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12Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept of universal human rights. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement, and limits, concluding that shared rights help to constitute a universal human community, which supports local customs and separate state sovereignty. The eleven contributors to this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives…Read more
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5Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 2004.Stephen Nathanson's clear-sighted abridgment of _Principles of Political Economy_, Mill's first major work in moral and political philosophy, provides a challenging, sometimes surprising account of Mill's views on many important topics: socialism, population, the status of women, the cultural bases of economic productivity, the causes and possible cures of poverty, the nature of property rights, taxation, and the legitimate functions of government. Nathanson cuts through the dated and less relev…Read more
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6Does It Matter if the Death Penalty Is Arbitrarily Administered?In A. John Simmons, Marshall Cohen, Joshua Cohen & Charles R. Beitz (eds.), Punishment: A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader, Princeton University Press. pp. 308-324. 1994.
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19Rationality, by Harold I. Brown (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 448-451. 1991.
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78Terrorism and the Ethics of WarSocial Philosophy Today 28 187-198. 2012.The primary thesis of Terrorism and the Ethics of War is that terrorist acts are always wrong. I begin this paper by describing two views that I criticize in the book The first condemns all terrorism but applies the term in a biased way; the second defends some terrorist acts. I then respond to issues raised by the commentators. I discuss Joan McGregor’s concerns about the definition of terrorism and about how terrorism differs from other forms of violence againstinnocent people. I respond to Sa…Read more
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9‘Partiality’, by Keller, Simon: Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. vii-x + 163, $35 (US dollars) [hardback] (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (3): 593-596. 2014.
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19Book Review:Capital Punishment and the American Agenda. Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins; Moral Theory and Capital Punishment. Tom Sorrell (review)Ethics 99 (4): 964-966. 1989.
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18Book ReviewsVirginia Held,. How Terrorism Is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence.New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. vii+205. $45.00 (review)Ethics 119 (2): 362-367. 2009.
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13Book ReviewsGeorge Kateb,. Patriotism and Other Mistakes.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxv+422. $35.00 (review)Ethics 117 (4): 769-773. 2007.
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12Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: On the Role of Moral Reasons in Explaining and Evaluating Political Decision‐MakingJournal of Social Philosophy 22 (2): 94-108. 2008.
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1Gilbert Harman, "The nature of morality: an introduction to ethics" (review)Metaphilosophy 11 (n/a): 96. 1980.
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28A Justification of Rationality (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 19 (2): 227-236. 1979.
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48Nonevidential reasons for belief: A Jamesian viewPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 42 (4): 572-580. 1982.
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53Abelson's refutation of mind-body identityPhilosophical Studies 23 (1-2): 116-118. 1972.R. Abelson argues that the identity theory is false because it is possible to have an infinite number of thoughts (e.G. Of natural numbers) while the number of possible brain states is finite. The refutation fails because it conflates the logical possibility of having infinite thoughts with the actual ability to have them. The latter depends on many contingent facts, One of which may be the number of possible brain states
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65Patriotism, War, and the Limits of Permissible PartialityThe Journal of Ethics 13 (4): 401-422. 2009.This paper examines whether patriotism and other forms of group partiality can be justified and what are the moral limits on actions performed to benefit countries and other groups. In particular, I ask whether partiality toward one’s country can justify attacking enemy civilians to achieve victory or other political goals. Using a rule utilitarian approach, I then defend the legitimacy of “moderate” patriotic partiality but argue that noncombatant immunity imposes an absolute constraint on what…Read more
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58John Stuart Mill on Economic Justice and the Alleviation of PovertyJournal of Social Philosophy 43 (2): 161-176. 2012.
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54George Kateb, Patriotism and Other Mistakes:Patriotism and Other MistakesEthics 117 (4): 769-773. 2007.
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56Deen K. Chatterjee (ed.), The ethics of assistance: Morality and the distant needy (cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2004), pp. XI + 292 (review)Utilitas 19 (2): 264-266. 2007.
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25Scepticism and concept possessionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 12 (2): 215-223. 1974.This is an attempt to clarify the ways in which traditional empiricist theories of mind lend support to sceptical doubts about physical objects. I argue that a crucial role is played by the assumption that having a concept consists of being able to recognize instances of that concept. I further argue that this view of concept possession is false so that any sceptical view based on empiricist assumptions about the mind is unwarranted
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12What Is and What Ought to Be Done (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 22 (3): 211-212. 1982.
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30Claudia Card, Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, GenocideJournal of Moral Philosophy 9 (4): 600-602. 2012.
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22Is Terrorism, or War, Ever Justified? Comment on Nathanson’s Terrorism and the Ethics of WarSocial Philosophy Today 28 177-185. 2012.Nathanson asks how we can properly understand terrorism such that it is (a) always unjustified, and (b) does not thereby preclude justified warfare. By means of a novel ruleutilitarian argument bolstering the inviolability of noncombatants, he hopes to have crafted such an understanding. While praising Nathanson’s rigor and originality, this paper questions the moral-theoretic completeness of his procedure, and then raises challenges from two directions: (1) an argument for the justifiability of…Read more
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18Rationality, by Harold I. Brown (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 448-451. 1991.
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