Nicolas Cornell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3974425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolas Cornell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornell |
| SIGNATURE | CORNELL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bound by Convention: Obligation and Social Rules
David Owens’s Bound by Convention: Obligation and Social Rules offers a powerful and novel account of the binding force of social conventions. But that description of the book, as significant as it sounds, actually undersells the topic and contribution. It is no less than a book about both the source and structure of our obligations in light of our social lives.Consider norms of neighborliness, which form the recurring example throughout part 1. …
Complicity and hypocrisy
This article offers a justification for accommodating claims of conscience. The standard justification points to the pain that acting against one’s conscience entails. But that defense cannot make sense of the state’s refusal to accommodate individuals where the law interferes with their deeply meaningful but nonmoral projects. An alternative justification, we argue, arises once one recognizes the connection between conscience and moral address: …
The Possibility of Preemptive Forgiving
This essay defends the possibility of preemptive forgiving, that is, forgiving before the offending action has taken place. This essay argues that our moral practices and emotions admit such a possibility, and it attempts to offer examples to illustrate this phenomenon. There are two main reasons why someone might doubt the possibility of preemptive forgiving. First, one might think that preemptive forgiving would amount to granting permission. S…
A Third Theory of Paternalism
This Article examines the normative significance of paternalism. That an action, a law, or a policy is paternalistic generally counts against it. This Article considers three reasons why this might be so—that is, three theories about what gives paternalism its normative character. This Article’s claim is that the two most common explanations for paternalism’s negative character are mistaken. The first view, which underlies the recent work by Prof…
Wrongs, Rights, and Third Parties
In philosophical and legal arguments, it is commonly assumed that a person is wronged only if that person has had a right violated. This assumption is often viewed almost as a necessary conceptual truth: to be wronged is to have one's right violated, and to have a right is to be one who stands to be wronged. I will argue that this assumption is incorrect—that having a right and standing to be wronged are distinct and separable moral phenomena.\nM…
Wrongs, Rights, and Third Parties
In philosophical and legal arguments, it is commonly assumed that a person is wronged only if that person has had a right violated. This assumption is often viewed almost as a necessary conceptual truth: to be wronged is to have one's right violated, and to have a right is to be one who stands to be wronged. I will argue that this assumption is incorrect—that having a right and standing to be wronged are distinct and separable moral phenomena.\nM…
Complicity and hypocrisy
This article offers a justification for accommodating claims of conscience. The standard justification points to the pain that acting against one’s conscience entails. But that defense cannot make sense of the state’s refusal to accommodate individuals where the law interferes with their deeply meaningful but nonmoral projects. An alternative justification, we argue, arises once one recognizes the connection between conscience and moral address: …
The Possibility of Preemptive Forgiving
This essay defends the possibility of preemptive forgiving, that is, forgiving before the offending action has taken place. This essay argues that our moral practices and emotions admit such a possibility, and it attempts to offer examples to illustrate this phenomenon. There are two main reasons why someone might doubt the possibility of preemptive forgiving. First, one might think that preemptive forgiving would amount to granting permission. S…
A Third Theory of Paternalism
This Article examines the normative significance of paternalism. That an action, a law, or a policy is paternalistic generally counts against it. This Article considers three reasons why this might be so—that is, three theories about what gives paternalism its normative character. This Article’s claim is that the two most common explanations for paternalism’s negative character are mistaken. The first view, which underlies the recent work by Prof…
Wrongs, Rights, and Third Parties
In philosophical and legal arguments, it is commonly assumed that a person is wronged only if that person has had a right violated. This assumption is often viewed almost as a necessary conceptual truth: to be wronged is to have one's right violated, and to have a right is to be one who stands to be wronged. I will argue that this assumption is incorrect—that having a right and standing to be wronged are distinct and separable moral phenomena.\nM…
The Possibility of Preemptive Forgiving
This essay defends the possibility of preemptive forgiving, that is, forgiving before the offending action has taken place. This essay argues that our moral practices and emotions admit such a possibility, and it attempts to offer examples to illustrate this phenomenon. There are two main reasons why someone might doubt the possibility of preemptive forgiving. First, one might think that preemptive forgiving would amount to granting permission. S…
Complicity and hypocrisy
This article offers a justification for accommodating claims of conscience. The standard justification points to the pain that acting against one’s conscience entails. But that defense cannot make sense of the state’s refusal to accommodate individuals where the law interferes with their deeply meaningful but nonmoral projects. An alternative justification, we argue, arises once one recognizes the connection between conscience and moral address: …
Bound by Convention: Obligation and Social Rules
David Owens’s Bound by Convention: Obligation and Social Rules offers a powerful and novel account of the binding force of social conventions. But that description of the book, as significant as it sounds, actually undersells the topic and contribution. It is no less than a book about both the source and structure of our obligations in light of our social lives.Consider norms of neighborliness, which form the recurring example throughout part 1. …
Law and economics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works)