This article explores some implications of the counterfactual aspect of freedom and unfreedom. Because actions can be unprevented even if they are not undertaken, and conversely because actions can be prevented even if they are not attempted and are thus not overtly thwarted, any adequate...

Among the complaints often voiced by philosophers who doubt the possibility or actuality of moral conflicts is that any such conflict would violate the “ought”-implies-“can” principle or would in some other respect be objectionably burdensome. The present essay seeks to rebut or defuse...

This paper, which has been written as a contribution to a festschrift for Wil Waluchow, concentrates on the area of legal philosophy in which his finest accomplishments have occurred: namely, the area of general jurisprudence. Indeed, it concentrates more specifically on Inclusive Legal...

Consequentialist doctrines have often been criticized for their excessive demandingness, in that they require the thorough instrumentalization of each person's life as a vehicle for the production of good consequences. In turn, the proponents of such doctrines have often objected to what they...

This paper, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice, ponders several understandings of conceptual analysis in the context of debates over distributive justice. The paper's first three main sections consider the concept/conception distinction in its multi-layered...