Adam Etinson
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Selected Publications
ms. Inducing Wonder
2025. Visions of Human Rights - Cambridge History of Rights Vol. 5. [with Jiewuh Song]
2025. The Lure of Minimalism - Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human Rights.
2024. Human Rights - The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [with Jim Nickel]
2022. Wiggins on Ethical Objectivity and 'Des Cannibales' - Philosophy.
2020. What's So Special About Human Dignity? - Philosophy & Public Affairs.
2020. On "Aristocratic" Dignity - European Journal of Political Theory.
2018. Human Rights: Moral or Political? - Oxford University Press (PB 2020).
Reviewed in: Jurisprudence (2019); Philosophical Quarterly (2024); Journal of Moral Philosophy (2023).
2018. Conversation - New Literary History.
2017. Some Myths About Ethnocentrism - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
2013. Human Rights, Claimability, and the Uses of Abstraction - Utilitas.
2012. Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic? (with S. Matthew Liao) - The Journal of Moral Philosophy.
2008. Aboriginal Oral History Evidence and Canadian Law - Central European Journal of Canadian Studies.
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2018. How High to Dream? - The Times Literary Supplement.
2017. Is a Life Without Struggle Worth Living? - The New York Times.
2013. Of Cannibals, Kings, and Culture: The Problem of Ethnocentricity - The New York Times [Reprinted in Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments & Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments (W.W. Norton & Co.)]
2012. A Rights-Based Utopia? - Human Rights Quarterly [Response by Samuel Moyn].
2012. 100 Days of Student Protests in Québec: Printemps Érable or Much Ado about Nothing? (with Carlos Fraenkel) - Dissent.