Jordan David Thomas Walters
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordan David Thomas Walters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordan David Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Walters |
| SIGNATURE | WALTERS J D T |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0609-5330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Love and the Basis of Dignity
It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view , dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities. According to a rival political view , dignity is grounded in our evolving social practice of treating one another as equals or the simple political commitment to act as if we were one another's eq…
Nonideal Theory as Ideology
In the wake of the nonideal theory turn in political philosophy, few have paused to ask: Is nonideal theory a form of ideology? And perhaps even fewer have paused to ask: Is the debate between ideal/nonideal theorists itself a form of ideology? To the first question, I argue that nonideal theory is ideological in virtue of the fact that it rules out more utopian ways of theorizing by methodological fiat, and in so doing, risks entrenching an unju…
The Aptness of Envy
Are demands for equality motivated by envy? Nietzsche, Freud, Hayek, and Nozick all thought so. Call this the Envy Objection. For egalitarians, the Envy Objection is meant to sting. Many egalitarians have tried to evade the Envy Objection. But should egalitarians be worried about envy? In this article, I argue that egalitarians should stop worrying and learn to love envy. I argue that the persistent unwillingness to embrace the Envy Objection is …
The Best Available Parent and Duties of Justice
I argue that the best available parent view, in its present formulation, struggles to accommodate for our very weighty duty not to perpetuate historical injustices. I offer an alternative view that reconciles this tension
On the Efficiency Objection to Workplace Democracy
Reply to Machery: Against the Argument from Citation
In a recent paper published in this journal, Hughes (2019) has argued that Machery’s (2017) Dogmatism Argument is self-defeating. Machery’s (2019) reply involves giving the Dogmatism Argument an inductive basis, rather than a philosophical basis. That is, he argues that the most plausible contenders in the epistemology of disagreement all support the Dogmatism Argument; and thus, it is likely that the Dogmatism Argument is true, which gives us re…
The Aptness of Envy
Are demands for equality motivated by envy? Nietzsche, Freud, Hayek, and Nozick all thought so. Call this the Envy Objection. For egalitarians, the Envy Objection is meant to sting. Many egalitarians have tried to evade the Envy Objection. But should egalitarians be worried about envy? In this article, I argue that egalitarians should stop worrying and learn to love envy. I argue that the persistent unwillingness to embrace the Envy Objection is …
On the Efficiency Objection to Workplace Democracy
Reply to Machery: Against the Argument from Citation
In a recent paper published in this journal, Hughes (2019) has argued that Machery’s (2017) Dogmatism Argument is self-defeating. Machery’s (2019) reply involves giving the Dogmatism Argument an inductive basis, rather than a philosophical basis. That is, he argues that the most plausible contenders in the epistemology of disagreement all support the Dogmatism Argument; and thus, it is likely that the Dogmatism Argument is true, which gives us re…
The Best Available Parent and Duties of Justice
I argue that the best available parent view, in its present formulation, struggles to accommodate for our very weighty duty not to perpetuate historical injustices. I offer an alternative view that reconciles this tension
Nonideal Theory as Ideology
In the wake of the nonideal theory turn in political philosophy, few have paused to ask: Is nonideal theory a form of ideology? And perhaps even fewer have paused to ask: Is the debate between ideal/nonideal theorists itself a form of ideology? To the first question, I argue that nonideal theory is ideological in virtue of the fact that it rules out more utopian ways of theorizing by methodological fiat, and in so doing, risks entrenching an unju…
The Aptness of Envy
Are demands for equality motivated by envy? Nietzsche, Freud, Hayek, and Nozick all thought so. Call this the Envy Objection. For egalitarians, the Envy Objection is meant to sting. Many egalitarians have tried to evade the Envy Objection. But should egalitarians be worried about envy? In this article, I argue that egalitarians should stop worrying and learn to love envy. I argue that the persistent unwillingness to embrace the Envy Objection is …
Love and the Basis of Dignity
It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view , dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities. According to a rival political view , dignity is grounded in our evolving social practice of treating one another as equals or the simple political commitment to act as if we were one another's eq…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works)