Luke Macinnis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Macinnis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Macinnis |
| SIGNATURE | MACINNIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4035-6365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dworkin’s Unity of Value
Agency and attitude
Critics charge that Kantian conceptions of human dignity and normative agency, which some suggest underwrite the modern doctrine of human rights, are parochial, unable to account for the dynamism and context-dependence of human rights, aloof from human rights practice, and incapable of distinguishing human rights from the vast array of other political rights constitutional democracies generally recognize as demands of justice. I argue here that w…
Two Concepts of Monism
According to Isaiah Berlin's influential characterization, value monism holds that there are discoverable, axiomatic ethical principles from which all ethical knowledge may be derived, that ethical reasoning is algorithmic and mechanical, and that it seeks permanent, “final solutions” to all ethical conflicts. Berlin's account of monism oversimplifies and distorts the idea of monism and its relation to liberal values. There is a fundamentally dis…
Libertarianism defended
Libertarianism defended
Two Concepts of Monism
According to Isaiah Berlin's influential characterization, value monism holds that there are discoverable, axiomatic ethical principles from which all ethical knowledge may be derived, that ethical reasoning is algorithmic and mechanical, and that it seeks permanent, “final solutions” to all ethical conflicts. Berlin's account of monism oversimplifies and distorts the idea of monism and its relation to liberal values. There is a fundamentally dis…
Agency and attitude
Critics charge that Kantian conceptions of human dignity and normative agency, which some suggest underwrite the modern doctrine of human rights, are parochial, unable to account for the dynamism and context-dependence of human rights, aloof from human rights practice, and incapable of distinguishing human rights from the vast array of other political rights constitutional democracies generally recognize as demands of justice. I argue here that w…
Dworkin’s Unity of Value
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political philosophy (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)