Laurence Houlgate

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Laurence Houlgate

Philosophy

#10446

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#14318

Historical Rank

#1926

USA Rank

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#10466

World Rank

#13458

Historical Rank

#1991

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According to Wikipedia, Laurence D. Houlgate is an American philosopher, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and former department chair at California Polytechnic State University. He specializes in the history of Western philosophy, social ethics, philosophy of law and political philosophy. Houlgate was one of the first philosophers in the 20th century to theorize about the moral foundations of children's rights and the ethics of family relationships. After his retirement, Professor Houlgate wrote a popular series of eight study guides on the classical philosophers for beginning philosophy students. Houlgate also stood as the Democratic Party candidate for his district in the California State Assembly election of 2000 and California State Assembly election, 2002.

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Laurence Houlgate's Published Works

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Natural Law Theory (2017) (14)
Morals, Marriage, and Parenthood: An Introduction to Family Ethics (1998) (6)
Family and state : the philosophy of family law (1988) (5)
MUST THE PERSONAL BE POLITICAL? FAMILY LAW AND THE CONCEPT OF FAMILY (1998) (5)
The Child and the State: A Normative Theory of Juvenile Rights (1983) (5)
MISTAKE IN PERFORMANCE (1966) (4)
What is Legal Intervention in the Family? Family Law and Family Privacy (1998) (4)
The child & the state : a normative theory of juvenile rights (1981) (4)
Family and State: The Philosophy of Family Law (1989) (3)
The Platonic Minos and the Classical Theory of Natural Law (1969) (2)
Divorce Child Custody Disputes (1987) (1)
Are juveniles still “persons” under the United States Constitution? A new theory of children's constitutional rights (1997) (1)
Ignorantia Juris: A Plea for Justice (1967) (1)
The status of children in a liberal society (1996) (1)
Acts owing to ignorance (1966) (1)
Ethics in Thought and Action: Social and Professional Perspectives (1997) (1)
Whose child? In Re Baby M and the biological preference principle. (1988) (0)
John Locke on Naturalization and Natural Law: Community and Property in the State of Nature (2016) (0)
On the Ethics of Cloning (2003) (0)
Rights, health, and mental disease. (1975) (0)
Family Torts and Remedies (2017) (0)
Child Abuse and Neglect (2017) (0)
Three Concepts of Children's Constitutional Rights: Reflections on the Enjoyment Theory (1999) (0)
Critical Legal Studies and Feminist Jurisprudence (2017) (0)
C.A. Wringe, "Children's Rights: A Philosophical Study." Reviewed by (1983) (0)
Virtue is Knowledge (1970) (0)
EXCUSES AND THE CRIMINAL LAW (1975) (0)
The Moral Limits of Family Law (2017) (0)
Children, Parents and the State (2017) (0)
Children's Rights, State Intervention, Custody And Divorce: Contradictions in Ethics And Family Law (2005) (0)
MALCOLM ON MIND AND THE HUMAN FORM (1968) (0)
Family and state (1988) (0)
The Status of Children in a Liberal Society@@@Children: Rights and Childhood (1996) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Book Review (1999) (0)
Philosophy, Law and the Family (2017) (0)
Notes for Contributors (1981) (0)
Premenstrual Syndrome, Mental Abnormality, and Legal Responsibility (1987) (0)
The paradigm‐case argument and ‘possible doubt‘ 1 (1962) (0)
Family Crime and Punishment (2017) (0)
Causation, recipes and theory (2008) (0)
Family Contracts: Marriage and Divorce (2017) (0)

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