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According to Wikipedia, Kai Nielsen was an American professor, latterly emeritus, of philosophy at the University of Calgary. He specialized in naturalism, metaphilosophy, ethics, analytic philosophy, social and political philosophy. Nielsen also wrote about philosophy of religion, and was an advocate of contemporary atheism. He was also known for his defense of utilitarianism, writing in response to Bernard Williams's criticism of it.

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Cosmopolitanism (2005) (397)
Cultural nationalism, neither ethnic nor civic (1996) (105)
Ethics Without God (1973) (60)
Equality and Liberty: A Defense of Radical Egalitarianism (1984) (57)
Philosophy and an African Culture (1981) (57)
Radical Egalitarian Justice: Justice as Equality (1979) (51)
There is No Dilemma of Dirty Hands (2007) (50)
On justifying violence (1981) (48)
Secession: The Case of Quebec (1993) (43)
Science, Morality and Feminist Theory (1987) (42)
On Ethical Naturalism (1973) (35)
Why Be Moral (1989) (30)
Distrusting Reason (1976) (29)
An Examination of the Thomistic Theory of Natural Moral Law (1959) (29)
Globalization and Justice (2003) (29)
On the status of critical theory (1992) (26)
Arguing for Equality (1986) (26)
Contemporary critiques of religion (1971) (23)
Relativism and Wide Reflective Equilibrium (1993) (21)
Marx and Morality (1984) (20)
Global Justice, Capitalism and the Third World (1984) (20)
Liberal Nationalism, Liberal Democracies, and Secession (1998) (19)
Introduction: Questioning the ethnic/civic dichotomy (1996) (19)
Grounding rights and a method of reflective equilibrium (1982) (18)
ON NEEDING A MORAL THEORY: RATIONALITY, CONSIDERED JUDGEMENTS AND THE GROUNDING OF MORALITY (1982) (18)
Moral point of view Theories (1999) (15)
Against Moral Conservativism (1972) (15)
Alienation and Self-realization (1973) (13)
Naturalism and Religion (2001) (13)
Emancipatory Social Science and Social Critique (1983) (13)
Linguistic Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (1986) (12)
Monro on Mill's ‘third howler’ (1973) (12)
Meta-Comments on the Very Idea of a Critical Theory: Raymond Guess and The Idea of a Critical Theory (1993) (12)
Wittgensteinian Fideism (1967) (12)
PRINCIPLES OF RATIONALITY (1974) (12)
God and the Philosophers (1975) (11)
On the Presence of God (1973) (11)
On the Relevance of Metaethics: New Essays on Metaethics (1998) (11)
The Logical Status of `God' (1973) (11)
Cosmopolitanism and the compatriot priority principle (2005) (10)
Autonomy, equality and a just health care system. (1989) (10)
Global Justice and the Imperatives of Capitalism (1983) (10)
Scepticism and Human Rights (1968) (10)
Cosmopolitanism, Universalism and Particularism in an Age of Nationalism and Multiculturalism (1999) (9)
Science, morality & feminist theory (1987) (9)
On the Choice Between Reform and Revolution (1971) (9)
Analytical Marxism: A form of critical theory (1993) (9)
Analyzing Marxism, New Essays on Analytical Marxism (1989) (9)
On Fixing the Reference Range Of ‘God’ (1966) (9)
The Concept of Ideology: Some Marxist and Non-Marxist Conceptualizations (1989) (8)
III.—SOME REMARKS ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF MORALITY FROM RELIGION (1961) (8)
Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Theists and Atheists (1993) (8)
The Intelligibility of God-talk (1970) (8)
History of ethics (1967) (8)
Liberal Reasonability a Critical Tool? Reflections After Rawls (1998) (7)
