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    Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon (edited book)
    Oxford University Press USA. 2011.
    For close to forty years now T.M. Scanlon has been one of the most important contributors to moral and political philosophy in the Anglo-American world. Through both his writing and his teaching, he has played a central role in shaping the questions with which research in moral and political philosophy now grapples. Reasons and Recognition brings together fourteen new papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, each of which develops a …Read more
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    Reasons and Recognition brings together fourteen new papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, ...
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    The Basic Structure of Society as the Primary Subject of Justice
    In Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Wiley. 2013.
    John Rawls's focus on principles of justice for the basic structure of primary social institutions evolved from his early discussion of practices, social rules and Humean conventions, and his apparent commitment to a version of rule‐utilitarianism. Rawls says that there are two sources for the primacy assigned to the basic structure: the profound effects of basic social institutions on persons and their future prospects, and the need to maintain background justice. The chapter discusses three di…Read more
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    Distributive Justice and the Law of Peoples
    In Rex Martin & David A. Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell. 2006.
    This chapter contains section titled: Introduction A Global Distribution Principle? Problems with Globalizing the Difference Principle Conclusion Notes.
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    Morals by Appropriation
    Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 71 (4): 279-309. 1990.
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    Review of John Kekes: Against Liberalism (review)
    Ethics 108 (3): 602-606. 1998.
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    Ideal theory, political liberalism, and the well‐ordered society
    Journal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.
    Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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    Liberalism and Distributive Justice. A Précis
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.
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    Replies to Critics
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.
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    Samuel Freeman was a student of the influential philosopher John Rawls, he has edited numerous books dedicated to Rawls' work and is arguably Rawls' foremost interpreter. This volume collects new and previously published articles by Freeman on Rawls. Among other things, Freeman places Rawls within historical context in the social contract tradition, and thoughtfully addresses criticisms of this position. Not only is Freeman a leading authority on Rawls, but he is an excellent thinker in his own …Read more
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    Liberalism and Distributive Justice discusses liberalism, capitalism, distributive justice, and John Rawls's difference principle. Chapters are organized in a narrative arc: from liberalism as the dominant political and economic system, to the laws governing interpersonal transactions in liberal society, to basic economic and political institutions that determine distributive justice.
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    The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 65 (3): 577-579. 2003.
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    Book Review:Against Liberalism. John Kekes (review)
    Ethics 108 (3): 602-. 1998.
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    The burdens of public justification: Constructivism, contractualism, and publicity
    Politics, Philosophy and Economics 6 (1): 5-43. 2007.
    The publicity of a moral conception is a central idea in Kantian and contractarian moral theory. Publicity carries the idea of general acceptability of principles through to social relations. Without publicity of its moral principles, the intuitive attractiveness of the contractarian ideal seems diminished. For it means that moral principles cannot serve as principles of practical reasoning and justification among free and equal persons. This article discusses the role of the publicity assumptio…Read more
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    Original position
    In Peter Adamson (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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    Capitalism in the classical and high liberal traditions
    Social Philosophy and Policy 28 (2): 19-55. 2011.
    Liberalism generally holds that legitimate political power is limited and is to be impartially exercised, only for the public good. Liberals accordingly assign political priority to maintaining certain basic liberties and equality of opportunities; they advocate an essential role for markets in economic activity, and they recognize government's crucial role in correcting market breakdowns and providing public goods. Classical liberalism and what I call “the high liberal tradition” are two main b…Read more
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    Review: Sunstein on the Constitution (review)
    Law and Philosophy 15 (4). 1996.
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    7 Congruence and the Good of Justice
    In Samuel Richard Freeman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Cambridge University Press. pp. 277. 2003.
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    The law of peoples, social cooperation, human rights, and distributive justice
    Social Philosophy and Policy 23 (1): 29-68. 2006.
    Cosmopolitans argue that the account of human rights and distributive justice in John Rawls's The Law of Peoples is incompatible with his argument for liberal justice. Rawls should extend his account of liberal basic liberties and the guarantees of distributive justice to apply to the world at large. This essay defends Rawls's grounding of political justice in social cooperation. The Law of Peoples is drawn up to provide principles of foreign policy for liberal peoples. Human rights are among th…Read more
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    Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference
    Analyse & Kritik 35 (1): 9-36. 2013.
    John Rawls says: “The main problem of distributive justice is the choice of a social system.” Property-owning democracy is the social system that Rawls thought best realized the requirements of his principles of justice. This article discusses Rawls’s conception of property-owning democracy and how it is related to his difference principle. I explain why Rawls thought that welfare-state capitalism could not fulfill his principles; it is mainly because of the connection he perceived between capit…Read more