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    Noumenal Power, Reasons, and Justification: A Critique of Forst
    with Enzo Rossi
    In Ester Herlin-Karnell & Matthias Klatt (eds.), Constitutionalism Justified, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
    In this essay we criticise Rainer Forst's attempt to draw a connection between power and justification, and thus ground his normative theory of a right to justification. Forst draws this connection primarily conceptually, though we will also consider whether a normative connection may be drawn within his framework. Forst's key insight is that if we understand power as operating by furnishing those subjected to it with reasons, then we create a space for the normative contestation of any exercise…Read more
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    Self-defeat and the foundations of public reason
    Philosophical Studies 174 (12): 3133-3151. 2017.
    At the core of public reason liberalism is the idea that the exercise of political power is legitimate only if based on laws or political rules that are justifiable to all reasonable citizens. Call this the Public Justification Principle. Public reason liberals face the persistent objection that the Public Justification Principle is self-defeating. The idea that a society’s political rules must be justifiable to all reasonable citizens is intensely controversial among seemingly reasonable citize…Read more
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    The weight of fairness
    Politics, Philosophy and Economics 18 (4): 386-402. 2019.
    Many philosophers argue that individuals have duties to do their fair shares of the demands of achieving important common ends. But what happens when some individuals fail to do their fair shares?...
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    Consenting Under Coercion: The Partial Validity Account
    Philosophical Quarterly. forthcoming.
    How is the validity of our consent, and others’ moral permission to act on our consent affected by coercion? Everyone agrees that in cases of two-party coercion—when X coerces Y to do something with or for X—the consent of the coerced is invalid, and the coercer is not permitted to act upon the consent they receive. But coercers and the recipients of consent are not always identical. Sometimes a victim, Y, agrees to do something to, with, or for Z because they are being coerced by X. Recently, s…Read more
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    Noncompliance and the Demands of Public Reason
    Journal of Political Philosophy. forthcoming.
    Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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    Democracy
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2022.
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    Deliberative Democracy
    In Kasper Lippert‐Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.
    The theory of deliberative democracy is a field of democratic theory that studies the contribution of public discussion, argumentation, and reasoning to the normative justification of democratic decision‐making. In this essay, we first explore two competing visions of the moral ideal of deliberative democracy: the rational consensus conception and the wide conception. This establishes a normative framework for analyzing several important applied issues that arise in thinking about deliberative d…Read more