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  1. Threats and Offers.Theodore Benditt - 1977 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 58 (4):382.
     
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  2. Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy.Henry Shue & Theodore M. Benditt - 1980 - Law and Philosophy 4 (1):125-140.
     
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    Modest Judicial Restraint.Theodore M. Benditt - 1999 - Law and Philosophy 18 (3):243-270.
    "The main argument of this paper is that there are reasons for judges not only to evaluate the substantive merit of legislation, but to advert to the fact that the place of elected legislatures in our scheme of government gives legislation a standing, an entitlement to consideration, that may go beyond judicial estimates of its intrinsic merit." [Is this just a statement of procedural legitimacy?] "To answer the question [of who assigns rights], courts must take a view as to the (...)
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  4. Law as Rule and Principle: Problems of Legal Philosophy.Theodore M. Benditt - 1981 - Mind 90 (357):153-154.
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    A Problem for Theodicists.Theodore Benditt - 1975 - Philosophy 50 (194):470 - 474.
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    Happiness.Theodore Benditt - 1974 - Philosophical Studies 25 (1):1 - 20.
    Thus, says Hare, a judgment that someone is happy is an appraisal, not a statement of fact. I do not wish to deny that there are some uses of 'happy', ascribed to a person or to a life, for which this is the case; but I would like to maintain that there are other uses of 'happy', philosophically important ones, in which a judgment that a third person is happy is not an appraisal, but is rather a report about him (...)
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  7. Happiness and Satisfaction - A Rejoinder to Carson.Theodore M. Benditt - 1978 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 59 (1):108.
     
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    Why respect matters.Theodore M. Benditt - 2008 - Journal of Value Inquiry 42 (4):487-496.
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    Review of S. J. Stoljar: An analysis of rights[REVIEW]Theodore M. Benditt - 1986 - Ethics 96 (2):420-420.
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    Normality, Disease, and Enhancement.Theodore M. Benditt - 2007 - In Harold Kincaid & Jennifer McKitrick (eds.), Establishing medical reality: Methodological and metaphysical issues in philosophy of medicine. Springer Publishing Company. pp. 13-21.
    The vagueness or imprecision of ‘the normal’ allows it to be exploited for various purposes and political ends. It is conspicuous in both medicine and athletics; I am going to try to say something about the normal in each of these areas. In medicine the idea of the normal is often deployed in understanding what constitutes disease and hence, as some see it, in determining the role of physicians, in determining what is or ought to be covered by insurance, and (...)
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    The public interest.Theodore M. Benditt - 1973 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 2 (3):291-311.
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    Acting in concert or going it alone: Game theory and the law.Theodore M. Benditt - 2004 - Law and Philosophy 23 (6):615 - 630.
    In recent years a number of writers have maintained that law can usefully be illuminated by game theory. Some believe that game theory can provide guidance in formulating rules for dealing with specific problems. Others advance the philosophically ambitious contention that we can gain a better understanding and/or appreciation of law by seeing it in terms of game-theoretic ideas. My purpose in this article is to examine some claims of the latter sort, and in particular to ask how distant law (...)
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    Fanny's Moral Limits.Theodore M. Benditt - unknown
    Ever since the publication of Mansfield Park readers and critics have debated how to understand the novel and particularly its heroine Fanny Price. Some have disliked Fanny, have thought of her as prudish and priggish, and perhaps have preferred Mary Crawford and wished for a different ending to the story. Others have defended Fanny’s virtue, her judgment, and her mind, regarding them as quite superior to the virtue, judgment, and minds of all of the other women in the novel, and (...)
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    Law and Legal Science.Theodore M. Benditt - 1981 - Philosophical Books 22 (4):213-215.
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    Law as rule and principle: problems of legal philosophy.Theodore M. Benditt - 1978 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
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    Law and the Balancing of Interests.Theodore M. Benditt - 1975 - Social Theory and Practice 3 (3):321-342.
