Research: Selected Articles

“A Realist Social Contract”, in New Approaches to Social Contract Theory: Liberty, Equality, Diversity, and the Open Society, edited by Michael Moehler & John Thrasher (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 37-56. 

“Can Artificial Rights be Natural?”, Special Issue: Festschrift for Fred D. Miller, Jr., Reason Papers 43, 1 (Spring 2023), 119-32, https://reasonpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/rp_431_7.pdf

“On the Distinction between State and Anarchy”, in The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought, edited by Gary Chartier & Chad Van Schoelandt (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 39-52. 

“Sovereignty, Some Sceptical Thoughts”, in Sovereignty as Value, edited by Susana Cadilha & André Santos Campos (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), pp. 21-34. 

“Sovereignty and the Power of the Sovereign”, in Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority, edited by Claire Finkelstein and Michael Skerker, Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 85-98. 

“State Coercion and Force“, Social Philosophy & Policy 29, 1 (January 2012), 28-49.

“The Idea of Moral Standing”, in The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Tom Beauchamp and R.G. Frey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 255-275.

“State Legitimacy and Social Order”, in Political Legitimization without Morality, edited by Jörg Köhnelt (Heidelberg: Springer, 2008), pp 15-32.

“The Trouble with Justice”, in Morality and Self-Interest, edited by Paul Bloomfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 15-30.

“What’s Wrong with Imperialism?”, Social Philosophy & Policy 23, 1 (Winter 2006), 153-166. 

“The Very Idea of Popular Sovereignty: ‘We the People’ Reconsidered”, Social Philosophy & Policy 17, 1 (Winter 2000), 1-26.

“A Contractarian Account of Moral Justification”, in Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 215-242.

“Punishment and Loss of Moral Standing”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 21, 1 (March 1991), 53-79. 

“A Hobbesian Welfare State?”, Dialogue XXVII, 4 (Winter 1988), 653-673. 

“Existential Limits to the Rectification of Past Wrongs”, American Philosophy Quarterly21, 2 (April 1984), 175-182.