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Book Review: David McCabe, Modus Vivendi Liberalism: Theory and Practice

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 194-198, October 2011.

Book Review: Anne Margaret Baxley, Kant’s Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 174-178, October 2011.

Book Review: Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 188-194, October 2011.

Book Review: Colleen Murphy, A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 198-203, October 2011.

Introduction

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 8-9, October 2011.

Book Review: Jean Porter, Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 203-207, October 2011.

Book Review: Paul Weithman, Why Political Liberalism? On John Rawls’s Political Turn

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 220-224, October 2011.

Book Review: Michael Thompson, Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 212-220, October 2011.

Notes on Contributors

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 229-230, October 2011.

Editorial

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 1-7, October 2011.

Book Review: Annabel S. Brett, Changes of State: Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 179-183, October 2011.

Book Review: Iris Marion Young, Responsibility for Justice.

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 224-228, October 2011.

Book Review: Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach, On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 207-212, October 2011.

Book Review: Jesùs Aguilar and Andrei Buckareff, eds., Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 168-174, October 2011.

Book Review: Claudia Card, Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 184-188, October 2011.

Desert and Avoidability in Self-Defense

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 111-134, October 2011.

Justifying Harm

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 74-110, October 2011.

Democratic Duty and the Moral Dilemmas of Soldiers

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 10-42, October 2011.

The Moral Power of Soldiers to Undertake the Duty of Obedience

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 43-73, October 2011.

Duty, Obedience, Desert, and Proportionality in War: A Response

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Ethics, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 135-167, October 2011.

Notes on Contributors

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 837, July 2011.

Notes on Contributors

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 837, July 2011.

Manuscript Reviewers for 2010

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 838-842, July 2011.

Manuscript Reviewers for 2010

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 838-842, July 2011.

Book Review: Bennett Helm, Love, Friendship, and the Self: Intimacy, Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 808-812, July 2011.

Book Review: Bennett Helm, Love, Friendship, and the Self: Intimacy, Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 808-812, July 2011.

Book Review: Seumas Miller, The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 820-824, July 2011.

Book Review: Seumas Miller, The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 820-824, July 2011.

Book Review: Ben Bradley, Well-Being and Death

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 797-799, July 2011.

Book Review: Ben Bradley, Well-Being and Death

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 797-799, July 2011.

Book Review: Claire Palmer, Animal Ethics in Context

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 824-828, July 2011.

Book Review: Claire Palmer, Animal Ethics in Context

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 824-828, July 2011.

Book Review: Russ Shafer-Landau, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 5

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 828-832, July 2011.

Book Review: Russ Shafer-Landau, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 5

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 828-832, July 2011.

Book Review: Jonathan Jacobs, Law, Reason and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Saadiah Gaon, Bahya Ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 812-816, July 2011.

Book Review: Jonathan Jacobs, Law, Reason and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Saadiah Gaon, Bahya Ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 812-816, July 2011.

Index to Volume 121

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 843-849, July 2011.

Index to Volume 121

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 843-849, July 2011.

Book Review: Thomas L. Carson, Lying and Deception: Theory and Practice

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 799-803, July 2011.

Book Review: Thomas L. Carson, Lying and Deception: Theory and Practice

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 799-803, July 2011.

Book Review: Ben Eggleston, Dale E. Miller, and David Weinstein, eds., John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 804-808, July 2011.

Book Review: Ben Eggleston, Dale E. Miller, and David Weinstein, eds., John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 804-808, July 2011.

Nonideal Theory: What It Is and What It Needs to Be

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 772-796, July 2011.

Nonideal Theory: What It Is and What It Needs to Be

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 772-796, July 2011.

Book Review: José Luis Martí and Philip Pettit, A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero’s Spain

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 816-820, July 2011.

Book Review: José Luis Martí and Philip Pettit, A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero’s Spain

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 816-820, July 2011.

Book Review: Jeremy Waldron, Torture, Terror, and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 832-836, July 2011.

Book Review: Jeremy Waldron, Torture, Terror, and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 832-836, July 2011.

Consequentialize This

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 749-771, July 2011.

Consequentialize This

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 749-771, July 2011.

Moral Realism and Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 717-748, July 2011.

Moral Realism and Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 717-748, July 2011.

The Instability of Freedom as Noninterference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 693-716, July 2011.

The Instability of Freedom as Noninterference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 693-716, July 2011.

On Whether to Prefer Pain to Pass

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 521-537, April 2011.

Notes on Contributors

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 691, April 2011.

Attributability, Answerability, and Accountability: Toward a Wider Theory of Moral Responsibility

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 602-632, April 2011.

Book Review: George Sher, Who Knew? Responsibility without Awareness

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 675-680, April 2011.

Book Review: Michael S. Moore, Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 669-674, April 2011.

Nations, States, and Territory

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 572-601, April 2011.

Book Review: Michael Skerker, An Ethics of Interrogation

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 680-685, April 2011.

Respect and the Basis of Equality

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 538-571, April 2011.

Book Review: Tom L Beauchamp, Standing on Principles: Collected Essays

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 642-647, April 2011.

Shapelessness and the Thick

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 489-520, April 2011.

Book Review: Maria Alvarez, Kinds of Reasons

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 638-642, April 2011.

Book Review: Robert B Talisse, Democracy and Moral Conflict

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 685-690, April 2011.

Book Review: Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Legal Rights

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 652-657, April 2011.

Book Review: Allen Buchanan, Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 647-651, April 2011.

Book Review: Fred Feldman, What Is This Thing Called Happiness?

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 657-661, April 2011.

Book Review: Christopher Kaczor, The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 665-669, April 2011.

