Andrew Kernohan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Kernohan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Kernohan |
| SIGNATURE | KERNOHAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5330-6183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to modify the strength of a reason
Descriptive Uncertainty and Maximizing Expected Choice-Worthiness
Moral Beliefs and Moral Motivation
Desiring What is Desirable
Beyond Neutrality
Liberalism, Equality, and Cultural Oppression
Liberal political philosophy emphasizes the benefits of membership in a cultural group and, in the opinion of this challenging book, neglects its harmful, oppressive aspects. Andrew Kernohan argues that an oppressive culture perpetuates inegalitarian social meanings and false assumptions about who is entitled to what. Cultural pollution harms fundamental interests in self-respect and knowledge of the good and is diffuse, insidious, and unnoticed.…
Rights against Polluters
When there is only one source of pollution, the language of rights is adequate for justifying solutions to pollution problems. However, pollution is often both a public and an accumulative harm. According to Feinberg, an accumulative harm is a harm to some person brought about by the actions of many people when the action of no single person is sufficient, by itself, to cause the harm. For example, although no single car emits enough exhaust to d…
Accumulative Harms and the Interpretation of the Harm Principle
Contre son approche libertariste, l'A. defend une interpretation cumulative du principe du mal, developpe par J. S. Mill dans le sens d'une intervention politique pour prevenir a la fois les conduites individuelles nuisibles et les torts cumulatifs, tels que la pollution. L'A. montre que l'interpretation cumulative permet de proteger des interets tels que le bien-etre public avec une urgence egale a celle des droits de l'individu
Desert and self-ownership
Rawls and the Collective Ownership of Natural Abilities
In two passages of A Theory of Justice Rawls suggests that, as a consequence of his egalitarian theory, the natural talents of persons are common property. We see then that the difference principle represents, in effect, an agreement to regard the distribution of natural talents as a common asset and to share in the benefits of this distribution whatever it turns out to be. The two principles are equivalent, as I have remarked, to an undertaking …
Capitalism and Self-Ownership
From the standpoint of libertarian ideology, capitalism is a form of liberation. In contrast to the slave, whose productive powers are wholly owned by his master, and the serf, whose productive powers are partially owned by his lord, the worker under capitalism is presented as possessing the fullest possible self-ownership. That capitalism fosters self-ownership is a false and stultifying myth. Exposing its errors from within capitalism's own con…
Non-Reductive Materialism and the Spectrum of Mind-Body Theories
In what follows I will sketch a very simple possible-world semantics which will allow us to sharpen the notion of a non-reductive, but materialist, mind-body identity theory. This simple semantics will enable us to characterize the various possible positions on mind-body identity and display the range of positions with respect to psycho-physical reduction. Though I am sympathetic to a non-reductive position which I label "autonomous monism", I wi…
Democratic Socialism and Private Property
Democratic socialists typically call for the abolition of private property in the means of production, and its replacement by some form of democratic control. I shall argue that, on the contrary, democratic socialists should seriously consider the value of maintaining a transformed system of private property rights in the means of production, in order to create the democratic control which is their goal
Teleology and Logical Form
Psychology
In a recent series of papers, Donald Davidson has put forward a challenging and original philosophy of mind which he has called anomalous monism. Anomalous monism has certain similarities to another recent and deservedly popular position: functionalist cognitive psychology. Both functionalism, in its materialist versions, and anomalous monism require token-token psychophysical identities rather than type-type ones. (Token identities are identitie…
Rights against Polluters
When there is only one source of pollution, the language of rights is adequate for justifying solutions to pollution problems. However, pollution is often both a public and an accumulative harm. According to Feinberg, an accumulative harm is a harm to some person brought about by the actions of many people when the action of no single person is sufficient, by itself, to cause the harm. For example, although no single car emits enough exhaust to d…
Non-Reductive Materialism and the Spectrum of Mind-Body Theories
