Social Theory and Practice
An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Philosophy

Social Theory and Practice publishes discussions of theoretical and applied questions in social, political, legal, economic, educational, and moral philosophy, including critical studies of classical and contemporary social philosophers. We feature original philosophical work and review essays by authors from all relevant disciplines, including the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Published by the Florida State University Department of Philosophy four times a year.

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  Vol. 24, no. 1 (Spring 1998)
 
Author Title
Alex John London Virtue and Consequences: Hobbes on the Value of the Moral
Virtues
Jonathan Waskan De Facto Legitimacy and Popular Will
Kai Draper Self-Defense, Collective Obligation, and Noncombatant Liability
Andrew Brien Mercy Within Legal Justice
Angela Bolte Do Wedding Dresses Come in Lavender? The Prospects and
Implications of Same-Sex Marriage
Paul Schollmeier Aristotle and Aristotelians (Review Essay)

  Vol. 24, no. 2 (Summer 1998)
 
Author Title
A. John Simmons "Denisons" and "Aliens": Locke's Problem of Political Consent
David Phillips Contractualism and Moral Status
Paul Smith Incentives and Justice: G.A. Cohen's Egalitarian Critique of Rawls
David Benatar Corporal Punishment
Pauline Kleingeld Just Love? Marriage and the Question of Justice
Jane Freimiller Unnatural Discourse (Review Essay)
Chris J. Cuomo Feminist Ethics and Connection Amidst Evil (Review Essay)

  Vol. 24, no. 3 (Fall 1998)
 
Author Title
David M. Adams The Problem of the Incomplete Attempt
Chris Naticchia Human Rights, Liberalism, and Rawls's Law of Peoples
Albert W. Dzur Value Pluralism versus Political Liberalism?
Ruth Sample Libertarian Rights and Welfare Rights
Roger Paden Democracy and Distribution
Jonathan Allen Decency and the Struggle for Recognition (Review Essay)

  Vol. 25, no. 1 (Spring 1999)
 
Author Title
James P. Sterba Reconciling Public Reason and Religious Values
Claudia Mills "Passing": The Ethics of Pretending to Be What You Are Not 
Francis J. Beckwith The "No One Deserves His or Her Talents" Argument for Affirmative Action 
Richard L. Lippke  Making Offenders Pay--For the Costs of Their Punishment 
Christopher Kilby  Aid and Sovereignty 
Michael Milde Unreasonable Foundations: David Gauthier on Property Rights,
Rationality, and the Social Contract 
Mark D. Gedney Reason and Community: The Nature and Role of Reason in Politics (Review essay) 

Vol. 25, no. 2 (Summer 1999)
 
Author Title
Peter Wilkin Chomsky and Foucault on Human Nature and Politics: An Essential Difference?
Andrew Hetherington The Real Distinction Between Threats and Offers 
Louise Collins Emotional Adultery: Cybersex and Commitment 
Ron Mallon  Political Liberalism, Cultural Membership, and the Family 
Andrew Valls  The Libertarian Case for Affirmative Action 
Marianne Janack Struggling for Common Ground: Identity Politics and the Challenge to Feminist Politics (Review Essay)  

Vol. 25, no. 3 (Fall 1999)
 
Author Title
Tara Smith Justice as a Personal Virtue
Sarah Stroud The Aim of Affirmative Action
Jiwei Ci Justice, Freedom, and the Moral Bounds of Capitalism
Richard Westra A Japanese Contribution to the Critique of Rational Choice Marxism
Neil Levy Stepping Into the Present: MacIntyre's Modernism
Michael J. Cholbi Egoism and the Publicity of Reason: A Reply to Korsgaard
Rosemarie Tong Dealing With Difference Justly: Perspectives on Disability (Review Essay)

Vol. 26, no. 1 (Spring 2000)
 
