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18Reasons 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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152Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.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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12The Basic Structure of Society as the Primary Subject of JusticeIn Jon Mandle & David A. Reidy (eds.), A Companion to Rawls, Wiley-blackwell. 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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10Distributive Justice and the Law of PeoplesIn Rex Martin & David A. Reidy (eds.), Rawls's Law of Peoples, Blackwell. 2006-01-01.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction A Global Distribution Principle? Problems with Globalizing the Difference Principle Conclusion Notes.
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30Ideal theory, political liberalism, and the well‐ordered societyJournal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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High liberalismIn Chris Melenovsky (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Routledge. 2022.
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21Liberalism and Distributive Justice. A PrécisPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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19Replies to CriticsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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19Review of David Lyons: Moral Aspects of Legal Theory: Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility (review)Ethics 105 (1): 191-193. 1994.
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306Justice and the Social Contract: Essays on Rawisian Political PhilosophyOxford University Press USA. 2006.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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31Liberalism and Distributive JusticeOup Usa. 2018.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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67Book Reviews Geuss, Raymond . Philosophy and Real Politics . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 126. $19.95 (cloth) (review)Ethics 120 (1): 175-184. 2009.
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22Book ReviewsFred Neuhouser,. Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 332. $52.50 (review)Ethics 112 (4): 848-854. 2002.
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6Review of David Lyons: Moral Aspects of Legal Theory: Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility (review)Ethics 105 (1): 191-193. 1994.
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17Contractualism, Moral Motivation, and Practical ReasonJournal of Philosophy 88 (6): 281-303. 1991.
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39Moral contractarianism as a foundation for interpersonal moralityIn James Lawrence Dreier (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, Blackwell. pp. 6--57. 2006.
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210Reason and agreement in social contract viewsPhilosophy and Public Affairs 19 (2): 122-157. 1990.
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249G. A. Cohen's Critique of Rawls's Difference PrincipleThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 19 23-45. 2013.
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245The burdens of public justification: Constructivism, contractualism, and publicityPolitics, 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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2Original positionIn Peter Adamson (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2012.
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195Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal TraditionsSocial 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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