Rights and Reason Essays in Honor of Carl Wellman
The papers in this book have been collected in celebration of Carl Wellman, who, after forty-five years, is retiring from teaching. Here I would like to highlight a few of the moments which have shaped Carl as a person and a philosopher. Although his chil
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Law and Philosophy Library VOLUME44
Managing Editors FRANCISCO J. LAPORTA, Department of Law, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain ALEKSANDER PECZENIK, Department of Law, University of Lund, Sweden FREDERICK SCHAUER, lohn F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.SA
Former Managing Editors AUUS AARNIO, MICHAEL D. BAYLESt, CONRAD D. JOHNSONt, ALANMABE Editorial Advisory Board AUUS AARNIO, Research Institute for Social Sciences, University ofTampere, Finland ZENON BANKOWSKI, Centre for Criminology and the Social and Philosophical Study of Law, University of Edinburgh PAOLO COMANDUCCI, University of Genua, Italy ERNESTO GARZON VALDES, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, lohannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz JOHN KLEINIG, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal lustice Administration, lohn lay College ofCriminal lustice, City University of New York NEIL MacCORMICK, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium WOJCIECH SADURSKI, European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence, Italy ROBERT S. SUMMERS, School of Law, Cornell University CARL WELLMAN, Department of Philosophy, Washington University
RIGHTS AND REASON Essays in H onor 0/ earl Wellman Edited by MARILYN FRIEDMAN, LARRY MAY, KATE PARSONS and JENNIFER STIFF Washington University, St. Louis, U.S.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction Christopher Wellman 2. Criteria and the Egocentric Predicament Revisited P. M. S. Hacker
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3. Rights, Interests, and Free Speech L. W. Sumner
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4. Votes as Powers Jeremy Waldron
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5. Rights and the Presumption of Care Virginia Held
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6. On the Universality of Moral lustification Gerald J. Postema
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7. Rights in Conflict James Griffin
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8. Human Rights and Wrongs Alice Erh-Soon Tay
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9. Wrongs and Duties Neil MacCormick
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10. Cultural Diversity: Rights, Goals, and Competing Values Diana Tietjens Meyers
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11. Right-Based Moralities Joseph Raz
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12. The Essential Indeterrninacy ofRawls's Difference Principle Rex Martin
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13. lustice and Personal Desert Joel Feinberg
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14. In Defence of Psychology Georg Henrik von Wright
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15. Religion and Right in Marx Hermann Klenner
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16. Name Index
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CHRISTOPHER WELLMAN
INTRODUCTION The papers in this book have been collected in celebration of Carl Wellman, who, after forty-five years, is retiring from teaching. He
