Allen Buchanan

Datos Biográficos

ID3744117
NOMBREAllen Buchanan
NOMBRESAllen
APELLIDOBuchanan
FIRMABUCHANAN A
AFILIACIONESDuke University
ORCID0000-0001-8026-2446
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS103
TOTAL DE CITAS646
TOTAL COMO AUTOR102
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1956
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H11

  • The Ethics of Combatting Pernicious Ideological Beliefs

    Open AccessAllen BuchananARTICLEJournal of Applied Philosophy2026

    Some ideological beliefs are harmful, both to those whose beliefs they are, and to others, insofar as those beliefs motivate harmful behavior toward others. Ideological beliefs are often recalcitrant to correction, because ideologies typically include belief‐management processes that insulate beliefs from corrective measures. Consequently, rational argumentation and the presentation of evidence may not suffice to expunge pernicious ideological be…

  • Ideology and Revolution

    Open AccessAllen BuchananBOOKIdeology and Revolution2025

    In our society there is a constant struggle between powerful, institutionalized hierarchies and people who try to resist them. Whether this resistance succeeds (either partially or completely) or fails, the struggle causes large-scale social change, including changes in morality and institutions and in how hierarchy and the struggle itself are conceived. In this book, Allen Buchanan analyzes the complex connections between the struggle for libera…

  • The State

    Allen BuchananARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2025Referencias: 1

    This is an exceedingly rich book. I know of no one who could have written it but Philip Pettit, a thinker of astonishing breadth and erudition. It contains nuanced accounts of individual and group agency, of the emergence of norms through conventions, of the transition from norms to laws, and of the development of secondary rules in legal systems, as well as illuminating excursions into the history of systematic thinking about the state, with ins…

  • The Fundamental Wrong of Colonialism

    Open AccessRitwik Agrawal, Allen BuchananARTICLEPhilosophy & Public Affairs2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 20

    We offer an account of the nature and structure of the immorality of colonialism. We distinguish between the fundamental wrong of colonialism and the other wrongs that the fundamental wrong facilitated. On our view, the fundamental wrong was that colonizers regarded the colonized as incapable of managing their own affairs, in effect relegating them to the status of minors or mentally incompetent adults. We call this the nonautonomy assumption. It…

  • When Knowing What Is Just and Being Committed to Achieving it Is Not Enough

    Open AccessAllen BuchananARTICLEJournal of Applied Philosophy2021

    In this article, I argue that overly‐optimistic beliefs about how much progress toward justice has been made and overly‐pessimistic beliefs about what progress toward justice can be made can both help perpetuate injustices. Further, such beliefs can help perpetuate injustices even if those who hold them have a firm grasp of the correct principles of justice, a robust commitment to realize them, and the political influence to make their commitment…

  • On the Ethics of Vaccine Nationalism

    Open AccessEzekiel J Emanuel, Ezekiel Emanuel et al.ARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2021Citada por: 4Referencias: 3

    COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be scarce for years to come. Many countries, from India to the U.K., have demonstrated vaccine nationalism. What are the ethical limits to this vaccine nationalism? Neither extreme nationalism nor extreme cosmopolitanism is ethically justifiable. Instead, we propose the fair priority for residents (FPR) framework, in which governments can retain COVID-19 vaccine doses for their residents only to the extent that the…

  • An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation

    Open AccessEzekiel J Emanuel, Ezekiel Emanuel et al.ARTICLEScience2020

    The Fair Priority Model offers a practical way to fulfill pledges to distribute vaccines fairly and equitably

  • Our Moral Fate

    Allen BuchananBOOKOur Moral Fate - Evolution and…2020

    A provocative and probing argument showing how human beings can for the first time in history take charge of their moral fate. Is tribalism—the political and cultural divisions between Us and Them—an inherent part of our basic moral psychology? Many scientists link tribalism and morality, arguing that the evolved “moral mind” is tribalistic. Any escape from tribalism, according to this thinking, would be partial and fragile, because it goes again…

  • Précis

    Open AccessAllen BuchananARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2020

    The book uses evolutionary principles to explain tribalism, a way of thinking and acting that divides the world into Us versus Them and achieves cooperation within a group at the expense of erecting insuperable obstacles to cooperation among groups. Tribalism represents political controversies as supreme emergencies in which ordinary moral constraints do not apply and as zero-sum, winner take all contests. Tribalism not only undermines democracy …

  • Reply to Comments

    Open AccessAllen Buchanan, Russell PowellARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2019Citada por: 1

    Commentators on The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory raise a number of metaethical and moral concerns with our analysis, as well as some complaints regarding how we have interpreted and made use of the contemporary evolutionary and social sciences of morality. Some commentators assert that one must already presuppose a moral theory before one can even begin to theorize moral progress; others query whether the shift toward greater…

  • Précis of The Evolution of Moral Progress

    Open AccessAllen Buchanan, Russell PowellARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2019

    The idea of moral progress played a central role in liberal political thought from the Enlightenment through the nineteenth century but is rarely encountered in moral and political philosophical discourse today. One reason for this is that traditional liberal theorists of moral progress, like their conservative detractors, tended to rely on under-evidenced assumptions about human psychology and society. For the first time, we are developing robus…

