role of scaleable effects in destabilizing the relationship between merit and reward. This opens up the question of how the general issue of “title” functions in larger systems of merit and reward, crucially including politics. Pursuing Jacques Rancière’s insights concer…Read more
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12Catch and Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of LifeViking Press. 2004.A professor at the University of Toronto waxes philosophic on trout fishing and the meaning of life.
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18Review of David Schmidtz's Rational Choice (review)Economics and Philosophy 13 (1): 142-147. 1997.
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25Meganarratives of Supermodernism: The Spectre of the Public SpherePhaenEx 1 (1): 197-229. 2006.Political-theoretic discussions of the public sphere, common at least since Habermas as a site of both crisis and justification, are rarely if ever animated by a sense of public spaces as what phenomenology calls 'real places.' Indeed, the space/place distinction is an important lever of critique for the transcendental rationalism operative in many political theories, even when unavowed. At the same time, architectural theory, even when itself informed by a laudable marriage of concrete and abst…Read more
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