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    The ethics of architecture
    Oxford 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
  •  8
    Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface
    Mcgill-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
  • 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
  •  6
    Frank's Motel
    In Amy Swiffen & Joshua Nichols (eds.), The Ends of History: Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason, Routledge. 2013.
  •  4
    Defending political virtue
    Philosophical Forum 27 (3): 244-268. 1996.
  •  2
    A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism
    Pennsylvania State University Press. 1994.
    This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political philosophy can provide citizens is not further theories of the good life but instead directions for talking about how to justify the choices they make—or, in brief, "just talking." As part of the general trend away from the aridity of Kantian universalism in political philosophy, thinkers as diverse as Bruce…Read more
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    Two Concepts of Pluralism
    Dialogue 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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    Interpretation, dialogue and the just citizen
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 19 (2): 115-144. 1993.
  •  5
    Book Review (review)
    Economics and Philosophy 13 (1): 142-147. 1997.
  • The polite Citizen; or, justice as civil discourse
    Philosophical Forum 25 (3): 241-266. 1994.
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    No Title available: Reviews
    Economics and Philosophy 13 (1): 142-147. 1997.
  •  5
    Books in Review
    Political Theory 24 (2): 326-333. 1996.
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    Two Concepts of Pluralism
    Dialogue 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
  •  159
    Is It Rational to Be Polite?
    Journal of Philosophy 90 (8): 387-404. 1993.
  •  3
    Book Reviews (review)
    Ethics 116 (3): 586-589. 2006.
  • Phronesis and Political Dialogue
    Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 46 167-182. 1996.
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    Husserl's sense of wonder
    Philosophical Forum 31 (1). 2000.
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    Better off dim?
    The Philosophers' Magazine 35 (35): 53-57. 2006.
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    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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    Madpeople and Ideologues
    International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1): 59-73. 1994.
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    A professor at the University of Toronto waxes philosophic on trout fishing and the meaning of life.
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    Review of David Schmidtz's Rational Choice (review)
    Economics and Philosophy 13 (1): 142-147. 1997.
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    Innocence and Experience (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 31 (1): 112-114. 1991.
  •  6
    Better off dim?
    The Philosophers' Magazine 35 53-57. 2006.
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    The Faces of Injustice (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 32 (3): 387-389. 1992.