Author Title
Daniel Attas Freedom and Self-Ownership
Thaddeus Metz Arbitrariness, Justice, and Respect
Phillip Montague The Myth of Parental Rights
Michael J. Meyer Liberal Civility and the Civility of Etiquette: Public Ideals and Personal Lives
Sin Yee Chan Paternalistic Wife? Paternalistic Stranger?
Paul C. Taylor Appiah's Uncompleted Argument: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Reality of Race
Michael Gorr The Morality of Plea Bargaining
Torin Alter On Racist Symbols and Reparations (Review Essay)

Vol. 26, no. 2 (Summer 2000)
 
Author Title
Ruth Anna Putnam Neither a Beast Nor a God
Kevin M. Graham The Political Significance of Social Identity: A Critique of Rawls's Theory of Agency
Erin Kelly Habermas on Moral Justification
David Alm On the Reasonableness of Moral Judgments
Matthew Silverstein In Defense of Happiness: A Response to the Experience Machine
Robert Mayer Is There a Moral Right to Workplace Democracy?
Richard Arneson Economic Analysis Meets Distributive Justice (Review Essay)

Vol. 26, no. 3 (Fall 2000)
 
Author Title
David Waller The Paradox of Voluntary Motherhood
Lisa Tessman Moral Luck in the Politics of Personal Transformation
Pablo De Greiff Deliberative Democracy and Group Representation
Eric Moore Desert, Virtue, and Justice
David McCabe Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Liberal Education
James P. Sterba From Liberty to Welfare: An Update
Nancy Potter Giving Uptake
David Kahane Pluralism, Deliberation, and Citizen Competence: Recent Developments in Democratic Theory (Review Essay)

Vol. 27, no. 1 (January 2001)
 
Author Title
Celeste M. Friend Trust and the Presumption of Translucency
Diane Jeske Special Relationships and the Problem of Political Obligations
Martin Harvey Deliberation and Natural Slavery
Fred D'Agostino Rituals of Impartiality
Jonathan S. Brown Genetic Manipulation in Humans as a Matter of Rawlsian Justice
Thomas May Rights of Conscience in Health Care
David B. Hershenov Abortions and Distortions: An Analysis of Morally Irrelevant Factors in
Thomson's Violinist Thought Experiment
Seth Crook The Ideal of Companionship (Review Essay)

Vol. 27, no. 2 (April 2001)
 
Author Title
John Christman Liberalism, Autonomy, and Self-Transformation
Brian Orend Walzer's General Theory of Justice
Jessica Kulynych No Playing in the Public Sphere: Democratic Theory and the Exclusion of Children
Messay Kebede Directing Ethnicity Toward Modernity
Ronald R. Sundstrom Being and Being Mixed Race
Jeff Jordan Why Friends Shouldn't Let Friends Be Eaten: An Argument
for Vegetarianism
Nicholas Dixon Boxing, Paternalism, and Legal Moralism

Vol. 27, no. 3 (July 2001)
 
Author Title
Sam Black Altruism and the Separateness of Persons
Derrick Darby Two Conceptions of Rights Possession
Yalonda Howze
and David Weberman
On Racial Kinship
Kathie Jenni The Moral Responsibilities of Intellectuals
Linda Radzik Collective Responsibility and Duties to Respond
Timothy Hinton The Perfectionist Liberalism of T.H. Green
Seamus Carey A New Vision for Justice (Review Essay)
Kevin Mattson Remember Liberalism? (Review Essay)

Vol. 27, no. 4 (October 2001)
Special Issue
Embodied Values: Philosophy and Disabilities
Guest Editors: Roger S. Gottlieb and Eva Feder Kittay
 
Author Title
Harry Brighouse Can Justice as Fairness Accommodate the Disabled?
Mark S. Stein Utilitarianism and the Disabled: Distribution of Life
Steven R. Smith Distorted Ideals: The 'Problem of Dependency' and the Mythology of Independent Living
Carolyn Ells Lessons About Autonomy from the Experience of Disability
Shelley Tremain On the Government of Disability
Maria Michela Marzano-Parisoli Disability, Wrongful-Life Lawsuits, and Human Difference: An Exercise in Ethical Perplexity
Paul J. Ford Paralysis Lost: Impacts of Virtual Worlds on Those with Paralysis