Afterword: Liberal Nationalism Both Cosmopolitan and Rooted (1996) (7)
POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND IDEOLOGICAL MYSTIFICATION (1982) (7)
On human needs and moral appraisals (1963) (7)
Toward a liberal socialist cosmopolitan nationalism (2003) (7)
REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILOSOPHY (1989) (6)
Reconceptualizing civil society for now (1994) (6)
Reason and practice : a modern introduction to philosophy (1971) (6)
CAN THERE BE PROGRESS IN PHILOSOPHY (1987) (6)
Rationality and Relativism (1974) (6)
Philosophy and Political Action (1975) (6)
METHODS OF ETHICS:WIDE REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM AND A KIND OF CONSEQUENTIALISM (1994) (6)
Marx, Engels and Lenin on justice: The critique of the Gotha programme (1986) (6)
Afterword: Remarks on the Roots of Progress (1989) (6)
Is global justice impossible? (1998) (5)
Considered judgements again (1982) (5)
Marx on Justice: The Tucker-Wood Thesis Revisited (1988) (5)
God, scepticism and modernity (1989) (5)
On Transforming Philosophy (2019) (5)
The `Political Question' Doctrine (1968) (5)
Global justice, power and the logic of capitalism (1984) (5)
New Essays on Contract Theory (1977) (5)
On the Very Possibility of a Classless Society (1978) (5)
Rationality, Needs and Politics: Remarks On Rationality as Emancipation and Enlightenment (1977) (5)
Egoism in Ethics (1959) (5)
Search for Community in a Withering Tradition (1990) (5)
Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory: How Should We Approach Questions of Global Justice? (1985) (5)
Is “why should i be moral?” an absurdity? (1958) (5)
Cultural identity and self-definition (1987) (5)
New Essays on John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism (1979) (5)
Search for Community in a Withering Tradition Conversations Between a Marxian Atheist and a Calvinian Christian (1990) (5)
On Taking Historical Materialism Seriously (1983) (5)
Historical materialism, ideology and ethics (1985) (4)
Universalizability and the Commitment to Impartiality (1985) (4)
Wittgensteinian Fideism: II (1982) (4)
ON FINDING ONE'S FEET IN PHILOSOPHY: FROM WITTGENSTEIN TO MARX* (1985) (4)
On the Rationality of Groundless Believing (1981) (4)
Coming to Grips with Marxist Anti-Moralism (1987) (4)
God and the Grounding of Morality (1991) (4)
On Not Needing to Justify Equality (1988) (4)
The “Good Reasons Approach” and “Ontological Justifications” of Morality (1959) (4)
Rescuing Political Theory From Fact-Insensitivity (2012) (4)
Philosophy within the limits of wide reflective equilibrium alone (1994) (4)
Talk of God and the Doctrine of Analogy (2017) (4)
Can Anything be Beyond Human Understanding (1995) (3)
Persons, morals and the animal kingdom (1978) (3)
WISDOM AND DILMAN ON THE SCOPE OF REASON IN RELIGION (1980) (3)
On the Moral Justifiability of Terrorism (State and Otherwise) (2003) (3)
On Marx not being an egalitarian (1988) (3)
Morality and Commitment (1977) (3)
THE VERY IDEA OF A CRITICAL THEORY (1991) (3)
Hobbesist and humean alternatives to a religious morality (1983) (3)
On the poverty of moral philosophy: Running a bit with the Tucker-Wood thesis (1987) (3)
Marxism And The Moral Point Of View: Morality, Ideology, And Historical Materialism (1988) (3)
New essays in ethics and public policy (1982) (3)
Appraising Doing the Thing Done (1960) (3)
On Justifying Revolution (1977) (3)
A moral case for socialism (1989) (3)
On Philosophic Method (1976) (3)
Can There Be an Emancipatory Rationality (1976) (3)
