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    Provocation: Everyone Is a Philosopher!

    (Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2012) Scanlon, Thomas
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    A Contractualist Reply

    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) Scanlon, Thomas
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    Plural Equality

    (Routledge, 2014) Scanlon, Thomas
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    Rights and Interests

    (Oxford University Press, 2009) Scanlon, Thomas

    Rights are defined by certain specific duties, and they are justified on the ground that they are necessary to protect important individual interests. The paper examines the relation between a right and the duties that define it, and the relation between a right and the interests that justify it. The latter form of justification is not "instrumental," in a way that contrasts with the justification of other moral claims. The idea that rights conflict and must be “balanced” against each other is a mistake. Interests can conflict and must be balanced; rights must be defined so that they do not conflict.

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    Symposium on Amartya Sen's Philosophy: 3 Sen and Consequentialism

    (Cambridge University Press, 2001) Scanlon, Thomas

    It is a particular pleasure to be able to participate in this symposium in honor of Amartya Sen. We agree on a wide range of topics, but I will focus here on an area of relative disagreement. Sen is much more attracted to consequentialism than I am, and the main topic of my paper will be the particular version of consequentialism that he has articulated and the reasons why he is drawn to this view.

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    Reasons and Decisions

    (Blackwell Publishing, 2006) Scanlon, Thomas
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    The Status of Well-Being

    (University of Utah Press, 1996) Scanlon, Thomas
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    The Significance of Choice

    (University of Utah Press, 1986) Scanlon, Thomas
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    Replies

    (Blackwell Publishing, 2003) Scanlon, Thomas
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    Reasons and Passions

    (MIT Press, 2002) Scanlon, Thomas