Publications

“Contractualist Alternatives to the Veil of Ignorance” The Journal of Political Philosophy (early view, 2023).

“Theology, Desert, and Egalitarianism,” The Journal of Politics (accepted, Sept. 2021).

“Reconsidering the Reciprocity Objection to Unconditional Basic Income,” Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2020. [Prepublication version]

“Publicity, Reciprocity, and Incentives,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 67-82, 2020. [Prepublication version]

Review of Dan Moller’s Governing Least: A New England Libertarianism (OUP), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Nov. 7, 2019.

Review of Abraham Singer’s The Form of the Firm, in Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 17, No.3,  2019, pp.860-61.

“Wages, Talents, and Egalitarianism,” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Volume 11, Issue 2, Autumn 2018.

“The Difference Principle, Capitalism, and Property-Owning Democracy,” Moral Philosophy and Politics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2018, pp.151-72. [Prepublication version]

“The Coherence of Public Reason,” The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 15, No.1, 2018, pp.64-84. [Prepublication version]

“Markets, Desert, and Reciprocity,” Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2017, pp. 47-69. [Prepublication version]

“Public Reason and Reciprocity,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 2017. [Prepublication version]

“Fact-Sensitivity and the Defining-Down Objection,” Res Publica, Vol. 23, pp.117-35, 2017. [Prepublication version]

“Public Reason, Liberal Neutrality, and Marriage,” Beyond Same-Sex Marriage, ed. Ronald den Otter (Lexington Books). [Prepublication version]

“Neutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural Rights,” Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum symposium on Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition Volume 10, Number 2, 2015, pp.147-56.

“Social Contract,” “Markets,” “Congruence,” “Lexical Priority / Priority of Liberty,” “Reasonable Pluralism”, in The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon (David Reidy and Jon Mandle, ed.; Cambridge University Press, 2015).

“Public Reason and Perfectionism: Comments on Quong’s Liberalism Without Perfection,” Filozofija i drustvo / Philosophy and Society, Vol. 25, No.1, 12-34, 2014.

Public Reason and Political Community , Bloomsbury (2013)

“The Mirage of Social Justice: Hayek Against (and For) Rawls” Critical Review , Vol. 25, Nos. 3-4 (Summer-Fall 2013).  

“Reciprocity, Relationships, and Distributive Justice”   Social Theory and Practice , Vol. 39, No. 1, 2013, pp. 70-94.

“The Classical Tilt of Justificatory Liberalism” European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2013, pp. 316-326.  (Review Essay of Gaus’s The Order of Public Reason)

“Public Justification of What? Coercion vs. Decision as Competing Frames for the Basic Principle of Justificatory Liberalism” Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 25, No.4, 2011, pp.349-67.

“Justice as Fairness and Reciprocity,” Analyze & Kritik, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2011, pp.93-112.

Review of Robert Talisse’s Democracy and Moral Conflict in Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 37, No.2, 2011, pp.6-13.

Review of Christopher McMahon’s Reasonable Disagreement: A Theory of Political Morality, in Ethics, Vol. 121, No. 1, 2010, pp. 214-218.

“Liberal Foundations of Democratic Authority” in Representation, as part of a symposium on David Estlund’s Democratic Authority, Vol. 46, No.1, 2010, pp.19-34.

“Public Justification and the Limits of State Action” in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Special Issue on Public Reason Vol. 9, No. 3, 2010, pp.151-176.

“Liberal Foundations of Democratic Authority,” Representation, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 1, 19-34.

“Reflective Equilibrium: Epistemological or Political?” Windsor Yearbook on Access to Justice, 2008, Vol. 26, No. 2, 265-277.

“Public Reason and Democracy,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2008, Vol. 11, No. 3, 273–289.

“Public Reason and Moral Compromise,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2007, Vol.37, No.1, 1-34.

“How To Defend (Same-Sex) Marriage,” Polity, 2005, Vol.37, No.3, 409-424.

“Hume and Rawls on the Circumstances and Priority of Justice,” History of Political Thought, 2005, Vol.26, No.4, 664-695.

“Marriage and Misogyny:  The Place of Mary Astell in the History of Political Thought,” History of Political Thought, 2004, Vol.25, No.1, 44-72.

“Scepticism and Pluralism in Thomas Hobbes’s Political Thought,”  History of Political Thought, 1998, Vol.19, No.1, 35-60.t