Empiricism, Theoretical Constructs, and God (1974) (3)
On Refusing to Play the Sceptic's Game (1972) (3)
After the Demise of the Tradition: "Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of Philosophy" (2020) (3)
Can Faith Validate God-Talk? (1963) (3)
World Government, Security, and Global Justice (2019) (3)
Marxism, Ideology, and Moral Philosophy (1980) (3)
Skeptical remarks on the scope of philosophy: Rorty v. Habermas (1993) (3)
If Historical Materialism is True Does Morality Totter? (1985) (3)
Naturalistic explanations of religion (1997) (3)
Philosophy and the Search for Wisdom (1993) (3)
Sociological Knowledge: Winch, Marxism, and Verstehen Revisited (1982) (3)
Capitalism, Socialism, and Justice: Reflections on Rawls’ Theory of Justice (1991) (3)
Rawls and the Socratic Ideal (1991) (3)
Social Science and Hard Data (1973) (3)
Justice as a Kind of Impartiality (1994) (2)
The challenge of Wittgenstein: An examination of his picture of religious belief (1973) (2)
Necessity and God (1979) (2)
Rights and Consequences: It All Depends (1992) (2)
Méta-philosophie : reconstructing philosophy? : new essays on metaphilosophy (1993) (2)
An un‐Rortyan defence of Rorty's pragmatism (1996) (2)
Speculative Metaphysics (2019) (2)
Probing Critical Theory (1981) (2)
God and the crisis of modernity (1994) (2)
RESPONSE TO MY CRITICS (2006) (2)
Philosophy & Atheism : in defense of atheism (1985) (2)
A Note on Rationality (1972) (2)
How to be Sceptical about Philosophy (1986) (2)
Atheism without anger or tears (1994) (2)
Engels on morality and moral theorizing (1983) (2)
Wittgensteinian Fideism Again: A Reply to Hudson (1969) (2)
Walking the Tightrope of Faith: Philosophical Conversations About Reason and Religion (1999) (2)
On the need for 'moral experts': a test case for practical ethics. (1984) (2)
liberal and socialist egalitarianism (1989) (2)
CRITIQUE OF PURE VIRTUE: ANIMADVERSIONS ON A VIRTUE-BASED ETHIC (1985) (2)
Marxism and the Moral Point of View (1990) (2)
Morality and Ideology: Some Radical Critiques (1982) (2)
Scientism, Pragmatism, and the Fate of Philosophy (2019) (2)
God, the Soul, and the Future Life (1989) (2)
ON CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, AND THE MARKET (1991) (2)
Pragmatism as Atheoreticism: Richard Rorty (2005) (2)
Marx and the enlightenment (1988) (2)
Critical theory as distinct from scientific theory: It¿s distinctive features and import (1993) (2)
Philosophy & Political Action (1972) (1)
Philosophy & political action;: Essays edited for the New York Group of the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs (1972) (1)
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT: A RESPONSE TO DILMAN (1981) (1)
Rationality and the morale sentiments: Some animadversions on a theme in A Theory of Justice (1978) (1)
IS EMPIRICISM AN IDEOLOGY (1972) (1)
God, disembodied existence and incoherence (1987) (1)
Remarks on Violence and Paying the Penalty (1970) (1)
What is Alive and What is Dead in Marx and Marxism a la Elster (1993) (1)
Conventionalism in Morals and the Appeal to Human Nature (1962) (1)
How to Proceed in Philosophy: Remarks After Habermas (1994) (1)
Wittgenstein, Wittgensteinians and the End of Philosophy (1990) (1)
Does Religious Scepticism Rest on a Mistake (1973) (1)
On ascertaining what is intrinsically good (1976) (1)
Socialism, nationalism, and the case of Quebec (2000) (1)
The Resurrection of the Dead (2005) (1)
On The Coherence Of Historical Materialism (1990) (1)
Rejecting Egalitarianism (1987) (1)
God and the Good: Does Morality Need Religion? (1964) (1)