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    Liberal morality.Theodore M. Benditt - 1987 - Synthese 72 (2):237 - 247.
    Why is it that for many people questions of sexual behavior are the quintessential moral questions, while for others they are at the periphery of serious moral inquiry? Such a difference of opinion undoubtedly reflects substantive moral disagreement, but might also reflect different conceptions of what morality is about. Probably it reflects both sorts of differences, and both will receive attention in this article.
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    Modest judicial restraint.Theodore M. Benditt - 1999 - Law and Philosophy 18 (3):243 - 270.
    The main argument of this paper is that there are reasons for judges not only to evaluate the substantive merit of legislation, but to advert to the fact that the place of elected legislatures in our scheme of government gives legislation a standing, an entitlement to consideration, that may go beyond judicial estimates of its intrinsic merit.
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    On `levels of rules and Hart's concept of law'.Theodore M. Benditt - 1974 - Mind 83 (331):422-423.
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    Revenge.Theodore M. Benditt - 2007 - Philosophical Forum 38 (4):357–363.
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    Rights.Theodore M. Benditt - 1982 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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    The concept of interest in political theory.Theodore M. Benditt - 1975 - Political Theory 3 (3):245-258.
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    The demands of justice.Theodore M. Benditt - 1985 - Ethics 95 (2):224-232.
    The implication intended by the title is that there are elements ofjustice that are required and others that are desirable but not morally required. That is one of the views for which I have argued. The elements of justice that are morally required, and to which an individual has a right, are three. 1. Reciprocity.-A person, whether in or outside of a society, is justified in insisting, unless a voluntary agreement supersedes, that there be a balance between the value of (...)
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    The Endless Dialectic of Legal Thought.Theodore M. Benditt - 1995 - Dialogue 34 (4):815-.
    Norm and Nature: The Movements of Legal Thought, by Roger Shiner, is an intricate book with the perhaps surprising thesis that the outstanding problem in legal philosophy, the conflict between positivism and natural law, is irresolvable. The controversy is doomed to a never-ending cycle because “sophisticated positivism follows from positivism's difficulties with simple positivism … anti-positivism follows from sophisticated positivism's difficulties with simple positivism; [and] simple positivism follows from positivism's difficulties with anti-positivism”. For legal theory, then, an understanding of law (...)
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    Warnock's reasons.Theodore Benditt - 1973 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 51 (3):253 – 257.
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    A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal TheoryDennis Patterson, editor Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996, 590 pp. [REVIEW]Theodore M. Benditt - 1998 - Dialogue 37 (4):828-831.
    The purpose of this volume, the editor says, is to meet “the need of the beginning student [of law] to get a handle quickly on the vast and diverse theoretical landscape that is the first-year experience” in law school. It is conceived as a supplement to case books and other first-year materials. In this, it is quite successful. Most of the contrib-utors have done a fine job canvassing a number of ideas or positions; the most successful essays are extremely helpful (...)
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    Book Review:An Analysis of Rights. Samuel Stoljar. [REVIEW]Theodore M. Benditt - 1986 - Ethics 96 (2):420-.
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    Philosophy Then and Now: An Introductory Text with Readings.N. Scott Arnold, Theodore M. Benditt & George Graham (eds.) - 1998 - Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Philosophy Then and Now provides an innovative and engaging blend of introductory text with classic and contemporary readings. Each of the eight parts begins with an introductory section on the major ideas associated with a seminal figure from the history of philosophy. This is followed by key selections from the essential writings of that philosopher, as well as influential selections from contemporary figures. Key figures covered include: Socrates, Aquinas, Locke, Descartes, Mill, Nietzsche, Marx, and Sartre. By focusing on the core (...)
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    Law as Rule and Principle.Michael Clark & Theodore M. Benditt - 1980 - Philosophical Quarterly 30 (119):188.
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  30. Egoism's Inconsistencies. [REVIEW]Theodore M. Benditt - 1976 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 57 (1):43.
     
