Bibliography: Books and Articles in the Philosophy of Human Rights

• Ashford, E., 2015, “A Moral Inconsistency Argument for a Basic Human Right to Subsistence,” in Cruft, R., Liao, S., and Renzo, M. (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Beetham, D., 1995, “What Future for Economic and Social Rights?”, Political Studies, 43: 41–60. (Scholar)
• Beitz, C., 2015, “The Force of Subsistence Rights,” in Cruft, R., Liao, S., and Renzo, M. (eds.), 2015, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– 2009, The Idea of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Bell, D., 2013, “Climate Change and Human Rights.” WIREs Climate Change, 4: 159–170. (Scholar)
• Besson, S., “Human Rights and Constitutional Law: Patterns of Mutual Validation and Legitimation,” in Cruft, R., Liao, S., and Renzo, M. (eds.), 2015, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Beyleveld, D., 1991, Dialectical Necessity of Morality: An Analysis and Defense of Alan Gewirth’s Argument to the Principle of Generic Consistency, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Bodansky, D., 2010, “Introduction: Climate Change and Human Rights: Unpacking the Issues,” Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law, 38: 511–524. (Scholar)
• Boylan, M. (ed.), 1999, Gewirth: Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Brandt, R. B., 1983, “The Concept of a Moral Right,” Journal of Philosophy, 80: 29–45. (Scholar)
• Brems, E., 2009, “Human Rights: Minimum and Maximum Perspectives,” Human Rights Law Review, 9: 343–372. (Scholar)
• Brownlee, K., 2013, “A Human Right Against Social Deprivation,” Philosophical Quarterly, 63: 251, 199–222. (Scholar)
• ––– 2015, “Do We Have a Human Right to the Political Determinants of Health,” in Cruft, R., Liao, S., and Renzo, M. (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Buchanan, A., 2010, Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, The Heart of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Bunch, C., 2006, “Women’s Rights as Human Rights,” in B. Lockwood (ed.), Women’s Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
• Caney S., 2010, “Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Thresholds,” in Humphreys, S. (ed.), Human Rights and Climate Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Cohen, J., 2012, Globalization and Sovereignty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Cohen, J., 2004, “Minimalism About Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope For?”, Journal of Political Philosophy, 12: 90–213. (Scholar)
• Claude, R. and Weston, B. (eds.), 2006, Human Rights in the World Community, 3rd edition, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• Corradetti, C., 2009, Relativism and Human Rights, New York: Springer. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2012, Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights, New York: Springer. (Scholar)
• Cranston, M., 1967, “Human Rights, Real and Supposed,” in D. D. Raphael (ed.), Political Theory and the Rights of Man, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• –––, 1973, What Are Human Rights?, London: Bodley Head. (Scholar)
• Cruft, R., 2012, “Human Rights as Rights,” in Ernst, G. and Heilinger, J. (eds.), 2011, The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, Human Rights, Ownership, and the Individual, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, Liao, S., and Renzo, M. (eds.), 2015, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Dershowitz, A., 2004, Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights, New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
• Donnelly, J., 2012, International Human Rights, 4th edition, Philadelphia: Westview Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Dworkin, R., 2011, Justice for Hedgehogs, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– 1978, Taking Rights Seriously, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Ernst, G. and Heilinger, J. (eds.), 2011, The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar) (Scholar)
• Etinson, A. (ed.), 2018, Human Rights: Moral or Political?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar) (Scholar)
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• Feinberg, J., 1973, Social Philosophy, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (Scholar)
• Fellmeth, A., 2016, Paradigms of International Human Rights Law, New York: Oxford University Press (Scholar)
• Finnis, J., 2012, “Grounding Human Rights in Natural Law,” American Journal of Jurisprudence, 60: 195–225. (Scholar)
• ––– 2011, Natural Law and Natural Rights, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Follesdal, A. 2018, “Appreciating the Margin of Appreciation,” in Etinson, A. (ed.), Human Rights: Moral or Political?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Gardiner, S., 2013, “Human Rights in a Hostile Climate,” in Holder, C., and Reidy, D. (eds.), 2013, Human Rights: The Hard Questions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Gewirth, A., 1978, Reason and Morality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1982, Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, The Community of Rights, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Gilabert, P., 2018, Human Dignity and Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––2009, “The Feasibility of Basic Socioeconomic Rights: A Conceptual Exploration,” The Philosophical Quarterly, 59: 559–581. (Scholar)
• –––2011, “Humanist and Political Perspectives on Human Rights,” Political Theory, 39: 439–467. (Scholar)
• ––– 2018, “Reflections on Human Rights and Power,” in Etinson, A. (ed.), Human Rights: Moral or Political?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Glendon, M., 2001, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, New York: Random House. (Scholar)
• Gould, C., 2004, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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• Hart, H., 1955, “Are There Any Natural Rights?” Philosophical Review, 64: 175–191. (Scholar)
• Hayden, P. (ed.), 2001, The Philosophy of Human Rights, St. Paul, MN: Paragon Press. (Scholar) (Scholar)
• Hayward, T., 2005, Constitutional Environmental Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Henkin, L., 1978, The Rights of Man Today, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (Scholar)
• Holder C., and Reidy, D. (eds.), 2013, Human Rights: The Hard Questions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Holmes, S. and Sunstein, C., 1999, The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, New York: Norton. (Scholar)
• Howard, R., 1987, “The Full-Belly Thesis: Should Economic Rights Take Priority Over Civil and Political Rights?” Human Rights Quarterly, 5: 467–90. (Scholar)
• Ignatieff, M., 2004, The Lesser Evil, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Kateb, G., 2011, Human Dignity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Kennedy, D., 2004, The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• King, J., 2012, Judging Social Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Kymlicka, W., 1989, Liberalism, Community, and Culture, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1995, The Rights of Minority Cultures, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Lacrois, J. and Pranchere, J., 2016, Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Lafont, C., 2013, Global Governance and Human Rights, Amsterdam: Van Gorcum. (Scholar)
