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    Further Dimensions of Ethical Objectivity?
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Objectivity qua Rational Requisiteness Objectivity qua Corrigibility Objectivity qua Non‐Illusiveness Objectivity qua Susceptibility to Reasons.
  • Front Matter
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Wiley Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Dedication Page Preface.
  •  3
    Truth‐Aptitude
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: A Minimalist Account of Truth Correspondence Theories of Truth Deflated Is Minimalism Adequate? Conclusion: Moral Semantics as a Moral Matter.
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    Invariance
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Invariance qua Uniform Applicability Invariance qua Transindividual Concurrence Invariance qua Timelessness and Ubiquity Limits on Invariance Concluding Remarks.
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    Transindividual Concurrence
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Distinctness of Types of Objectivity Morality and Disagreement Concluding Remarks.
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    Uniform Applicability
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Categorical Prescriptiveness Uniformity as a Moral Matter Uniformity Contrasted with Neutrality The Overridingness of Moral Principles.
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    Impartiality
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Ingredients of Impartiality Why Does Impartiality Matter? Challenges to Epistemic Reliability Conclusion.
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    References
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Hare on Universalizability The Expressivist Account of Supervenience From Anti‐Realism to Moral Realism Conclusion.
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    Mind‐Independence
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Two Dichotomies The Existential Mind‐Independence of Moral Principles The Strong Observational Mind‐Independence of Moral Principles Appendix.
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    Index
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Skeptical Doubts Perfect Determinacy? A Terse Coda: Skepticism Contrasted with Relativism.
  • Introduction
    In Marcia Baron & Michael Slote (eds.), Moral Realism as a Moral Doctrine, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Two Preliminary Clarifications Two Senses of “Ethics” or “Morality” A Brief Conspectus.
  •  4
    What Is Legal Philosophy?
    In Armen T. Marsoobian, Eric Cavallero & Alexis Papazoglou (eds.), The Pursuit of Philosophy, Wiley. 2012.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Theoretical‐Explanatory Enquiries Moral Enquiries Brief Concluding Remarks Acknowledgments References.
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    Responsibility in Law and Morality
    Philosophical Review 113 (1): 133-135. 2004.
    Peter Cane has written an impressively wide-ranging and illuminating book on the complex notion of responsibility in our legal and moral practices. Although he focuses primarily on a multitude of legal doctrines in the common-law systems of the English-speaking world, he continually makes clear how his discussions bear on the moral judgments involved in holding people accountable for their actions and decisions. Moral philosophers will profit from this volume nearly as much as legal philosophers…Read more
  •  14
    Hart on Legal Powers as Legal Competences
    Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 36 (2): 387-405. 2023.
    This paper first recapitulates the objections by H.L.A. Hart to the ways in which John Austin’s command model of law obfuscated the importance and the very existence of power-conferring laws. Although those objections are familiar in the world of contemporary legal philosophy, their insightfulness is highlighted here because they contrast so sharply with Hart’s own neglect of power-conferring laws at some key junctures in his theorizing. In the second half of this paper, I ponder a few of the ju…Read more
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    Matthew H. Kramer
    Problema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoria Del Derecho 1 (11). 2017.
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    The legacy of H.L.A. Hart: legal, political, and moral philosophy (edited book)
    with Claire Grant, Ben Colburn, and Antony Hatzistavrou
    Oxford University Press. 2008.
    This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.L.A. Hart, the most important legal philosopher and one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The book brings together contributions from seventeen of the world's foremost legal and political philosophers who explore the many subjects in which Hart produced influential work. Each essay engages in an original analysis of philosophical problems that w…Read more
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    A discourse on method -- Hart on legal powers and law's normativity -- The components of Hart's jurisprudential theory -- Hart on legal interpretation and legal reasoning -- Law and morality.
  • Lessing. Epoche-Werk-Wirkung
    with W. Barner, G. Grimm, and H. Kiesel
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 46 (3): 509-509. 1984.
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    Freedom of expression as self-restraint
    Sage Publications Ltd: Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (4): 473-483. 2022.
    Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 473-483, May 2022. In my recent book Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint, I expound and defend the moral principle of freedom of expression. This article recounts a few of the main strands of the exposition in that book, and it touches upon the justification for the principle of freedom of expression. Supplementing the abstract ideas broached in the article are several illustrative examples that render the abstractions more accessible.Read more
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    Freedom of expression as self-restraint
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (4): 473-483. 2022.
    Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 473-483, May 2022. In my recent book Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint, I expound and defend the moral principle of freedom of expression. This article recounts a few of the main strands of the exposition in that book, and it touches upon the justification for the principle of freedom of expression. Supplementing the abstract ideas broached in the article are several illustrative examples that render the abstractions more accessible.Read more
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    Taking a fresh look at a central controversy in criminal law theory, The Ethics of Capital Punishment presents a rationale for the death penalty grounded in a theory of the nature of evil and the nature of defilement. Original, unsettling, and deeply controversial, it will be an essential reference point for future debates on the subject.
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    This book is an uncompromising defense of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets. The book concludes with a detailed discussion of the obligation to obey the law--a discussion that highlights the strengths of legal positivism in the domain of political philosophy as much as in the domain of jurisprud…Read more
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    Consequentialist doctrines have often been criticized for their excessive demandingness, in that they require the thorough instrumentalization of each person’s life as a vehicle for the production of good consequences. In turn, the proponents of such doctrines have often objected to what they perceive as the irrationality of the demandingness of deontological duties. In this paper, I shall address objections of the latter kind in an effort to show that they are unfounded. My investigation of thi…Read more
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    In defense of Hart
    Legal Theory 19 (4): 370-402. 2013.
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    Hart and the Metaphysics and Semantics of Legal Normativity
    Ratio Juris 31 (4): 396-420. 2018.
    A number of philosophers in recent years have maintained that H. L. A. Hart in The Concept of Law propounded an expressivist account of the semantics of the legal statements that are uttered from the internal viewpoint of the people who run the institutions of legal governance in any jurisdiction. Although the primary aim of this article is to attack the attribution of that semantic doctrine to Hart, the article will begin with some metaphysical matters—the matters of reductionism and naturalism…Read more
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    Problems of Dirty Hands As a Species of Moral Conflicts
    The Monist 101 (2): 187-198. 2018.
    Every problem of dirty hands is a moral conflict in which a highly unpalatable course of conduct is chosen for the sake of fulfilling a stringent moral duty, and in which either the chosen course of conduct is evil or else it would have been evil in the absence of the exigent circumstances to which it is a response. To support this conception of problems of dirty hands, this paper endeavors to elucidate the nature of moral conflicts and the nature of evil.
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    On Political Morality and the Conditions for Warranted Self-Respect
    The Journal of Ethics 21 (4): 335-349. 2017.
    In my recent book Liberalism with Excellence, I have expounded at length a conception of warranted self-respect. That conception, which draws heavily though far from uncritically on the scattered passages about self-respect in the writings of John Rawls, is central to my defense of a variety of liberalism that combines and transfigures certain aspects of Rawlsianism and perfectionism. However, it is also central to the positions taken in some earlier books of mine on capital punishment and tortu…Read more