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17The reception of David Hume in Europe (edited book)Thoemmes Continuum. 2005.Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.
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13HumeIn Nicholas Bunnin & E. P. Tsui‐James (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains sections titled: Biography Philosophy.
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40Toleration, Value‐pluralism, and the Fact of PluralismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2): 189-210. 2006.(2006). Toleration, Value‐pluralism, and the Fact of Pluralism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 189-210
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77Equality, Recognition and DifferenceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (1): 23-46. 2006.In recent years there has been much debate over whether recognition has displaced, or should displace, redistribution as the pre‐eminent concern of contemporary politics. That debate is not about whether we should continue to pursue an egalitarian ideal, since equality is as much a goal for the politics of recognition as it is for the politics of redistribution. In this essay, I address only issues of recognition and ask what kind of equal recognition we can reasonably demand or pursue. I argue …Read more
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126Religious Belief and Freedom of Expression: Is Offensiveness Really the Issue?Res Publica 17 (1): 75-90. 2011.An objection frequently brought against critical or satirical expressions, especially when these target religions, is that they are ‘offensive’. In this article, I indicate why the existence of diverse and conflicting beliefs gives people an incentive to formulate their complaints in the language of offence. But I also cast doubt on whether people, in saying they are offended really mean to present that as the foundation of their complaint and, if they do, whether their complaint should weigh wi…Read more
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44Introduction: Religion and Freedom of ExpressionRes Publica 17 (1): 1-6. 2011.An objection frequently brought against critical or satirical expressions, especially when these target religions, is that they are ‘offensive’. In this article, I indicate why the existence of diverse and conflicting beliefs gives people an incentive to formulate their complaints in the language of offence. But I also cast doubt on whether people, in saying they are offended really mean to present that as the foundation of their complaint and, if they do, whether their complaint should weigh wi…Read more
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97Toleration, Religion and AccommodationEuropean Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 542-563. 2012.Issues of religious toleration might be thought dead and advocacy of religious toleration a pointless exercise in preaching to the converted, at least in most contemporary European societies. This paper challenges that view. It does so principally by focusing on issues of religious accommodation as these arise in contemporary multi-faith societies. Drawing on the cases of exemption, Article 9 of the ECHR, and law governing indirect religious discrimination, it argues that issues and instances of…Read more
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64Accommodating Religion and Shifting BurdensCriminal Law and Philosophy 10 (3): 515-536. 2016.With some qualifications, this article endorses Brian Leiter’s argument that religious accommodation should not shift burdens from believers to non-believers. It argues that religious believers should take responsibility for their beliefs and for meeting the demands of their beliefs. It then examines the implications of that argument for British law on indirect discrimination as it relates to religion or belief: burden-shifting from believers to employers and providers of goods and services shou…Read more
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29A Marxist Philosophy of Language. By Jean-Jacques Lecercle (review)Journal of Critical Realism 7 (1): 148-153. 2008.
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69Legalising Toleration: a Reply to Balint (review)Res Publica 18 (3): 265-270. 2012.Abstract I re-present my account of how a liberal democratic society can be tolerant and do so in a way designed to meet Peter Balint’s objections. In particular, I explain how toleration can be approached from a third-party perspective, which is that of neither tolerator nor tolerated but of rule-makers providing for the toleration that the citizens of a society are to extend to one another. Constructing a regime of toleration should not be confused with engaging in toleration. Negative appra…Read more
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17Judgments, preferences, and compromiseJournal of Social Philosophy 54 (1): 77-93. 2022.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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31Individual integrity, freedom of association and religious exemptionCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (1): 94-108. 2020.
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17Toleration, neutrality, and exemptionCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (2): 203-210. 2020.I focus on some controversial features of Peter Balint’s stimulating and provocative reassessment of the place of toleration in contemporary diverse societies. First, I question his argument that we must enlarge the concept of toleration to include indifference and approval if toleration is to be compatible with state neutrality. Secondly, I suggest that his idea of active neutrality of intent risks encountering the same difficulties as neutrality of outcome, although these will be mitigated the…Read more
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20Individual integrity, freedom of association and religious exemptionCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (1): 94-108. 2020.Of the many questions Cécile Laborde addresses in her magisterial Liberalism’s Religion, several relate to what she describes as ‘the puzzle of exemptions’. I examine some of the issues raised by her efforts to solve that puzzle: whether her ideal of moral integrity squares with the nature of religious belief; whether we should find the case for collective religious exemptions in freedom of association and the ‘coherence interests’ of associations; how much significance we should give to the ‘co…Read more
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12A Dissertation on the Passions (and) The Natural History of Religion (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (2): 432-435. 2009.
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16The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical EnquiryBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (6): 1215-1217. 2012.No abstract
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100The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (review)Hume Studies 30 (2): 416-418. 2004.This book is explicitly about ideas canvassed during the Scottish Enlightenment, albeit with some preliminary attempt to anchor them in their original historical and social contexts. The editor insists on a distinctively Scottish dimension to the ideas discussed, and claims that the book tackles central issues from three viewpoints: the first emphasizes the social sciences, the second the natural sciences, and the third is more loosely inclusive, aiming to be more holistic and arguably describab…Read more
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27Early responses to Hume (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (1). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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Language in cultural-historical perspectiveIn B. van Oers (ed.), The Transformation of Learning: Advances in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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14Hume's Great Treatise (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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