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Patrick Neal
Researcher at University of Vermont
Publications - 20
Citations - 237
Patrick Neal is an academic researcher from University of Vermont. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liberalism & Political philosophy. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 19 publications receiving 211 citations.
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Liberalism and Its Discontents
TL;DR: In the Shadow of the General Will: Rawls, Kant and Rousseau on the Problem of Political Right - Justice as Fairness: Political or Metaphysical? - Does He Mean What He Says? (Mis)Understanding Rawls' Practical Turn - PART 3: ALTERNATIVE LIBERALISMS - Perfectionism With A Liberal Face? Nervous Liberals and Raz's Political Theory - Dworkin on the Foundations of Liberal Equality - Vulgar Liberalism - Index
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Liberalism and the Communitarian Critique: A Guide for the Perplexed
Patrick Neal,David C. Paris +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discuss two ambiguities and two problems which they believe are central to the debate and suggest some distinctions and confusions, strengths and weaknesses, characteristic of both communitarian and liberal arguments.
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Hobbes and Rational Choice Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the appropriation of Hobbes' teaching to the terms of rational choice theory reaps a good deal less than what Hobbes attempted to sow.
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Justice as Fairness: Political or Metaphysical?
TL;DR: This article argued that Rawls' theory of justice is not "political" in the senses he claims it to be, and indeed that it cannot be "political, not metaphysically" in general.
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Is public reason innocuous
TL;DR: The idea of public reason is often criticized for being exclusionary and unfair as mentioned in this paper, yet it is possible to read the public reason as being largely innocuous, especially if one attends to all the qualifications and specifications of the idea that Rawls articulated.