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328Beneficence, Duty and DistancePhilosophy and Public Affairs 32 (4): 357-383. 2004.According to Peter Singer, virtually all of us would be forced by adequate reflection on our own convictions to embrace a radical conclusion about giving. The following principle, he says, is “surely undeniable” -- at least once we reflect on secure convictions concerning rescue, as in his famous case of the drowning toddler.
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134Cosmopolitan Respect and Patriotic ConcernPhilosophy and Public Affairs 27 (3): 202-224. 1998.The JSTOR Archive is a trusted digital repository providing for long-term preservation and access to leading academic journals and scholarly literature from around the world. The Archive is supported by libraries, scholarly societies, publishers, and foundations. It is an initiative of JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in technology. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact [email protected].
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120Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and PowerOxford University Press UK. 2010.Richard Miller presents a bold new program for international justice. He argues for new standards of responsible conduct by governments, firms, and individuals in developed countries, to govern trade, investment, environmental policy, and the use of force. He offers an urgently needed strategy for moving humanity toward genuine global co-operation.
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118Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social SciencesPrinceton University Press. 1987.In this bold work of broad scope and rich erudition, Richard W. Miller sets out to reorient the philosophy of science.
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110Half-naturalized social kindsPhilosophy of Science 67 (3): 652. 2000.We often legitimately ascribe reality both to social and to natural kinds. But the bases for these ascriptions are not entirely the same. In both cases, reality is typically determined by what characterizations of causal factors are indispensable to adequate explanation. Nonetheless, a psychological role as part of an identity that instances embrace is sometimes, distinctively, a condition for ascribing reality to a social kind. Although such assessments of reality can be construed as employing …Read more
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86Methodological individualism and social explanationPhilosophy of Science 45 (3): 387-414. 1978.Past criticisms to the contrary, methodological individualism in the social sciences is neither trivial nor obviously false. In the style of Weber's sociology, it restricts the ultimate explanatory repertoire of social science to agents' reasons for action. Although this restriction is not obviously false, it ought not to be accepted, at present, as a regulative principle. It excludes, as too far-fetched to merit investigation, certain hypotheses concerning the influence of objective interests o…Read more
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77Productive forces and the forces of change: A review of Gerald A. Cohen, Karl Marx's theory of history: A defense (review)Philosophical Review 90 (1): 91-117. 1981.
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73Relationships of Equality: A Camping Trip Revisited (review)The Journal of Ethics 14 (3-4): 231-253. 2010.G. A. Cohen incisively argued that our judgments of social justice should fit our convictions about how to interact with others in our personal lives. Ironically, the ordinary morality of cooperation invoked in his last book undermines his favored principle of equality, and supports John Rawls' reliance on a relevantly impartial choice promoting appropriate fundamental interests as a basis for distributive standards. His further objections to Rawls' account of distributive justice neglect the ro…Read more
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71Propensity: Popper or Peirce?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26 (2): 123-132. 1975.
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70Marx and Aristotle: A Kind of ConsequentialismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (sup1): 323-352. 1981.
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62The Advancement of Realism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (3): 637. 1995.Some of us think that the current consensus in the natural sciences is closer to the truth than it has ever been before. But for decades we have been told that important parts of this consensus are due to interactions of power, rhetoric and custom which have no tendency to promote truth in our own view. I think that the debunking of this debunking in The Advancement of Science is a devastating success, an awesome combination of erudition, philosophical insight and conceptual resourcefulness. But…Read more
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48Wittgenstein in transition: A review of the philosophical grammar (review)Philosophical Review 86 (4): 520-544. 1977.
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47Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflictPrinceton University Press. 1992.In a wide-ranging inquiry Richard W. Miller provides new resources for coping with the most troubling types of moral conflict: disagreements in moral conviction, conflicting interests, and the tension between conscience and desires. Drawing on most fields in philosophy and the social sciences, including his previous work in the philosophy of science, he presents an account of our access to moral truth, and, within this framework, develops a theory of justice and an assessment of the role of mora…Read more
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40In search of Einstein's legacy: A critical notice of Arthur fine, the shaky game: Einstein, realism, and the quantum theoryPhilosophical Review 98 (2): 215-238. 1989.
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31Democracy and Class Dictatorship: RICHARD W. MILLERSocial Philosophy and Policy 3 (2): 59-76. 1986.Clearly, Marx thought he was promoting democratic values. In the Manifesto, the immediate goal of socialism is summed up as “to win the battle of democracy.” Marx sees the reduction of individuality as one of the greatest injuries done by a system in which most people buy and sell their labor power on terms over which they have little control. As they supervised translations and re-issues of the Manifesto, Marx and Engels singled out just one point as a major topic on which their view in 1848 ha…Read more
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26Too much inequalitySocial Philosophy and Policy 19 (1): 275-313. 2002.It used to seem so simple. In the old days , most political philosophers who were inclined to call themselves “egalitarian” thought that one or another version of this argument established at least the approximate truth about economic justice
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25Social Democracy and Free EnterpriseJournal of Social Philosophy 50 (4): 597-619. 2019.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.