Leif Wenar (King's College, London), "The Nature of the Claim"
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Rights are the distinctive normative concept of modernity, and the claim-right is the paradigm of rights. Kant, Hart and Steiner defend one traditional view of what claim-rights are, while Bentham, Raz and Kramer champion the other. The paper sets out a new analysis superior to both,…
Raul Saucedo (Yale/ANU), "Plurallism: The Priority of All Things"
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Plurallism is the thesis that all things together are ontologically prior to each thing on its own as well as to any other things together. A bit more explicitly, it is the thesis that the plurality of all things is prior to every single thing and to any other plurality of things. Plurallism is…
Marilyn Friedman (Vanderbilt), "Dependence, Disability, and Liberal Citizenship"
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Some feminists have recently challenged the view that independence is a desirable or possible moral status. They have also argued against liberal conceptions of citizenship that require citizen autonomy understood as independence. While these critiques have some merit, I argue that they…
J. Donald Moon (Wesleyan University), "Is There A Global Basic Structure?"
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Rawls limits the claims of social justice to those who participate in a shared “basic structure” of a society; he defines the basic structure as “the way in which the main political and social institutions of society fit together into one system of social [coordination], and the way they assign…