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Lincoln as Political Philosopher
(William A. Edmundson)
Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy
(2023)
This is the ninth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory ...
Socialism for Soloists
(William Edmundson)
Faculty Publications By Year
(2021)
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John Rawls: Reticent Socialist
(William A. Edmundson)
(2017)
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
(William A. Edmundson and Martin P. Golding)
Faculty Publications By Year
(2005)
An Introduction to Rights
(William A. Edmundson)
Faculty Publications By Year
(2004)
The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings
(William A. Edmundson)
Faculty Publications By Year
(1999)
Three Anarchical Fallacies: An Essay on Political Authority
(William A. Edmundson)
Faculty Publications By Year
(1998)
Contributions to Books
(6)
A Right to Do Wrong? Two Conceptions of Moral Rights
(William A. Edmundson)
Rights: Concepts and Contexts
(2012)
Coercion
(William A. Edmundson)
The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law
(2012)
This chapter explains the concept of coercion as it features in recent legal and political philosophical work.
Pluralism, Intransitivity, Incoherence
(William A. Edmundson)
Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics
(2009)
Pluralism is an appealing and now orthodox view of the sources of value. But pluralism has led to well-known difficulties for social-choice theory. Moreover, as Susan Hurley has argued, the difficulties of pluralism go even ...
Adding Reasons Up
(William A. Edmundson)
Economics and the Mind
(2007)
This chapter argues that the "maximizing conception" of rationality that economists are criticized for employing is one that moral philosophers cannot well do without. But the maximizing conception, though essential to identifying what reason requires ...
Privacy
(William A. Edmundson)
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
(2005)
This essay concerns privacy as a moral right, and as a candidate for protection as a positive legal or constitutional right. It discusses the threefold distinction between what have been termed physical, informational, and decisional ...
Introduction
(William A. Edmundson)
The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings
(1999)
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Political Equality, Epistocracy, and Expensive Tastes
(W. A. Edmundson)
Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política
(2022)
Democracy and equality are different concepts. There are two fundamentally different ways of relating them. The first way defines democracy in terms of substantive political equality: the purest form of democracy is a regime in ...
"In Such Ways as Promise Some Success"
(William A. Edmundson)
Harvard Review of Philosophy
(2021)
This year is the centenary of the birth of philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002) and the semi-centenary of his monumental A Theory of Justice (1971). This essay explores the differences between political opposition and political resistance ...
What Are "The Means of Production"?
(William A. Edmundson)
Journal of Political Philosophy
(2020)
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The Mother of All Subsidies
(W. A. Edmundson)
JOTWELL
(2020)
Book Review, Katrina Forrester: In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
(William A. Edmundson)
The Review of Politics
(2020)
William A. Edmundson, Katrina Forrester: In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy, 82(3) The Rev. of Pol. 520 (2020) (book review).
Tolerating the Conditionally Tolerant: The Uneasy Case of Salvation Religions
(William Edmundson)
Democratic Theory
(2020)
How can a tolerant, liberal political culture tolerate the presence of only conditionally tolerant illiberal sub-cultures while remaining true to its principles of tolerance? The problem falls within the intersection of two developments in the ...
What is the Argument for the Fair Value of Political Liberty?
(William Edmundson)
Social Theory and Practice
(2020)
The equal political liberties are among the basic first-principle liberties in John Rawls’s theory of Justice as fairness. Rawls insists, further, that the “fair value” of the political liberties must be guaranteed. Disavowing an interest ...
The Choice of a Social System: Reflections on a "Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference Principle"
(William A. Edmundson)
Philosophy and Public Issues
(2020)
The Property Question
(William A. Edmundson)
Public Affairs Quarterly
(2020)
Juridification Without Legality
(William Edmundson)
Journal of Things We Like (LOTS)
(2019)
Précis of John Rawls: Reticent Socialist
(William Edmundson)
Ethical Perspectives
(2019)
Replies to Commentators
(William Edmundson)
Ethical Perspectives
(2019)
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