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2018
Partial Values
When, if ever, is it permissible to afford special consideration to friends and family? How can we strive to be objective in our thinking, and is this always a feasible or appropriate aim? This book examines the categories of impartiality and objectivity by showing how they frame certain debates in epistemology, moral...
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Sep 2026
Capabilities, Human Nature, and Liberalism
This paper reconstructs and addresses three major critiques of Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach (CA): (1) the claim that an exclusive focus on capabilities (rather than functioning) is ineffective in protecting people's well‐being; (2) the critique of paternalism; and (3) the objection according to which the C...
G. Sacco
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Self Expression, Manipulation, and Morally Responsible Agents: A Compatibilist Commentary on Four Views of Free Will
The authors of the second edition of Four Views of Free Will (2024) have skillfully captured what is at stake, metaphysically and socially, in the free will and moral responsibility debates. In my commentary on Kane’s libertarian view, I note the metaphysical merits of a sourcehood free will account that requires lee...
R. Waller
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This article examines the agonistic turn in democratic theory, focusing primarily on the work of Chantal Mouffe. The starting point is the diagnosis of a systemic crisis of liberal democracy, which, contrary to the optimistic predictions of the late twentieth century, has not disappeared but has assumed new and more ac...
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The Invisible Hand and the General Will: Rethinking Social Well-being
What does it truly mean for a society to prosper? At first glance, prosperity may appear to consist in producing more, generating wealth, and improving material conditions. Yet this definition is insufficient when economic growth coexists with deep inequality, relations of dependence, or unequal access to the benefits...
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2014
Virtue and the Moral Life
The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent’s life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family me...
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