A mere two decades ago it was widely assumed that liberal democracy and the Open
Society it created had decisively won their century-long struggle against authoritarianism …

Political theorists propose standards that identify legitimate uses of political power. Some
adopt a principle of public justification. A public justification is a kind of rationale for …

Americans today are far less likely to trust their institutions, and each other, than in decades
past. This collapse in social and political trust arguably fuels our increasingly ferocious …

The central philosophical task posed by conventions is to analyze what they are and how
they differ from mere regularities of action and cognition. Subsidiary questions include: How …

Modeling and computer simulations, we claim, should be considered core philosophical
methods. More precisely, we will defend two theses. First, philosophers should use …

Game theoretic views of convention generally rest on notions of common knowledge and
hyper-rational models of individual behavior. However, decades of work in behavioral …

Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your
assumptions about who you are. Who are you? Are you just a brain? A brain and a body? All …

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 …

What I call" strategic injustice" involves a set of formal and informal regulatory rules and
conventions that often lead to grossly unfair outcomes for a class of individuals despite their …

This essay examines two different modes of reasoning about justice: an individual mode in
which each individual judges what we all ought to do and a social mode in which we seek to …