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    The virtue of pride: Jane Austen as moralist. [REVIEW]Theodore M. Benditt - 2003 - Journal of Value Inquiry 37 (2):245-257.
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    Hume Studies Referees, 2003–2004.Kate Abramson, Larry Arnhart, Carla Bagnoli, Martin Bell, Theodore Benditt, Christopher Berry, Deborah Boyle, John Bricke, Justin Broackes & Janet Broughton - 2004 - Hume Studies 30 (2):443-445.
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    Appearance in this list neither guarantees nor precludes a future review of the book. Alcoff, Linda Martin, Epistemology: The Big Questions, Oxford, UK, Blackwell Pub-lishers, 1998, pp. 445,£ 15.99. Alexander, Larry (ed.), Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 319,£ 37.50. [REVIEW]N. Scott Arnold, Theodore M. Benditt, George Graham, Nikolaos Avgelis, Filimon Peonidis & William Bechtel - 1999 - Mind 108:429.
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  34. Review of Theodore Benditt, Law as Rule and Principle. [REVIEW]Michael Clark - 1980 - Philosophical Quarterly 30.
     
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  35. Theodore M. Benditt.John Locke - 1998 - In N. Scott Arnold, Theodore M. Benditt & George Graham (eds.), Philosophy Then and Now: An Introductory Text with Readings. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 445.
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    Rights Theodore M. Benditt Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982. Pp. ix, 148. $22.50. [REVIEW]Sheldon Wein - 1984 - Dialogue 23 (4):732-734.
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    Rights. By Theodore M. Benditt[REVIEW]George Graham - 1984 - Modern Schoolman 61 (3):197-197.
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    In Defense of the Autonomy of Rights.David M. Adams - 1988 - Philosophy Research Archives 14:51-72.
    Several philosophers, including most prominently Theodore Benditt, have recently urged that the discourse of rights, widely thought to be a central, if not foundational feature of moral and political thought, is in reality a mere “redundant” appendage---a discourse that holds no distinctive place in moral or legal reasoning owing to the fact that it is thoroughly derivative because collapsible into other forms of moral or legal language. In this paper I attempt to (1) flesh out this “Redundancy” Thesis (...)
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    In Defense of the Autonomy of Rights.David M. Adams - 1988 - Philosophy Research Archives 14:51-72.
    Several philosophers, including most prominently Theodore Benditt, have recently urged that the discourse of rights, widely thought to be a central, if not foundational feature of moral and political thought, is in reality a mere “redundant” appendage---a discourse that holds no distinctive place in moral or legal reasoning owing to the fact that it is thoroughly derivative because collapsible into other forms of moral or legal language. In this paper I attempt to (1) flesh out this “Redundancy” Thesis (...)
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    The Rational and the Moral Order.Kurt Baier - 1995 - La Salle, IL: Open Court.
    'The Rational and the Moral Order' is a significant book providing a comprehensive theory of morality. The opening chapter is simply marvellous. Baier provides a cogent response to Hume's conundrums on practical reasoning: logical entailment, he argues, is not the correct model of the relation between reasons and that for which they are reasons. Indeed, the giving of reasons is, in part, a social enterprise, and there is no necessary connection between rationality and self-interest. Just as the giving of reasons (...)
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    Metaphysical Explanations for Modal Normativists.Theodore Locke - 2020 - Metaphysics 3 (1):33-54.
    I expand modal normativism, a theory of metaphysical modality, to give a normativist account of metaphysical explanation. According to modal normativism, basic modal claims do not have a descriptive function, but instead have the normative function of enabling language users to express semantic rules that govern the use of ordinary non-modal vocabulary. However, a worry for modal normativism is that it doesn’t keep up with all of the important and interesting metaphysics we can do by giving and evaluating metaphysical explanations. (...)
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    Four Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time.Theodore Sider - 2001 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Four- Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persistence over time, new arguments in favour of the four-dimensional ontology, and responses to the challenges four- dimensionalism faces." "Theodore Sider pays particular attention to the philosophy of time, including a strong series of arguments against presentism, the thesis that only the present is real. Arguments offered in favour of four- dimensionalism include novel arguments (...)
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    Modal Normativism and Metasemantics.Theodore D. Locke - 2023 - In Miguel Garcia-Godinez (ed.), Thomasson on Ontology. Springer Verlag. pp. 109-136.
    I argue that we can accept modal normativism—a view that the function of modal claims is to express semantic rules—while also accepting possible worlds semantics. I argue that by keeping the metaphysical insights of normativism at the level of metasemantics—i.e., at the level of accounts of what metaphysically explains facts about the meaning of modal claims—it is open to the normativist to wholeheartedly accept possible worlds semantics.
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    The Effective Altruist's Political Problem.Theodore Lechterman - 2020 - Polity 52 (1):88-115.
    Critics of private charity often claim that the well-off should instead assist the disadvantaged through political reform. The present article explores this idea with reference to effective altruism, a powerful new paradigm in the ethics of philanthropy. Effective altruism presses the relatively affluent not only to give generously, but also to subject their practical deliberations to rigorous evaluations of impartiality and cost-effectiveness. The article contends that the movement’s sophisticated methods are not sufficient to overcome the worries of institutionalist critics. At (...)
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  45. The Perfect Politician.Theodore M. Lechterman - 2024 - In David Edmonds (ed.), AI Morality. Oxford: Oxford University Press USA.
    Ideas for integrating AI into politics are now emerging and advancing at accelerating pace. This chapter highlights a few different varieties and show how they reflect different assumptions about the value of democracy. We cannot make informed decisions about which, if any, proposals to pursue without further reflection on what makes democracy valuable and how current conditions fail to fully realize it. Recent advances in political philosophy provide some guidance but leave important questions open. If AI advances to a state (...)
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  46. “That the Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the Living": Intergenerational Philanthropy and the Problem of Dead-Hand Control.Theodore M. Lechterman - 2023 - In Ray Madoff & Benjamin Soskis (eds.), Giving in Time: Temporal Considerations in Philanthropy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 93-116.
    Intergenerational transfers are a core feature of the practice of private philanthropy. A substantial portion of the resources committed to charitable causes comes from transfers (either during life or at death) that continue to pay out after death. Indeed, much of the power of the charitable foundation lies in its ability to extend the life of an enterprise beyond the mortal existence of its initiating agents. Despite their prevalence, whether and in what way the instruments of intergenerational philanthropy can be (...)
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    Substantial Holism.Theodore Scaltsas - 2015 - Philosophical Inquiry 39 (1):146-163.
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    Substratum, Subject, and Substance.Theodore Scaltsas - 1985 - Ancient Philosophy 5 (2):215-240.
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    Contributions to role-taking theory: I. Hypnotic behavior.Theodore R. Sarbin - 1950 - Psychological Review 57 (5):255-270.
  50. Substance and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics.Theodore Scaltsas & Lynne Spellman - 1997 - Philosophical Quarterly 47 (189):536-539.
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