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  1. In Defence of the Priority View.Thomas Porter - 2012 - Utilitas 24 (3):349-364.
    In their paper ‘Why It Matters That Some Are Worse Off Than Others: An Argument against the Priority View’, Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve argue that prioritarianism is mistaken. I argue that their case against prioritarianism has much weaker foundations than it might at first seem. Their key argument is based on the claim that prioritarianism ignores the fact of the ‘separateness of persons’. However, prioritarianism, far from ignoring that fact, is a plausible response to it. It may be that (...)
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  2. Prioritarianism and the Levelling Down Objection.Thomas Porter - 2011 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 14 (2):197-206.
    I discuss Ingmar Persson’s recent argument that the Levelling Down Objection could be worse for prioritarians than for egalitarians. Persson’s argument depends upon the claim that indifference to changes in the average prioritarian value of benefits implies indifference to changes in the overall prioritarian value of a state of affairs. As I show, however, sensible conceptions of prioritarianism have no such implication. Therefore prioritarians have nothing to fear from the Levelling Down Objection.
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  3. The division of moral labour and the basic structure restriction.Thomas Porter - 2009 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 8 (2):173-199.
    Justice makes demands upon us. But these demands, important though they may be, are not the only moral demands that we face. Our lives ought to be responsive to other values too. However, some philosophers have identified an apparent tension between those values and norms, such as justice, that seem to transcend the arena of small-scale interpersonal relations and those that are most at home in precisely that arena. How, then, are we to engage with all of the values and (...)
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  4. Rawls, reasonableness, and international toleration.Thomas Porter - 2012 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 11 (4):382-414.
    Rawls’s account of international toleration in The Law of Peoples has been the subject of vigorous critiques by critics who believe that he unacceptably dilutes the principles of his Law of Peoples in order to accommodate non-liberal societies. One important component in these critiques takes issue specifically with Rawls’s inclusion of certain non-liberal societies (‘decent peoples’) in the constituency of justification for the Law of Peoples. In Rawls’s defence, I argue that the explanation for the inclusion of decent peoples in (...)
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    Colburn on Anti-Perfectionism and Autonomy.Thomas Porter - 2010 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2):1-8.
    I argue against the strategy recently proposed by Ben Colburn for reconciling two apparently conflicting theses, the “Autonomy Claim” and “Anti-Perfectionism.” The strategy turns on demonstrating that the conception of Anti-Perfectionism that captures the intuitions of most anti-perfectionists is not opposed to state promotion of what Colburn calls “second-order values,” and that autonomy is just such a value. I object that Anti-Perfectionism should be understood as opposed to some second-order values, and that autonomy is just such a value.
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  6. John Rawls' Actual Contractualism.Thomas Porter - unknown
    This thesis argues for an unorthodox interpretation of John Rawls's egalitarianism as a hybrid of ‘actual contractualism’ and ‘modal contractualism’. It also offers a defence of the theory so understood. According to actual contractualism, a system of political institutions and norms is just only if each person over whom it claims authority actually accepts it in some sense. Actual contractualists stand in contrast with modal contractualists, who take justice to require that no one could reasonably reject the institutions and norms (...)
     
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    The Liberal Archipelago.Thomas Porter - 2009 - Contemporary Political Theory 8 (3):365-367.
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    The legacy of John Rawls.Thomas Porter - 2009 - Contemporary Political Theory 8 (2):237-239.
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    Modes of MythThe Uses of MythMyth on the Modern StageAncient Greek Myths and Modern Drama: A Study in ContinuityMyth and Modern American Drama.Marion B. Smith, Paul A. Olson, Hugh Dickinson, Angela Belli & Thomas E. Porter - 1971 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 5 (3):169.
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    Equality and Tradition: Questions of Value in Moral and Political Theory, Samuel Scheffler , 352 pp., $49.95 cloth. [REVIEW]Thomas Porter - 2011 - Ethics and International Affairs 25 (3):387-389.
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  11. Justice, Equality and Constructivism: Essays on G.A. Cohen's 'Rescuing Justice and Equality'– Brian Feltham (ed.). [REVIEW]Thomas Porter - 2011 - Philosophical Quarterly 61 (243):434-437.