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“Chicago as Sacred Ground: A Winning Words Sourcebook.”

Civic Knowledge Project

September 2022

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“Seeing Backward to Look Ahead.”

Journal of Political Theory and Philosophy, Vol. II

January 16, 2019

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“Obama, the Chicago School of Philosophy, and Black Lives Matter.”

The Critique

May/June Issue, 2016

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“On Not Seeing in Philosophy.”

The Blog of the American Philosophical Association

September 29, 2016

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“A More Reasonable Ghost: Further Reflections on Henry Sidgwick and the Irrationality of the Universe.”

Rounded Globe

February 15, 2016

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Editor, Book Symposium on Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics.

With original contributions by Roger Crisp, Brad Hooker, Derek Parfit, and Mariko Nakano, and replies by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer.

Etica & Politica, Vol. XVIII, No. 1

Trieste: University of Trieste, April 2016

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“The New Chicago School of Philosophy.”

Rounded Globe

November 15, 2015

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"Henry Sidgwick"

Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (electronic text), edited by Edward Zalta (October 5, 2004).

Substantively revised and updated, 2011, 2015, and 2019.

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Excerpt from The Philosphers' Magazine, Winter 2000
Cornel West and Timuel D. Black

Books

Editor, Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black

See also Norman Stockwell, “Timuel Black’s Typical Life,” The ProgressiveMagazine, February 1, 2019.

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2019

January 2019

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The Happiness Philosophers and Princeton University Press Interview with Bart Schultz on The Happiness Philosophers

See also Bart Schultz, "Not Eye to Eye: A Comment on the Commentaries," Etica & Politica (July 2018).

May 2017

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Editor/Contributor, with P. Bucolo and R. Crisp, Proceedings of the World Congress--University of Catania on H. Sidgwick II: Ethics, Psychics, and Politics

Catania: Universita degli Studi di Catania

2011

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Editor/Contributor, with P. Bucolo and R. Crisp, Proceedings of the World Congress--University of Catania on H. Sidgwick I: Happiness and Religion

Catania: Universita degli Studi di Catania

2007

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Editor/Contributor, with G. Varouxakis, Utilitarianism and Empire

See also  Lynn Zastoupil, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, H-Albion Book Review (July 2006).

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books

2005

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Henry Sidgwick, Eye of the Universe

Winner of the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History for 2004. See also Frank M. Turner, ISIS, 97, No. 4 (2006).

New York: Cambridge University Press

2004, paperback edition, 2012

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Editor/Contributor, Essays on Henry Sidgwick

See also Peter Singer, Ethics, Vol. 104, No. 3 (April 1994).

New York: Cambridge University Press

1992, paperback edition, 2002

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In Progress: Utilitarianism as a Way of Life, A Memoir

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Select Essays & Reviews

“Political Theory, Ethics, and the Essay.”

Chapter in The Cambridge History of the British Essay, edited by D. Gigante and J. Childs

New York: Cambridge University Press

Forthcoming 2023

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Gareth B. Matthews: The Child’s Philosopher, Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 45, No. 3

Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Laverty, eds.

September 2022

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“Henry Sidgwick.”

Entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig

London: Routledge

1998, substantively revised and updated, 2020

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"Spiritual Blackout in the Anthropocene"

The Mark Collier Lecture Series and Marting Humanities Lecture 2018-19

Baldwin Wallace University

March 21st, 2019

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“Sidgwick, Henry,” “Whewell, William,” and “Late Modern British Ethics.”

Entries in the Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Ethics , edited by Hugh LaFollette

Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Revised and updated, 2017 and 2019.

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Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction.

Utilitas

Published online 19 February 2018, at First View

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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry, eds.

Utilitas

Published online 21 November 2018, at First View

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“Henry Sidgwick,” “Peter Singer,” “Education,” “Imperialism,” “Slavery,” and “Racism.”

Entries in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, edited by James E. Crimmins

New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Revised and updated for the paperback edition, 2017

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Roger Crisp, The Cosmos of Duty: Henry Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics.

The Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 54, No. 3

July 2016

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“Henry Sidgwick and the Irrationality of the Universe.”  Entry in the Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century Philosophy

edited by W.J. Mander

Oxford: Oxford University Press

2014

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"Henry Sidgwick"

Entry in the Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, edited by Roger Crisp

Oxford: Oxford University Press

2013

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“Review Essay: Go Tell It On The Mountain, Derek Parfit’s On What Matters.”

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 44, No. 3, March 2014.

Published online at Sage Online First

August 13, 2012

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"Pragmatist-in-Chief: Further Reflections on the Philosophical Pragmatism of Barack Obama"

Invited paper presented to a Plenary Session of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of North Carolina—Charlotte, March 11, 2010.

Published in “Symposium: Obama and Pragmatism,” eds. Mark Sanders and Colin Koopman, Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 8, No. 2, December 2011, pp. 7-15.

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“Obama’s Political Philosophy: Pragmatism, Politics, and the University of Chicago.”

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 2

June 2009

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“John Rawls’s Last Word.”

Review of J. Rawls, Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 1

March 2009

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“Sidgwick, Henry.”

The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics,” 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence Blume

London: Macmillan

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2008

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De Lazari-Radek, K., and Singer, P., The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics.

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

2014/07/07

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R. Crisp, Reasons and the Good.

Ethics, Vol. 118, No. 1

October 2007

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“Review Essay: Mr. Smith Does Not Go To Washington.”

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 3

September 2007

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“Mill and Sidgwick, Utilitarianism and Racism.”

Utilitas, Vol. 19, No. 1

March 2007

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“Martha Nussbaum.”

Entry in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Blue Supplement, edited by Donald M. Borchert

New York: Macmillan, second edition

2006

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A. Norton, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire.

Ethics, Vol. 115, No. 4

July 2006

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“Henry Sidgwick.”

Revised and expanded entry in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Blue Supplement, edited by Donald M. Borchert

New York: Macmillan, second edition

2006

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B. Pepperman Taylor, Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought.

Journal of Politics, Vol. 67, No. 3

August 2005

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“The Methods of J.B. Schneewind.”

Utilitas, Vol. 16, No. 2, July 2004

Includes a “Comment” by J.B. Schneewind

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D.O. Brink, Perfectionism and the Common Good, and D.O. Brink, ed., T.H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics.

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

2004/11/08

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Jean Bethke Elshtain, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy.

Ethics, Vol. 113, No. 2

January 2003

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G. Varouxakis, Mill on Nationality.

Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 41, No. 4

October 2003

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“Eye of the Universe: Henry Sidgwick and the Problem Public.”

Utilitas, Vol. 14, No. 2

July 2002

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L.W. Sumner, Welfare, Happiness & Ethics.

Utilitas, Vol. 14, No. 3

November 2002

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“Larmore and Rawls.”

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 1

March 1999

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H. Sidgwick, Practical Ethics, edited by S. Bok.

Ethics, Vol. 109, No. 3

April 1999

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“Comment: The Private and Its Problems: Pragmatism, Pragmatist Feminism, and Homophobia.”

In Special Section: “Voice, Gender, Sex: Pragmatism Old and New.”

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 2, June 1999.

With original contributions by Bart Schultz, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Lynn Sanders, and Larry Hickman.

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“Truth and Consequences: John Addington Symonds and Henry Sidgwick.”

In John Addington Symonds: Culture and the Demon Desire, edited by John Pemble

London: Macmillan

1999

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R. Sclove, Democracy and Technology.

Ethics, Vol. 107, No. 2

January 1997

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M. Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination.

Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. XIV, No. 5

October 1994

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“Survey Article: Bertrand Russell in Ethics and Politics.”

Ethics, vol. 102, No. 3

April 1992

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“Persons, Selves, and Utilitarianism.”

Includes a “Comment” by Derek Parfit

Ethics, Vol. 96, No. 4

July 1986

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S. Shoemaker and R. Swinburne, Personal Identity.

Ethics, Vol. 96, No. 3

April 1986

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D.M. Armstrong, The Nature of Mind and Other Essays.

Ethics, Vol. 93, No. 4

July 1983

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Excerpt from Chicago History Magazine, Spring 2022