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2Mill's the Subjection of Women: Critical Essays (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.The articles collected in this critical edition represent a variety of interpretations both of the kind of feminism Mill represents and of the specific arguments he offers in The Subjection of Women including their lexical ordering and relative merit. Each selection is preceded by a brief and useful summary of the author's position intended to assist introductory students
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2Hare and Critics: Essays on Moral Thinking with comments by R. M. Hare Edited by Douglas Seanor and N. Fotion Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, viii + 307 pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 64 (248): 269-271. 1989.
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1Bernard Williams, Shame and Necessity (California and Oxford: University of California Press, 1993), pp.254. ISBN 0-520-08046-7. £18.50 (review)Polis 13 (1-2): 104-118. 1994.
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9Human Morality By Samuel Scheffler Oxford University Press 1992 145 pp., £9.50 paper (review)Philosophy 69 (270): 509-. 1994.
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16Hare and Critics: Essays on Moral Thinking with comments by R. M. Hare Edited by Douglas Seanor and N. Fotion Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, viii + 307 pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 64 (248): 269-. 1989.
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30The Serpent and the DovePhilosophy 63 (245). 1988.In his essay ‘The Simple Art of Murder’, Raymond Chandler describes the world of the American detective story as ‘a world in which gangsters can rule nations and almost rule cities, in which hotels and apartment houses and celebrated restaurants are owned by men who made their money out of brothels, in which a screen star can be the fingerman for a mob, and the nice man down the hall is a boss of the numbers racket; a world where a judge with a cellar full of bootleg liquor can send a man to jai…Read more
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140John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor on Women and MarriageUtilitas 6 (2): 287. 1994.This paper focuses on two works of nineteenth-century feminism: Harriet Taylor's essay, Enfranchisement of Women, and John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women. My aim is to indicate that these texts are more radical than is usually allowed: far from being merely criticisms of the legal disabilities suffered by women in Victorian Britain, they are important moral texts which anticipate central themes within twentieth-century radical feminism. In particular, The Subjection of Women is not merely…Read more
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9Democratic Dirty HandsIn Karl Marker, Annette Schmitt & Jürgen Sirsch (eds.), Demokratie und Entscheidung. Beiträge zur Analytischen Politischen Theorie, Springer. pp. 169-179. 2018.There is widespread agreement that politics calls for dirty hands in general, and for secrecy and duplicity in particular. The claim is, of course, most famously made by Machiavelli in The Prince, but it is also to be found in Book 3 of Plato’s Republic. However, in arguing that politics calls for duplicity, neither Plato nor Machiavelli was writing about democratic societies, and we might therefore wonder whether, in democratic societies, the problem of dirty hands should be differently underst…Read more
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1Care and human rights : a reply to Virginia HeldIn Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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5Philosophy and Medical WelfareCambridge University Press. 1988.This volume of papers, arising from a Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference, includes contributions from doctors, nurses, and administrators in the field of health care.
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10Review of Russell Hardin: Morality within the limits of reason (review)Ethics 101 (1): 183-185. 1990.
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7Bernard Williams, Shame and Necessity , pp.254. ISBN 0-520-08046-7. £18.50 (review)Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 13 (1-2): 104-118. 1994.
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88Book ReviewsAnna Elisabetta. Galeotti, Toleration as Recognition.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 242. $60.00 (review)Ethics 113 (3): 699-702. 2003.
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