...Jeffrey Moriarty McMahon Christopher , Public Capitalism: The Political Authority of Corporate Executives . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . viii+206 pp. © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 My boss tells me to make coffee. Why should I do it? One answer...

... and republican political philosophy. Second, to show that this marriage bears important progeny, in the form of a theory of property-owning democracy (POD). Third, to show that POD is the marriage's only legitimate child. Welfare-state capitalism and worker control, in other words, are not legitimate heirs...

... but by an incentive. [email protected] © 2024 by Cornell University 2024 Marx alienation labor freedom incentives markets In his 1844 manuscripts, Marx famously argues that labor under capitalism is alienated. What does he mean by this? Among other things, he says of alienated labor...

... about human society” (vii), and he criticizes his view of women’s incapacity for political life, his inadequate theory of repre- sentation, his acceptance of slavery (however mitigated by his recognition of the slave’s rights as a person), his argument for capital punishment, and his defense...

... democracy. In chapter 7, Thakkar shows that Plato's ideal theory can illuminate Marx's critique of capitalism and so shed light on the actual world. According to Plato, the purpose of society is to fulfill human needs, and this is best achieved when people perform the crafts for which they are best...

... justice. Since the late 1980s, many have been concerned with poverty, inequality, human rights violations, the history of colonialism, global capitalism, and so on. More recently, specific emphases on race, gender, class, and Indigeneity have come to the fore. Strikingly, Heath is quick to dismiss...

... with Your Students” is an extended argument against the idea that erotic involvement with one’s student is compatible with pedagogical responsibility. “Sex, Carceralism, Capitalism” examines the arguments for, and consequences of, relying on state power in matters of sex. The essay has a dual focus...

... enough to make us cautious and seek confirmation for Kripke’s conclusion elsewhere. We find itin the semantics of “concealed” questions. Consider the following sentence: (6) John knows the capital of Fiji. (6) has two...

... a private government. This is due to both the nature of modern capitalism and the default rules for workplace governance set by the state. “Consent to an option within a set,” she writes, “cannot justify the option set itself” (61). Hence, allowing these workers—workers without real alternatives...

..., but elsewhere as well) that some definitions of emotion are “moralized.”Elster capitalizes on the distinction between being enti- tled to have emotions and their simply having them, but I would want to argue that, at least sometimes, the notion of being entitled is an essential ingredient...

... of important implications, including ones she doesn’t draw herself. For instance, capitalism as a way of life plausibly doesn’t fit with democracy as a way of life—a democratic way of life involves democratic control and cooperation, including over the means of production and our productive decisions. Moody...

... order the book advocates—the Open Society (always capitalized, as if the proper name of a religion or political party)—is never formally defined. It is loosely characterized variously as an evolved system of “increasingly impartial and wide-ranging … rules and norms” (215) and “an ever-increasing...

... to be able to recover them at this late stage, in a Caribbean whose consciousness has been so thoroughly shaped first by colonialism and then by global capitalism’s mass media. The most successful pole of indigenous resistance in the region has been Rastafari, which represents more a re-coding...

...-reflection, ought to be assented to” (230). This apparent panacea Garrett calls, and capitalizes, the “Title Principle.” The principle appears, as far as I can tell, only once in Hume's writings. It is not in the first Enquiry ; Garrett thinks “the dangerous dilemma” has been dissolved...

... overall; on this ground, they judge a move from an income to a consumption tax unjusti- fied. Similarly, whether exemptions such as those for capital gains, charitable donations, and mortgage payments are justifiable depends on whether the gov- ernment is pursuing a legitimate aim and on how...

... exerts a huge infl uence’. So it might be thought that, despite appearances, ‘some European countries’ is not within the scope of ‘in Africa’. However, the sentence ‘In Africa, most government changes take place after a direct interference from some European capital or other’, whose truth value...

... are not uses. Meanings are concepts or, perhaps, properties (20-21). The role uses play is in constituting meaning properties, in analyz- ing the property relating a word to a concept; for example (using Horwich’s convention of capitalization to refer to concepts), ‘x means DOG’consists in ‘x has...

... edifice inquiring into social and racial epistemology, racial capital, and the remarkably and enduringly white sociology of the profession. The purpose of Black Rights/White Wrongs , then, is at once straightforward and herculean—to systematize twenty years of philosophy to once and for all unseat...

...” (capitalized) to signify that it is a technical Teutonic term, different from the ordinary term “belief” and more capacious than “faith.” See Chignell 2007a. 3. Proops references Beck (4), who briefly discusses doctrinal Belief in his A Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (Beck 1960...

... Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Lover. Chicago: Open Court. Klein, Daniel B. 2012. Knowledge and Coordination: A Liberal Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press. Kramer, Matthew H. 2011. The Ethics of Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Inves- tigation of Evil and Its Consequences...