papers
(Revised July 2019)
Recent:
Selected others (see full list under CV):
Recent:
- "The Ideal, the Neighborhood, and the Status Quo: Gaus on the Uses of Justice,"in Ethics, vol. 127, July 2017, pp. 912-928.
- “Normative Consent,” in Routledge Handbook on the Ethics of Consent (2017), ed. Peter Schaber..
- "When Protest and Speech Collide," volume on academic freedom, Jennifer Lackey, ed. Oxford University Press (2017).
- "Methodological Moralism in Political Philosophy," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, (2017)
- “Prime Justice,” in Political Utopias, Oxford University Press (2017), Kevin Vallier, editor.
- “Epistemic Democratic Deliberation,” (with Hélène Landemore) in Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (2017), eds. Jane Mansbridge, Andre Baechtiger, John Dryzek, Mark Warren. (2017)
- “The Truth in Political Liberalism,” in Truth and Democratic Politics, edited by Andrew Norris and Jeremy Elkins, University of Pennsylvania Press 2010.
- “Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy,” in Philosophy & Public Affairs, 39 (3), 2011, 207-37.
- “What Good Is It? Unrealistic Political Theory and the Value of Intellectual Work,” Analyze und Kritik, 2011 (33) Issue 2 (appeared April 2012).
- “Democracy Counts,” in volume on Collective Wisdom, edited by Jon Elster and Helene Landemore (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- “Liberal Associationism and the Rights of States,” in Social Philosophy and Policy (February, 2014).
- “Utopophobia,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, (Spring 2014), pp. 113-34.
- Book Review: Philip Pettit, On the People’s Terms, in Australasion Journal of Philosophy, 92:4 (2014) 799-802.
- “Reply to Wiens,” European Journal of Social Philosophy, 2015.
- “Just and Juster,” Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 2, Oxford University Press, 2016.
- “G. A. Cohen’s critique of the Original Position,” in The Original Position, Timothy Hinton, ed., Cambridge University Press 2016.
- “What’s Circumstantial About Justice?” in special issue, Social Philosophy and Policy (2017), volume on ideal and non-ideal theory.
Selected others (see full list under CV):
- "The Persistent Puzzle of the Minority Democrat," American Philosophical Quarterly, April 1989, pp.143-151.
- "Democracy and the Common Interest: Condorcet and Rousseau Revisited," American Political Science Review, December 1989, pp. 1317-1322.
- “Mutual Benevolence and the Theory of Happiness," The Journal of Philosophy, April 1990, pp. 187-204.
- "Democracy Without Preference," The Philosophical Review, July 1990, pp. 397-423.
- "Who's Afraid of Deliberative Democracy? The Strategic/Deliberative Dichotomy in Recent Constitutional Jurisprudence," Texas Law Review, June 1993, pp. 1437-1477.
- "Making Truth Safe For Democracy," in The Idea of Democracy, edited by David Copp, Jean Hampton, and John Roemer, Cambridge University Press 1993, pp. 71-100.
- "Opinion Leaders, Independence, and Condorcet's Jury Theorem," Theory and Decision, vol. 36, no. 2, March 1994, pp. 131-162.
- "The Survival of Egalitarian Justice in John Rawls' Political Liberalism," The Journal of Political Philosophy, March 1996, pp. 68-78.
- "The Visit & The Video: Publication and the Line Between Sex and Speech," Sex, Preference, and Family, Estlund and Nussbaum, eds., Oxford University Press, 1997.
- "Beyond Fairness and Deliberation: The Epistemic Dimension of Democratic Authority," in Deliberative Democracy, James Bohman and William Rehg, eds., MIT Press, 1997, pp. 173-204.
- “The Insularity of the Reasonable: Why Political Liberalism Must Admit the Truth,” ETHICS, vol. 108, January 1998, pp. 252-275.
- “Liberalism, Equality and Fraternity in Cohen’s Critique of Rawls,” The Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 6, number 8, March 1998, pp. 99-112.
- “Political Quality,” Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 17, no. 1, Winter 2000, pp. 127-60.
- “Deliberation Down and Dirty: Must Political Expression Be Civil,” in The Boundaries of Freedom of Expression and Order in American Democracy. Kent State University Press, 2001, pp. 49-67.
- “The Democracy/Contractualism Analogy,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 31, no. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 387-412.
- “Why Not Epistocracy?” in Desire, Identity and Existence: Essays in honor of T. M. Penner, Academic Printing and Publishing, 2003. pp. 53-69.
- “The Audacious Humility of John Rawls,” Dissent, April 2003.
- “Political Authority and The Tyranny of Non-Consent,” Philosophical Issues, 15, 2005, pp. 351-67.
- “On Following Orders in an Unjust War, “ The Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 15, Number 2, June 2007 , pp. 213-234(22)
- “On Sunstein’s Infotopia,” Theoria, Volume 56, Number 119, June 2009, pp. 14-29.
- “On Christiano’s Constituting Equality,” The Journal of Political Philosophy, 17:2, 2009, pp. 228-240.
- “I Will If You Will: Leveraged Enhancements and Distributive Justice,” in Partiality and Impartiality - Moralty, Special Relationships and the Wider World, edited by John Cottingham, Brian Feltham and Philip Stratton-Lake, Oxford University Press 2010.
- “The Truth in Political Liberalism,” in Truth and Democratic Politics, edited by Andrew Norris and Jeremy Elkins, University of Pennsylvania Press 2010.
- “Democracy Counts,” in volume on Collective Wisdom, edited by Jon Elster and Helene Landemore (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- “What Good Is It? Unrealistic Political Theory and the Value of Intellectual Work,” Analyze und Kritik, 2011 (33) Issue 2 (appeared April 2012).
