Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Volume 11

by Sosa, Ernest; Villanueva, Enrique

• ISBN13: 9780631230267
• ISBN10: 0631230262
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume represents the main papers delivered by both prominent and rising philosophers at the 1999 SOFIA conference in Mazatlan, Mexico. The volume contains twenty substantial papers spanning important issues of current interest including sexuality and consent, rights and scarcity, democracy and individualism, and the nature of law and the value of punishment.

Author Biography

Ernest Sosa is a Professor of Philosophy at Brown University and Rutgers University. He is author of Knowledge in Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and of papers in metaphysics and epistemology.

Enrique Villanueva is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is author of papers and books in philosophy of mind and history of philosophy, and editor of Philosophical Issues from 1992 to 2000.

Table of Contents

I. Ethics and Social Philosophy
``I Thought She Consented''	1	(32)
Marcia W. Baron
Against Constitutive Incommensurability or Buying and Selling Friends	33	(28)
Ruth Chang
Law and Social Order	61	(25)
Russell Hardin
Rapes Without Rapists: Consent and Reasonable Mistake	86	(32)
Douglas N. Husak
George C. Thomas III
What We Can Reasonably Reject	118	(30)
Thomas W. Pogge
A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis	148	(24)
David Schmidtz
II. Political Philosophy
Against Rights	172	(30)
Richard J. Arneson
Managing Scarcity: Toward a More Political Theory of Justice	202	(27)
Robert E. Goodin
A Critique of Philip Pettit's Republicanism	229	(15)
Charles Larmore
Classical Realism	244	(24)
Brian Leiter
Deliberative Democracy and the Discursive Dilemma	268	(32)
Philip Pettit
On the Territorial Rights of States	300	(27)
A. John Simmons
Inequality: A Complex, Individualistic, and Comparative Notion	327	(27)
Larry S. Temkin
III. Legal Philosophy
The Conventionality Thesis	354	(34)
Jules L. Coleman
Egalitarianism and the Problem of Tort Liability	388	(32)
Michael L. Corrado
Reconciling Autonomy and Efficiency in Contract Law: The Vertical Integration Strategy	420	(22)
Jody S. Kraus
The Judicial Community	442	(28)
Christopher Kutz
Law as Command: The Model of Command in Modern Jurisprudence	470	(32)
Gerald J. Postema
Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations as an Alternative to Punishment	502	(28)
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
Judicial Can't	530	(28)
Scott J. Shapiro
Contributors	558