  • Postscript

    Allen BuchananBOOKEvolution of Moral Progress2018

    The focus in this volume is on the implications of the biological evolutionary origins of morality for the possibilities for moral progress. It makes no attempt to cast an account of the conditions under which progress or regression occurs in terms of cultural evolutionary explanations. The most rigorous, mathematically modeled cultural evolutionary explanations are of the “invisible hand” variety: they present cultural changes as the unintended …

  • The Evolution of Moral Progress

    Allen Buchanan, Russell PowellBOOKEvolution of Moral Progress2018

    The idea of moral progress played a central role in liberal political thought from the Enlightenment through the nineteenth century but is rarely encountered in moral and political philosophical discourse today. One reason for this is that traditional liberal theorists of moral progress, like their conservative detractors, tended to rely on underevidenced assumptions about human psychology and society. For the first time in history, we are develo…

  • Institutional Legitimacy

    Allen BuchananBOOKOxford Studies in Political…2018

    This chapter offers a general theory of institutional legitimacy, the Metacoordination view, according to which legitimacy assessments are best understood as being part of a social practice aimed at achieving consensus on whether an institution is worthy of our moral reason-based support—support not dependent solely on the fear of coercion or on a perfect fit between our own interests and what the institution demands of us. The Metacoordination v…

  • Evolution of Moral Progress

    Allen Buchanan, Russell PowellBOOKEvolution of Moral Progress2018

    Steven Pinker has said that one of the most important questions humans can ask of themselves is whether moral progress has occurred or is likely to occur. Buchanan and Powell here address that question, in order to provide the first naturalistic, empirically-informed and analytically sophisticated theory of moral progress-explaining the capacities in the human brain that allow for it, the role of the environment, and how contingent and fragile mo…

  • Self-Determination, Revolution, and Intervention

    Allen BuchananARTICLEEthics2016

    What limitations on intervention in support of democratic revolutions does proper regard for the collective right of self-determination impose? Some have held that if intervention in support of democratic revolutions is justified, it must cease once the authoritarian regime has been deposed—that any effort by the intervener to use force to shape the new political order would violate the people’s right of self-determination. This essay argues that…

  • Human Rights

    Open AccessAllen BuchananARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2016

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  • Political Philosophy and Business Ethics

    Open AccessAllen BuchananCHAPTERWiley Encyclopedia of Management2015

    Both political philosophy and business ethics can be construed in a variety of ways, which makes their relationship complex. This article reviews the various conceptions and then suggests a fruitful way of construing the relationship.

  • Economics and Ethics

    Open AccessAllen BuchananCHAPTERWiley Encyclopedia of Management2015

    Economics is frequently defined as the science of choice, where choice is understood to be the selection of one course of action from among a set of options, on the basis of weighing costs and benefits. Essential to the economic conception of choice is the recognition that every choice involves costs. Ethics is sometimes understood to refer to a code of conduct, but in the literature of contemporary ethics generally and of business ethics in part…

  • Toward a Drone Accountability Regime

    Open AccessAllen Buchanan, Robert O KeohaneARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2015Citada por: 13Referencias: 2

    From a moral standpoint, lethal drones are intrinsically no worse as a means of warfare than bombing or sending commandos to kill enemies. From the perspective of their users, they have six major advantages over more conventional weapons: they are often cheaper; their use can be more readily concealed; they allow for more precise targeting, with the potential for less “collateral damage”; their use can involve less serious infringements of sovere…

  • Toward a Drone Accountability Regime

    Open AccessAllen Buchanan, Robert O KeohaneARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2015

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  • The Heart of Human Rights

    Allen Buchanan, Allen E BuchananBOOKThe heart of human rights2013

    This book provides a moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. Any attempt to achieve a moral assessment of that enterprise must first evaluate the system of international legal human rights, which includes both legal norms and the institutions that create, interpret, and implement them.

  • The Ethics of Revolution and Its Implications for the Ethics of Intervention

    Open AccessAllen BuchananARTICLEPhilosophy & Public Affairs2013Citada por: 8

  • The Open-ended Normativity of the Ethical

    Open AccessAllen BuchananARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2012

    In The Ethical Project, Kitcher has throe main aim: (1) to provide a naturalistic explanation of the rise of morality and of its subsequent development, (2) to supply an account of moral progress that explains progressive developments that have occurred so far and shows how further progress is possible, and (3) to propose a further progressive development the emergence of a cosmopolitan morality and make the case that it is a natural extension of…

  • Precommitment Regimes for Intervention

    Open AccessAllen Buchanan, Robert O KeohaneARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2011Citada por: 15Referencias: 5

    As global governance institutions proliferate and become more powerful, their legitimacy is subject to ever sharper scrutiny. Yet what legitimacy means in this context and how it is to be ascertained are often unclear. In a previous paper in this journal, we offered a general account of the legitimacy of such institutions and a set of standards for determining when they are legitimate. In this paper we focus on the legitimacy of the UN Security C…