Matthew Kramer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Kramer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Kramer |
| SIGNATURE | KRÄMER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5393-9669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hate-Speech Bans are at Odds with Central Principles of Liberalism
In line with my 2021 book Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint – albeit in a much shorter compass – this essay will argue against the moral defensibility of hate-speech laws like those in the United Kingdom and Canada and the Antipodes and most countries of western Europe. Such laws contravene the moral principle of freedom of expression, and therefore contravene one of the central precepts of liberal democracy. Under that principle, a necessa…
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Matthew Kramer here replies to the seventeen chapters in this festschrift volume. In so doing, he ranges over all the main areas of philosophy covered by those chapters: rights and right-holding; legal positivism and the nature of law; the nature of ethics and of ethical theorizing; freedom; the nature of liberalism; and matters of applied philosophy (in particular, capital punishment and freedom of expression). As is suggested by the title of hi…
Toward the Redirection of a Longstanding Controversy
This chapter introduces the main ideas that are invoked throughout the rest of the book: conceptions of the good, reasonableness, liberal neutralism, contractualism, neutrality of justification, neutrality of means and ends, justice, legitimacy, edificatory perfectionism, aspirational perfectionism. It recounts the controversies into which the book is entering, and it provides a conspectus of the remaining chapters. As the title of this chapter m…
On being free without having any choices
A Debate Over Rights
John Locke and the Origins of Private Property
John Locke's labor theory of property is one of the seminal ideas of political philosophy and served to establish its author's reputation as one of the leading social and political thinkers of all time. Through it Locke addressed many of his most pressing concerns, and earned a reputation as an outstanding spokesman for political individualism - a reputation that lingers widely despite some partial challenges that have been raised in recent years…
Effects of Effort and Social Modeling on Drinking in Humans
How Not to Oppugn Consequentialism
Journal Article How Not to Oppugn Consequentialism Get access Matthew H. Kramer Matthew H. Kramer Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 183, April 1996, Pages 213–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956388 Published: 01 April 1996
The Specter of Communism
The Specter of Communism
Effects of Effort and Social Modeling on Drinking in Humans
How Not to Oppugn Consequentialism
Journal Article How Not to Oppugn Consequentialism Get access Matthew H. Kramer Matthew H. Kramer Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 183, April 1996, Pages 213–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956388 Published: 01 April 1996
John Locke and the Origins of Private Property
John Locke's labor theory of property is one of the seminal ideas of political philosophy and served to establish its author's reputation as one of the leading social and political thinkers of all time. Through it Locke addressed many of his most pressing concerns, and earned a reputation as an outstanding spokesman for political individualism - a reputation that lingers widely despite some partial challenges that have been raised in recent years…
A Debate Over Rights
On being free without having any choices
Toward the Redirection of a Longstanding Controversy
This chapter introduces the main ideas that are invoked throughout the rest of the book: conceptions of the good, reasonableness, liberal neutralism, contractualism, neutrality of justification, neutrality of means and ends, justice, legitimacy, edificatory perfectionism, aspirational perfectionism. It recounts the controversies into which the book is entering, and it provides a conspectus of the remaining chapters. As the title of this chapter m…
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Matthew Kramer here replies to the seventeen chapters in this festschrift volume. In so doing, he ranges over all the main areas of philosophy covered by those chapters: rights and right-holding; legal positivism and the nature of law; the nature of ethics and of ethical theorizing; freedom; the nature of liberalism; and matters of applied philosophy (in particular, capital punishment and freedom of expression). As is suggested by the title of hi…
Hate-Speech Bans are at Odds with Central Principles of Liberalism
In line with my 2021 book Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint – albeit in a much shorter compass – this essay will argue against the moral defensibility of hate-speech laws like those in the United Kingdom and Canada and the Antipodes and most countries of western Europe. Such laws contravene the moral principle of freedom of expression, and therefore contravene one of the central precepts of liberal democracy. Under that principle, a necessa…
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