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Nicholas Southwood

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Ethics

#469

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#576

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Logic

#7553

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Bachelors Philosophy University of Melbourne
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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Southwood is an Australian philosopher and associate professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory. Southwood is known for his research on contractualism and social philosophy.

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Nicholas Southwood's Published Works

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Constructivism About Reasons (2018) (99)
The Moral/Conventional Distinction (2011) (56)
Vindicating the Normativity of Rationality* (2008) (56)
Epistemic Norms without Voluntary Control (2009) (51)
Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality (2010) (49)
Does “Ought” Imply “Feasible”? (2016) (45)
The feasibility issue (2018) (38)
Promises and Trust (2011) (33)
Feasibility in action and attitude (2007) (33)
Promises beyond assurance (2009) (29)
“Actual” does not imply “feasible” (2016) (27)
Norms and conventions (2011) (24)
What Is Special About Human Rights? (2011) (19)
“The Thing To Do” Implies “Can” (2016) (13)
Democracy as a Modally Demanding Value (2015) (12)
Explaining Norms (paperback) (2013) (10)
Ammonia fluxes from solid and liquid manure management systems for beef cattle and pigs (2001) (8)
The Authority of Social Norms (2011) (7)
Ability and Volitional Incapacity (2017) (6)
The Relevance of Human Nature (2017) (6)
Contractualism for Us As We Are (2019) (5)
Beyond Pettit's neo-Roman republicanism: towards the deliberative republic (2002) (5)
Laws as Conventional Norms (2019) (4)
The motivation question (2016) (4)
Feasibility as a Constraint on ‘Ought All-Things-Considered’, But not on ‘Ought as a Matter of Justice’? (2019) (3)
Norms, Laws, and Social Authority (2010) (3)
Political Versus Moral Justification (2003) (2)
Devoting ourselves to the manifestly unattainable* (2021) (2)
Moral and social norms (2013) (2)
A deliberative model of contractualism (2008) (2)
Formal and non-formal norms (2013) (1)
Infeasibility as a normative argument‐stopper: The case of open borders (2020) (1)
Republican justice (2015) (1)
Introduction: Practical reasoning and normativity (2009) (1)
Feasibility as Deliberation‐Worthiness (2022) (1)
The possibility of wildly unrealistic justice and the principle/proposal distinction (2020) (0)
AN ACCOUNT OF FEASIBILITY RESTRICTIONS FOR A PRACTICAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (2021) (0)
DEVOTING OURSELVES TO THE MANIFESTLY UNATTAINABLE 1 (2021) (0)
The Difficulty of Tolerance, by T. M. Scanlon. Cambridge University Press, 2003, ix + 273 pages (2005) (0)
Norms and Values (2010) (0)
1 Benefiting from Wrongdoing and Sustaining Wrongful Harm (2014) (0)
Contractualism and Radical Pluralism (2019) (0)
The structure of deliberative contractualism (2010) (0)
The normativity of deliberative contractualism (2010) (0)
The motivation question (2016) (0)
Ammonia fluxes from solid and liquid based manure management systems for beef cattle (2000) (0)
Getting morality right (2010) (0)
The Question of Practical Reason (2019) (0)
The possibility of wildly unrealistic justice and the principle/proposal distinction (2020) (0)
The limits of Kantian contractualism (2010) (0)
Constructivism and the Normativity of Practical Reason (2018) (0)
Patterns of emergence, persistence, and change (2013) (0)
“Actual” does not imply “feasible” (2016) (0)
Attitudes and modes of deliberation (2013) (0)
The limits of Hobbesian contractualism (2010) (0)

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