In what follows I will sketch a very simple possible-world semantics which will allow us to sharpen the notion of a non-reductive, but materialist, mind-body identity theory. This simple semantics will enable us to characterize the various possible positions on mind-body identity and display the range of positions with respect to psycho-physical reduction. Though I am sympathetic to a non-reductive position which I label "autonomous monism", I wi…
Psychology
In a recent series of papers, Donald Davidson has put forward a challenging and original philosophy of mind which he has called anomalous monism. Anomalous monism has certain similarities to another recent and deservedly popular position: functionalist cognitive psychology. Both functionalism, in its materialist versions, and anomalous monism require token-token psychophysical identities rather than type-type ones. (Token identities are identitie…
Psychology
In a recent series of papers, Donald Davidson has put forward a challenging and original philosophy of mind which he has called anomalous monism. Anomalous monism has certain similarities to another recent and deservedly popular position: functionalist cognitive psychology. Both functionalism, in its materialist versions, and anomalous monism require token-token psychophysical identities rather than type-type ones. (Token identities are identitie…
Democratic Socialism and Private Property
Democratic socialists typically call for the abolition of private property in the means of production, and its replacement by some form of democratic control. I shall argue that, on the contrary, democratic socialists should seriously consider the value of maintaining a transformed system of private property rights in the means of production, in order to create the democratic control which is their goal
Teleology and Logical Form
Capitalism and Self-Ownership
From the standpoint of libertarian ideology, capitalism is a form of liberation. In contrast to the slave, whose productive powers are wholly owned by his master, and the serf, whose productive powers are partially owned by his lord, the worker under capitalism is presented as possessing the fullest possible self-ownership. That capitalism fosters self-ownership is a false and stultifying myth. Exposing its errors from within capitalism's own con…
Non-Reductive Materialism and the Spectrum of Mind-Body Theories
In what follows I will sketch a very simple possible-world semantics which will allow us to sharpen the notion of a non-reductive, but materialist, mind-body identity theory. This simple semantics will enable us to characterize the various possible positions on mind-body identity and display the range of positions with respect to psycho-physical reduction. Though I am sympathetic to a non-reductive position which I label "autonomous monism", I wi…
Rawls and the Collective Ownership of Natural Abilities
In two passages of A Theory of Justice Rawls suggests that, as a consequence of his egalitarian theory, the natural talents of persons are common property. We see then that the difference principle represents, in effect, an agreement to regard the distribution of natural talents as a common asset and to share in the benefits of this distribution whatever it turns out to be. The two principles are equivalent, as I have remarked, to an undertaking …
Accumulative Harms and the Interpretation of the Harm Principle
Contre son approche libertariste, l'A. defend une interpretation cumulative du principe du mal, developpe par J. S. Mill dans le sens d'une intervention politique pour prevenir a la fois les conduites individuelles nuisibles et les torts cumulatifs, tels que la pollution. L'A. montre que l'interpretation cumulative permet de proteger des interets tels que le bien-etre public avec une urgence egale a celle des droits de l'individu
Desert and self-ownership
Rights against Polluters
When there is only one source of pollution, the language of rights is adequate for justifying solutions to pollution problems. However, pollution is often both a public and an accumulative harm. According to Feinberg, an accumulative harm is a harm to some person brought about by the actions of many people when the action of no single person is sufficient, by itself, to cause the harm. For example, although no single car emits enough exhaust to d…
Liberalism, Equality, and Cultural Oppression
Liberal political philosophy emphasizes the benefits of membership in a cultural group and, in the opinion of this challenging book, neglects its harmful, oppressive aspects. Andrew Kernohan argues that an oppressive culture perpetuates inegalitarian social meanings and false assumptions about who is entitled to what. Cultural pollution harms fundamental interests in self-respect and knowledge of the good and is diffuse, insidious, and unnoticed.…
Beyond Neutrality
Desiring What is Desirable
Moral Beliefs and Moral Motivation
Descriptive Uncertainty and Maximizing Expected Choice-Worthiness
How to modify the strength of a reason
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