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Multicultural Citizenship
A treatise, subtitled A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, arguing that a liberal state can and sometimes must grant group-differentiated rights to minority cultures. Kymlicka distinguishes two sources…
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Art as Experience
Dewey's book on aesthetics, based on the William James Lectures he gave at Harvard in 1931. It begins by criticising the "museum" idea of art, which cuts works…
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The Fragility of Goodness
A study, subtitled Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, of how far a good human life is exposed to luck. Nussbaum reads tragedy and philosophy side…
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Justice, Gender, and the Family
A feminist critique of contemporary theories of justice, which Okin argues have largely ignored the family even though it is where children first learn, or fail to learn,…
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
Twenty lectures given as the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 1901–02 and subtitled A Study in Human Nature. James sets aside churches and doctrines to study personal religious…
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Creating Capabilities
A short introduction, subtitled The Human Development Approach, to the capabilities approach to justice and development that Nussbaum built alongside the economist Amartya Sen. It opens with Vasanti,…
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The Principles of Psychology
A two-volume textbook, twelve years in the writing, that helped found psychology as a science in the United States while remaining a work of philosophy. James surveys brain…
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On Virtue Ethics
A systematic defence of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics against the charge that it cannot tell anyone what to do. Part I, on action, gives Hursthouse's well-known account of right…
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The Sense of Beauty
Santayana's first philosophical book, subtitled Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory, written from his lectures on aesthetics at Harvard. It offers a naturalistic, psychological account of beauty. Santayana…
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In a Different Voice
A work of developmental psychology, subtitled Psychological Theory and Women's Development, that became a founding text of care ethics. Gilligan argues that leading theories of moral development, especially…
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