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    Learning to Deliberate
    Political Theory 32 (4): 449-467. 2004.
    One argument for deliberative democracy is that public deliberation enhances a sincere concern for the common good. Most of the theories of deliberative democracy fail to give a satisfying account of this process. One of the causes for this state of affairs is a preoccupation with autonomy, which tends to obscure that public deliberation is deliberation with others who are actually present. On such an interpretation of publicity, shame, or a concern for reputation, plays a crucial motivational r…Read more
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    Aristotle and the appearances
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (4): 551-573. 1999.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Aristotle and the AppearancesPaul Nieuwenburg1.G. E. L. owen’s influential article Tithenai ta phainomena1 has had a very special efficacy in converting long-standing suspicions into the certainty of what one might call, without exaggeration, an orthodoxy. One of Owen’s arguments is widely thought to remove, in a quite definite way, all doubt surrounding the interpretation of the ambiguous term ta phainomena, usually rendered ‘the ap…Read more
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    One argument for deliberative democracy is that public deliberation enhances a sincere concern for the common good. Most of the theories of deliberative democracy fail to give a satisfying account of this process. One of the causes for this state of affairs is a preoccupation with autonomy, which tends to obscure that public deliberation is deliberation with others who are actually present. On such an interpretation of publicity, shame, or a concern for reputation, plays a crucial motivational r…Read more
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    Tien jaar na de bamahervorming: wat is de impact op de kwaliteit van het universitaire onderwijs?
    with Dirk Van Damme and Don Westerheijden
    Res Publica 55 (4): 521-533. 2013.
  • Veiligheid, doelmatigheid en de rechtsstaat De Wet OM-afdoening
    with Gerrit Dijkstra
    Filosofie En Praktijk 31 (1): 72. 2010.