On Being Morally Authoritative (1980) (1)
Rawls and Classist Amoralism (1977) (1)
On giving reasons for being moral (1972) (1)
Abstract of Comments: Baier on the Link between Immorality and Irrationality (1982) (1)
Radical theological non-naturalism (1979) (1)
Farewell to the tradition: Doing without metaphysics and epistemology (1991) (1)
Rorty and the Self-Image of Philosophy (1986) (1)
On There Being Wide Reflective Equilibria: Why it is Important to Put it in the Plural (2008) (1)
Covert and overt synonymity: Brandt and Moore and the ‘naturalistic fallacy’ (1974) (1)
GOD AND POSTULATED ENTITIES (1974) (1)
Analytical marxism as critical theory : a theory in crisis (1993) (1)
Ethical Egoism and Rational Action (1972) (1)
Perspectivism and the absolute conception of the world (1993) (1)
The confirmation of critical theory: The role of reflectiveness (1993) (1)
Philosophy and Atheism—Again (1987) (1)
Introduction: The Ages of Metaethics (1995) (1)
The Challenge of Empiricism (1971) (1)
Meta-philosophy, Once Again (2012) (1)
The enforcemnt of morality and future generations (1973) (1)
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: The Political Philosophy of Kai Nielsen (2012) (1)
ELSTER'S MARXISM (1992) (1)
On the Diversity of Moral Beliefs (1975) (1)
The withering away of the tradition (1988) (1)
Religious truth-claims and faith (1973) (1)
On the Rationality of Radical Theological Non-Naturalism (1978) (1)
The Faces of Immortality (1989) (1)
Anthropology and ethics (1971) (1)
For Impurity in Philosophy: Some Programmatic Dicta (2015) (1)
Religiosity and Powerlessness. (1977) (1)
Is Religion the Opium of the People? Marxianism and Religion (1996) (1)
Does Ethical Subjectivism Have a Coherent Form (1974) (1)
On the logic of ‘revelation’ (1970) (1)
Taking Rorty Seriously (1999) (1)
Rawls and the Left: Some Left Critiques of Rawls’ Principles of Justice (1980) (1)
Haberman and Foucault: How to carry out the Enlightenment project. (1997) (1)
On Construing Philosophy (1993) (1)
Justice, Class Interests and Marxism (1987) (1)
Rondo with Concluding Variations (1973) (0)
What Egoism Distortedly Asks (1973) (0)
Reason and practice (1971) (0)
Capitalism, state bureaucratic socialism and freedom (1989) (0)
PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (1979) (0)
Belief, unbelief and the parity argument (1988) (0)
Broad's conception of critical and speculative philosophy (2005) (0)
Commentaries on the issue (1983) (0)
The Foundationlist Quest (2019) (0)
Concluding Remarks (2019) (0)
Rebuttals and Responses: II (1971) (0)
Appealing to reason (1962) (0)
Truth-Conditions and Necessary Existence (1974) (0)
Arguing about the rationality of religion (1973) (0)
Marx, Marxism and Egalitarianism (1986) (0)
So What's so Scary? A Reply to Robert M. Martin (1996) (0)
Nietzsche as a moral philosopher (1973) (0)
Is 'True Philosophy" Like True Art? (1994) (0)
Rationality and Universality (1976) (0)
Bibliography: Radical Critiques of Rawls (1982) (0)
SOME REMARKS ON PHILOSOPHIC METHOD (1978) (0)
The Voices of Egoism (1984) (0)
The Functions of Moral Discourse (1957) (0)
CAN volume 37 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2007) (0)
On Being Ontologically Unserious (2019) (0)
On being moral (1965) (0)
Formulating egalitarianism: Animadversions on berlin (1983) (0)
The Primacy of Philosophical Theology (1970) (0)
On not being at sea about indoctrination—A response to thiessen (1984) (0)
Is to Understand to Forgive or at Least not to Blame (2017) (0)
Reason and Morality (1957) (0)