Book Review: Alison Hills, The Beloved Self: Morality and the Challenge from Egoism

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 661-664, April 2011.

Book Review: Larry Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, and Stephen Morse, Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 633-637, April 2011.

Deriving Morality from Politics: Rethinking the Formula of Humanity

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 116-147, October 2010.

Kant’s Formula of Humanity famously forbids treating others merely as a means. It is unclear, however, what exactly treating someone merely as a means comes to. This essay argues against an interpretation of this idea advanced by Christine Korsgaard and Onora O’Neill. The essay then develops a new interpretation that suggests an important connection between the Formula of Humanity and Kant’s political philosophy: the content of many of our moral duties depends on the results of political philosophy and, indeed, on the results of actual political decision making.

Color Constancy and the Color/Value Analogy

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 58-87, October 2010.

This article explains and defends the existence of value constancy, understood on the model of color constancy. Color constancy involves a phenomenal distinction between the transient color appearances of objects and the unchanging colors that those objects appear to have. The existence of value constancy allows advocates of response-dependent accounts of value to reject the question “What is the uniquely appropriate attitude to have toward this evaluative property?” as containing a false uniqueness assumption. Rejecting this assumption allows response-dependent accounts of value to deflect or answer a host of popular objections.

Asymmetrical Virtue Particularism

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 37-57, October 2010.

In this essay, I defend an account of right action that I shall call “asymmetrical virtue particularism.” An action, on this account, is right just insofar as it is overall virtuous. But the virtuousness of an action in any particular respect, X, is deontically variant; it can fail to be right-making, either because it is deontically irrelevant or because it is wrong-making. Finally, the account is asymmetrical insofar as the viciousness of actions is not deontically variant; if any action is vicious in some respect Y, then Y is always a wrong-making feature of any action whatever that has Y.

Editorial

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 1-6, October 2010.

Book Review: Larry May and Zachary Hoskins, eds., International Criminal Law and Philosophy

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 209-214, October 2010.

Democracy, Political Equality, and Majority Rule

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 148-177, October 2010.

Democracy is commonly associated with political equality and/or majority rule. This essay shows that these three ideas are conceptually separate, so the transition from any one to another stands in need of further substantive argument, which is not always adequately given. It does this by offering an alternative decision-making mechanism, called lottery voting, in which all individuals cast votes for their preferred options but, instead of these being counted, one is randomly selected and that vote determines the outcome. This procedure is democratic and egalitarian, since all have an equal chance to influence outcomes, but obviously not majoritarian.

Notes on Contributors

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 237, October 2010.

In Defense of Objectivism about Moral Obligation

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 88-115, October 2010.

There is a debate in normative ethics about whether or not our moral obligations depend solely on either our evidence concerning, or our beliefs about, the world. Subjectivists maintain that they do and objectivists maintain that they do not. I shall offer some arguments in support of objectivism and respond to the strongest argument for subjectivism. I shall also briefly consider the significance of my discussion to the debate over whether one’s future voluntary actions are relevant to one’s current moral obligations.

Metaethical Contextualism Defended

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 7-36, October 2010.

We defend a contextualist account of normative judgments as relativized both to (i) information and to (ii) standards or ends against recent objections that turn on practices of normative disagreement. Niko Kolodny and John MacFarlane argue that information-relative contextualism cannot accommodate the connection between deliberation and advice. In response, we suggest that they misidentify the basic concerns of deliberating agents, which are not to settle the truth of particular propositions but to promote certain values. For pragmatic reasons, semantic assessments of normative claims sometimes are evaluations of propositions other than those asserted. Other writers have raised parallel objections to standard-relative contextualism, particularly about moral claims; we argue for a parallel solution.

Book Review: Christopher McMahon, Reasonable Disagreement: A Theory of Political Morality

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 214-218, October 2010.

Book Review: George G. Brenkert and Tom L. Beauchamp, The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 187-193, October 2010.

Book Review: Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom, eds., Human Enhancement

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 218-223, October 2010.

Book Review: Gijs Van Donselaar, The Right to Exploit: Parasitism, Scarcity, Basic Income

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 228-232, October 2010.

Book Review: Susan Wolf, The Meaning of Life and Why It Matters

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 232-236, October 2010.

Book Review: Olli Koistinen, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza’s Ethics

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 204-209, October 2010.

Book Review: Erica Benner, Machiavelli’s Ethics

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 182-187, October 2010.

Book Review: Charles Beitz and Robert Goodin, eds., Global Basic Rights

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 178-182, October 2010.

Book Review: Russ Shafer-Landau, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 4

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 224-228, October 2010.

Book Review: Allen Buchanan, Justice and Health Care: Selected Essays

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 193-198, October 2010.

Book Review: Ronald C. Den Otter, Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism

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Ethics, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 198-204, October 2010.

Human Rights: Questions of Aim and Approach

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Ethics, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 741-760, July 2010.

The Justification of Human Rights and the Basic Right to Justification: A Reflexive Approach

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Ethics, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 711-740, July 2010.

Outsourcing Self‐Government

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Ethics, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 761-790, July 2010.

Taking Rights out of Human Rights

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Ethics, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 647-678, July 2010.

The Egalitarianism of Human Rights

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Ethics, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 679-710, July 2010.

Book Review: Karl Ameriks and Otfried Höffe, eds., Kant’s Moral and Legal Philosophy

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Ethics, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 820-878, July 2010.

Book Review: Alan Brudner, Punishment and Freedom: A Liberal Theory of Penal Justice

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Ethics, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 841-846, July 2010.

Book Review: N. Scott Arnold, Imposing Values: An Essay on Liberalism and Regulation

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Ethics, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 831-836, July 2010.