Vol. 28, no. 1 (January 2002)  
Author Title
Craig L. Carr Fairness and Political Obligation
Avery Kolers The Territorial State in Cosmopolitan Justice
Ruth E. Groenhout Essentialist Challenges to Liberal Feminism
Neil Levy Self-Ownership: Defending Marx Against Cohen
Martino Traxler Fair Chore Division for Climate Change
Nathan Nobis Vegetarianism and Virtue: Does Consequentialism Demand Too Little?
Kenneth Einar Himma Desert, Entitlement, and Affirmative Action: A Response to Francis
Beckwith
Margaret Gilbert Collective Wrongdoing: Moral and Legal Responses (Review Essay)


Vol. 28, no. 2 (April 2002)
A Special Issue on T.M. Scanlon,
What We Owe to Each Other
Author Title
Richard W. Miller Moral Contractualism and Moral Sensitivity: Critique and
Reconstrual
Gary Watson Contractualism and the Boundaries of Morality:
Remarks on Scanlon's What We Owe to Each Other
David Copp
and David Sobel
Desires, Motives, and Reasons: Scanlon's Rationalistic
Moral Psychology
Thaddeus Metz The Reasonable and the Moral
Alastair Norcross Contractualism and Aggregation
Richard J. Arneson The End of Welfare as We Know It? Scanlon Versus Welfarist Consequentialism
T.M. Scanlon Replies


Vol. 28, no. 3 (July 2002)
 
Author Title
Kristin A. Kelley Private Family, Private Individual: John Locke's Distinction Between Paternal and Political Power
Tommie Shelby Parasites, Pimps, and Capitalists: A Naturalistic Conception of Exploitation
Omid A. Paryrow Shabani Who's Afraid of Constitutional Patriotism? The Binding Source of Citizenship in Constitutional States
Eric Reitan The Moral Justification of Violence: Epistemic Considerations
Lisa H. Swartzman Feminist Analysis of Oppression and the Discourse of "Rights": A Response to Wendy Brown
B.C. Postow The Unity and Authority of Reason (Review Essay)
Monique Deveaux Political Morality and Culture: What Differences Do Differences Make? (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 28, no. 4 (October 2002)

Author Title
Simon Keller Expensive Tastes and Distributive Justice
Marc Ramsay Pluralism and Gray's "Liberal Syndrome"
David Zimmerman Taking Liberties: The Perils of "Moralizing" Freedom and Coercion in Social Theory and Practice
William R. Lund Perfectionism, Freedom, and Virtue: Sandel's "Formative Project"
P.A. Woodward Shue on Basic Rights
Stephen Scales Intergenerational Justice and Care in Parenting
Jeffrey Paris After Rawls (Review Essay)


Vol. 29, no. 1 (January 2003)  
Author Title
Mark Alfino
and G. Randolph Mayes
Reconstructing the Right to Privacy
Carl Wellman A Legal Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide Defended
Kristján Kristjánsson Justice, Desert, and Virtue Revisited
Christopher Ciocchetti Wrongdoing and Relationships: An Expressive Justification of Punishment
Veikko Launis Solidarity, Genetic Discrimination, and Insurance: A Defense of Weak Genetic Exceptionalism
Peter Lindsay
and Christopher Heath Wellman
Lincoln on Secession
Jordy Rocheleau The Politics of Critical Theory: Discursive Proceduralism and Its Discontents (Review Essay)
Ronald R. Sundstrom Arrogance, Love, and Identity in the American Struggle with Race (Review Essay)


