Daniel Weinstock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1360882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Weinstock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinstock |
| SIGNATURE | WEINSTOCK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3709-0818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Subsidiarity as a Normative Political Concept: Contemporary and Historical Reflections
Subsidiarity is a principle holding that final decision-making authority (viz., the power not to have another entity substitute its own decisions, issue fines, etc.) should presumptively belong to the candidate authority claimant “closest” to the decision or those affected by or subject to that decision.1 Most definitions of subsidiarity include a proviso holding that its constitutive presumption only applies where a unit is capable of addressing…
Institutional trust is a distinct construct related to vaccine hesitancy and refusal
Based on our findings, we suggest that diminished institutional trust plays a crucial role in vaccine hesitancy. We propose that this may contribute to a tendency to instead place trust in interpersonally propagated belief systems, which may be more strongly misaligned with mainstream evidence and thus support vaccine hesitancy attitudes. We offer strategies rooted in these observations for creating public health messages designed to enhance vacc…
Multiculturalism as Harm Reduction
From scary places to therapeutic landscapes: Voices from the community of people living with schizophrenia
Confronting Populism
The core populist claim is that ‘the people’ have been unjustly neglected by government. This core claim, while unexceptionable on its face, tends to be associated with claims that would corrode liberal democratic institutions. It is important that political and legal theorists identify the claims made by citizens who may be attracted by populist political forms, lest they manifest themselves in political forms toxic to (broadly understood) liber…
A justification of health policy federalism
The apportionment of responsibility for health policy within multi‐level states should be sensitive to a number of conflicting normative pressures, some of which militate for placing decision‐making authority at the higher reaches of policy‐making structures, while others would seem to require placing them lower down this structure. The principle of subsidiarity is a structural principle that addresses in a manner that is neutral with respect to …
Health Rights: Individual. Collective. ‘National?’
Introduction: Parties, Electoral Systems and Political Theory
In recent years, several political theorists have restored and defended the central role played by political parties and partisanship in liberal democracies, highlighting the positive contribution that they can make to democratic politics. Little attention, in this growing body of literature, has been paid to the institutional framework in which political parties are located, and which may significantly shape the kind of party system in which ind…
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of Covid-19
High Time: The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada
Partisanship and Political Obligation: Some Sceptical Thoughts
On Partisan Compromise
Compromise, pluralism, and deliberation
The pluralism that marks modern, pluralist liberal democracies makes compromise an attractive goal of democratic decision-making. Compromise differs from consensus in that it is viewed as sub-optimal by all parties relative to the disagreement at hand, but preferable to the absence of agreement, as long as that which is agreed to does not require by any party the sacrifice of a fundamental value. Voting does not vitiate the need for compromise in…
Compromise, pluralism, and deliberation
The pluralism that marks modern, pluralist liberal democracies makes compromise an attractive goal of democratic decision-making. Compromise differs from consensus in that it is viewed as sub-optimal by all parties relative to the disagreement at hand, but preferable to the absence of agreement, as long as that which is agreed to does not require by any party the sacrifice of a fundamental value. Voting does not vitiate the need for compromise in…
For a political philosophy of parent–child relationships
In Family Values, Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift argue that parents should, in sharing values with their children and in conferring advantage upon them, act in ways that realize the intimacy that lies at the core of the value of family life. In their view, they should prescind from autonomy-inhibiting activities not required by the need to maintain intimacy. I argue that while this standard is sufficient to distinguish between permissible and imp…
How Democratic is Civil Disobedience?
The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism
The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the individuals living within its boundaries. Liberalism is now the dominant ideology in the Western world, but it covers a broad swathe of different (and sometimes rival) ideas and traditions and its essential features can be hard to define. The Cambridge Companion to Liberalis…
Health justice after the social determinants of health revolution
Can parity of self-esteem serve as the basis of the principle of linguistic territoriality
In this paper, I argue that Philippe Van Parijs' argument for the principle of linguistic territoriality rests upon an unexamined and unvindicated assumption, to the effect that most situations in which smaller languages are threatened by larger ones can be assimilated to 'colonial cases', that is to cases in which there is injustice as between the two linguistic groups, as opposed to 'mere number cases', that is cases in which linguistic groups …