Intellectuals and partisanship (1989) (0)
Linguistic philosophy and beliefs. (1966) (0)
Class Interests, Justice and Marxism (2021) (0)
God and Self: The Function of Religious Claims (1973) (0)
FORMULATING EGALITARIANISM: ANIMADVERSIONS ON BERLIN KA! NIELSEN I (2006) (0)
Justice, Equality and Needs (1989) (0)
Scepticism.The Logical Status of "God." (1975) (0)
On Atheist humanism (1999) (0)
Morality and Class (1980) (0)
Alienation and Work: (2020) (0)
Christian Empiricism (1981) (0)
On being committed to morality (1990) (0)
On Speaking of God (2008) (0)
Rationality as Emancipation and Enlightenment (1978) (0)
Marxism, Human Nature and the Hope for Global Social Change (1985) (0)
A Short Way With Psychological Egoism (1973) (0)
On the Choice between Secular Morality and Religious Morality (2014) (0)
Good Reasons in Ethics: An Examination of the Toulmin‐Hare Controversy* (2008) (0)
Some Theological Counters (1973) (0)
Marxism and Morality (2021) (0)
Reason in the Social Sciences (1958) (0)
On the Coherence of Classist Amoralism: A Reply (1980) (0)
How to proceed in philosophy : remarks after Habermas (2008) (0)
The mystic's knowledge claims (1967) (0)
The Challenge of Wittgenstein (1982) (0)
Is to Abandon Determinism to Withdraw from the Enterprise of Science (1967) (0)
THE BURDEN OF IDEOLOGICAL MASKS IN IDEOLOGIEKRITIK: ON TRYING TO VIEW FAITH SCIENTIFICALLY (1992) (0)
THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF DRUNKEN DRIVERS (1978) (0)
Perplexities about Religion (1982) (0)
RAWLS' DEFENSE OF MORALITY: RATIONALITY, AMORALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF CONGRUENCE (1978) (0)
Comments on empiricism and theism (1968) (0)
SECULARISM AND THEOLOGY: REMARKS ON A FORM OF NATURALISTIC HUMANISM (1975) (0)
Metaphysics and Verification Revisited (1975) (0)
A Rationale for Egalitarianism / BY KAI NIELSEN John Rawls (2018) (0)
Subjecting the Tradition to Stress (2019) (0)
When are immoralities crimes? (1971) (0)
On mucking around about God: Some methodological animadversions (1984) (0)
Marxism and Relativity In Ethics (1984) (0)
Rationality and Egoism (1974) (0)
Can There Be Progress in Philosophy? (2019) (0)
The Challenge of Conceptual Relativism (1971) (0)
The coherence of Wittgensteinian Fideism (1972) (0)
The Tradition in Retreat (1988) (0)
Book Review:Radical Philosophy: Tradition, Counter-Tradition, Politics. Roger S. Gottlieb (1996) (0)
How to Be Skeptical About Philosophy (2019) (0)
Hume and the Emotive Theory (1970) (0)
On Dining with the Theologian (1971) (0)
Marxism and the rejection of morality (2008) (0)
MILLER, Seumas Joint Action (1992) (0)
Reasonable Belief Without Justification (1979) (0)
If Historical Materialism Is True, Does Morality Totter? (2021) (0)
Counting the Costs of Equality (1986) (0)
CAN volume 51 issue 8 Cover and Front matter (2021) (0)
egalitarianism, socialism and just land use (1982) (0)
The Reasonableness of Faith, by Diogenes Allen. 140 pp. Washington and Cleveland, Corpus Books, 1968. $5.50 (1969) (0)
After the Demise of the Tradition (2019) (0)
ON THE RATIONALITY OF RADICAL (2018) (0)
Anti-philosophy philosophy: some programmatic remarcks (1994) (0)
REMARKS ON A WITTGENSTEINIAN METHOD: AN EXAMINATION OF J. F. M. HUNTER'S ESSAYS AFTER WITTGENSTEIN* (1976) (0)
REASON AND THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICS (1960) (0)
On Being a Secularist All the Way Down (1998) (0)
On Arguing for Socialism Morally (1988) (0)
Reconsidering the platonic conception of philosophy (1994) (0)