Vol. 29, no. 2 (April 2003)
Author Title
David Benatar The Second Sexism
Kenneth Clatterbaugh Benatar’s Alleged Second Sexism
James P. Sterba
The Wolf Again in Sheep’s Clothing
Carol Quinn
and Rosemarie Tong
The Consequences of Taking the Second Sexism Seriously
Tom Digby Male Trouble: Are Men Victims of Sexism?
David Benatar The Second Sexism, a Second Time
Michael Huemer Is There a Right to Own a Gun?
Linda Radzik Do Wrongdoers Have a Right to Make Amends?
Lisa J. McLeod The Wages of Sin: Glenn Loury’s The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Review Essay)


Vol. 29, no. 3 (July 2003)
 
Author Title
Keith Burgess-Jackson Deontological Egoism
Evan Tiffany Alienation and Internal Reasons for Action
H. Skott Brill The Future-Like-Ours Argument, Personal Identity, and the Twinning Dilemma
Jeffrey Flynn Habermas on Human Rights: Law, Morality, and Intercultural Dialogue
Richard L. Lippke Diminished Opportunities, Diminished Capacities: Social Deprivation and Punishment
Nick Smith Making Adorno’s Ethics and Politics Explicit (Review Essay)
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer Environmental Maturity (Review Essay)


Vol. 29, no. 4 (October 2003)
 
Author Title
Kevin E. Dodson Kant’s Socialism: A Philosophical Reconstruction
Eugene Rice Solving Human Rights Conflicts by Dissolving Them: The Failure of the Dissolution Strategy
George Schedler Should the Federal Government Pay Reparations for Slavery?
Andrew Alexandra Political Pacifism
Martin van Hees
and Paul Anand
New Choices: Genomics, Freedom, and Morality
D.W. Haslett Murder and the Exception for Fair Competition
Michelle Renee Matisons Feminism and Multiculturalism: The Dialogue Continues (Review Essay)
Richard Schmitt Living With Evil (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 30, no. 1 (January 2004) 

Author Title
David Lefkowitz The Nature of Fairness and Political Obligation: A Response to Carr
Craig L. Carr Fairness and Political Obligation-Again: A Reply to Lefkowitz
Andrew F. Smith Closer But Still No Cigar: On the Inadequacy of Rawls's Reply to Okin's "Political Liberalism, Justice, and Gender"
Ranjoo Seodu Herr A Third World Feminist Defense of Multiculturalism
Avery Plaw Why Monist Critiques Feed Value Pluralism: Ronald Dworkin's Critique of Isaiah Berlin
Kenneth Shockley Thinking Through Collectives: Graham and McMahon on the Influence of Membership on Practical Reason (Review Essay)


Vol. 30, no. 2 (April 2004)  
Author Title
Keith Horton International Aid: The Fair Shares Factor
Jeff Noonan Need Satisfaction and Group Conflict: Beyond a Rights-Based Approach
Brian Mello Recasting the Right to Self-Determination: Group Rights and Political Participation
Andrew W. Schwartz Minimal Rationality and Self-Transformation: Christman on Autonomy
Jeffrey C. Kirby Disability and Justice: A Pluralistic Account
Kathryn Norlock The Case for our Widespread Dependency (Review Essay)
John Sanbonmatsu The Jargon of Culture and the Banality of Political Theory (Review Essay)


Vol. 30, no. 3 (July 2004)  
Author Title
Tamar Meisels Targeting Terror
Phillip Montague Religious Reasons and Political Debate
Douglas Husak Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked?
Eric Wiland Trusting Advice and Weakness of Will
Andrew J. Cohen Defending Liberalism Against the Anomie Challenge
Yaacov Ben-Shemesh Religion and the Democratic Tradition (Review Essay)
Lucinda Peach What Goes Around Goes Around Again? (Review Essay)


Vol. 30, no. 4 (October 2004)  
Author Title
J. Joseph Miller Jus ad bellum and an Officer’s Moral Obligations: Invincible Ignorance, the Constitution, and Iraq
Jussi Suikkanen What We Owe to Many
Mark LeBar Ends
Kenneth Shockley The Conundrum of Collective Commitment
Shelley Wilcox Culture, National Identity, and Admission to Citizenship
Rob Lawlor Hooker’s Ideal Code and the Sacrifice Problem
Deborah Hawkins Tolerance and Freedom of Association: A Lockean State of Nature? (Review Essay)
Nick Smith When Selling Your Soul Isn’t Enough (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 31, no. 1 (January 2005)  