Integrating Intermediate Goods to Theories of Distributive Justice: The Importance of Platforms
Political liberalism and plurinational democracies
Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by…
Political Neutrality: A Re-Evaluation
The topic of neutrality on the good is linked rather closely to the ideal of political liberalism as formulated by John Rawls. Here internationally renowned authors, in several cases among the most pr
The complex normative foundations of language policy
Reading Onora O'Neill
Onora O'Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O'Neill. Is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this…
Building Trust in Divided Societies
On the possibility of principled moral compromise
Simon May has argued that the notion of a principled compromise is incoherent. Reasons to compromise are always in his view strategic: though we think that the position we defend is still the right one, we compromise on this view in order to avoid the undesirable consequences that might flow from not compromising. I argue against May that there are indeed often principled reasons to compromise, and that these reasons are in fact multiple. Second,…
Constitutionalizing the Right to Secede
Towards a normative theory of federalism
Present political circumstances make it absolutely essential to seek an appropriate normative framework for reflection on the future of federal institutions the world over. This essay outlines the main normative parameters that any normative theory of federalism would have to take into account. Federal institutions are justified primarily by considerations relating to liberty, the promotion of active citizenship, and democracy. In multination sta…
Prospects for Transnational Citizenship and Democracy
Many political theorists believe that the extension of democratic institutions beyond the nation-state would inevitably be deleterious to the possibility of meaningful citizenship and to the functioning of democratic institutions. It is argued here that many of the problems that would be faced in setting up transnational institutions mirror problems that have already been addressed by appropriate institutional mechanisms in the establishment of t…
Compromise, pluralism, and deliberation
The pluralism that marks modern, pluralist liberal democracies makes compromise an attractive goal of democratic decision-making. Compromise differs from consensus in that it is viewed as sub-optimal by all parties relative to the disagreement at hand, but preferable to the absence of agreement, as long as that which is agreed to does not require by any party the sacrifice of a fundamental value. Voting does not vitiate the need for compromise in…
The graying of Berlin
In Isaiah Berlin, John Gray interprets Berlin as having made value pluralism the basis of an anti‐rationalist, “agonistic” liberalism. Gray argues that Berlin's value pluralism actually stands in tension with his liberalism, and that a whole‐hearted affirmation of value pluralism should have led him to reject the claim that liberal institutions are morally superior. But Berlin's pluralism is more moderate than that ascribed to him by Gray, in tha…
The complex normative foundations of language policy
Can parity of self-esteem serve as the basis of the principle of linguistic territoriality
In this paper, I argue that Philippe Van Parijs' argument for the principle of linguistic territoriality rests upon an unexamined and unvindicated assumption, to the effect that most situations in which smaller languages are threatened by larger ones can be assimilated to 'colonial cases', that is to cases in which there is injustice as between the two linguistic groups, as opposed to 'mere number cases', that is cases in which linguistic groups …
Une philosophie politique de l’école
Le présent article propose une réflexion sur l’école à partir du point de vue de la philosophie politique. L’auteur s’attache à montrer que cette institution sociale, qui exerce une autorité et un pouvoir sur les enfants, doit s’interroger sur sa légitimité publique et politique. À partir de deux modèles d’écoles qu’il décrit et critique, l’école familiale et l’école citoyenne, il récuse l’hégémonie que la famille et l’État peuvent exercer sur le…
On Partisan Compromise
Integrating Intermediate Goods to Theories of Distributive Justice: The Importance of Platforms
From scary places to therapeutic landscapes: Voices from the community of people living with schizophrenia
For a political philosophy of parent–child relationships
In Family Values, Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift argue that parents should, in sharing values with their children and in conferring advantage upon them, act in ways that realize the intimacy that lies at the core of the value of family life. In their view, they should prescind from autonomy-inhibiting activities not required by the need to maintain intimacy. I argue that while this standard is sufficient to distinguish between permissible and imp…
Health justice after the social determinants of health revolution
Licensing Parents to Protect Our Children
In this paper we re-examine Hugh LaFollette's proposal that the state carefully determine the eligibility and suitability of prospective parents before granting them a ‘license to parent’. Assuming a prima facie case for licensing parents grounded in our duty to promote the welfare of the child, we offer several considerations that complicate LaFollette's radical proposal. We suggest that LaFollette can only escape these problems by revising his …
Compromis, religion et démocratie
Grandeur et misère de la modernitéCharles Taylor Traduit de l'anglais par Charlotte Melançon Montréal: Bellarmin, 1992, 151 p
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The Justification of Political Liberalism
Is there a Moral Case for Nationalism?
