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6Justice as Social FreedomIn Kai Nielsen, Rodger Beehler, David Copp & Béla Szabados (eds.), On the track of reason: essays in honor of Kai Nielsen, Westview Press. 1992.
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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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76Relationships 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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80Productive 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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71Marx and Aristotle: A Kind of ConsequentialismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (sup1): 323-352. 1981.
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3IndexIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 393-396. 1992.
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4IntroductionIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 3-9. 1992.
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2Chapter three. Limitless dissentIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 82-113. 1992.
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5Chapter four. The obstacles of contentIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 114-145. 1992.
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2Chapter eleven. Living as one shouldIn Moral differences: truth, justice, and conscience in a world of conflict, Princeton University Press. pp. 377-392. 1992.
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11Marxism and CapitalismIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.
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5Marx's legacyIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Marx's Capitalism Exploitation The State and Capitalism Morality and Social Interests Notes Bibliography.
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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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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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71Propensity: Popper or Peirce?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26 (2): 123-132. 1975.
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90Methodological 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