Author Title
Rosalind S. Simson Feminine Thinking
Brian Schaefer Human Rights: Problems with the Foundationless Approach
David W. Shoemaker Embryos, Souls, and the Fourth Dimension
John Santiago Personal Autonomy: What’s Content Got to Do With It?
Don Marquis Brill’s Objections to the Future of Value Argument
Nien-hê Hsieh Rawlsian Justice and Workplace Republicanism
Chad Lavin Who Responds to Global Poverty? (Review Essay)

Vol. 31, no. 2 (April 2005)
Special Issue on Religion and Politics
Guest Editors: Roger S. Gottlieb and John E. Kelsay
 

Author Title
Mark Jensen The Integralist Objection to Political Liberalism
K. Roberts Skerrett Political Liberalism and the Idea of Public Reason: A Response to Jeffrey Stout’s Democracy and Tradition
Gila Stopler The Liberal Bind: The Conflict between Women’s Rights and Patriarchal Religion in the Liberal State
Juan Marco Vaggione Reactive Politicization and Religious Dissidence: The Political Mutations of the Religious
Mark Button Arendt, Rawls, and Public Reason
Steven Wall Perfectionism, Public Reason, and Religious Accommodation

 

Vol. 31, no. 3 (July 2005)  

Author Title
Lawrence Lengbeyer Humor, Context, and Divided Cognition
Simon Keller Freedom!
William Nelson Varieties of Rights: How They Work, How They Are Justified
Laurence Thomas Moral Equality and Natural Inferiority
Timothy Hall Abortion, the Right to Life, and Dependence
Christopher McMahon Pettit on Collectivizing Reason
Maureen Linker

When Worlds Collide: The Global Exportation of Anti-Enlightenment Scholarship (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 31, no. 4 (October 2005)  

Author Title
Robert S. Taylor Self-Ownership and the Limits of Libertarianism
Jason Brennan Choice and Excellence: A Defense of Millian Individualism
George Schedler Does Ethical Meat Eating Maximize Utility?
Jari I. Niemi Jürgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Rationality: The Foundational Distinction between Communicative and Strategic Action
Aaron James Distributive Justice without Sovereign Rule: The Case of Trade
Greg Bognar The Concept of Quality of Life
Simon Kirchin

What is Intuitionism and Why be an Intuitionist? (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 32, no. 1 (January 2006)  

Author Title
David Lyons Rights and Recognition
Peter de Marneffe The Slipperiness of Neutrality
Danny Scoccia Neutrality, Skepticism, and the Fanatic
Chrisoula Andreou Getting On in a Varied World
Charles Starkey On the Category of Moral Perception
Rony Guldmann Determinism and Forbearance
Tony Smith Human Flourishing and the Concept of Capital (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 32, no. 2 (April 2006)  

Author Title
Carl Knight The Metaphysical Case for Luck Egalitarianism
Lucan Gregory

Ronald Dworkin, T.H. Green, and the Communal Theory of Political Obligation

David Ingram Antidiscrimination, Welfare, and Democracy: Toward a Discourse-Ethical Understanding of Disability Law
C.D. Meyers Why (Most) Rational People Must Disapprove of the Invasion of Iraq
Jessica Wolfendale Training Torturers: A Critique of the "Ticking Bomb" Argument
Raja Halwani Terrorism: Definition, Justification, and Applications (Review Essay)
Christian Miller Shafer-Landau and Moral Realism (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 32, no. 3 (July 2006)  

