Abortion is a philosophically interesting issue because both sides seem so certain of their conclusions, yet the issue is at the same time clearly a derivative one. It is also highly political, and needs to be seen within ...
In May 2011, a number of people got together to reactivate BIEN Ireland, which is one of BIEN’s oldest national affiliates. This paper gives a brief narrative of the activities of the group over its first 15 months. Because ...
Baker, John(Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2011)
It is common knowledge that people’s beliefs are determined by many factors – having a good argument is only one of them. What are the implications of this fact for egalitarian political theorists who hope to contribute ...
How should we now construct the intellectual project of the left? In this paper, I
argue for one answer to this question, by setting out the case for the field of
equality studies as it has developed in the Equality ...
Should radical egalitarians operating in contemporary capitalist democracies use political
violence to achieve their aims? Purely consequentialist arguments provide too simple
an answer. Machiavelli's perspective is more ...