Engaging Raz Themes in Normative Philosophy

by Marmor, Andrei; Brownlee, Kimberley; Enoch, David

• ISBN13: 9780198925347
• ISBN10: 0198925344
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780198925361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-08-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Andrei Marmor, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy & Law, Cornell University,Kimberley Brownlee, Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy, University of British Columbia,David Enoch, Professor of the Philosophy of Law, University of Oxford

Andrei Marmor is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell in 2015, he was Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. His research interests span philosophy of law, moral, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of language. Marmor published seven monographs with Oxford and Princeton university presses, and a number of edited volumes. His books and articles also appeared in numerous translations, including in Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish, Farsi, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Italian.

Kimberley Brownlee holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She received her DPhil from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar). She is a Commonwealth Scholar and Fulbright Research Chair. Her current work focuses on loneliness, belonging, social human rights, and freedom of association. Her other work focuses on conscience, civil disobedience, punishment, and restorative justice. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other (OUP, 2020) and Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (OUP, 2012). She is the co-editor of Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights (OUP, 2022), The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (2016) and Disability and Disadvantage (OUP, 2009).

David Enoch studies law and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and received his PhD in philosophy at NYU in 2003. He's been a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on a joint appointment in law and philosophy, ever since. Recently, he started as the Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Oxford. He works primarily in moral, political, and legal philosophy.

Table of Contents

Part I. Normativity and Values1. Understanding Good of a Kind and Good For in Terms of Reasons, T. M. Scanlon2. The Guise of the Good and the Agential Perspective on Action, Claire Kirwin3. The Irrelevance of Supervenience, Debbie Roberts4. Decision-Theoretic Virtue Ethics, Ralph WedgwoodPart II. Practical Reasoning5. "Rational Explanation" and the Logic of Practical Reasons, Jason Bridges6. The Point of Exclusionary Reasons, Ulrike Heuer7. Requiem for a Concept: Exclusionary Reasons, Michael S. Moore8. Motivation and Alienation, Massimo RenzoPart III. Agency and Autonomy9. Intentional Action and the Special Question "Why?", John Hyman10. Being in the World: Self-Conception and Taking Responsibility, Elinor Mason11. Revisiting Raz on Autonomy, David Enoch12. Autonomy and Options, Steven WallPart IV. Rights and Obligations13. The Razian's Elephant in the Room: When Do Interests Give Rise to Rights?, Kimberley Brownlee14. Normative Conventionalism about Contracts, Thomas Christiano15. Conventionalism and the Wrong of Promise-Breaking, Filippa RonquistPart V. The Public Domain16. Law, the Rule of Law, and Goodness-Fixing Kinds, Emad H. Atiq17. What Does Law Claim?, Brian H. Bix18. Rethinking Multiculturalism with (and against) Raz, Daniel WeinstockPart VI. Authority19. Command and Obedience, David Owens20. Authority, Legitimacy, and Accountability, Andrei Marmor21. Service and the Moral Problem(s) of Authority, Daniel Viehoff