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RESPONSES TO CRITICS

Philip Pettit review

In his review of Justice for Hedgehogs in the Times Literary Supplement, August 19, 2011, Philip Pettit of Princeton University provides a useful though necessarily condensed account of some of my major claims. He says, generously, that he has “learned … Continue reading

RESPONSES TO CRITICS

Selected Responses

In the preface to Hedgehogs I said that I would comment on reviews here only selectively, picking up what I thought important issues noted by critics or what I took to be misunderstandings that I worried might be widespread. This … Continue reading

FURTHER COMMENTS

Human Rights

On page 335, I say “We must therefore insist that though people do have a political right to equal concern and respect on the right conception, they have a more fundamental because more abstract right. They have a right to … Continue reading

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