Recent writings by philosophers such as David Miller and Yael Tamir have undertaken to provide nationalism with a normative foundation, a task which has been all but ignored by post‐War English‐language political philosophy. I identify and criticise three lines of argument which have been deployed in their writings. First, it is argued by Miller that the universalism and abstraction of rationalist moral theories have made them suspicious of ‘part…
Égalité et partialitéThomas Nagel Traduit de l'américain par Claire Beauvillard Collection «Philosophie morale» Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1994, vi, 202 p
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Making Sense of Mill
Wendy Donner's The Liberal Self: John Stuart Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy is an important and thought-provoking addition to the growing body of literature seeking to rescue Mill's practical philosophy from the rather lowly place it occupied in the estimation of many philosophers earlier this century, and to present him as a philosopher whose views form a coherent, systematic whole that can still contribute significantly to numerous moral…
The graying of Berlin
In Isaiah Berlin, John Gray interprets Berlin as having made value pluralism the basis of an anti‐rationalist, “agonistic” liberalism. Gray argues that Berlin's value pluralism actually stands in tension with his liberalism, and that a whole‐hearted affirmation of value pluralism should have led him to reject the claim that liberal institutions are morally superior. But Berlin's pluralism is more moderate than that ascribed to him by Gray, in tha…
Just Talk
One of the most prominent themes of recent political philosophy, at least in the English-speaking world, has been the challenge which the cultural and moral diversity of modern Western societies poses for traditional liberal theories of justice. Given that these theories, in their classical formulations, either ignored the issue of social heterogeneity, or operated on the tacit assumption that the societies to which they would be applied were ess…
Libéraux et communautariens Textes réunis et présentés par André Berten, Pablo da Silveira et Hervè Pourtois Collection «Philosophie morale» Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1997, 412 p
Libéraux et communautariens Textes réunis et présentés par André Berten, Pablo da Silveira et Hervè Pourtois Collection «Philosophie morale» Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1997, 412 p. - Volume 37 Issue 4
Building Trust in Divided Societies
Neutralizing Perfection: Hurka on Liberal Neutrality
Je maintiens dans cet essai que l'argument dévelopé par Thomas Hurka sur la base de son perfectionnisme aristotélicien en faveur d'une forme modérée de perfectionnisme d'État échoue. Je tente de démontrer que son perfectionnisme sous-determine les types d'activités que l'État aurait à promouvoir afin de réaliser les valeurs perfectionnistes qu'il défend. Je soutiens également que Hurka opère avec une conception caricaturale de la doctrine de la n…
Les théories de la justice de Will Kymlicka, Montréal, Boréal, 1999, 363 p
Constitutionalizing the Right to Secede
Prospects for Transnational Citizenship and Democracy
Many political theorists believe that the extension of democratic institutions beyond the nation-state would inevitably be deleterious to the possibility of meaningful citizenship and to the functioning of democratic institutions. It is argued here that many of the problems that would be faced in setting up transnational institutions mirror problems that have already been addressed by appropriate institutional mechanisms in the establishment of t…
Towards a normative theory of federalism
Present political circumstances make it absolutely essential to seek an appropriate normative framework for reflection on the future of federal institutions the world over. This essay outlines the main normative parameters that any normative theory of federalism would have to take into account. Federal institutions are justified primarily by considerations relating to liberty, the promotion of active citizenship, and democracy. In multination sta…
Beyond exit rights: Reframing the debate
One of the hallmarks of liberal democratic societies is their thriving associational life. People belong to all kinds of different groups. The fairly robust guarantees of freedom of association that exist in most modern democracies have given rise to a cornucopia of forms of groups, whose members associate under often very different terms with a view to all kinds of ends.
How do you split the difference when the difference can’t be split: A response to Patrick Loobuyck
Some political philosophers believe that claims to autonomy and protection made by some minority cultural groups are morally legitimate, and that the liberal framework is unable to account adequately for them. According to these philosophers, liberalism's insistence on neutrality and proceduralism makes it hostile to the accommodation of such claims. Others believe that liberalism is well equipped to deal with such legitimate claims, because subs…
Compromis, religion et démocratie
A Neutral Conception of Reasonableness?
Much liberal theorizing of the past twenty years has been built around a conception of neutrality and an accompanying virtue of reasonableness according to which citizens ought to be able to view public policy debates from a perspective detached from their comprehensive conceptions of the good. The view of “justificatory neutrality” that emerges from this view is discussed and rejected as embodying controversial views about the relationship of in…
La justice scolaire
Marc Weinstock DanielMarc Weinstock Daniel. La justice scolaire. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 105, n°1-2, 2007. pp. 17-41
Immigration and Reciprocity
A full theory of the ethics of immigration would have to consider (at least) the following questions. Should states have an unlimited prerogative over the choice of immigrants, or do moral considerations appropriately constrain their choice? What requirements should be imposed upon immigrants as a condition of naturalization? Should immigrants be able to retain citizenship in their country of origin, and in general, how should the issue of multip…
Motivating the Global Demos
Debates about the possibility of global democracy and justice are plagued by a fallacious assumption made by all parties. That assumption is that there is a “naturalness” to relations among fellow nationals to which a global demos could never aspire. In fact, nation builders employed a great many tools that mobilized the psychological and moral susceptibilities of individuals in order to create a sense of solidarity out of initially heterogeneous…
Pour une philosophie politique de la ville
Une philosophie politique de l’école
Le présent article propose une réflexion sur l’école à partir du point de vue de la philosophie politique. L’auteur s’attache à montrer que cette institution sociale, qui exerce une autorité et un pouvoir sur les enfants, doit s’interroger sur sa légitimité publique et politique. À partir de deux modèles d’écoles qu’il décrit et critique, l’école familiale et l’école citoyenne, il récuse l’hégémonie que la famille et l’État peuvent exercer sur le…
On Voting Ethics for Dual Nationals
Some people believe that holding dual or multiple citizenships is morally wrong. The currency of citizenship, they believe, is cheapened when citizenship is not tied in tightly with membership in a specific nation-state. Others believe that though dual citizenship is ethically permissible and perhaps even desirable (Spiro, 2007), the implementation of regimes of multiple citizenship poses problems that need to be addressed so as to maximize the b…
Deliberative Democracy in Practice
Deliberative democracy is a dominant paradigm in normative political philosophy. Deliberative democrats want politics to be more than a clash of contending interests, and believe that political decisions should emerge from reasoned dialogue among citizens. But can these ideals be realized in complex and unjust societies? Deliberative Democracy in Practice brings together leading scholars who explore debates in deliberative democratic theory in fo…
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