In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework
for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward …

Michael Moehler develops a novel multilevel social contract theory. In contrast to existing
theories in the liberal tradition, it does not merely assume a restricted form of reasonable …

In Strategic Justice, Peter Vanderschraaf argues that justice can be properly understood as
a body of special social conventions. The idea that justice is at bottom conventional has …

Public reason accounts commonly claim that exercises of coercive political power must be
justified by appeal to reasons accessible to all citizens. Such accounts are vulnerable to the …

The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in
response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the …

This Element provides a systematic defense of moral contractarianism as a distinct approach
to the social contract. It elucidates, in comparison to moral conventionalism and moral …

This paper argues that the concern for distributive justice might be universal rather than
contingent on a morally optional relationship, but limited in the demands it places upon us …

This article lays out the" functionalist" view according to which justice is a social technology
for adjudicating competing claims, then defends the claim that any functional principles of …

Im Menschenrechtsdiskurs dominierte (und dominiert möglicherweise bis heute?) die
Bezugnahme auf die Verletzbarkeit im Dienste der Identifizierung von sogenannten …

Im Menschenrechtsdiskurs dominierte (und dominiert möglicherweise bis heute?) die
Bezugnahme auf die Verletzbarkeit im Dienste der Identifizierung von sogenannten …