On there being philosophical knowledge (2008) (0)
Wisdom and Dilman and the Reality of God (1980) (0)
Impediments to Radical Egalitarianism (2018) (0)
"Christian Positivism" and the Appeal to Religious Experience (1962) (0)
A condition of rationality (1976) (0)
Wittgenstein, Wittgensteinians, and the End of Philosophy (2019) (0)
The Generality of Norms and Miller's Marx (1987) (0)
Religious Perplexity and the Study of Religion (1975) (0)
Why is there a problem about political obligation? (1990) (0)
Some Meta-Theological Remarks About Reductionism (1974) (0)
THE CHOICE BETWEEN PERFECTIONISM (2009) (0)
Remarks on Béla Szabados's “After Religion? Reflections on Nielsen's Wittgenstein” (2004) (0)
Metaphysics and A Priori Knowledge (2019) (0)
Radical Philosophy and Critical Theory: Examination and Defense (1975) (0)
Solidarity Ideally Conceived and Really Existing Solidarities (2008) (0)
tionalism, metaphysics and anything like a First Philosophy. I shall (2016) (0)
TWO OPTIONS FOR A SOVEREIGN QUEBEC (2011) (0)
State Authority and Legitimation (2019) (0)
Marxism, Morality and Moral Philosophy (2020) (0)
Afterword: Feminist Theory—Some Twistings and Turnings (1987) (0)
Epistemology and Skepticism (2019) (0)
Varieties of Scepticism (1973) (0)
Globalization as a Tool for Imperialism (2006) (0)
Religion, science and limiting questions (1979) (0)
Ethical naturalism once again (1962) (0)
Critique and Meta-Inquiries (2019) (0)
Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Transformation of Philosophy (2019) (0)
Afterword: Whither Moral Philosophy? (1995) (0)
RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE AND ARGUING FROM ORDINARY LANGUAGE: SOME META-THEOLOGICAL AND META-PHILOSOPHICAL REMARKS (1974) (0)
Ethical Subjectivism Again (1976) (0)
Daily life of smallholders in Langeland as told by themselves (1990) (0)
FACTS, FACTUAL STATEMENTS AND THEORETICAL TERMS (1974) (0)
On Morality and Convention (1963) (0)
In Defense of Wide Reflective Equilibrium (2019) (0)
Having at Equality Again: A Reply to Boulad-Ayoub and Cooper (1986) (0)
The Rational Knave: On the Link Between Morality and Rationality (1988) (0)
Cultural Pessimism and the Setting aside of Marxism (1985) (0)
Naturalism and Religion: Must Naturalistic Explanations Explain Religion Away? (1998) (0)
Philiosophy and the Problems of Life (2019) (0)
Faith and Authority (1965) (0)
A Marxist Conception of Ideology (2021) (0)
On the Track of Reason: Essays in Honor of Kai Nielsen (1992) (0)
Metaphilosophy, Pragmatism and a Kind of Critical Theory: Kai Nielsen and Richard Rorty (2007) (0)
Equality, Justice and Class: Comments on “Les Deux Principes de la Justice selon Rawls”* (1978) (0)
Christianity as ideology (1983) (0)
European and American Philosophers (2017) (0)
Formalists and informalists: some methodological turnings (1993) (0)
On Believing that God Exists (1967) (0)
Kai Nielsen & Robert Ware (eds.), - PhilPapers (1989) (0)
Morality and God: Some Questions for Mr. MacIntyre (1962) (0)
Searching for an Emancipatory Perspective: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Hermeneutical Circle (2019) (0)
Analytical Marxism as Critical Theory in Crisis (1993) (0)
Some moral mythologies (1986) (0)
The Problem of Religious Language (2012) (0)
Marxism and Arguing for Justice (2021) (0)
Marxism and Political Obligation (1981) (0)
ON META‐MORALISM (1978) (0)
WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY (2016) (0)
Skepticism and Belief: A Reply to Benoît Garceau (1983) (0)

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