• Langford, M. et al. (eds.), 2013, The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Lauren, P., 2003, The Evolution of International Human Rights, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• Liao, M. and Etinson, A., 2012, “Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?”, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 9: 327–352. (Scholar)
• Locke, J., 1689, The Second Treatise on Civil Government, New York: Prometheus Books, 1986. (Scholar)
• Lockwood, B. (ed.), 2006, Women’s Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
• Luban, D., 2015, “Human Rights Pragmatism and Human Dignity,” in Cruft, R., Liao, S., and Renzo, M. (eds.), 2015, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Maliks, R. and Schaffer, J. (eds.), 2017, Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Meyers, D., 1985, Inalienable Rights: A Defense, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, Victims’ Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Miller, D., 2012, “Grounding Human Rights,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 15: 207–227. (Scholar)
• Miller, R., 2010, Global Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and Power, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Morsink, J., 1999, Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• Moyn, S., 2010, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– 2018, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Mutua, M., 2008, Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique, Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press. (Scholar)
• Nickel, J., 2018, “Assigning Functions to Human Rights: Methodological Issues in Human Rights Theory,” in Etinson, A. (ed.), Human Rights: Moral or Political?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “Can a Right to Health Care be Justified by Linkage Arguments?”, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 37 (4): 293–306. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, Making Sense of Human Rights, 2nd edition., Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “Rethinking Indivisibility: Towards a Theory of Supporting Relations Between Human Rights,” Human Rights Quarterly, 30: 984–1001. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Goals and Rights—Working Together?”, in M. Langford, et al., The MDGs and Human Rights: Past, Present, and Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Nozick, R., 1974, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
• Nussbaum, M., 2000, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, Frontiers of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Okin, S., 1998, “Feminism, Women’s Human Rights, and Cultural Differences,” Hypatia, 13: 32–52. (Scholar)
• O’Neill, O., 1986, Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice, London: Allen and Unwin. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “The Dark Side of Human Rights,” International Affairs, 81: 427–439. (Scholar)
• Orend, B., 2002, Human Rights: Concept and Context, Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. (Scholar)
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• Rawls, J., 1971, A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1999, The Law of Peoples, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Raz, J., 2010, “Human Rights Without Foundations,” in Besson, S., and Tasioulas, J. (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Reinbold, J., 2017, Seeing the Myth in Human Rights, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• Rorty, R., 2012, “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality,” in Cistelecan, A., and Rathore, A. (eds.), Wronging Rights? Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights, London: Taylor and Francis. (Scholar)
• Sangiovanni, A., 2017, Humanity Without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Sen, A., 2004, “Elements of a Theory of Human Rights,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 32: 315–356. (Scholar)
• –– 1997, Human Rights and Asian Values, New York: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.
• Shue, H., 1996, Basic Rights, 2nd edition, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Simmons, B., 2009, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law and Domestic Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Sumner, L., 1987, The Moral Foundation of Rights, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Sumner, W., 1906, Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals, Boston: Ginn and Co. (Scholar)
• Talbott, W., 2010, Human Rights and Human Well-Being, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• ––Talbott, W., 2005, Which Rights Should be Universal?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Tasioulas, J., 2015, “On the Foundations of Human Rights,” in R. Cruft, S. Liao, and M. Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –– 2012, “On the Nature of Human Rights,” in Ernst, G. and Heilinger, J. (eds.), 2011, The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. (Scholar)
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• Tomasi, J., 2012, Free Market Fairness, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Tierney, B., 1997, The Idea of Natural Rights, Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Erdmans Publishing Co. (Scholar)
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• Vanderheiden, S., 2008, Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Waldron, J., 2018, “Human Rights: A Critique of the Raz/Rawls Approach,” in Etinson, A. (ed.), Human Rights: Moral or Political?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993, Liberal Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1987, Nonsense Upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man, London: Methuen. (Scholar)
• Wellman, C., 1995, Real Rights, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, The Proliferation of Rights: Moral Progress or Empty Rhetoric?, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (Scholar)
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• Wenar, L., 2015, Blood Oil, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Wolff, J., 2015, “The Content of the Human Right to Health,” in Cruft, R., Liao, S., and Renzo, M. (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Wolterstorff, N., 2008, Justice: Rights and Wrongs, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)

Recent Collections

• Corradetti, C. (ed.), 2012, Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights, New York: Springer. (Scholar)
• Crisp, R. (ed.), 2014, Griffin on Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Cruft, R., Liao, S., and Renzo, M. (eds.), 2015, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Ernst, G. and Heilinger, J. (eds.), 2011, The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
• Etinson, A. (ed.), 2018, Human Rights: Moral or Political?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Hayden, P. (ed.), 2001, The Philosophy of Human Rights, St. Paul, MN: Paragon Press. (Scholar)
• Holder, C. and Reidy, D., (eds.), 2013, Human Rights: The Hard Questions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Maliks, R. and Schaffer, J., (eds.) 2017, Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)