Adam Etinson

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Publications

Human Rights: Moral or Political? (Oxford University Press: March 2018), ed. Adam Etinson.

 

"Some Myths About Ethnocentrism" in Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2018), Vol. 96, No. 2, pp. 209-224.

"On Shareable Reasons: A Comment on Forst" in The Journal of Social Philosophy (2014), Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 76-88. (In response to Rainer Forst's "Toleration and Democracy" in the same issue).

"Human Rights, Claimability, and the Uses of Abstraction" in Utilitas (2013), Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 463-486.

"Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?" (with S. Matthew Liao) in the Journal of Moral Philosophy (2012), Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 327-352.

“Cosmopolitanism: Cultural, Moral, and Political” in Sovereign Justice: Global Justice in a World of Nations, eds. G. de Angelis, and R. Queiroz (de Gruyter: New York, 2010), pp. 25-47.

“Aboriginal Oral History Evidence and Canadian Law” in the Central European Journal of Canadian Studies (2008), Vol. 6, pp. 97-105.

Review Articles

"Book Review: Reframing the Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights: A Philosophical Approach, by Jeffrey Flynn" in Political Theory (April 2, 2017).

“A Rights-Based Utopia?” in, Human Rights Quarterly (2012), Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 294-299. Also in: The Utopian (link), with a response by Samuel Moyn (link).

“To Be or Not to Be? Charles Beitz on the Philosophy of Human Rights” in Res Publica (2010), Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 235-244.

Essays and Op-Eds

"Is a Life Without Struggle Worth Living?" in The Stone, The New York Times, October 2nd, 2017.

"Of Cannibals, Kings, and Culture: The Problem of Ethnocentricity" in The Stone, The New York Times, February 17th, 2013. Reprinted in The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments (W.W. Norton & Co.: 2015 - link) & Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader (W.W. Norton & Co.: 2017 - link)

“100 Days of Student Protests in Québec: Printemps Érable or Much Ado about Nothing?” (with Carlos Fraenkel) in Dissent, 2012.