Author Title
Michael Davis Heavenly Philosophy: What Thomas Hobbes Said to Jean Hampton
Mika LaVaque-Manty Kant's Children
Michael J. Monahan Recognition Beyond Struggle: On a Liberatory Account of Hegelian Recognition
Eric Reitan Self-Defense and the Principle of Generic Consistency: Must Gewirth Be an Absolute Pacifist?
Violetta Igneski Perfect and Imperfect Duties to Aid
Jennifer S. Hawkins Justice and Placebo Controls
James Stacey Taylor Autonomy and Political Liberalism (Review Essay)


Vol. 32, no. 4 (October 2006)
Special Issue on Cosmopolitanism and the State
Edited by Victoria Costa and Joshua Gert

Author Title
Eamonn Callan Love, Idolatry, and Patriotism
Harry Brighouse Justifying Patriotism
Pauline Kleingeld Defending the Plurality of States: Cloots, Kant, and Rawls
Sarah Holtman On the Question of Orphans
Darrel Moellendorf Equal Respect and Global Egalitarianism
Jon Mandle Coercion, Legitimacy, and Equality
Margaret Moore Cosmopolitanism and Political Communities
Avery Kolers Subsidiarity, Secession, and Cosmopolitan Democracy
Mathias Risse What to Say About the State
Aaron James Equality in a Realistic Utopia
Simon Caney Cosmopolitan Justice and Institutional Design: An Egalitarian Liberal Conception of Global Governance

 

Vol. 33, no. 1 (January 2007)  

Author Title
John Christman Autonomy, History, and the Subject of Justice
Sam Duncan The Borders of Justice: Kant and Waldron on Political Obligation and Range Limitation
Gordon Davis
and Blain Neufeld
Political Liberalism, Civic Education, and Educational Choice
Katherin A. Rogers Retribution, Forgiveness, and the Character Creation Theory of Punishment
H.E. Baber Adaptive Preference
Peter S. Wenz Against Cruelty to Animals (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 33, no. 2 (April 2007)  

Author Title
Shlomi Segall In Solidarity with the Imprudent: A Defense of Luck Egalitarianism
Carmen Pavel Pluralism and the Moral Grounds of Liberal Theory
James W. Boettcher Respect, Recognition, and Public Reason
Ty Raterman On the Role of Preferences and Values in Public Decisions
Pablo Gilabert Contractualism and Poverty Relief
Leslie Pickering Francis and Anita Silvers

Liberalism and Individually Scripted Ideas of the Good: Meeting the Challenge of Dependent Agency

Waheed Hussain

The Ethical Dimension of Class Society (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 33, no. 3 (July 2007)  

Author Title
Steven DeCaroli A Capacity for Agreement: Hannah Arendt and the Critique of Judgment
Todd Hedrick Constitutionalization and Democratization: Habermas on Postnational Governance
Marina Oshana Autonomy and the Question of Authenticity
Richard Brook Deontology, Paradox, and Moral Evil
Bruce N. Waller Sincere Apology Without Moral Responsibility
Lori Watson

Pornography and Public Reason

Avery Plaw

Lukes's Three-Dimensional Model of Power Redux: Is it Still Compelling? (Review Essay)

 

Vol. 33, no. 4 (October 2007)
Special Issue on Virtue and Social Diversity
Edited by Victoria Costa and Joshua Gert

Author Title
Lawrence Blum Race, National Ideals, and Civic Virtue
Shelley Burtt Is Inclusion a Civic Virtue? Cosmopolitanism, Disability, and the Liberal State
Sophia Isako Wong The Moral Personhood of Individuals Labeled "Mentally Retarded": A Rawlsian Response to Nussbaum
Julia Driver Cosmopolitan Virtue
Simon Keller Are Patriotism and Universalism Compatible?
William A. Galston Pluralism and Civic Virtue
James Bernard Murphy From Aristotle to Hobbes: William Galston on Civic Virtue
Jeanine Grenberg Courageous Humility in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Robert B. Louden "Firm as a Rock in Her Own Principles" (But Not Necessarily a Kantian)
Andrew Mason Public Justifiability, Deliberation, and Civic Virtue