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Rights and Reason

Essays in Honor of Carl Wellman

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  • © 2000

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  1. Marilyn Friedman

    1. Washington University, St. Louis, USA

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  2. Larry May

    1. Washington University, St. Louis, USA

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  3. Kate Parsons

    1. Washington University, St. Louis, USA

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  4. Jennifer Stiff

    1. Washington University, St. Louis, USA

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Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 44)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Christopher Wellman
    Pages 1-5

  3. Criteria and the Egocentric Predicament Revisited

    • P. M. S. Hacker
    Pages 7-22

  4. Rights, Interests, and Free Speech

    • L. W. Sumner
    Pages 23-43

  5. Votes as Powers

    • Jeremy Waldron
    Pages 45-64

  6. Rights and the Presumption of Care

    • Virginia Held
    Pages 65-78

  7. On the Universality of Moral Justification

    • Gerald J. Postema
    Pages 79-104

  8. Rights in Conflict

    • James Griffin
    Pages 105-119

  9. Human Rights and Wrongs

    • Alice Erh-Soon Tay
    Pages 121-138

  10. Wrongs and Duties

    • Neil MacCormick
    Pages 139-155

  11. Cultural Diversity Rights, Goals, and Competing Values

    • Diana Tietjens Meyers
    Pages 157-175

  12. Right-Based Moralities

    • Joseph Raz
    Pages 177-196

  13. The Essential Indeterminacy of Rawls’s Difference Principle

    • Rex Martin
    Pages 197-220

  14. Justice and Personal Desert

    • Joel Feinberg
    Pages 221-250

  15. In Defence of Psychology

    • Georg Henrik von Wright
    Pages 251-261

  16. Religion and Right in Marx

    • Hermann Klenner
    Pages 263-269

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 271-277
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About this book

The papers in this book have been collected in celebration of Carl Wellman, who, after forty-five years, is retiring from teaching. Here I would like to highlight a few of the moments which have shaped Carl as a person and a philosopher. Although his childhood was not unhappy, Carl faced considerable challenges growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire. He ne ver knew his father; he and his mother, Carolyn, had little money; and he fought a long battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, an illness which made hirn more familiar with hospitals than any young person should be. (His mother once told me that there were times when the doctors put Carl in his own hospital room because, while he was too young to be housed with adult men, they did not want the other children to see hirn die. ) Following a year of physician-prescribed rest after high school, the doctors recommended the University of Arizona in the misguided hope that the desert climate might improve his health. In spite of the doctors' hopes, life in Tucson was not easy. The heat takes its toll on everyone, but the desert was especially oppressive for Carl since his unusually sensitive eyes were no match for the intense sun. Still, Carl enjoyed college.

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  • Washington University, St. Louis, USA

    Marilyn Friedman, Larry May, Kate Parsons, Jennifer Stiff

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